Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-11
DOMESTIC.

day.
Several SMALLPOX patients exposed them
selves in New York City, Wednesday. One
of them rode mile on a street car.
An FL Paso, Texas, dispatch of Wednesday
states that Andrew j. Stewart, q leading
colonization agent, has secured 1,250,0O0
acres of land in Mexico upon which he ex-
meets to establish colony of Mormcns.
mr.. Stewart says that his enterprise has no
connection will. the church at Salt Lake
City but is purely business project.
Ont of forty-three furnaces In the neigh
borhood of Reading, nineteen have been
shut down on account of the Reading strike.
seyeraI Russian dynamiters were con-
DENIED to death at ST. Petersburg, Tuesday.
Abandon dispatch of Tuesday says that
Tenn Smith will accept Sullivan's challenge.
He has so announced.
The Kentucky legislature adopted resolu-
tions, Tuesday, protesting against the pass
age by congress of the Blair educational bill.
John Hoesch, 20 years of aged was de-
clared insane at Louisville, Tuesday, from
smoking cigarettes. He had been In the
habit of smoking forty cigarettes day.
A bill was reported to the senate, Wednes-
day, authorizing the president to suspend
by proclamation the Importation of any for
eign article from any foreign country, or OF
all products of any foreign country whenever
he becomes satisfied that any adulterated
article is about to be imported into the Uni
ted S ates, or that any foreign state is max
ing unjust determinations against importa-
ton of articles from this country.
The public debt has been reduced since
June Goth last, S69,217, 655. It was reduced
during the month of February ST., 3S7, 800.
The president nominated Michael Griffin,
Wednesday, to be postmaster at Frankfort,
Kansas.
The trial of Thomas Callan, formerly Of
Lowell, Mass, and Michael Harkins, OF
Philadelphia, the alleged dynamiters, was
begun, Wednesday, at Newgate, London.
The St. Louis Republican in series of
interviews with Missouri Pacific ferryboat-
men charges them with deliberately FORM
ing the great ice gorge.
It is thought that the reduction of 10 per
cent in the wages of the 10000 employees of
the Cambridge Iron works at Pittsburg,
will be accepted amicably.
The dry goods establishment of Barnes,
Hengerer d. Co at Buffalo was damaged to
the extent of $4,000, Wednesday, half on
the stock and half on the building.
The winter festivities at st. Paul are in
their height. The ice palace is visited
nightly by tens of thousands. Thursday
night it is estimated that fully loo, 600 visited
the palace.
A fire at CORTLAND, Trumbull county,
Ohio, destroyed the business portion of the
town, Thursday.
Marshall Clark died at Garwood, ILL.,,
Thursday, from whisky which he drank the
day previous.
Washington dispatch to the Topeka
Commonwealth states that good many
democratic members are determined to
knife Cleveland. That Hill and his friends
are showing good deal of activity IN New
York state and that if the party is divided
in New York, Cleveland would not be
nominated.
The Washington correspondent of the
Topeka Commonwealth gives it as his
opinion that the house bill to secure titles
to settlers on what is known as the New
York Indian lands, which was passed by the
house and is now in the hands of the
senate, will be favorably acted upon by that
body.
Lu mDill, one of the members of the
late Frank kPierce's gang of desperadoes,
was captured in Gainesville, Texas, thurs
day.
William E. Westbrook was sentenced to
be hung at Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, for
the murder of William Gross, a saloon
keeper at Blue Mound. A motion had been
made before Judge Smith to grant q new
trial, which be refused, and then sentenced
Westbrook as above. His attorneys, who
are counsel by appointment, Westbrook
being an orphan and having neither money
nor friends, declare that the decision of the
Judge is an outrage, and will pay the expense
of an appeal to the supreme court.
The striking miners at Shenandoah, Penn
s.lvania, were rioting ali day Friday, and
had full possession of the town. About 5
o'clock, a squad of Polanders attacked the
non-union miners, as they left their work,
with sticks and stones. squad of half a
dozen police went to their assistance. They
caught one of the rioters, and were
hustling him off, when the strikers
returned and rescued him and
The latter, however, succeeded in breaking
away and started for the Shenandoah City
mine, followed by the crowd of rioters who
now numbered about thousand, and who
continued their attacks on the men and boys
coming from the mine. The six policeman
accepted the long odds against
them and returned, to the at,
tdChs Lucy lduo uStU duo
took couple of prisoners, one of whom
they laid in Magistrate Shoemakers Office,
but the crowd rushed for the two policemen
with the other prisoner and began to club
and beat them. Finding themselves down
and their lives in danger they drew their
revolvers and fired into the crowd which
scattered in all directions. Mike Hebron
young man, received ball
in the mouth and is badly injured. John
Cutler, iron founder, was shot in the arm
and Polander was shot behind the ear.
The rioting and uproar continued all day.
At on time, the strikers surrounded the
police headquarters and attempted to cap
ture the policemen, whom they declared
they would hang. At ~ O'Clock at night
the rioting had ceased and the city was
quiet
A freight war has been begun by the lines
between Kansas City, Chicago end st Louis.
All of the roads are concerned in the cut,
and Friday all lines had put down their
rates point or two. Further reductions
are expected.