Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-10-12

Condensed for the Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.

Santa Fe stock touched eos one day last
week.
Al Presbyterian clergyman's wife eat OF
some candy which had been presented to
her husband and was poisoned. There was
strychnine in it A SIMILAR case occurred
1t Gait, Ontario.
Attorney General Miller says that the talk
of his selling his Indianapolis home prepar-
atory to permanent residence IN Washing
ton. as a member of the supreme court, Is
all bosh.
Edison has won an important suit, which
was brought against his electric light COM
pany by the Westinghouse interest. The
court held that Edison made the particular
discovery, at issue, first.
The presidents cabinet decided to close
all the government departments at IL O'Clock
the day of the knights Templar parade.
The cotton mills of Lancaster county,
England, are to run half time. The opera
tives' society has expended 10000 for the
relief of those who are suffering through
the partial stoppage of the mills.
Mother Blckerdike has volunteered to
put the Kansas Veteran association out OF
debt. The permanent camp at Ellsworth
has left debt of 2,4OO, and she proposes
to take stock herself, and sell enough more
to clear it off.
F. C. Baker, representing Victoria, Brit sh
Columbia, In the Dominion parliament, has
resigned his seat owing to his inability to
secure redress for those of his constituents
whose vessels have been seized by United
States cruisers in Behring Sea.
w. p. Rogers, general agent of the Equi-
table Life Insurance company, was held up
by two men at Kansas City, Mo-, and shot
through the cheek. He is not dangerously
hurt and will recover. The men did not
succeed in robbing their victim.
Dr.. Daniel L. May, of Fort Riley, Kan;
Ben F. Grant, of st. Louis, and Major j. NJ.
Bell, of Washington, comprising what is
known as the cavalry board, will spend two
or three months at Kansas City, buying
horses for the United States army.
The jury brought in q verdict. of murder
in the second degree against J. j. SPEND
love, after being out over night. He and
Werner, q tailor, who occupied the same
both were shot, Werner being killed.
A Winnipeg dispatch Gays that cattle are
perishing with hunger and thirst along the
international boundary, The drouth pre-
vented saving hay, and the country has
been overrun with prairie fires. Ranchers
are giving away and abandoning their herds.
EdrneSG hauIuau, u lldWHtild UOy, Wdo
run over by the cars and killed at Akron,
Col. Kaufman was only % year old, and is
the second Hiawatha high school graduate.
class of 'S6, to meet death this way. He was
but lately an smploye of the Hiawatha
World.
Governor G. w. Click, the retiring PEN
sion agent, has summed up the business
done in the Topeka pension Office since
January ], 1886, the day he took possession.
He has paid in pensions So, 1926, 1875. to
disburse which amount he signed 51O.sO7
checks and 1900 letters. The work of this
Office has been increasing year by year.
Bishop Wallis remains will be brought to
Topeka for burial. A service will be held
in Philadelphia Wednesday, and at the same
hour similar services Will be conducted at
the college of the Sisters of Bethany, in To-
peka. The remains will probably arrive at
Topeka Sunday, and on Monday the final
funeral service will occur at Grace Cathe-
dral..