Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-08-25
DOMESTIC.

Miners have been locked ont of the Le-
high coal mines in Webster county, Iowa,
and trouble is feared.
An aged husband in California shot ms
bride fatally and then blew on MS Own
head because the wonan's relatives irieo W
induce her to leave him.
Frank Gallup, the desperate OF Shenan :,
doah, Iowa, was killed with a rlne DaA
and not lynched. He had unofesseo Io5
bed when the firing began, and stood nakea
on the porch while firing into the crowd,
his mother handing him fresh supplies from
inside the house. Before being killed by
the welI-aimed rifle shot he killed two clt1-
Gems. fatally wounded another, ana hit
third in the leg. His naked BODY, was
dragged at the end of q rope through the
street to the city hall and left there all n'gnt
for the excited populace to gaze upon.
Yellow fever is spreading in Florida, and
those who can are leaving the lnfested us
tricts.
Senator voorhees, and Senator Butler ad-
dressed democratic rally at NASHVILLE, len
nessee, last week.
It is proposed that the government shall
purchase ground and establish geological
garden in Washington.
A motion to postpone further considera-
ton of the fisheries treaty until December
failed TO pass he senate.
General Won Moltke has been retired from
the command of the German armies and is
succeeded by General Naldersee.
Three hundred and fifty auxiliary troops
under Italian commanders were XII ed oy
the Abyssinians while attacking Saganetl.
Under the corner stone of Presbyterian
church recently laid in Pennsylvania, was
placed Congressman SCOTS speech on the
Mills bill.
The London Times is profoundly aston
ished" at ParnelPs action in bringing suit
against the paper in the Scotch courts. MI.
Parneil asks e50,0oC damages.
Joseph Chamberlain has made public the
letter which he claims Parnell wrote 20 him
in 1885 outlining plan for local self govern
ment in Ireland.
At the close of last week, the stock OF
wheat in sight in this country and Canada
was % 22S, 1862 bushels, and of corn ., 1888
bushels. The stock of wheat was increased
last week 2,227 ,299 bushels.
A cottage on New Jersey camp-meeting
ground was destroyed by fire, and two
children were burned to death.
The house committee on merchant marine
and fisheries has begun an investigation OF
the Alaskafur and seal Industries.
Paris papers think the appointment of
General Waldersee to succeed General Won
Moltke as commander of the German army
is triumph for the war party
The cotton crop in the Memphis district
has been greatly benefited by rains.
The rolling mills at South Chicago were
shut down for lack of business.
The New England crop of pears and plums
is short, but grapes are plenty.
The business portion of Cayenne. French
Guiana has been destroyed by fire, entaliIng
100000 loss.
General Boulanger's tour through France
has resulted in many riots between MS
friends and enemies.
Three thousand veterans of the union and
confederate armies are holding reunion
in Texas.
A Kalamazoo lover became jealous of his
sweetheart and beat her with poker.
The rebels of Morocco killed Prince
Muley and 200 cavalrymen who had been
sent by the emperor to treat with them.
The brick-makers' strike at Chicago is es
timated to have cost nearly million
dollars. Fourteen hundred men are still
out. II
The total amount called for in the naval
bill as revised by the confer
ence committee is S19,933, 224.
Small grain is sprouting in shock in Ne
braska. and continued wet and cold weather
has injured the corn.
The Sisters of Charity of New York have
purchased grounds near Spuyten Duyvil and
will erect hospital for consumptlves.
Senator Reagan attacked the attitude of
the republican party on trusts as expressed |
in Mr.. Blaine's Portland speech.
The anti-prohibition convention at Madi- |
son, Wisconsin, resolved that the liquor traf- |
fic is honorable and legitimate, but that |
should be condemned.
A bill will be introduced in the senate |
giving Major General Schotield all the |
privileges and powers enjoyed by the gener-
al and lieutenant general when those offices |
existed.
Samuel Gompers. president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, told the committee |
immigration that rs per cent
Of the cigar makers in New York are aliens
who can not talk English.
An 1S-year old girl at New Philadelphia.
Ohio, had been in trance for thirty-six
hours and was believed to be dead. She
was placed in a coffin and all preparations
we're made for hes funeral, when she re-
covered.
The manufacturer who discharged Marion
Prescott from his employ because she testi-
led before the congressional committee on
immigration was brought before the COM
nittee himself and admitted that her testi-
nony was true.
A monument to the late Prince Frederick
Charles of Germany was unveiled at Frank
ort, and Emperor William gave a toast to
German unity, in which he said forty-six
million Germans would rather die than de-
liver single stone of Alsace- Lorraine to
France
Yellow fever is dying out in Florida.
A heavy frost fell in northern Minnesota
md Dakota, Friday.
The condition of business throughout the
country is good.
A church at Piaiufeld, New jersey. was
,equea he'd $500, 600 by a rich hermit.
A company has been organized to estab-
ish graphophone service in western cities.
A worlds convention of delegates of the