Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-08
LATEST NEWS.
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of Hurried Readers.

of Hurried Readers.
The Sixteenth Methodist church in Tope-
ka was dedicated by Bishop Ninde, last
Sunday.
The president has appointed Charles L.
Knapp, of New York. to be consul-general
of the United States at Montreal; Alexander
Reed, Of Wisconsin, to be consul at Dublin.
Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hatton,
and William Henry Smith, general man
ager of the associated press, are among
saved passengers in Pennsylvania.
1t is likely that ex-Congressman Lloyd S.
Brice will become the editor of the North
American Review. He is 80 years old,
graduate of Oxford and a son-in-law of ex-
Mayor Cooper of New York.
It is now known that three passenger trains
were lost in the Johnstown flood with 218
passengers.
J. S. Elder, traveller for a Troy, N. Y.
carriage firm, was found dead in a room of
the Central hotel at Cincinnati. The dis
patch says that he has sister living in
Topeka.
The Policemens' monument was unveiled
at Chicago, in Haymarket square, May 30.
1t cost $4,000. On the pedestal is the in
scription. I'm the name of the people of the
state Of Illinois, l command peace"
Eighty anti-Mahone republicans of Vir-
ginia hell a conference in Washington to
see what could be done to prevent Malone
from controlling the patronage of the state.
The result of TIE meeting is a secret.
A fearful gale ragged over the lakes Thurs
day night. Everywhere vessels are wind
bound or driven ashore. At Chicago the
wind blew forty miles an hour; at Mllwau-
kee forty-two miles.
The Kansas City board of trade has re-
taliated against the action of the Chicago
board, which stopped sending out quota
TONS No quotations 90 to Chicago from
Kansas City now.
Bolivia and the Argentine Republic have
signed treaty by which the dispute as to
the location of the boundary line between
the two countries is satisfactorily settled.
Several times within the last few years war
was upon the point of breaking out between
the two governments over this question.
According to the position taken by the
United States government by congressional
declaration, the jurisdiction of the United
States over the waters of the Alaskan side of
Behring sea is not admitted to be a SUBJ
ject for negotiations. Our government
simply asserts its absolute right and admits
the existence of no question for negotiation.
ne rains III the east were uOt cOnEueu To
the narrow valley in Pennsylvania, where
such harvest of death resulted, but did
damage and caused distress throughout that
state, West Virginia, Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia. The city of Washington
is badly flooded, points in the Susquehannah,
Potomac, Allegheny. and other valleys were
flooded, bridges and buildings and mills
swept away and people left in want and dire
distress.
IN
Rogers, merchant tailor of Topeka, Kansas,
and during a struggle Mr.. Rogers and
his wife, We're both shot. This occurred at
about daybreak of the morning of June 4.
Mr.. Rogers died during the morning; his
wife is badly hurt. The murderer was
captured few miles east of the city, in the
brush by the river bank. He has been fully
identified by the Swede servant girl, who |
took part in the fight.
General Hastings telegraphed the follow |
ing to the manager of the Post Telegraph |
company: "Better inform Governor Beaver
that this mornings reports give the num-
Der lost at betwt en- 1900 and 1900. The
greatest disorder prevails. The place is in
tested with thieves and vandals who are rob-
ing the dead and appropriating every thing |
they can lay their hands on. These people |
are eating almost everything in the shape |
of provisions sent here for the flood suf- |
ferers.
The disaster by flood and fire in Pennsyl- |
vania is of such extent as to be impossible |
to get even an approximate estimate of the
loss of life. Eight thousand people dead, |
seems to be a moderate estimate. This |
awful calamity was caused by the breaking |
of dam, which confined a large reservoir, |
or rather artificial lake, above Johnstown. |
That city, with the many others in the same
valley, are swept away by a flood of water. |
coming almost in an instant, in a we'll Of |
thirty to forty feet in height. Buildings, |
with people. and all other movable matter |
swept down the valley, in the mass being at |
least two passenger trains filled with people. |
At bridge this mass of debris lodged and |
ground together. and caught fire burning |
hundreds to death who had, as yet escaped
drowning or crushing. Bodies are being |
gathered here and there by the hundreds,
with the mad waters. Many bodies have
been seen to PASS Pittsburg in the current,
and some have passed down into the Ohio
river. Relief, or efforts to give relief, are
not wanting. Money is being subscribed.
everywhere, at PittSburg 100000 was raised
in short time. The war department is
strainig every effort to be of service. Heart
rending incidents are reported, but only one
such in ten Thousand will ever be fully
known. The towns of JohnStown, South
Fork, Mineral Point and Conemaugh are
gone, and their people are mostly dead;
while the farms and villages along the valley
are alike swept out of existence.
Better Than Oklahoma.
loo acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under