Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-31
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John Robinson's CAUCUS cent blew down at
Toledo, O., lnjuring 100 persons.
Four murderers, each the killer of woman,
wore hung in New 70 K City, Friday.
SNYDER the e dorado jointist who killed
bis wife and m other-in-law, come near be.
inR lynched. officers stole him out OF jail
10 save his neck.
Moscow, Ohio, on the Ohio rver, has LOST
eighty two by diptheres, and, at last account,
there were seventy-si moro sick. The vii
lage is up ON the hills.
An explosion of fire damp in No. eolleiy
of the Delaware and Hudson Canal COM
pany, at Scranton, Pa, seriously, IT NOS
fatally, injured five men.
The Whitaker pressed brick works, seven
miles west of Kansas City, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Word from Glenwood Springs, Colo,
erly q part Of Colorow's band, being Oh their
reservation, with mischief intent
The reception given by Senator and Mrs.
of the kind ever witnessed in that city. A
thousand invitations were issued.
Senator Henderson, whose pension was
rerated without his asking, or his knowledge,
refuses to accept the enlarged certificate
until after q most rigid examination.
Consolidation of the State Agricultural
MI AZ h.
consummated at the national joint conven-
ton of those two bodies at Springfield, Mo.
The Topeka Sugar Mill company is set
Ting with farmers at S. an acre for their
cane, (they to get what they can for it)
which will be largely made up into syrup.
Pittsburg, Pa, had $225, 600 fire August
q. It started from an explosion in gaso-
line refinery. Fully 5000 barrels of oil
burned, and many buildings.
A negro lighted match in the cellar of
the Wichita express Office, which ignited the
gases arising from liquors stored there.
The explosion caused excitement.
81. C. Miles, long of Lcavenworth, went
Oklahoma. Failure to be able to provide
for his family the cause given.
Barnum's circus was thrown from rail-
being smashed and thirty ring horses, some
of the chariot horses and two camels were
killed.
Wichita had an electric storm August 20.
during which Mrs. Senator Kelley was seri-
ously though not fatally injured. Jack Els
ton, farm hand, in the country southwest
of town, was killed.
The Cronin suspects have each asked for
separate trials. As they are indicted to-
gether for conspiracy, States Attorney
Longenecker is combating the motion, as
he wants them all tried together.
The Montana republican state convention
nominated the following ticket: For gov
ernor, T. C. Power, of Helena; for lie uten-
ant governor, j. E. Richards, of Butte; for
member of congress, J. b. Carter, of Helena;
Clothing of smallpox patients at the Fort
Wayne pest house was stolen and sold to
Italians. Some of them went to Menominee,
Wis, and now have the smallpox. It is not
know where the rest of the Italians went to.
The claim is made that experiments have
determined that certain combinations of fat
and oils with sulphur compounds when used
for tanning have the effect of rendering
leather impervious to water, and so pliable
as to render it almost indestructible.
District Judge A. ]. Abbot, ut Garden
City, Kan, has get aside the verdict recently
rendered against J. w. Gregory, editor OF
guilty on a charge of perjury. A new trial
Is ordered and an acqultal is expected.
w. w. Cleminson, an old citizen of To-
is the man who has lobbied each succeeding
legislature for many years in the interest of
the Price raid claims. He had all his posses
sions locked up in those claims.
Henry Shaw, the aged st. Louis philan-
thropist, is dead. His famous ''Shaw's gar
dens," which have been so long free to the
public, become, by his will. the property OF
the state of Missouri. The rest of his prop
erty goes, largely, to the city of st. LOUIS.
The steamer Albatross, which was sent to
Southern California waters to explore for
and to investigate the chances of
growing oysters, has discovered very valua-
BE fisheries on both sides of the Lower Cal
ifornia peninsula; and has found oysters
Swift & Co.'s packing house at Armour
dale. Kan, was partially destroyed by fire
Sunday, August Is. L. F. Tate, snperin-
attempt to close iron doors between depart
ments, shutting himself off from way of
escape from the flames. Loss about $780,. |
600.
A vestibule train on the Santa Fe, running |
between Kansas City and Chicago, on which |
were many Topeka and Kansas people going |
TO Milwaukee, was thrown from the track |
near Kinsman, Illinois, on the morning OF
August 26. No one was killed, but fifty |
w,re seriously hurt, including MI. and Mrs. |
n r. Fish and Mrs. R. R. Tuckerman, of
Topeka; S. F. Gould, of Mulvane; Mr.. and
Mrs George Peters, of Emporia.
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