Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-17
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RUSSELL SAGE, the Wall street magnate,
serves as central figure in a play written
Dy ms private secretary, and entitled
Puts and Calls
JAMES n. BUNKER, son of the Siamese
OWNS, Eng and Chang, is an inmate Of the
KANSAS pcnitentiary for perjury in seeking
divorce from his wife.
THERE are three hundred and six mem
De,s OF the Tppecanoe Club, Indianapolis,
ma, their average age being seventy four
years and twenty-one days.
IHE Nashville ministers are trying q boy
COIL against the Sunday newspapers. They
nave entered into an agreement not to
furnish notices OF church services to such
publications.
THERE are thirteen million six hundred
thousand copies of T. Dewitt Talmage's
sermons published each week in this coun-
try and six million IN other lands, many Of
which are translated into other languages.
AADkIEI, the great, London astrologer,
predicts for the United States this year ga
grave scandal concerning Cabinet or high
Governmen. official who may have to suffer
Imprisonment We are to have o high rate
OF mortality from lung and kidney diseases,
ana great prevalence of fraud, robbery
and crimes Of violence.
Two CHICAGO men applied to the health
commissioner the other day for q license
to run shop for the sale of horse meat.
They said that they had carried on the bust
ness in Germany, and knew that horse
meat was good. The commissioner gave
them encouragement to believe that he
would grant the license
IT is reported that Prince Bismarck, in
recent conversation with an eminent bank
er, expressed the conviction that the inter-
national situation would undergo pro-
longed but peaceful solution. At the same
time Prince Bismarck considers it possible
that Russia may preserve the Bulgarian
question as an open sore with view to
future political chances.
THE United States Senate has passed the
resolution proposing to amend the constitu-
ton 80 that the President shall be inaugu-
rated April 80 instead of March 4, and the
terms Of Senators and members of the
House shall begin on the same day. The
to benefit Mr.. Cleveland, must
be ratified by the Legislatures of at least
twenty-seven States within the next thir-
teen months.
A REPORT from Florida indicates that in a
small way the Government is making q
partial experiment in a Government tele-
graph. A line about hundred miles in
length in that State, under control of the
War Department, is to be thrown open to
commercial messages at the rate of ten
rents each. and it is stated that the officers
IN charge have been authorized to permit
the wires to run into any hotel along the
Inc where the hotel proprietor will furnish
MS own operator.
The Pennsylvania railroad employs a
female 'chaperon," Mrs. II. F. Bender, of
Philadelphia. 1t is her duty to look after
ladies who go upon tourist
rips. She posts herself beforehand about
The route and makes herself useful as an
mparter Of information. She goes through
! train and introduces herself to the ladies,
md then tells them where she can be found
t wanted. She ascertains the best places
.or them to stop in at the towns visited,
where the finest views are, etc.