Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-10-26
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ia. Han,ey. The new traffic manager OF
the Santa Fe. was once station agent on
that line at small station in New Mexico.
Chill has paced machinery. agricultural
imp ements, tco's, copper and iron on the
Tree list. L, csc are all American produc-
lions and will help American industries.
The Kentucky toari of health has issued
circular letter in view Of the unusual pre-
Vaience of diphtheria. The circular sug-
gests methods of sanitation and disinfec.
ton.
The South American delegates to the ALL
american CONGRESS, while on their excur-
SION, first met with white frost at Grand
hap,ds, Mich, and were sensibly affected
py the new experience.
The Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood,
at Denver. held its sessions mostly in secret.
The president has appointed Webb Nc
Nall, of Gaylord, Kan, register of the land
office at Kirwin.
General Hartranft, ex-governor of Penn
sylvania, was buried at Norristown, Pa,
with imposing funeral ceremonies.
A vein of natural gas has been found IN
the excavat on unde' Lake Michigan, at
Chicago, for tine new water works tunnel.
Violent storms prevail in the region of
Naples. TIE city is partially inundated.
An immense amount of damage has been
done.
Typhoid fever is prevalent all over the
upper pen nsuia of Michigan. Students OF
Yale colle-e at New Haven, Conn, are hav-
ing it, too.
A giraffe has been born at the Geological
gardens at Cincinnati 1t is nearly five and
half feet high and weighs about $50 pounds.
This is the first bora n America.
A sensation in Chicago has been caused
by the ale ed discovery that the Gamma
Gael, or Michigan members thereof, are
workn up a plan to rescue Burke and
Coughlan by force from the court room.
The railroads ar already do ng an i'm
mense freight business in moving the heavy
grain crop of Ia, sas. Two thousand cars
of gram were inspected at Kansas City alone
during the first elghteen Ga of October.
A srec al from Columbus says that Gov
ernor Foraker is very sick man and the
indications are that it will be some time be-
fore he is abe to resume work in the cam
paign, if at all. His physicians say he is
not improving aS rap dly as he might.
The cannon ball." or No. 4, on the Santa
Fe, was wrecked west of Dodge City on the
18th. Conductor Thornburg saved the
wreck from fire. but was badly burned in
doing so. Thirteen passengers were more
or less hurt, bus no one was killed. A broken
rail was the cause.
The Central Labor union, of Indianapolis,
is urging people to refuse to put their nick
les in the box on the street cars, so as to
comIel the street railway company to re-
employ the 100 conductors who were dis
charged when closed cars were put on In
place of the open summer cars.
The railroad fare from Chicago to Mis-
souri, river points is $3.50: from the latter
to Pueblo it is S1s.15. making the sum of
TIE locals S3O.65. The through unlimited
raie from Chicago 10 Pueblo Is $3.50. 1t
is now question whether through rate,
exceeding the sum of the local rates, is legal.
Joel Thomas, the horse man, once of
Lawrenc, Kan. now of Kansas City, Mo-.
has brought from Richmond, Ind, a mad
stone which has been i'll his family 128 years;
and VIII CHI has a record o many wonderful
cures He proposes to place it with some
physician, but would not sell it for any
amount.
General Green B. Raum, of Illinois sue
ceeds Tanner at the pension bureau. He was
commission and took the oath of office Oc-
tober -. He was prominent officer of the
union army during the campaigns In the
Mississippi valley and the march to Atlanta.
He was commissioner of internal revenue
from 1876 for seven years.
The national board of trade. in session at
Louisville, KY, favOrs new bankruptcy
law Resolutions were passed opposing any
modification of the Interstate com merce
law, espec ally of the clause prohibiting
pooling; favorine national supervision of
Insurance and uniformity of insurance le =
islation; favoring a reduction of federal
revenues in the way which will least en-
barrass industries and trade; favoring reel
procity trade relations with Canada.
Senator Plumb, who has been visiting
several sugar ia tories in Kansas, is reported
as saying: 'Oh, yes, I think Kansas will
get another appropriation for next year of
$85, 600 for sugar II akin appropriated. Last
year Kansas got about $4,000. Next year
I think it will be easier to get an appropria-
ton than it was last year, and, also, We will
be able to get more of it. The state could
use to an advantage 100000, but what 1t
will be possible to get remains to be seen."
The annual report of the pension bureau
shows 438.739 pens Oners on the rolls at the
end of the year, June 20, 1882. This was
net increase of 81, 1853 during tee year. The
average annual value of pensions has been
S131 10; the aggregate annual value, $64,-
245. 1926; the amount disbursed Tor PEN
sions since 1861. S.. 052, 21S, 413.17. The COM
missioner recommends the establishment of
two additional pension agencies to relieve
the offices at Columbus, o., Chicago, In
dlanapoli> and Topeka.
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