Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-24
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The president sent q message to the sem
ate, Thursday, referring to resolution
passed by that body some time ago, in which
he states that treaty has been under con-
iderstion with. the emperor of China for
many months, looking TO restriction OF
Chinese labor that viii meet the wants of the
american people.
Prohibitionists gained point in Atlanta,
Thursday, over the anti prohibitionists in
the city election.
The senate committee on territories Mon
Cav instructed Senator Plat to report
fayorably an enabling act for tho admission
Of northern Dakota 1t also instructed
Senator Stewart tn report favorably an
enabling act for the admission OF Washing
Ton territory and northern Idaho as single
state providing no part of Idaho shall be
included with a majority OF the electors
residing in that section in question. There
viii be minority adverse report upon the
laet mentioned bill.
The house COMMITTEES on public lands
Monday decided, by party vote, to formu-
late general bill, providing for FORFEITURE
Of all unearned land grants.
A terrible collision occurred on the Penn
syIysnia railroad near Altoona, Monday,
between two passengers trains Two
engineers, two fremen and q brakeman are
reported killed. Five or six passengers were
injured but none fatally. The traius were
running at the rate OF 45 miles an hour ana
the collision was simply terrific. In. ee
Pullman cars were wrecked. The estimated
loss entailed by the wreck is $4,000.
Washington city was visited Monday by
the most remarkable storm ever known. A
very heavy rain began in the morning and
continued until 5 o'clock In the afternoon,
when it turned into blin9ing snow and
stuck to everything it touched and turned
into ice. Telegraph wires broke down,
street cars were stopped and the cleo TO
lights went out. The morning and evening
papers appeared without telegraphic dis
Detches.
The Buckeye buggy works at Columbus,
Ohio, were burned, Wednesday. Loss, $l5O,
600. Insurance 100000.
DISPATCHES of Tuesday from the eastern
cities report the storm which ragged In that
section on Sunday and Monday as much
worse than was supposed the day previous.
Baltimore was cut off from communication
with New York and Washington for thirty
four hours from Sunday night. Not only
were the wires down. but hundreds of tele-
graph poles along both the Western Union
and railroad lines we're broken. The tenn
perature fell tweuty degrees in ten hours.
The snowfall was six inches, and the wind
blew at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The
fire telegraph alarm system became useless,
and sentinels were placed in the belfries. In
New York city, Tuesday, business at the
stock exchange was entirely suspended. No
foo UnpSd4U
The elevated railway ran irregularly, afford
ing very inadequate facilities. East river
was Fl zen over, and many Brooklyn
people walked across it to the New York
side. Many were unable to get home Mon
day night and stores and offices were con-
verted into sleeping apartments for en-
ployes. Many girls were compelled TO
throughout the city. George D. Barrymore
the well known importer and dealer in hops
was frozen to death between his residence
and Office. Annie Fisher was found frozen
to death in her hall way and it is presumed
that there are many cases of death, by freez
ing, throughout the city. No United States
mail was received or dispatched in New
York City from p. m. Monday TO p. m.
Tuesday. Local mails were delivered and
collected. Sleighs were in great demand in
the city. Broadway and the other great
thouroughfares were we'll nigh impossible
with huge banks of snow shoveled from the
sidewalks. No milk was received in New
York, Brookin or Jersey for the
thirty -four hours ending at noon
Thursday. Transfer, express and deliv, ~
wagons could not be run owing to the
men. Coal was even carried in thousand Of
places by bag, basket and bucket full; the
price is nearly double. The fire engines
will be placed on bobsleds. At q late hour
tuesday night snow was still falling and q
still worse situation is feard. Throughout
most of the eastern cities, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Saratoga, Albany etc, the situa.:
ton is about the Same.
ivered q two-hours' argument before q sub
committee of the commerce committee on
defects in the interstate commerce law. He
began with sta ement that the law was
not yet perfect, and it would have been next
to miracle if it had turned out to be per-
feet. Since last summer he had been en-
gagged in an earnest invest cation of the
operation of the law, and was persuaded
that violations of its spirit and letter were
ers believed them to be. It is now well
known, he said, that persons interested in
the large shipping houses have been secretly
appointed ag nts of the railroads and put
upon salaries for the purpose of securing
freight. The salary amounts to q rebate,
and is a fraud and outrage upon other
shippers. Another form of illegal dis
criminatioa is to bill grain or produce from
Chicago to Liverpool or London at an
agreed through rate, and then to stop it
though the agency of the .railro I'd at the
port of shipment on the fimsy pretext that
vessel owners cannot be induced to preform
their part of the service for that portion of
the rate which is left after deducting tho
charges fixed by the tariff of the land lines.
This is equivalent to a rebate of the ocean
freight, and is fraud upon the law and an
injury to other shippers. There are, he said,
other ingenious methods of evading the law,
such as the granting of free passes for
separate states traversed by railroad and
good only in the state named.
A special dispatch was received in Chicago,
Thursday, from Boston, via London, which
stated that the storm had ragged two days
throughout New England. and that the loss
to property must amount to an enormous
sum. That there had been no trains run out
Of Boston in that time, and that the city was
entirely without telegraph communication
with other portions of the TJni,ed States