Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

Condensed for theC onvenienco
OF Hurried Readers.
Robert Browning, the poet, died at venicsr
| December Il
Oliver johnson, of Brooklyn. the veteran
editor and abolitionist. Ii dead.
man-of-war flying the new Brazilian
nag has arrived at Norfolk.
Mrs. Scott-Lord, sister of the wife of
fresldeat Harrison, Is dead.
| Parisians all seem to have the .tsnootic.n
1t irst appeared in St Petersburg, and has
spread all over Europe.
| Lawrence Dumas, Earl of Zetland, Ia
now viceroy of Ireland, ans gone to Dublin
to enter upon his duties.
The Imperial Bank of Persia has ben
opened at Teheyan. This is something new
to Persian financial economy.
| Dom Pedro persists in refusing to accspt
any sum from the new government beyond
that authorized By the laws of Brazil
John Tissue, brakeman, slipped a. hs
was about to jump on an engine, at Atoka.
L l., and his head was cut OF on the track.
1t is SAID that the regular annual retrench-
ment in the matter of passes over the Santa
Fe, Is to be moro extensive than usual thiR
year.
Cambridge City. Indiana, has experienced
the pleasures of q visit from q mid-conti-
| nent cyclone. Several houses were de-
| stroyed.
A commission appointed to consider the
| matter advises the removal of Sing Sing
prison to either Ulster or Sullivan county,
New York.
Mexican bonds, issued in the '60s, and
bogus at that, are flooding Kansas and Mis-
souri,; being put as collateral, or sold az
small figures.
Two men were killed and five more hurt
at the burning of the Miner house at East
Tawas, Michigan. One of the killed Is Ed
Rooney, clerk.
Oberlir, Kansas has been named as the
location of the G. A. r. memorial school.
This is the only school of the kind in the
United States.
number of the chiefs of the Sioux tribes
have gone to Washington, D. c., to close
the treaty ceding their territory In the Da-
kotas to the government.
The senate committee on public lands
has reported favorably upon the bill for the
communication of homesteads. The bill will
doubtless be passed without much delay.
"A
ton convention to meet in Des Moines, Ia,
January next. The call is signed by 100
leading temperance workers of that state.
Cooney, 1.-THE Fox, one of the meu wanted
for the Cronin murder, is said to be caught
at Dodgevllle, Wisconsin. At least man
is in custody who confesses to be Cooney.
great sensation has been produced at
Brussels by an article in the Frankfort lei,
tung. to the effect that King Leopold must
be cautious if he desires to retain his throne.
A special train bearing the remains OF
Jestus H. Rathbone. the founder of the or
der of In gifts of Pythias. with an escort,
went from Lima, Ohio, to Utica, New YORK.
Lawyer Forests concluding argument.
for the defense in the Cronin trlal, lasted
| three days and half. After he quit talk
| ing the court adjourned over local elec-i
| ton day.
their arc light in the Guthrie streets.
There are thirty two of them, each of 200
candle power, and the city is brilliantly
| lighted.
The Leavenworth Soldiers Home is 90
| crowded that old and sick veterans can only
| be taken in and cared for by displacing
| some that are more able bodied. This ID
being done.
DR.. Reilly, of Detroit, Mich, treasurer Of
|
$4,000 to Mr.. Kenney, treasurer of the
Irish league, for the use of the tenants de-
Tense fund.
Democratic members of congress have
| agreed to oppose refunding to represents
tives the months pay each lost by Silcott,
the runaway cashier of the Office OF the
| sergeant-at-arms.
| Congressman Peters. of Kansas. q menu
Der of the appropriation committee OF tho
/ - % ol1 MI ia q -v,or
Der of the sub committees on pensions and
on permanent appropriations.
| Young Emperor William, of Germany,
has issued an edict to suppress dancing
among the German youth, with view to
raising the standard of morality OF both
sexes ard of stimulating the fervor of their
| religious belief"
| The Missourians in Washington are press
ing Assistant Attorney General Shields for
the place on the circuit court bench vacated
by the promotion OF Judge Brewer to the
supreme court 1t is id that Kansans are
generally helping
accustomed to see dead bodies and collins
that the late opera house disaster there, in
| which ten lives we're lost, did not mako
sensation. The prevailing feeling is ''what
next" with a stoical reception of whatever
may happen.
The International chess tourney at Ottawa,
| Ont, sixty players a side, between Canada
| and the Unitei States, conducted by cor
respoudence, has been won by the Ameri-
cans, the score standing 3111 games to 1871.
| Nine games are still to be played, but
| they cannot effect the result.
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fence, water-nghts secured and ditchee
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