Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-28
DOMESTIC

Another firm, Brown d Co., signed the
amalgamated scale, and there is great pro-
liability of a break lii the ranks OF the
manufacturers.
Idle persons in Washington are talking
about q vacancy in the pensop office. They
say the president is dissatisfied with certain
official acts of General Black.
The published story that General Sheri-
dan isiable:to leave his bed is denied by the
generals brother, who says the sick man Is
still too weak to raise his head.
A twelve-year-old boy named Pascal
Porter has blossomed out as an e1horter,
and has paralyzed the religious people OF
southern Indiana with his fervid eioquence.
A sheriff is having trouble at Morris,
Illinois, to prevent the lynching OF william
Galley, q negro, who assaulted iran ID
yea.-old girl
jefferson Ray, aged q, while walking in
his sleep, was mistaken for midnight
ASSASSIN and fatally shot by his brother, q
farmer on the border of the Choctaw nation.
Threats are heard among the Burlington
strikers of vengeance upon the officials who
set the traps into which the leaders have
fallen, but no organized scheme of violence
is anticipated.
G.. M. Rider was hanged at Marshall, Mo-,
for the murder of R. p. TaiIaut who was
killed:for his intimacy with Riders wife.
It is nearly two years since the m arder was
done.
Because of dissa tisfaction among mem
bers of the Western Iron Manufacturer as
ISOLATION it is reported that its dis olution il
probable.
Sam Jones, the revivalist, in harangue
at Chautauqua declared Cleveland would be
reelected, but that the issue in 1892 would
be prohibition.
Speaker Carlisle appointed a committee
of five to Investigate the causes and evils OF
excessive immigration and it will report
!. at the next session of congress.
The surface of the water in the Chicago
river was set on fire by a boy dropping an
ignited match into it. Sewer gases and 9th.
ar nauseous refuse caused the ignition.
General Sheridan appears to be growing
better continually and enjoys quite az
appetite.
Emperor William is willing to have his
mother hold the titles of Empress and
Queen Frederick.
6 Private Joe Fiffer made the opening sneecr
of the Illinois campaign at Springfe Id
Monday evening.
L,
from Washington and feels jubilant over the
prospects of democratic victories this fall,
The house of representatives by vote of
f20 to 102 rejected the proposition to strike
wool off the free list in the Mills tariff bill.
Judge Gary of Chicago deferred action nm
the will of Mrs. Emory A Storrs, the eyid
ence as to her sanity not being technically
satisfactory.
Serious trouble is threatened in the
Skeena river region of British Columbia by
an uprising of Indians against the white
settlers.
Raymond, the artist who killed him self
lately at Trinidad, Colorado, was a victim
of the cocaine habit.
Attempts have lately been made to bride
customs inspectors in Washington territory
to admit smuggled opium.
White caps have appeared in Lee county,
West Virginia, and numerically fogged
4umber of degraded women.
Robert Garrett has returned from Europe
in excellent health and is devoting himself
to the affairs of his dead brothers estate.
Charles Marks, United States marshal.
was killed near Bartelsville, Indian Terrific
~, by Creek half-breed wanted for the
attempted murder of the mayor of Geuda
Springs.
M. H. De Young, said the Chinese cues
ton had sunk out of sight on the Pacific.
Charles Lynde was shot and severely
wounded at Parse s, Kansas, by a Mrs.
James, who objected to becoming his
mother-in-law.
The New York legislature has assembled
in extra session to provide an appropriation
for no InSfi tuti Of hot CO.
The farmers of Crawford county, illinois,
have decided to raise no more wheat, barley,
or rye for three years. This is direct blow
at the life of the chinch bug.
John Rose and his son-in-law, S. S. Hail.
of Stanton, Kentucky, settled an old quarrel
according to the code of honor. Hall vas
killed instantly, and Rose was seriously in
jured.
E1.President Hayes pre- ,;ded at the prison
conference proceedings at Boston, Thursday,
r. II. Dawson, of Alabama, delivered an
address in which he said the system Of leas
ing convicts should be abolished.
Mrs. A. r. Parsons, in an interview with q
Chicago Tunes reporter, stated that she knew
nothing of the dynamite plot which Inspect
or Bonfield claims 10 have discovered, but
she hopes that such plot is going on. She
is not only willing that Governor Oglesby
ana Judges Gary and Grlnnell be killed. but
gives it as her determination to do the kill
ing herself as soon as she feels certain she
can succeed in an attempt.
competent authority states that the
armed groups of anarchists have increased
by 100 per cent since the bomb was thrown
into the ranks of the police at the Haymar-
ket- This means that instead of $500
equipped with repeating rifles and bombs
there are now 5000 fully armed.
The Anarchist Trio.
CHICAGO, July 1S.-The course to be pur.
sued in prosecuting the would-be assassini
of Grinnell, Gary and Bonfeld was decided
this morning. It was semi-oficially an
nounoed that the anarchist trio will be taken
about noon before q justice and the case con.
tinued tor ten days That would give an
opportunity of presenting the murderoui
conspiracy with the least possible delay e
the grand jury, which assemblies Monday.