Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME AND ABROAD.

AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The strike Of the New 70 rk cigar makers
- been declared Of.
The total subscription to the Charleston
eiief fund amounts to over $161 900.
The democratic First Michigan district
nominated Judge ]. Logan for congress.
BY an explosion in a colliery near Bristol,
England, seven persons were killed and ten
injured.
Acting under the socialist laws, the Berlin
police have suppressed five associations of
workingmen.
At the Eighth Mi ,souri district republican
convention B. G. Horr was nominated by
reclamation.
Gold dug in the Transvaal to the amount
of 1850 ounces was shipped from Cape
Town for England.
The Fourteenth Ohio district democratic
congressional convention nominated DR..
Thomas g. Brister.
Poindexter Dunn was renominated fol
congress by the democrats of the first Ar
kansas district
The republicans of the sixth Michigan
congressional district nominated Mark 3.
Brewer, of Pontiac.
John Walker, we'll known contractor OF
Chicago, killed himself with morphine in q
hotel at Palatine, Ill.
The Riverside glass-works at Wellsburg,
w. ", employing two hundred men, were
burned. The loss is $3.50
Hon. j. C. Burrows was nominated for the
fifth time by the republicans of the Fourth
Michigan district.
Hon. James O'Donnell was nominated by
exclamation by the republicans of the Third
Michigan congressional district.
Prof. Hammond, of Oregon, predicts ey
clone disturbances q week hence, and terrific
this month.
Mayor Harrison is about to call a meeting
of citizens of Chicago to take active meas
South Carolina.
At Montour, Pennsylvania, Mrs. L. l..
Matthews and her child lost their lives
through an attempt to start fire in stove
with carbon oil.
The Pluto Indians, of Nevada, having
lately obtained liquor, are conducting them
among the whites.
The third season of the annual st. Louis
Industrial exposition was successfully IN
augurated. The exposition will remain until
October.
The citizens of Tombstone, united in q
telegram to General Miles, oongratulating
him upon the capture of Geronimo and
endering banquet.
A revival at MarysviIle, Missouri, which
added one hundred members to the Method
ist church, is mainly credited to Edwin NJ.
Forrest, a reformed gambler.
Nathan Schwabacher, son of millionaire
distiller at Peoria, is about to be transferred
to Milwaukee for trial on the charge of forg
ing checks on liquor dealers.
An explosion of gas occurred in the
Yaughi mines near Pittsburg, Pa. Four or
Eve men are said to be badly hurt. The
particulars have not been received.
Hoffman & Co., fancy dry goods import
ors of San Francisco. made an assignment
for the benefit of their creditors. The liza
bilaties are about half million dollors.
In house on Twenty sixth street, Chicago.
John Enright and wife were suffocated by
gas from a stove. The fact was not known
to the neighbors for twenty-four hours.
A fire destroyed F. Heidelback's box and
furniture factory, the electric light works,
the box factory of Berlin d Worsham's, and
the ice factory and store house at Danville,
Va.
A widow named Comfor, residing in
Chicago, poisoned herself and two children,
on account of her destitute condition. Her
dose proved fatal, but the children may be
saved.
A leading weekly grain circular says: The
prospects for the British crops are not i'm
the harvest and depreciating the quality
and condition.
The strike of four thousand cotton opera
Of the people that an appropriation of ST.
coo for the relief of the needy was made by
the city council
The wife of Charles F. Cooper, of Mount
Vernon. Ohio, attempted to end her life with
Q revolver. She spent the last month with
friends at Chicago, undergoing medical
treatment
Returns from Vermont show the election
Of sixteen democrats to tho Legislature.
Ninety of the republican members thus far
chosen favor the reelection Of Senator Ed
munds.
The deciding heat in the international
canoe race was sailed over the usual course.
The American canoe lassie beat the English
Nautilus with the greatest Of ease, and the
international trophy will remain in New
York.
Seventy prominent citizens of Pennsyl-
vania-among them being Simon Cameron
and Ex-Governor Hartranft- gathered at
Reading to celebrate the 103d anniversary of
the Incorporation of that city.
balloon ascension at Charlottesville Indiana.
When three hundred feet from the earth the
air-ship burst open, and she braoed herself
IN the basket and reached the ground with q
bad jar.
The cholera returns for Italy since the
last report are as follows: Putignano, TWEEN
ty-three new cases, leaven deaths; Ferrara,
sixteen new cases, seven deaths; all other
inflicted district, forty-nine new cases and
twenty deaths.