Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-15
KANSAS.

NJ. KFFNEy KANSAS.
The friends of the Oklahoma bill in con- |
Rress will endeavor to have it acted upon |
before the struggle on the direct tax Dill
opens.
: A ffost in Florida on the night OF Novem-
Der %, gives promise of stopping the yellow
fever, and will cause taking the embargo on
travel.
The output of the Minneapolis, Mimi,
mills, in flour. has not yet decreased, al
though the plan 20 make less -four Is 10
carried out.
There were no pev cases ,a hv.
death in Jacksonville, FIp <. a tha p't one
port. The work of fun 80. .os ,ne, LAST re-
and =. -sarnshaw, aged y was injured
=, IA harrow escape om losing his
>-le, while stealing a rio' in the railroad
Yards at Beatrice, Neh-
There is a movement in progress to per
feet arrangements scy q reunion of General
Hazen's ord tfigaxe en- the top of Lookout
Mountain; tSept smber.
The DCbuq7e. Ia, saw mills shut down
for the winter vita ten million feet more OF
lumber ON band Lhan last year. The years
business has been unsatisfactory.
Thomas Barry, the expelled Knight of
Labor, is in Chicago holding conferences
preliminary to the organization of an oppo-
sition association of worklngmen.
The daily papers are filed with particu-
lars of disasters along the Atlantic c'as:,
and on the great lakes, as well as interest
ing details inland of the great storm.
The United States government is fitting
out naval force to send to Hayti to compel
the surrender of an American ship which has
been seized by the Haytien authorities.
The committee appointed by the Society
of Cumberland to have charge of the erec-
ton of a statue to General Phillip II. Sher-
idan has just had a meeting in Chicago.
Samuel j. Randall is slowly recovering
flis strength. His physicians agree that 1t
lis not best for him to resume his duties on
the floor, at leas. until after the holidays.
The new cotton mill at Des Moines. Ia,
has been started. 1t is the first erected IN
Iowa. The building is seventy by 200 feet,
and has the best machinery, employs 2Oo
hands.
New Bedford, Mass, has vagabond who
assaults women with blows, when alone on
the streets. panic among the ladies has
not helped the police to gain clue OF the
mans identity.
The opponents of the "direct tax bill' in
the lower house of congress by their con-
versation foreshadow continuation OF
their active opposition to the passage OF
that bill at this session.
Train dispatchers and operators on the
Atlantic and Pacific notified the superln
tendent of the California division that they
will not submit to the announced cut OF III
per cent of their wages.
William F. Driesman, one of JEFF Davis
captors, now of FL Paso, Tex, has com
menced suit against the government for his
share of the reward given to members of the
party making the capture.
Attorney General Watson, of Ohio, has
taken action towards proceeding against the
Ohio White Caps, being determined that
order should be prosecuted.
Twenty of the business men of Coldwater,
Kan, went into the Indian territory for
hunt and it is said that the party has been
captured Lear Fort Supply and are to be
sent to Wichita as prisoners.
Mr.. E. B. Fairfield, a travelling man for q
of Atchison, were married at Kansas City
somewhat claudestinely. They immediate
;ly went to Atchison. however.
Cuban anarchists sent an internal ma
chine in the form of fine writing desk to
the criminal judge Of the district of La
Cathedral and his wife and daughter were
both hurt when they opened it.
Congressman John A. Anderson is al
oft "a railroad continuation
schemes with a resolution of inquiry as to
whether the railroads are seeking to evade
provisions of the interstate commerce act.
December 3. There had been no deaths
among congressman during the vacation.
The desks of the president of the senate and
the speaker of the house were decorated
with flowers.
A fight with Winchester rifles has OCCUR
red at Bevier, Mo-, in which nearly 200
balls were exchanged, and one man hit. The
fight was between coal miners now en-
ployed and strikers who are idle. The gov
ernor has been asked ito send troops there
and he has sent his adjutant general.
Engineers, under the direction of the
Missouri river commission, are to make
survey of the Missouri river from Kckapoo
to the Missouri and Kansas bridge, with a
view of changing the channel of the river.
City Engineer George Nelles has the con-
tract for doing the work.
The general managers of the great lines
east of Chicago, before adjournment of
their conference, agreed to restore rates on
east bound dead freights, including grain
aid provisions: and to advance dressed
beef rates to so cents per 100 pounds, and
live stock rates to 221S cents. Tho advance
to take effect December IL.
A Chicago anarchist organ has this COM
ment on the conviction of Hroneck: "They
think they have once more cruehed Us in
connecting the Bohemian lumber laborer,
Hfoneck. They think they have scared and
inundated Us. The fact Is, however, that
they have strengthened our righteous
hatred. Do the bosses of Mr.. Bonfeld like
this reeult?''