Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
of Hurried Readers.

Russell Armstrong, late editor of the
Kansas City, Kansas. Gazette, lost his life
July @, by being crushed under cable car
In Kansas City, Mo.
Two hundred Cincinnati saloon keepers
have promised each other to keep open Sum-
days in spite of the law or the police. Mad
ness comes before destruction.
Two-thirds of the total number of cotton
splnners of England have agreed to limit
their production to one-half the usual amount
for one month.
The biggest job for the Montana conven-
ton will be to locate the capital of the new
state; Anaconda got plurality on the first
vote, which disturbed Helena greatly.
Cronin and anti-Cronin sentiments divide
Chicago Irishmen. Both have picnics az
pointed for the same date. A riot is feared.
The railroads entering st Louis have Or
Ranized the Terminal Railroad association
and will buy the preseSt bridge and.tunnel
and build a new union depot.
A Kansas family named Snodgrass has
been drowned in Arkansas. They were in a
covered wagon and were drowned in fording
q stream.
The full court at Winnipeg has sustained
Judge Bains decision, to give up Burke on
extrad ton orders az soon as they can arrive
from Ottowa.
The first bale of new crop cotton was
brought into Austin, Tex, Tuesday. The
cotton crop of Texas this year will probably
reach 100000 bales, and the corn crop will
be enormous.
Joseph Turby killed Isaac Brown in Deca-
tur county, Kansas. They were both single
men and had lived together, and quarrelled
over various matters. Browns will gives
$4,000 to sister in Wisconsin.
Emmons, of Gaylord, Kan, knocked his
wife down. with a babe in her arms, in a
public place. He was arrested, but citizens
took him and gave him coat of tar and
feathers.
The Wichita Wholesale Grocery company
burned out July %; also A. Cannon & Co.,
commission merchants, of Wichita. Loss
on both S135, 900. Among goods burned were
two cars of sugar not yet unloaded.
Chief of Police Hubbard, of Chicago, has
gone to Winnipeg in person to bring back
Burke and the witnesses that were sent there,
Their safety from assassination, so much
talked OF, Is his reason for going himself.
The Illinois Women's alliance has sue
ceeded In getting an ordinance passed
through the Chicago city council, authoriz-
five female sanitary police to inspect facto-
rles and tenement houses.
An application has been made to the court
at Keokuk, Ia, to order the discontinuance
of the operating of the Fort Madison and
Northern railroad, on the ground that the
receipts do not pay the operating expenses.
The road is deeply involved.
Suits have been begun against the South
Fork Fishing club, for damages caused by
the breaking of their dam above Johnstown,
Penn. The defendants are worth their mil
lions, but judgments against them will break
them up.
Forest fires have been burning in the foot
hills back of Santa Barbara, California. |
Twelve buildings besides number of barns |
and a large quantity of hay have been de-
stroyed. A number Of horses and cattle
also persisted. The loss will reach $4,000.
The interior department has issued war
rant for SO, 600 TO the delegates from the
Pottowatomle band of Indians, who have
been in the city some time. This is 10 per
cent. of the amount of on old claim. which
was appropriated to the band by the last
congress.
Andrew C. Drumm, who has full charge
of the cattle commission business OF A.
Drumm d Co., at Kansas City, at the stock
yards has disappeared and his accounts are
600, with possibility that the amount may |
reach $4,000 or $4,000.
Colonies A. E. Jones, amember of Governor
Foraker's staff. an old man and prominent
physician of Cincinnati, was murdered. by |
his ostler, his body put in man-hole OF a
sewer. as DR.. Cronin's was. The ostler con-
fessed: he killed DR.. Jones with club be-
cause the doctor scolded him for not keep
ing the weeds pulled out of the celery.
large number of the members of the
National Wooi Growers association are in
Columbus o., IN response to the call OF
President Columbus Delano, for the pur-
pose of comforting regarding the decision
of the treasury department regarding the
duty on secured wool imported under the
false designation of waste.
E. T. Brown, of Wichita. Is beginning to
remember some things that he has passed
through during the six months he was gone.
He says that it seems to him that he has
been away about one month. Most of his
recollections show that he has lived and
travelled like tramp, for some time; all the
time trying to get back home.
After all that has been published it seems
queer that people do not understand that
cattle which convey or give the Texas fever
to other cattle never have it themselves.
Northern cattle take it from grazing on any
the same season, and before frost. The
same southern cattle are perfectly healthy.
Better Than Oklahoma.
100 acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under
fence, water-rights secured and bitches
ready for use. 1t will be sold as whole or
in quantities to suit the purchaser. 1t is the
finest land in the valley, and is adapted to
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