Western Kansas world., 1888-12-29
THE VERY LATEST.

December "a, 25 and &c are holidays in al
of the Chicago markets this year.
Rev. John Curtis, prominent Methodist
minister, died suddenly at Abilene.
George b. Russell, treasurer of the Bee
Line road, is dead at Cleveland, y.
deank arrived at New York with small po1
in her steerage.
A man froze to death in Albany, N. Y,
last Saturday, while Kansas farmers were
plowing without coats.
A construction train in Arizona rolled
down an embankment and killed seven of
the sixty iaborers on it.
Sheriff Smith of Birmingham, Ala, who
is under bonds of $lUO,0Ou. will have his
trial at the January term of court.
A deputy sheriff from Ell Dorado, Kan,
has brought August Sittingreen from Shaw
neetown, LII. he is charged with rape.
The mercury at the signal station at
Saranac Lake. n. Y, registered % degrees
below zero Saturday morning, December
q
Hermansyille, numbering settlement of
Michigan, has been destroyed by fire. The
weather is very cold there, causing much
suffering.
The giant oak at Woodbridge, Conn.
which is twelve hundred years old, has been
cut down. The trunk Is twenty-five feet in
circumference.
Specific directions have been issued at the
general land Office to the officers of the Wa
Keeney land Office to place the Fort Wallace
reservation on sale.
The supreme court of Ohio has decided
that church property of which the title is
held by bishop is exempt from claims
against the bishop as an individual.
The garrison at Fort Assinabonie, six
companies of infantry and three of cavalry
have been fighting prairie fire with no GER
tainty of saving the garrison buildings.
The commissioners of Phillips county,
Kansas, are determined to fix the RESPONSE
bility of the lie published by the Kansas
City Times concerning alleged outrages by
White Caps at Agra.
A fire in Cincinnati resulted in the death
of Captain Bray. of the fire department,
the falling of a wall upon them. Some OF
them will likely die.
A hot water pipe exploded in q day coach
on the Illinois Central which caused dan
gerous panic among the passengers. Mrs.
Ida Pierce, of Tuscols, ILL.,, kept her head
and pulledthe bell cord.
The switchmen at Denver employed by
the Union Pacific have demanded cents
more an hour and six more men, and that
they be no longer under a local agent but be
placed under yardmaster.
DR.. Richmond, the slayer of Colonel ].
w. Strong, editor of the st. Joseph Herald,
and who escaped from the lunatic asylum,
has returned aud given himself mp. He
f0p m l.
terests.
Belleyille and Caroudelet train was de-
rallied eight miles from Belleville. Ill, and
Thomas Ash, fireman, WAS crushed and
scalded to death. His brother William Ash
end George Sacks, brakeman, were fatally
injured.
Southern republicans in conference at
Washington have decided not to present the
name of any man to the president as their
choice for cabinet positions. but will urge
the desirability of some southern man being
so placed.
Judge Conrad, at Des Moines, Ia, has de-
cided that packages not labelled on the out
side 40 as to denote the character of their
c,ntents are not subject to seizure under the
state law until they are delivered to the con-
signee by the common carrier in charge.
The fast line train on the Panhandle road,
ran into freight train near lakewood, Pa,
wrecking the engine, postal car and freight
car. Fireman w. T. Barker, of Pittsburg.
Pa, was caught in the wreck and crushed to
death. The engineer saved himself BY
jumping.
Superintendent jackson Of Castle Garden
says that no lunatics have been permitted
to land. Superintendent Simpson of tho
landing bureau says the examination to
which the immigrants are subjected is 20
rigid that it would be about IS easy for
an ineligible person to get through as for
prisoner to escape from the Tombs.
New Mexican delegation visited General
Harrison and talked about the plank in tho
republican platform fsvoripg the appoint
ment of territorial cscsrs from residents of
the territory they are to govern. 1t is said