Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-13
NEWS BREVITlES.

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The senate passed the bill forfeitlng the
Northern Pacific land grant.
About half the tobacco crop IN Bracken
county, Kentucky, was damaged by the late
frost.
The annual reunion OF the association OF
Eastern Illinois Veterans was held at Cnan-
paign.
Jacob Heber. st. Louis basket-msker,
shot and killed his wife and blew on his
own head.
The president signed the Chinese bill and
returned it, with q message OF e1planatlon'
to congress.
The senate confirmed the appointment OF
Judge Lambert Tree, of Illinois, to be min
lister to Russia.
Anew trial has been ordered in the case
of e1-Alderman McQuade, one OF Inc NC"
York city ''boodlers."
The Wisconsin Methodist conference
found that the charges against Bishop nal
sey were not sustained.
William George. wealthy farmer OF Bas-
co, H., was swindled out Of S, 100 by sharp
ers with lottery scheme.
Radical socialists held q meeting In CHI
caeo recently and decided to form an lnde-
pendent political organization.
A dividend Of half of per cent. has been
declared by the Santa Fe directors. Inc
last dividend was IL per cent.
IT has been decided that the lease Of the
Pittsburg public school building recently
given to a Catholic society was unlawful.
The papers transferring the Toledo Com
mercial to Mr.. Richard Smith, OF the Cln-
cinnati Commercial Gazette, have been
signed.
The Iowa ". C. 7. c. met at Dies MONIES
in its fifteenth annual session. 5og oeiegaIes
being present and Mrs j. Ellen roster pre-
siding.
CampbeIl & Cutters paint, oil and glass
store at Kansas City, was burned Mednes-
day. The loss, $4,000, Is covered oy IN
surence.
John J. Connolly, an insane highway
robber, hanged himself in his cell In the
Salem Mass county jail early "Wednesday
morning.
The Secular Union Congress, whose object
is the total separation of church and state,
opened its twelfth annual congress at Pitts
burg Friday.
Skeletons of three men and four women,
with other relics of the mound-bullders,
we're found in mound on the Wood river
two miles east of Alton, LII.
The court house, with most of the records,
and the Jail of Sac county, Iowa, were burn
ed at Sac City. A prisoner named Charles
Carlson is believed to have been burned, but
his body has not been found.
DR., Edwin L. Tons strangled himself to
death at the Washingtonlan home. He was
once reputable citizen of Chicago, but
was ruined by the opium habit.
rain and thunder storm swept over Col
umbus, o. Roofs were blown away and
trees leveled. The damage at the exposition
grounds is estimated at $4,000.
Peter Straubb, a Chicago machinist,
gouged out both his eyes at NATION, H..
in obedience to the commands of spirits
with whom he was communlng.
Mortimer Sackville West, the first Baron
Eackville, is dead. The British minister to
Washington is a sprout of the same fam
lily, but not on good terms with 1t. SO 1t Is
said.
After eight years wandering h. c. Cooley
returned to Bevier, Mo-, to find his wife
married to another man. BE made love to
her again and they eloped from husband
No. 2.
Several hundred head of cattle in Anglaiz
and Allen COMMITTEES, Ohio, are affected with
pleuro-pneumonia and many have died.
The herds affected have been strictly quar-
antined.
Several people have been arrested in Lon
don on suspicion of them being the White
chapel woman-slayer. Rewards aggregat-
ing $500 are offered for the capture of the
right man.
The Grand Army encampment at Colum-
bus has adjourned. Major Henry Warner,
of Missouri, was elected commander-ln-
chief. Next year the veterans will meet at
Milwaukee.
Several men are under arrest in London
suspected of completely in the horrible and
mysterious murder of women in the White
chapel district. There have been two addi-
tional murders within the past two days.
The Sioux commission has left the In
dians without getting enough signers to
make the treaty. Delegations from the si1
Indian agencies will soon visit Washington
and present their wishes to the president.
Premier Greenway, of Manitoba. is
charged by the W lnnlpeg Free freSS With
having sccepted money, to be Used in the
recent elections, from the Manitoba Central
railway, in return for which he was to secure
legislation for the road.
English gransers are forming societies
and agitatirg tie adjustment of the gsme
laws. A sailor boy was recently sent 10
prison for two weeks for sucking al egg
which he stole from a partridge's nest on
Lord Bsad5ourne's estate.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Owens. widow of the late
Commodore Owens, left her home in Chica
60 recently and went to Washington to
make plea for an increase of pension from
$50 to $50 month. She has been arrested
and detained by the Washington police on a
charge of insanity.
Hattie Flack, 19-years-old. daughter of g
st. Louis commission merchant, who mar
ried and fed with a muiat.o employed on
her fathers farm, has returned to her par
ents' hoce. The mulatso, who was already
married, fed from his victim at Moscow
KY, TO escape lynchers.
The supreme court of Illinois rendered
decision Wednesday, reversing findings Of
the circuit court and the First district an
pellate court, and declaring that Maria z
STOREY, divorced wife of Wilbur F Sforav