Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
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Colonel John A. Martin. of the Atchisoa
Champion, is reported much better.
Ex-President Cleveland attended mann
moth clambake at Nyack, N. T., last Sum
day.
China has had a flood which matches
-Johnstown. Wakoyand, city on the river
Kinopna, suffered the loss of the lives of TO-
600 of its people, while $4,000 more are de-
pendent on charity for the necessaries OF
life.
The state meeting of the W. c. 7. o. took
part in laying the corner stone OF the state
ceremonies being conducted by Fanny ID.
Rastall. of Topeka, and Frances E. willard.
of Troy, n. Y.
Wilkie Collins, the novilist, died, in Eng
land, September q.
The general election in Franco sustains
the republican government, and finally
downs Boulanger.
A deputy United States collector has
caused the arrest of twenty two liquor sellers
at Guthrie, Ok, who have been sent to
Wichita.
Miss Kate Williams. of Kansas, won the
s., 600, by beating Miss May White, of Mis-
sourl, in the ten mile race at the Kansas
state fair.
The Odd Fellows grand lodge, at Colum-
bus, Ohio, amended the constitution, bar
ring persons engaged in the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors from membership.
Captain D. F. Sites, in command of q.
S. troops at Oklahoma City, prevented
charter election there by succession of
charges upon crowds surrounding the polls.
Congressman E. N. Morrill,, of Hiawatha,
Kansas, is said to have been offered the
place of commissioners OF pensions, which
he declines, favoring Henry Booth.
Mayor Grant. of New York. continues to
receive letters from all over the country re-
fusing cooperation to secure the worlds
fair of 1892. with expressions OF sentiment
in favor of Chicago.
Secretary Proctor's recent order estab-
fishing a bureau OF records and pensions IN
his Office, has resulted IN forwarding the
5000 claims awaiting examination, so that
they are now all passed upon.
The yearly meeting of the Kansas Friends
will be held in Lawrence October II to IL.
A large attendance is expected. Henry
Stanley Newman. of England, and George
Wetherel, of Canada, both very eminent
men, will be present.
Charles Howell, aged % and single, whose
home was IN Leavenworth, one of the iron
workers at the state house at Topeka, while
assisting in putt ng roof beam into posi-
ton, fell 40 feet, from the roof to the cellar,
and was killed.
DR.. Veasey, chief botanist of the agricul-
tural department, is of the opinion that the
introduction of grasses adapted to the soil
of the arid regions, even where irrigation Is
not practicable, will greatly increase the
product of the region.
The state officers of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union for the ensuing
year are: Fanny q. Rastall, Topeka, presi-
dent: Kate H. Biggers, Longton, cores
ponding secretary; Mrs. S. l. Thurston,
Topeka, treasurer; Mrs. S. NJ. Hartough,
Leavenworth, recording secretary.
At ElDorado, Kansas, 3-year-old child
named Bloomer was left little while with |
the Edwards family while the Boomers |
were at work digging potatoes. When the |
Boomers returned the child was missing, |
and the Edwards woman confesses that she |
killed it.
Secretary Rusk, of the department of |
agriculture, has finished his tour of visits to |
the several Kansas sugar factories, having |
visited those at Liberal. Arkolon, Attlca, |
Medicine Lodge, Conway Springs, Douglas |
and Fort Scott. He expressed great salts |
faction at the prospects of a successful sea-
son.
Very heavy storms have occurred in Mex
leo, destroying shipping on the Pacific |
coast. About the same time cyclone fol-
lowed heavy rains in the state of Vera Cruz, |
on the gulf coast, which caused the partial
destruction of the city of Chiclctepec. A |
land slide came down through the town fol-
lowed bv torrent of water.
A bank at Hurley, Wisconsin, has been
robbed of $4,000. The money had been
delivered to the bank, from the express
Office, in a wheelbarrow, being provision for
payment of wages to iron miners. 1t arrived
too late to be put in the safe in the vault,
which has time lock, so that the robbers
had only to open the vault.
The premium, the SIS BABY carriage Of
ferred at the Kansas state fair, by Rodgers d
Rodgers, of Kansas City, Kan, was awarded
Mr.. and Mrs. George Larimore's baby,
Master w. King Larimore, a fine young lad.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larimore reside IN Lowman
Hill, Topeka, and Mr.. Larimore is assist
ant bookkeeper for the W. A. L. Thompson
Hardware company.
Jacob Kuykendall, living on farm near
Rossville, Kansas, was visiting at his fathers
home in Rossville. when he became crazy,
drove the family cut of the house. shot his
wife, who is reported dying, then locked
himself in a room and defed everybody.
Deputy Sheriff Disbrow went there, from
Topeka, on telegraphic call, and subdued
the mailman with chloform administered
with horse syringe, through transom,
and brought him in.
Better Than Oklahoma.
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