Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-27
NEWS BREVITIES.
important News Items in Pithy
Paragraphs.


Fulton, III.
Twenty-Five cases of smallpox are re-
ported at Belleville, Ill.
Business failures for the week number
227, against oil last week.
A block of seven-story buildings vas
burned at Glasgow, causing loss OF SooV'
600.
Hog cholera Is making serious ravages ID
the stock of farmers in the vicinity OF Lima,
Ohio.
In the debate over pension veto senator
Blair called the president Gan Infamous
Gbeler."
The Chicago car mems strike was settled
Sunday, the men returning to work Monday
morning.
Coffee advanced half cent in the New York
market, influenced by continued higher
prices abroad.
Governor Foraker and the Garfield club OF
Columbus, O., called on General Harrison q
few days ago.
DIR. Mackenzie's book is being seized IN
Germany. Forty thousand copies were cap
tured in Leipsic.
1t was reported in Washington that Pre'I-
dent Cleveland will speak in New York be-
fore the election.
The annual convention OF the United
States Brewmasters' association Is being
held in New York.
The Washington correspondents were OF
the opinion, Monday, that congress Wouio
adjourn within week.
The fifteenth annual convention Of the W..
J. 7. u. is in session IN the Metropolitan
opera house, New York.
GA quarterly dividend of per cent, pay
able Nov. Is has been declared by the Wheel
ing and Laks Erie directors.
NJ Teller. in speech in the senate, de-
clared that the treasury department Is being
run in the interest of Wall street.
In Central Park, New York, man sup
posed to be the Rev. N. Straus, of Clncln-
natl, committed suicide by shooting.
The Toledo, Columbus and Southern road
was sold, at Toledo. under foreclosure OF
the first mortgage bonds for S6OO,oOU.
The democratic national committee is in
vestigating the charges that republican en-
ployers are intimidating their workmen.
It reported that Miss Lillian Lewis, the
actress, was married at Huntsville, Ala, to
her business manager, Lawrence Marston.
Malignant diphtheria is prevalent at Ok
ford Junction, Iowa, there having been If
teen deaths withirl title more than week.
An effort is being made to organize col
ony of 1900 to settle on the Oklahoma re-
seryation and resist all efforts to Gust them
out.
A drawn fight of twenty-four rounds was
fought near Newport, Ky, between Tommie
Cannie, of Cincinnati, and Tommle Burke,
of Boston.
A wealthy Briton became enamored with
the charms of an Indian maiden near Stand
ing Rock agency recently and marriage was
the result
At Mahomet, ILL.,, Chsrles Rowe, aged II
years, shot and killed his father beca1se he
accused him of stealing cigars from the
show case.
Charles R. Storey, secretary of the Home
Mutual Insurance company, has been NOM
mated for mayor by the republicans of San
Francisco.
The Hon. Samuel Anderson, member of
the Illinois general assembly from Belle
vile in 1874, died at his home in Decatur,
ILL.,, aged IS.
The building of the Illuminated manufac
turing company, at Kendall, Mich, was
burned The loss is $4,000 and the insur-
ance $4,000.
Pittsburg operators took advantage of the
rise in the rivers and shipped 1000 600
bushels of coal to Cincinnati, Louisville and
other points.
Pauline Mccoy, colored, aged 10, was
hanged at Union Springs, Ala, for the muir
der of Annie Jordan, white child, aged IA,
last February.
A Baltimore man was arrested, Monday,
for plotting with one of the demi-monde to
dishgure a lawyer. He promised the woman
$50 for the job.
b.. s. Briggs, the safe manufacturer of
Rochester, n. Y, has disappeared. He is
charged with forgeries to the amount of
$4,000 or more.
The pope has decided to instruct the bish-
ops throughout the world to continue to ag-
itate for the restoration of tbs temporal
powers of the pope.
Charles s. Redfeld. for twenty-one years
treasurer of Nc Vicker's theater, died at
Bozeman, Montana, of q dose of morphine
taken with suicidal intent.
John Chaffee, one of the largest cotton
planters in the United States, and who was
funding agent for jeff Davis government,
died at New Orleans, aged 70.
AT Youngstown, OhlO, q c6ve-ln buried
four workmen who were digging a trench
for a water main, and all were badly in
iured, Thomas Coyne fatally.
An explosion of gas caused fire which
destroyed the Cameron colliery. at Shame
kin, Pa. The loss Is placed at SIS, 900, and
1000 men are rendered idle.
During a torchlight parade of Scandina-
Wan Republican clubs at Republic, Mich,
rotten eggs were thrown at the standard
bearers By unknown persons.
Fire at Valentine, Neb., destroyed the
finest block in the town, at loss of $40, COO;
insurance small. The United States signal
Office was in the burned building.
The American Street Railway association
has persuaded the government to put letter
boxes on street cars, and boxes are now
beng constructed for that purpose.
The Standard Oil company's warehouse.
at Duluth, Minn., and an oil train that had
just been switched in, were burned, en- all
ing loss of $50, 600 with no Insurance.
It is said the Canadian government will
pass law at the next session Of the domin-
ion parliament, permitting American fisher
men to ship 6sh In bond through Canada.