Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-20
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.

The associated press reporter at Washing.
ton that sends out dispatches about 'sMaize"
has had Secretary Blaine's resignation ON
the wires several times. He is a fool
The strike at the Carnegie mills, at Home
stead, Pa, has been settled and work will
be resumed at once. Both sides made con-
cessions.
It is said that the forthcoming report in
the English parliament will show that the
popular idea that Queen Victoria is i'm
mensely wealthy is erroneous.
The cattle men now holding a lease of the
Cherokee strip are playing big bluff game
to prevent the commissioners from buying
the land for the government.
General Crook expresses the belief that
the requisite number of signatures Will be
obtained by the Sioux commission to insure
the opening of the reservation.
The city assessor of Minneapolis, Mimi,
has put on the tax rolls s,OOO,O 900 of wheat
found in the elevators there, and the grain
men are said to be gnashing their teeth in
consequence.
Robert Dalton, deputy marshal in Okla
homa, was arresting Lee West for unlawful
traffic in whisky, when West shot Dalton
with Winchester, and Dalton shot West
with revolver. Both dead.
The outlook for the wheat crop in Dakota
is exceedingly dismal. The most favorable
estimates place the yield at only 20,00O,-
600 bushels which is 20, GOO, 600 bushels short
of the usual crop.
Legal tender mutilated notes hereafter
will be redeemed in full instead of by tenth
parts, as has teen the rule. 1t three-ffths
of the note is presented it will be redeemed
in full, If less than three-ffths there will be
no redemption unless there is evidence that
the rest of the note is destroyed.
The monument erected at the grave of
Roscoe Conkling in Forest Hill cemetery,
Utica, n. Y, is completed. 1t stands on
the family plot, just north of the monument
to Roratio Seymour. The monument is of
Quincy granite and in the form of sar-
cophagus.
Princeton, Ohio, was destroyed by a
cyclone on Sunday. July ID. 1t took about
twenty minutes for the twister to do its
work. Loss of property in the village $780,
600. Damage to crops, fences, etc, is very
great in the pathway of the storm, which
was about quarter of mile wide.
Cowboys from the Cherokee strip report
that Texas fever is playing havoc with cattle
there. Forty head was seen dead on one
pasture yesterday and on others from seven
to twenty-five carcasses are lying around.
Hundreds of cattle they say are dying in
be taken there from the north or from the
south.
Leslie ]. Perry, an old Paola, Kan, editor
has been appointed by the secretary of war
as a member of The board having charge of
the publication of the records of the rtbel-
lion. He will be assigned to the preparation
of the series of records relating to prisoners
of war. Mr.. Perry has been connected with
several Kansas newspapers, and was the
founder of the Hutchinson News. He has
been living in Wisconsin few years.
Engine No. $40 of the Union Pacific blew
up at Menoken, the first station west of To-
peka, about noon of July 16. Engineer R.
T. Seacord and Fireman James Dutton
were badly injured Mike Shemaster had a
foot crushed. Both Seacord and Dutton
are expected to die. After the accident the
engine lay upside down almost across the
track and one car on top of it while two cars
had been thrown completely over the engine
and piled one on top of the other. The
track is torn up for distance of about 100
feet and it will be several hours before the
wreck can be cleared away sufficiently to
allow trains to pass. The place where the
accident occurred is said to be an unlucky
spot, several wrecks having occurred near
the same place before. Aman was run over
ct the crossing near by only three years ago.