Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-11-10
NEWS BREVITIES.
Imnortant News Items in PIthy
Paragraphs.

Now York has won the worlds champion
ship.
The president has approved the genera
deficiency bill.
The session of congress just closed is tn
longest in cur national history.
Off Milwaukee. three men were killed ans
several more seriously injured.
There were three new cases of yellow
fever at Decatur, Ala, and one death.
The French chamber of deputies has con
firmed the election of General Boulanger.
It has been ruled that the land league
books must be produced in the Parnel
case.
The United States supreme court has De
clared the Iowa prohibition law constltu
tionaL
The British foreign Office has heard moth
ing of the reported massacre of the STANLEY
expedition.
The yellow fever situation in Florida i:
still distressing. Further appeals are being
made for aid.
Miss Frances Willard was reelected pres
ident of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance union.
At Colfax, W. T., David Yates, barkeep-
or, killed his wife, of whom he was jealous,
and committed suicide.
Five men have bean mysteriously muir
dered at Cheyenne, Wyo.; one each month
for the last five months.
Charles Stewart Wells, of New York, has
accepted the equal rights party's nomlna-
ton to the vice presidency.
A servant girl in Greensburg, Pa, com:
mitted suicide because che could not afford
to wear fashionable dresses.
Illinois democrats are greatly delighted
over the receipt of $50, 900 from the natlona!
committee for use in Illinois.
The Rev. John Eckers, aged GO, a promi-
nent Methodist minister, was struck by a
train and killed near Reno, Pa, Thursday.
Dexter Roosevelt, who when 3 years old
was picked up in the streets of New YORK as
a waif, is in Gotham hunting for his father.
Henry F. Albers coal and lumber dealer
of Buffalo, n. Y, has crossed over to Cam
ada. He forged notes amounting to ST.
600.
Jean Bouvral, who went to Paris to take
the Pasteur treatment for hydrophooia, has
returned to America, he believes, entirely
cured.
Another Irish nationalist leader-John
Finucane, member of Parliament from East
Limerick-is about to sue the London Times
far libel.
The Manitoba government has succeeded
in getting LOGON olive across the Canadian
Pacific tracks and will now prosecute track
laying on the other side.
Henry Albers. of Buffalo, forged the name
of his prospective father-in-law, Jacob
Schew, a rich brewer, to the amount OF $5O,-
COO and skipped to Canada.
Negotiations with the Sioux have failed
aud it is probable that the government will
in time take action to open the reservation
without the consent of the Indians.
Tho strike of the Denver & KIo Grande
switchmen at Pueblo, Col, was temporarily
eett ed and the n,en ordered back to work
Thursday, pending an investigation.
In the A. T. Stewart will case at New
York, ednes!ay, it was developed that S.
so. 81 had been charged against the million
aires estate for expenses of his funeral.
The board of trustees of Cornell Univer-
priated $4,000 from the permanent funds
for the ere ction of a chemical labratory.
The United States circuit court in New
Brown as the receiver of the Texas and Pa
cific and restored its property to the COM
pany.
Mrs Augusta Loschman, Sc years old, was
turned out of her basement lodgings on
Gardner street in Chicago by her landlord
and left totteriug, homeless and penniless
in the streets.
Alfred b. Love, president of the Ameri-
can branch of the Universal Peace union,
declines to be candidate for vi president
on the national equal rights (Belva Lock
wood ticket.
Fourteen cows we're killed by passenger
train at a curve near Bolton Notch, Conn.,,
the high speed of the train alone saving it
from being hurled down a forty-ive foot
embankment.
Twenty-one women, in convention at Bos-
ton, Mass, Sunday, nominated Miss Alice
Stockton. of Wheaton, as candidate of the
equal right party for Governor. Miss Stock
ton is 26 years old.
Hawkins & johnson 1.-THE Chicago stable)
cousummated the purchase of the famous
2-year-old Galen. They paid $4,000 down
and are to pay, besides, 20 per cent. of his
winnings as 3-year-old.
Masons of Illinois have been informed
through a dispatch to Lieutenant Governor
Sm1tn, GrauQ mSSu6r Oh inc &rduu rouge,
that they send no more aid to their suffer-
ing brethren at Jacksonville, Fla.
The investigation into the charges made
by the London Times has been begun. At
torney General Webster's opening speech
lead to the belief that the Times has no
positive proof to sustain its charges.
At Buffalo Mrs. Henry A. Durfee was
horsewhipped by Mrs. Frank johnson, who
claimed that her victim was endeavoring to
entice Mr.. johnson from his domestic alle-
glance. Mrs. Durfee also has a husband.
John White. Of Minneapolis, Mimi. aged
s., was sentenced at Madison. Wis. for i've
years in the penitentiary for forging the
signature of Judge Romance Bum, of the
United States district court, to two drafts of
Sc each.
A storm ragged all one day last week on
Lake Michigan and drove vessels in all ports
up to the straits. Several large boats are
aground and many suffered damage. A
fisherman who ventured out in his boat was
drowned.
A little daughter of A. Schmitz, of Girard,
Kan, was fatally burned. Some children
fire. In tho Croeo in tha x,o~H "a Az