Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
LATEST NEWS.
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for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.
Postmaster General Wanamaker expresses
himself as surprised, not at the defeat of
prohibition, but at the magnitude of the
majority against it.
The estimates of loss of life in the Cone
maugh valley have again been raised to 10,
600, and with much appearance of being re-
liable.
Vancouver, Washington Territory, has
lost four blocks of wooden buildings by fire,
In the business part of town. The losses fell
mostly upon the poorer, small shop keepers.
President and Mrs. Harrison have accept
ed an invitation from Henry c. Bowen to
be present at Roseland park, Woodstock,
Mass, the Fourth of July.
Simon Cameron will likely be dead before
this item is read.
The main building of the Callahan col
lege, at Des Moines, Ia, including the lee
TUE room, laboratory, music and art rooms,
and fine collection of paintings, burned
June 20.
Clara Barton, of the National Red Cross
Association, says that there are enough
pnySlclduS ana nurses anu nOSpllal cOuSou-
fences for present and expected needs, at
Johnstown.
Ostrog, on the Black sea, near Odessa,
has been nearly destroyed by fire. A thou
sand people have been made homeless,
and the damage is estimated at one-half
million dollars.
Wreckage has been washed ashore on the
Massachusetts coast from the steamers
Haytien Republic and Victoria, and it is
feared that the two vessels have been in col
lsion.
Nicholas Foley, who murdered Mrs. Pom
erOy Clark, at Elgin. Neb., was taken from
the deputy sheriff, who had captured him,
and hanged to bridge near the scene OF
the crime.
The people of Stanhope, Boynton and
Dover, in New Jersey, are ANXIOUS over the
condition of the dam which restraints Lake
Hopateong, above those places. This lake
is twice as large as Conemaugh.
Two black prisoners beat the jailor and
escaped from the Topeka Jail ON June %.
They are Elijah Jones and William Fisher,
both convicted and awaiting sentence to the
penitentiary.
In sympathy with unfavorable reports
from Havre and Hamburg, coffee dropped
between 40 and 20 points in New York. In
market closing with decline of about Is
points on sales of 10000 bags.
The semi-annual meeting of the South
Dakota Farmers alliance is being held at
Huron. The grangers are resolved to have
a hand in the government of the new state.
They favor the Australian system of voting.
A free trade resolution was voted down.
The Dakota warehouse commissioners are
in st. Paul comforting with the Minnesota
commissioners in reference to grades in |
wheat. The report that the prospect in
Dakota are most fiattering for an abundant |
wheat crop.
Cashier Voight. of the defunct Farmers |
and Mechanics bank of Pittsburg, Pa, has |
been sentenced to six years Imprisonment |
IN the western penitentlary for embeZZle-
ment. Sentence was deferred on the other
counts.
In France the rivers have overfiowed their
banks and partially submerged the town OF
and the surrounding country.
Many houses have been undermined and de-
stroyed, and crops and vineyards have been
ruined.
A frightful storm prevailed in the central
part of Illinois on the morning of June q,
md was simply terrifying at Decatur.
For two hours rain poured down in torrents.
The streets were rivers of water. The
thunder and lightning We're unusually
severe.
Under huge tent on the green, at Meet
ng House Hill. Dorchester, Mass. was eel
,brated the 250th anniversary of the estab-
ishment of the first public school IN the
United States that was established by direct
.ox on the people June %. 1859, the honor of
which is claimed by Dorchester.
Kansas inventors: Churn, Henry B. Lynes,
Wichita: grain weighing apparatus, James
E. Bussenbarrack, Robinson: folding coop,
Carr & Evans, Sedan: doubletree. Alba
Minor, Harper; weather strip, Harlow d
Cook, Ottawa; cash carrier, William R. Dean,
Ottawa; corn planter, Patterson d Foster,
Ottawa.
The chief engineer of the Wabash railway
mas commenced the survey of the Detroit,
Wabash d Chicago railway, connecting
ink between the Wabash Western and Wa
oash system. The line extends from Wa
bash to Laketon, connecting at that point
With the Chicago & Atlantic for Chicago,
md Wabash Western for Detroit.
sweeping fire broke out in the First
ward of Johnstown. Pa, at 1890 p. M. June {
a. The flames spread rapidly and at l
o'clock 20J houses were burned. Among
hose on fire is the First ward school house.
III the engines in the place have been called
nut and the most intense excitement pre-
ais Nearly all the houses burning were
more OF less destroyed by the flood. The
7lnd is high and the fire Is spreading
apidly towards Kernville. It has got
eyond the control of the fire department
nd now covers five acres.
Better Than Oklahoma.
!. 200 acres of the choicest land in the San
ilis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under