Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-04-21
DOMESTIC.

Colonel Dan Piatt addressed the senate
committee on post roads and post of1ces,
Monday, in advocacy of the passage OF the
house bill to prohibit the tran mission of
cheap litera. ure at one cent per pound. be
said that by the disuse Of the word "periodi-
calls" in the law the mails had become
crowed with matter Of which the Seaside
Library publications are an example to such
an exent that it must be changed to freight
cars If it goes farther. The assistant post
master general had authorized him to state
sions of the lowest cla~s was being dlstr1h
uted by the government in partnership with
the publishers and under plea of dissent
mating knowledge.
A Bloomington dispatch says: ''Thou-
sands of cattle have been dehorned in this
section since the outbreak of the craze few
months ago. With but few exceptions the
animals rapidly recovered from the opera
ton. Yesterday news came that several
droves of recently dehorned cattle on the
farms west of Bloomington were In a
most pitiable and serious condition. d. rms
removed March 2 would not heal5 and
modification il repo ted to aave set IN in
the flesh of the head"
s. E. Loveless, o prominent commission
merchant of Kansas City is in trouble; he
~
Tuesday morning, the situation in the
house could be summarized as follows: "Up
to this hour, there has been no attempt at
q compromise looking to the termination OF
the dead lock, which has suspended the bus
mess of the house for the past five days."
The proceedings Monday were utterly desti-
tute of interest," being confined entirely to
the repeated calling of the roll on dllatory
motions.
It is current talk in Paris that Bou'anger
will refuse to accept the seat in the chamber
of deputies to which he has just been elected.
American Consul Mackey had a difficulty
at Paso del Norte, Monday, with drunken
Mexican, at whom he fired Two shots without
effect
The Wabash valley is having an epidemic
of measles. At Vermillion, Ills, there have
been fifteen deaths. In Charlottesville, Ind,
there were over 800 cases in the month Of
March.
The president has nominated John Schley-
or, of Hays City, Kan, to be receiver of pub
Lie money at Wa-Keeney, Kan.
CMonday was the third day of the worlds
conference of the Latter Day Saints now be-
ing held at Independence.
Dave Walker, the chief of the bald knob
beers, IL on trial at Ozark, Mo.
Pope Leo sent letter Of thanks to Presi-
dent Cleveland for his gift of a copy of the
constitution. The letter was delivered to the
president, Monday, by Cardinal Gibbons, Of
Baltimore.
The Bell Telephone case, in conduct of
which Attorney General Garland has re-
q of q n.
vanced on the supreme court docket for the
second day of The next term.
Dun's last weekly report says: eff dull
ness in trade were always bad sign, tho
present outlook could not be called hopeful,
At only one or wo lterior points are tn 9
a tual business transactions satisfactory in
volume. Money has become light at some
western and southern points, the complaint
of poor collections being much more fire.
quent. The inactivity has caused general
yield of prices"
The Calf house and twenty buildings at
Depore, Wis onsin, burned Saturday morn
ing. Loss heavy.
Berlin dispatches of Friday state that tho
emperor will not allow Bismarck to resign
and that he has deferred to his wishes in
regard to the Battenburg marriage, for the
present, at least
james Russell Lowell delivered an address
on "The Independent in Politics." in Stein
way hall, New York City, Friday evening,
under the auspices of the New Reform cluo.
He attacked the newspapers and the p Jliti-
cans who criticise the opinions of literary
men and teachers in regard to the tariff and
other reform movements In the course of his
speech. he advanced this seeming paradox:
'Under every form of representative gov
eminent, parties become necessary for the
marshalling and expression of opinion, and
when parties are once formed, those ques-
hons, the discussion of which would disci-
pline and fortfy mems minds, tend more
and more to pass out of sight, and the topics
that interest their predjudices and passions
to become more absorbing"