Western Kansas world., 1888-10-06
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A Choice Selection OF inter-
esting Items.

Destructive prairie fires are raging in
1orthern Dakota.
The senate passed the bill forfeiting the
Northern Pacific land grant.
The show business has been seriously at
fected by yellow fever in the south.
The Universalist associations of Illinois
are holding their annual Conference.
Congressman Randall has been renomi-
mats by his PhiIadelphia constituency.
Railroads are cutting passenger rates from
st. Louis to New York and rate war Is I'M
minent.
! John q. Oberly, civil service commits
eioner, has been appointed commissioner OF
Indian affairs.
+ A bill has passed the senate giving the
vidoy of General Sheridan an annual PEN
sion of $4,000.
The appropriation OF $20o, 600 for the sup
preston of yellow fever has been approved
by the president.
Spain has ordered an addition to her navy
of three f-st-cIass cruisers In addition to
three now being built.
General Harrison entertained several
train-loads OF excursionists from Hancock
and Allen counties, ONO.
One hundred and forty persons have been
stricken witik a malignant type of typhoid
fever at Kingston, Ontario.
The senate committee on finance has be-
gun an investig atom of the operations OF
the French copper syndiclte.
Radical socialists held q meeting in Chi
cago recently and decided to form an lnde-
pendent political organization.
Two hundred and fifty thousand miners
In the Manchester, England, district threat
en- to strike for higher wages.
The school directors of Brighton have
been indicted for building school house
without taking vote OF the people.
The preliminary examination of Gardner,
the opium su uuggler, was begun before Com
missioner Hoyne in Chicago Friday.
The investigating committee of the house
found that the charges against Mr.. Stahi-
necker were not sustained by the evidence.
Boston women have become excited over
the relations of Catholics to the public
schools and will take part in the school
elections.
Republican senators promise that the sub
committee will have prepared and submit
ted a tariff bill to the finance committee
this week.
Senator Call has introduced bill provid-
ing for commission of seven physicians TO
make a scientific investigation of the yellow
fever epidemic.
Eight deaths and Isl new cases was the
yellow fever record at Jacksonville Friday.
One new case has appeared at McClenny and
three at Decatur.
Mrs Lena Schreiner, of Chicago, who
poured kerosine oil On her husbsnd's clothes
and roasted him alive, has been sentenced
to Joliet for ton years.
from Wexford, Ireland, was found guilty
under the crimes act and sentenced to five
weeks imprisonment.
both aged Is years, were married In buggy
at Marshall. Ill. The bride had been mar
ried three times before.
Libby prison was sold at auction and pur;
chased by Cincinnati parties, who will hold
it for a new syndicate now being organized
to remove it to Chicago.
The court house at Hot Springs, Ark, was
burned. It is thought that ths fire was set
by incendiaries with the Intention OF de-
stroylng the county records.
DR.. Edwin l.. Tons strangled himself to
death at the Washingtonlan home. he was
once a reputable citizen of Chicago, but
was ruined by the opium habit.
Senator Allison laid the new tariff bill be-
fore the finance committee Wednesday. 1t
will probably not be reported to the senate
or made public until Monday.
Henry Rohrmeister and Mrs. Steinhauser
have teen sentenced to the Wisconsin peni-
f<xl 80 f0r ha p6n n fh<a NO
mans husband at Palmyra last fall.
A majority report of the Utah commission
recommending an amendment to the con-
stitutiou prohibiting polygamy has been
filed with the secretary of the interior.
George Bell, who chopped off G. R. Muir
rays ear in Chicago some months ago be-
cause Murray formed an intimacy with Mrs.
Bell, will not be prosecuted by his victim.
The Postal Telegraph company has ap-
piled to the inter state commerce commits
sion for an order TO require the Pacific roads
to make proper connections with their lines.
Judge Schroeder dismissed the cases
against Ives and Steyner at Cincinnati. on
the ground that the evidence was insuffi-
cient to sustain the charge of embezzle-
ment.
The British government has asked the
C6Q8uldu MINISTRY lOE III eStliudlc VI IuS
armed resistance which the dominion could
offer in case of trouble with the United
States.
The burglar recently shot and killed while
entering store at st. Louis has been iden-
tilted as Isaac Smith, who served in the
first Colorado artillery during the war of the
rebellion.
Seventeen criminals were sentenced to be
whipped at the fall term of the criminal
court at Wilmington, Del, and Sunday the
sheriff administered the lashes, which num-
bered 90.
The Grand Army encampment at Colum-
bus has adjourned. Major Henry Warner,
of Missouri, was elected commander-in-
chief. Next year the veterans win meet at
Milwaukee.
The conferees on the sundry civil bill
have adopted the senate plan, fixing the
limit of cost of the new library building at
a Loo, ,000 and aprropriating $4,000 for
work this year.
General Harrison entertained about 1000
callers from Indiana and Ohio Wednesday.
He made brief address favoring the re-
duction of the surplus by paying back the
direct state tax.