Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.

OF Hurried Readers.
The worlds convention OF the church of
the latter day saints is in session at St.
Joseph, Mo.
By direction of the president the state of
Wisconsin has been transferred from the
military department of the east to the de-
partment of Dakota.
Governor Humphrey has issled his procla-
nation for special election in the Fourth
congressional district, to elect successor to
Thomas Ryan, to be held on Tuesday, the
21st day of May, 1889.
Fire originated in a butcher shop at Mel
son, Neb., and burned whole block, includ-
ing hotel, two drug stores, three groceries,
one hardware and two general merchandise
stores. Loss, $4,000.
The boiler in the little steamer on the
Kansas river at Lawrence exploded, scalding
Carl Groeber and others.
Senator Ingalls, comes home to Atchison
to arrange for building new house to re-
place his home that was burned. It is said
that this work will keep him at Atchison
most of the summer.
The Kansas supreme court decides that a
sidewalk tax cannot be collected when the
work of constructing the sidewalk is done
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in the absence of an ordinance.
Albert S. Lowe, cashier of the st. Joseph,
Mo-, Union stock yards, recently married,
lost money at cards and stole money to pay
bis losses and then went to Canada. His
shortage is 81 900 or more.
Senator Plumb has secured an allowance
of pensions to Thomas Caddick, WaKeeney,
and Charles Stone of Topeka; Bernard Car
lin, Strong City, and Thomas Main of Ben
ton. l. I.
Congressman Perkins succeeded in having
the pension case of George w. Stewart of
Wilson county, Kan, made special and he
received notice of an increase from 50 to ST.
per month.
Frank Shafer of Ottawa, ILL.,, shot and
robbed his partner NJ. II. Millspaugh, of
Ypsilanti, Mich, near Fort Scott. They had
been travelling together through the country
selling microscopes, etc.
Willitts' horse barn, on his ranch, nine
miles east of Alma, burned with II horses,
feed and equipments. Loss over $1,000. In
surance 81 600 in Continental and 81 500 in
Capitol of Topeka.
The gross earnings of the Atchison, To-
peka d Santa Fe railway, On all lines for
February, were 81, 1864, 800; net earnings,
1882, 1872. An increase over February last
year of S60,7O
Hon. Geo. Chandler, first assistant secre-
tary of the interior, has returned from his
hame in independence, Kan, and will assume
the duties of the Office to which he has just
been appointed.
Car Repairer Heintz, whose family lives
at Silver Lake, Kan, was shot and killed at
Mcfarland, station on the Rock Island in
Wabaunsee county, by Charles Jackson, who
was playing the cowboy act by shooting
around without aim.
The recent hurricane in the South Pacific
ocean caused great damage on the Island of
Tahiti. Parts of the island were submerged
and many persons were drowned. On the
Island of Tonga the hurricane created great
havoc. Thirty persons persisted there in the
storm.
Santa Fe stock has taken slight rise. 1t
is thought that the purposes of speculation
which have caused it to get SO low have |
either been accomplished or expended their |
force. Those who ought to know say that |
its real earning value is as great now as |
when it was worth so to 80.
The president has granted pardon in the |
case of VIM. Woods. convicted November |
last of murder in the territory and sentenced |
to be hanged April 10. He also granted a re-
spite till June u in the case of Henry w.
Miller, convicted of completely in the same
crime.
Four coaches of a Baltimore & Ohio train,
nearing South Chicago. just north of One
Hundredth street were derailed by a bad
switch and broken to pieces against cars
standing in the yards, killing James Hanna,
of Smiths Basin, n. Y, and injuring
dozen oil ia ngels.
In the running race at San Jose, Cal, I'M
der the ats ices of Blood Horse Association,
AL Farrow made mile in 1:40 equalling |
the record made by Stuyvesant at Sleeps |
head September Z, 1887, being but quarter |
of second slower than the record made by |
Ten Brock in his race against time at Louis |
vile May "a, 1877.
The secretary of the interior has recon-
mended to the president the appointment of
a new register and new receiver of the
United States Land office at Oberlin, Kan.
Frank Bacon and Tully Scott, the democratic
register and receiver respectively. have re-
signed and their places will be filled at ouce.
]. R. Sedgwick will be the new register and
J. B. McGonigle will be receiver.
That prairie fire in Dakota has turned out
to have been a very serious matter. The
towns almost completely destroyed are Violin,
Olivet Perkmana, Lesterville and Mount
Vernon. Three or four other villages have
been reported as lesser sufferers. The hui
nudity of the atmosphere was only per
cent, the mean annual humidity for that re-
gion being 20 per cent. The velocity of the
wind was 46 miles an hour. The losses an
estimated at s., 100000.
Better Than Oklahoma.
1900 acres of the choicest land in the San
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