Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-06-21
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Several of fishing party, near Paris, KY,
we're killed by lightning.
Thirteen thousand dock laborers at San
sea, London, have struck for higher ges.
The shipping business of the place. wi the
exception of the coal trade, is at stand still
In consequence of the strike.
The Kentucky court of appeals has decided
that failure to deliver message telling of
the dying condition of a relative subjects the
telegraph company to damages. Due dill
gence to deliver the telegram was wanting.
Three hundred plumbers joined the strik-
ing carpenters and mill men at Denver
There are now about 2 800 on a strike with
good prospects of being increased next week
by the plasterers, bricklayers and hodmen.
The secretary of the interior says that all
settlers will be rlgidly excluded from the
Iowa and Sac and Fox lands, and no prema-
ture attempt at settlement on the part of in
dlviduals or parties will be tolerated.
A state of famine exists in parts of Japan
and Corea owing to failure of the rice crop,
and bad prospects of the growing crop, from
too much rain. The price of this article of
universal consumption has risen beyond the
means of consumers of it.
The board of directors of the grand lodge
of the Order of Railroad Conductors has
%
conductor for s., 500, who was discharged be-
cause he was deaf. Total disability draws
the same amount from this order as does
death.
A tornado struck the town of Sibley, Ia.
destroying several buildings and injuring
several persons. The Central block was un-
rooted and a quarter of a mile of the Chi
cage, st. Paul, Minneapolis q Omaha rail-
road was washed out.
Representatives of congregations of the
Church of England met and organized ''The
Brotherhood of st. Andrew" the object of
which is to spread religion among young
men. The constitution of the brotherhood
IN the United States was adopted.
Alice Goodale, an English girl, arrived in
New York and on her way to Chicago to be
married, was attacked with hemorrhage of
the lungs, on a Baltimore d Ohio train, and
was taken to hospital in Washington, D.
c., with no hope of her surviving.
Reports of the post Office department show
that during the last three months of 1889 the
receipts aggregated S15, 874 1853, and the dis
bursements SIC, $50, 070. This is an increase,
both in receipts and disbursements, of about
per cent. over the corresponding quarter
of 1888.
Pollard Lakin, the ex-county clerk OF Lyon
county, Kansas, charged with forgery, in
altering the census returns, was acquitted in
a trial before the district court. The jury
rendered verdict of not guilty, the evidence
showing that he was not to blame for the
frauds committed.
The treasury of the state of Kentucky is
empty and the deficit will, by July 1, proba-
bly, amount to $4,000. Governor Buckner
will save the state credit by advancing money
without interest from his private fortune to |
meet all urgent obligations. He has already |
advanced $4,000.
Two hundred people were hurled from a
broken foot bridge in Beyereles park, Cleve- |
land, Ohio, and piled in a struggling mass
on the sloping sides of gully or precipitated |
into the bed of the stream sixty feet below. |
Forty persons received more or less severe |
cuts and Commissions, some of which may
prove fatal.
The italian minister to the United States, |
and the consul general from that country, |
have both been recalled by their home gov |
eminent upon charges of fraud, and of be- |
ing bribed to wink at the violation of Amer |
lean contract labor laws, in connection with |
the large immigration of Italians to the |
United States.
Near Harrodsburg, Ky., heavy storm did |
much damage to the fences, trees, etc. Light |
ming struck flock of sheep west of town, on |
the farm of Mr.. Devine, killing twelve or
fifteen, and on the farm of Mr.. Atwood |
Dayids it struck a tree under which some |
horses were sheltered, killing a valuable one |
worth between $500 to $500.
President Harrison has vetoed a bill to
provide for public building at Tuscaloosa,
Alabama. He says that from pending anc
probable legislation, there is to my mind an |
absolute necessity that expenditures for pub |
lie buildings should be limited to cases where |
pl1h
imperative. 1t is clear that this is not such |
a case.
The Indictment against J. K. Hudson. of |
the Topeka Capital, was quashed by Judge |
Caldwell in the United States circuit court |
at Leayenworth. In delivering his opinion, |
Judge Caldwell said that Judge Foster should |
have drawn the checks III payment of the |
printers fees, and that he should have had |
full control and oversight of all the accounts
of the court.
The Mexican authorities refuse to allow |
American stockmen to return cattle which |
stray into Mexico, and have ordered all
American cattle hereafter found across the
line to be taken and sold. There are many |
thousand head of American cattle which
stray across the long border from the Gulf
of California to the Rio Grande that will be
confscated unless the order is revoked.
The problem of securing deep water on
the Texas coast without government aid
seems to be near solution. Colonel
Ropes enterprise to connect Corpus Christi
bay with the Gulf of Mexico by means of
ship canal cut through Mustang island, is
rapidly and satisfactorily. The
1redge boats at that point are clearing over
200 feet per day. When the waters of the
bay and gulf meet this will give an artificial
channel deep enough and wide enough, when
to admit the largest sea going
vessels.