Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-04-12
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Striking plumbers in Chicago are said to
be preparing to start cooperative shops.
The condition of the car is kept abso-
lutely secret; or, the endeavor to do so Is ex-
IRENE. The people are even forbidden to
| indulge in public speculation on the subject.
The senate committee on the worlds fair
| is delaying action until the proposed guar
antee fund, to be raised by Chicago, is so
placed as to be absolute security against
failure.
Death and destruction reigned it Living
ston county, KY: and at Henderson, it Is es-
timated that over forty persons were killed
or fatally injured in that vicinity, and twice
as many more wounded.
The floods have caused water famine at
| Cincinnati. The water works pumping en-
zines, or some of them, were overhowed.
Is is worthy of note that while Prince Bis
marck denied himself to all others, he re-
ceiyed United States Minister Phelps at
private audience. They spent large part OF
an afternoon together.
The cyclone swept through Allen and Bar
rem counties, KY, cleaning the ground OF
everything for width of from quarter 70
half mile. Many lives were lost and all
Strikes are reported among the ship build
ers at Bath, Me-; the masons at Gloucester,
Mass; the masons and bricklayers at Eliza
beth. n. J.. and the stone cutters at Roches-
ter, n. Y, and yet May Is IN the future.
The Hamburg correspondent says that, in
contrast with Bismarck's policy, Emperor
William intends to pave the way to an entente
with France, and thus isolate Russia. The
Austrian alliance, it adds, will remain un-
changed.
Rev. Thomas Clefton and wife, of Wichita,
returning from church found their 1-year-old
daughter hanging in a hammock dead. The
servant girl states she left the child playing
on bed beside which was hammock twenty
minutes before the horrible discovery.
AS if 70 divert popular opinion from the
unsettled state of affairs at st. Petersburg,
the Novoe Vremya urges that more attention
be paid by the government to affairs in
Afghanistan, and asks the government to
beware of British intrigues, which it believes
are already in progress.
Confederate decoration day was duly OBJ
served in the south. At New Orleans, beside
other decorations at the Army of Northern
Virginia tomb, where the body of jefferson
Davis is inferred, the confederates placed
magnificent presidential chair of yellow i'm
mortelles, inscribed 'To our chief"
The steamer City of st. Paul is lying at
Shotwell's field, near Cairo, ILL.,, a complete
wreck from the storm. A circus party of
twenty-three persons, six being women, and
a small menagerie, and passengers of the
steamer took refuge in field. They were
without shelter and food anC are in great dis
tress, being surrounded by water for miles.
A st. Louis paper penetrated LIST of April
joke on Congressman Tarsney, of that city.
He had prepared long speech on a pension
bill, and sent out slips to the papers. Before
he had an opportunity to make the speech in
congress the paper mentioned published it
and sent copies to Washington to reach there
on April 1.
Frances Willard, president of the Worlds
w. c. L. o., has sent out an appeal to women
in all parts of the world, to induce them to
write personal letters to the car of Russia,
urging that the condition of political prison.
ers be alneiorated. The plan is for their
letters to reach st. Petersburg at about the
same time.
Robbers got in their work among the suf-
ferers by the cyclone at Louisville. Mrs.
BarnweIl, wife of the rector of st. Johns
church, was robbed of everything she had.
Even the body of the dead minister was not
sacred, and his gold watch, which the widow
cherished particularly, was taken from his
person.
The Duluth board of trade, which has
handled II, 100000 bushels of wheat of the
last crop, voted toinstruct the Western Union
and American telegraph companies not to
furnish the Chicago board with Duluth quo
tations until the Chicago board consents to
furnish the Duluth board with Chicago quo
tations.
A select audience in New York, consisting
of about $50 gentlemen, listened to an ad-
dress by William E. Gladstone, ''the grand
old man." though he was across the Atlantic.
The address had been spoken to a phono-
graph, and was repeated, in his natural voice,
by turning the crank of another instrument
into which it was placed.
A report to Secretary Noble upon the bust
ness of his office, General Raum, commits
sioner of pensions, says that he will be able
by the last of May to cause the examination
of every claim pending in the Office on the
list day of January last, have every claim al
lowed that is completed, ard call for more
evidence in those not completed.
Mayor Jacobs, of Louisville, says: 81 am
almost certain the total number killed out
right, and those who will die from wounds
sustained thereby, will reach 80. While the
destruction of property was very heavy, still
the greatest suffering will fall upon our
humber classes, who were living in their
modest homes that had been accumulated by
years of toll.