Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-28
DOMESTIC.

william r. Kidder q Co., dealers IN
patent medicines at New York city, assigned,
Friday. The firms assets year ago were
$150,00Q.
Gen. e. O. Walthall was reelected to the
United States senate by the Mississippi leg
islature, Friday.
Henry Schmidt was hanged at West
Union. Iowa, Friday, for the murder Of
1ucretia Peck, in September, 1885. He
made statement on the scaffold admitting
the murder and charged Ellison Z. Smith
with instigating it.
Ths New York limited Vestibule express
train collided with freight train on the
Fort Wayne road about twenty-five miles
west of Pittsburg. The fireman was killed
but no passengers were injured.
Democl nc free traders had council in
Chicago, Friday.
Johan William Stolting, the Ardsley her
NIT, died in Sing Sing, New York, Friday.
He was a very eccentric old man, going
about in all kinds of weather without any
nat. with only yellow cambria waist jacket,
pair of blue jeans trousers, very much re-
semblipg overalls, buttoned to the waist,
and in summer went barefooted. He was
quite learned man, speaking several
to keep boys school.
During the storm at Omaha, Friday, Fred
Eller, cigar-meher, was frozen to death.
rSpeaker. Caslisle was reported by his
physician, Tuesday, to be improving.
At fire in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednes-
day, the gas meters of burning building
exploded, injuripg three members of the
fire department..
The new home rule paper, the London
Erenino Star, appeared for the first time
Tuesday, and sold $4,000 copies.
Oliver Grafton was arrested at Denver,
Tuesday, for robbing the Victoria mine,
near Breckenridge, of $4,000 in gold mug
gets.
It is authoritatively statedsat Albany that
Gov. Hill has not rendered Fred Grant any
position.
The lstest results at the government diff
fusion experiment station at Ex-Governor
Warmouth's plantation in Louisiana, show
that the diffusion process is great success,
producing thirty pounds more sugar per ton
of cane than is produced by the most ad-
vanced milling process.
A sensation in business circles was caused
in Detroit when it became known that Chas.
F. Young, for many years confidential book
keeper of tho Michigan Carbon works, but
more recently the secretary and treasurer of
the concern, has been arrested, charged with
embezzlemept. The amount of the embez-
element is unknown, but will. be nearly
$100, 1000.
At Kansas City an immense bob sled con-
tanning fifty two persons, colllded with an
other sled while descending the Broadway
hill Tuesday, and was overturned. Seventeen
of the occupants sustained injuries, three of
them being seriously hurt They were
Maude Mcdonald, left leg and collar bone
broken: Maude WolsIey, left arm broken;
Jennie Tracey, three fingers broken and left
lag broken below the knee.
special from Fort Mckinney, W. T.,
says disastrous fire occurred there We'd
nesday at O'Clock, the post commissary
building being entirely destroyed, involving
a loss of 500, 200, ON which there Is no IN
mrance. The building was stocked with
oommissary supplies to Last until pe1t May.
Only ten days supplies are left anGthe gar
rison has been ordered on half rations- The
prospects are good for famine on account
of the difficulty of getting goods into the re-
Rion. General Brishin, tho post command
or, has tele2raphed the nearest posi- Tor sup
plies by fast freight
Senator Beck and Representative Butter
worth called upon President Cleveland,
Thursday, and invited him to open the CEN
tenpial exposition of the Ohio Valley at
Cincinnati next summer. The invitation
was also extended to his wife. The presi-
not prevent, and that he would consult Mrs.
Cleveland.
The bank of Tiskilwa, Illinois, was robbed
Of $500, Thursday.
Fourteen Cinnamon left Victoria, Wednes-
day, for San Juan island, in small boat.
The boat was upset, and all were drowned.
Pat O'Leary knocked Stevens, of Cincin-
natl, out in four rounds, by fierce, aggres-
sive fighting, at Dayton, Ohio, Thursday.
Time of fight, twenty minutes. The fight
was for stake and 20 per cent. of the gate
receipts.
Five hundred cigar makers, employed by
Sutro and Newm of New York city,
struck, Thursday. They say that others will
strike, and that employers will be forced to
increa wages.
Additional deaths from the blizzard in the
northwest were reported, Wednesday. The
total number of deaths so far reported is
217.
A convoy OF prisoners, while being taken
from South Russia to the Caucasus, We'd
nesday, mutinied and attacked the engineer.
The train was stopped and a desperate fight
ensued, in which eight soldiers and two
gendarmes and thirty-one prisoners were
killed. Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
A Dublin dispatch of Wednesday reports
that Mr., w. j. Lane, a member of parlia-
ment for the eastern division of Cork coun-
ty, has been sentenced to a months impris-
onment, without labor, for melting tenants
to resist bailiffs.
The upper Mississippi river convention
met at Dubuque, Wednesday, and adopted
resolutions urging the importance to the
northwest of large appropriations by the
United States for the improvement of the
Mississippi river and the removal of snags
and other distractions.
A dispatch was received in Boston, We'd
nesday, by the American board of foreign
missions from Mardin, in East. Turkey,
stating that 10000 people are starving and
ceiling for immediate relief.