Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-09
LATEST NEWS
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Of Hurried Readers
President Harrison has issued thanks
giving proclamation, naming Thursday,
November "a
Martin Burke has been identified by half
dozen witnesses as the man Williams who
purchased the furniture for the Carlson cot
tage, where Cronin was killed.
Thirty women and girls, ont of 800 en-
ployed in q carpet factory at Glasgow,
Scotland, were crushed to death by a wall
of another building falling upon the carpet
factory.
The late snow storm west and north OF
Kansas extended east in Nebraska to Oma-
ha. In western Nebraska and Wyoming q
blizzard caused q blockade OF railroad
traffic.
The general auditors Office of the Santa
Fe is to be removed from Boston to Topeka
about December LIST.
A herd of Texas long horns stampeded
Sunday morning in the streets of Kansas
City. Some were shot, others lassoed and
all finally captured.
Tie Montana state canvassing boards re-
turns give q republican majority IN the leg
islature, which is to elect two United States
senators.
The car accountant of the Chicago extern
sion of the Santa Fe is being removed to
Topeka, to be consolidated with car &C
countant A. p. Wilder's department.
Colonel A. M. York. brother of DR.. York,
who was among the victims of the Blenders,
does not believe that the Bender family
were lynched, as is quite generally believed.
A pantry girl in a Cincinnati, o., hotel
was bitten by a tarantula concealed in a
bunch of bananas. The girls arm swelled
rapidly and the bite is considered serious.
Chicago proposes to erect tower for the
worlds fair of 1892 which shall put the Eiffel
tower in the shade. 1t is proposed to be
1,6OO feet high, AGO feet across its base and
225 feet broad at top.
The latest advices from Guatemala state
that the revolution in that republic is ended
and that the government has triumphed
over its enemies. All the revolutionists taken
prisoners were shot.
Engineer Twombly and Conductor Blu
ford, of the Rock Island train which met
with disaster at Englewood, near Chicago.
have been indicted by the grand jury and
held in bonds of $175,O 600 each.
A Catholic priest, who, by accident, has
lost the use of his legs, has been nominated
as democratic cand; date for county clerk of
Atchison county, Kansas. He has the con-
sent of the bishop to make the race.
Sheriff Reynolds. w. A. Holmes and Eu-
gene Middleton, while taking eight Apache
Indians and one Mexican to the Yuma peni-
Tertiary, were killed by their prisoners four
miles from Riverside, Arizona.
A squad of Mexican soldiers in train
from Vera Cruz to Mexico city, mutinized
and attacked their lieutenant and sergeant,
killing the latter. They then jumped from
the train, one of them being killed in
doing SO.
A London dispatch says that a company
is being organized there with a capital of
half million pounds sterling. capable of
unlimited expansion, for the purpose of
purchasing the great grain elevators of
Chicago.
The Indiana state board of agriculture
has advices from many of the northern
and northwest counties saying that hog
cholera is epidemic and that hundreds of
hogs are dying daily and the disease stead
lily increasing.
It is both asserted and denied that Chief
Mayes and ex-Chief Bushyhead, of the Cher
okees, are agreed in the policy to advise the
Cherokee council to accept the offer of the
national government of $1.25 an acre for
the lands in the Cherokee strip.
The late snow storm IN the west, extend
ing over the western part of Kansas, is re-
ported as the worst storm ever experienced
at Denver. South of there thousands of
horses and cattle drifted off their ranges
and many persisted IN the blizzard.
United States District Attorney Craig ar
rived at Danville, Va, and T. A. Fox, reg
istrar at the last presidential election, was
arrested charsed with improper erasinZ
from the registration books the names of
voters.
The $50 miners employed at Odin, ILL.,. |
have struck for higher wages and cheaper |
supplies. They clam the company charges |
them more for bl7sting powder than the |
market prices, and that their supplies are |
not obtainable except at places controlled |
by the employers.
President Harrison has issued his procla-
nation admitting the two new states of /
North Dakota and South Dakota. his is
The first instance in the history of the ma
tlonal government of twin states entering
the union at the same moment. Both proc
Iamations were signed at $40 p. m. of No
vembeE 2.
Mrs. John W. Mackey. the wife Of Cali
fornla's mining king, has sued the Man
chester, England. Examiner, for libel. for
publishing that Mrs. Mackey was a poor
widow with two children, and that she was
employed as a waster-woman by Nevada
miners when Mr.. Mackey fell in love with
and n arried her. The defendants have
oaid into court $4,000 as tender, but re-
list larger claim.
Better Than Oklahoma.
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