Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.

TOT Cn0SOI.t0HlonC0
of Hurried Headers.
The $50 600 residence of General A. p.
Dodge, at Danville, Wis, burned down
while the house was filed with Its guests,
dancing.
The war ship Boston has been ordered to
Hayti to relieve another one there. This Is
long exposed to yellow fever.
The Union Pacific and Rock Island trains
were delayed by washouts, caused by q
waterspout, which fell between Lawrence
and Kansas City on the night of the 23d.
A story comes from Wichita about the alb
duction of Mrs. Rhinehart, who said she
was from Cincinnati. Another story says
that Rhinehart Is not her true name.
3 Hutchinson, Kan, has given one man q
twenty-five years franchise for telephone,
electric light and gas works.
The following appointments have been
made in the interior department.: Geo. L.
Wilkinson, of Missouri, and Edwin S. Henry,
of Kansas, fourth assistant examiners In the
patent Office.
England has sent a war ship to Behring
Sea. AS it looks now the old contest of
1929 between Russia and England, over do
minion in those waters, will have to be
again adjucated.
The president has appointed B. F. Gilk-
-erson, of Pennsylvania, to be second comp
troller of treasury; S. B. Holiday, of
Pennsylvania, to be commissioner of GUS
toms, treasury department..
Ten thousand dollars damage was done
to fruit farms at Mount Vernon, Ia, by q
hailstorm, which lasted nearly an hour. Hail
fell as large as hens eggs and one drift was
eighteen inches deep, seven hours after the
storm.
Word has been received from Braid
wood, Ill, that the miners at that place are
parading the streets with arms, threatening
to burn the mines and shoot all who 60 to
work under price. The sheriff left for
BIaidwood with posse.
The greatest monetary prize of the spring
racing season, the great American stakes,
Gravesend, and st. Carlo, the crack two
year-old, owned by August Belmont, was
the winner.
steers and two horses, belonging to the head
of the family, have been poisoned. The
stock died. The people may die. 1t is be-
ieved that the well has been poisoned, but
no one knows how.
At West Superior, Wis, the mayor has
closed all the saloons in the city IN antici-
patton of trouble between the striking coal
beavers and the new men imported to take
their places. The new men are working
under strong police protection.
Fred Ryan, son of the American minister
to Mexico, who was in Jail at Los Angeles,
CAL, has been released, and has shipped as
a cadet on q. S. man-of-war, for a three
years cruise. Mr.. Ryan made good the S225,
which Fred had got by the Bristol Sisters
endorsement.
Atchison sends out the news of two muir
ders, one drown ng and business failure in
one day. w. E. Proctor. bachelor farmer,
was found murdered; Sylvester Clifford lost
son by drowning: negro IS killed with
knife, and Salinger, the cigar man, gave
heavy chattel mortgages.
The report of foreign missions made to |
the Presbyterian general assembly shows |
the total number of missionaries, male and |
female, to be SOP. The total receipts of the
board for the year amounted to $847, 1872,
which is $53,6S7 less than for the previous
year.
The east bound passenger train on the
Texas & Pacific was robbed by masked men
in the outskirts of the city of Dallas. The
robbers beat the express messenger until he
was unconscious, took his keys and got ST.
500 from the safe, pulled the bell cord and |
when the train slowed up, escaped.
The latest about the Cronin murder is that |
Cronin was decoyed to see an employee, |
said to be hurt, on the night he was killed, |
has made a confession. The report says |
that Sullivan has told every detail of the plot |
and of the killing, duplicating several per-
sons. |
''There is only one way to get satisfaction |
out of public Office" said President Har- |
rison to a friend not long ago, ''and that is
to please yourself while you are in it. You
cannot possibly give satisfaction to the rest
of the people: no matter how you try and
the more you try the less success you will
have"
The southern terminus of the Housatonic
road, at Wilson Point, burned with a quar-
ter of mile new wharf, the freight buildings
coal bins, passenger depot and large num-
Der of freight and passenger cars were
burned. The New England Terminal COM
pany expended $500, 600 and the Housatonic
company $780,, 900 in Improvements there.
At the State Sunday School convention at
the state executive elected are:
DR.. ]. w. Redden, Topeka; j. F. Drake,
Sweet, Topeka: E. F. Stauffer, Abilene: j.
". Knight, Cottonwood Falls: ]. G. Has
kell, Topeka; M. S. Smaller, Hiawatha: B.
c. Rash, Salina, and j. H. FOUGHT, Topeka.
Nearly SIS GOO of the 5000 recommended to
be raised was raised.
Better Than Oklahoma.
100 acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under
ence, water-rights secured and bitches
.eady for use. It will be sold as q whole or
n quantities to suit the purchaser. 1t is the
inest land in the valley, and is adapted to
,ither farming or stock-raising, For price,
erms, ETC., address HENRY A. BUTIKRs,
Alamoea, Colorado.