Western Kansas world., 1888-09-08
DOMESTIC.


oEt crop.
Southwestern roads are indnlging in
I6nfe war over the transportation OF uVe
tpck to Chicago.
The manuscript of General Sheridan's s
personal memoirs is in the hands OF New
York publishers.
Adyices from London state that the shorl,
i aoe in the wheat crop of the old worio WILL
be about 90, ,000, 600 bushels.
Z A machine has been invented by Dorr y;
Felt, of Chicago. that will add, subtract ano
divide with mathematical correctness.
A bip meeting of reilroad men at Pitts,
/ hurc is discussing the consolidation OF all
elassess of railway employees In one organi-
zstion.
The republicans of New York in state con-
vention nominated Warner Miller for COVER
nor. and Col. s. V. r. Cruger for lieutenant
governor.
The total number of cases of yellow fever
in Florida to date is one hundred. Ihere
are sixty four cases under treatment at
Jacksonville.
France has refused to sign the sugar
bounty convention because 1t would enable
the United States to shut her out OF South
American markets.
General Boulanger was reelected to the
French chamber of deputies from the de-
partments OF Somme, Charente, and Moro
by large malorltes.
The sugar refners' trust is trying to force
retail merchants to form trust IN New
York with a view to further increasing the
price of the ommCdlty.
Henry E. Saunders and Miss Nettie stim-
son, who were married at Grand haplos,
Michigan, four years ago, have just mace
public announcement of the fact.
One hundred and fifty weavers employed
in W. L. Smiths mill at Philadelphia, nave
gone out on a strike because young noys
were employed as winders.
Joseph Breed, assistant cashier of the
Hartford, Connecticut. National bank, sui
cided by cutting his throat. He was trus-
tee of several estates, and his accounts are
believed to be short.
The detectives have just captured William
F. Clarke. a famous forger who has recent
" secured sums of money aggregatlng SlO,-
600 from New York business houses.
The striking engineers, fremen, and
switchmen on the Mackey system of rail-
roads, who went out Sunday returned to
work at the terms dictated by the road.
The presidents message and the Wilson
bill relating to retaliation have been re-
ferred to subcommittee to collate all the
treaties and statutes bearing on the subject.
The senate passed Mr. Eoar's resolution
calling on President Cleveland for all the
CORE spondence between Great Britain and
the United States, relating to the fisheries
troubles.
Minister of Fisheries Topper of Canada
regards the presidents message proposing
retaliation as a campaign document, and
asserts that Canada could retaliation better
than the United States.
Congressman Matson and Hovey, who
are the candidates of their respective parties
for governor of Indiana, have been granted
leave of absence from Washington IN order
to carry on the campaign.
E. M. Young, wealthy mine owner,
eloped from st. Louis with the daughter of
a rich stock owner. The couple were mar
ried at st. Paul and are now awaiting the
forgiveness of the lady's parents.
The cotton merchants of the south are
alarmed by the prospect that the cotton
bagging trust will have the effect of throw
ing them into bankruptcy, the farmers hav-
ing refused to market their cotton.
A Frenchman named Garnier,. who was
ruined financially by the Franco-Psussian
recently, and shot at the porter with the ex-
clamation, "At last have killed one of
them"
Another nihilist plot has been discov-
cred at st. Petersburg. The conspirators
had quarters near the imperial palace, and
were completing arrangements to blow up
the czar. Twelve men and three women
have been arrested.
In the debate on the sundry civil bill SEN
ator Allison made a lengthy speech, claim
ing that the expenditures of the government
for the four years of MIR. Cleveland's admin
istration exceeded the expenditures of the
Garfeld-Arthur Administration by $95,
100000.
The sultan of Morocco has sent troops in.
to the disaffected districts where the in
surgents recently massacred Prince Mulrey
and his two hundred followers, with free IL
cense to butcher, ravage and burn. Neither
children nor aged are spared. and the wo-
men are being outraged and enslaved.
The Cork band that refused to play "God
Save the Queen" at the London exhibition
was given an ovation on returning home.
The band of the British flagship, Revenge,
played "God Save the Queen" as the ship
bearing the Cork band passed them in the
harbor, aud the Cork band responded with
"God Save Ireland"
The 3-year-old boy of Everett L. Hotch-
kiss of Evanston was kidnapped by an un-
known man and woman and brought to
Chicago. The childs cries attracted SO
much attention on the train that his abduc-
tors deserted him at the depot and he was
picked up by the police and retured home.
FoR ExcHANeE-Farms in Eastern Kan
sas, Arkansas and Illinois, also city proper
ty, for good merchandise or unimproved
lands. own 5000 acres, and invite cor
respondence from parties meaning straight,
prompt business. @. G. WALLACE,
Parsons, Kansas.
Senator German replied to Senator Ali
sons statement that the expenses of the
Cleveland administration had been $95 OO0,-
600 more than those of the Arthur admins
tration. Mr.. German charged that the re-
publican party had forced immense pension
appropriations, and that the remainder of
the difference was due the efforts to build
MP the navy. the reduction of letter postage,
and the payment of the Alabama and Choc-
taw claims. BE stated that the annual cost
per capita of the country's population for
the last four years had been $A32 as against
3k62 under the preceding administration.