Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-25
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CouQhlin, Burke and O'Sulliyan arrived
on time at the Joliet penitentiary.
Emin Bey had relapse and is now IN
critical condition. He is at Ca'ro' Esyp''
The agricultural products of Colorado
now exceed in value the output OF her mines
At Butler, Pa, the wind blew down q
| large number of oil derricks In the various
fields.
The press of Europe agree that European
| opinion will judge England severely foI us
summary policy In its dispute with FOR
| tugaL
VInton Stilings, of Leavenworth. is con-
templatlng putting on line of coal barges
to run on the Missouri river between leav-
enworth and Kansas City.
The Southern Kansas railroad, of Texas,
which is part of the Santa fe system. has
established general offices at Panhandle
City, the present terminus of the line In
Texas. The line is headed for FL Paso.
FORMER, the smart-aleck treasurer of
Riley county, Kansas, who was reckless In
criminal misuse of county money, having
ga bully time" has been caught at Mem
phis.
Fire destroyed the Monarch distillery at
Peoria, IllsIols, with loss of $l65,5OO. AT
the time the fire started violent storm was
in progress, ard the origin of the fire is at
tribuied to lightning.
Senator Davis has reported to the senate
bill 3e9 introduced by him with amend
ments. 1t Is the dependent pension bill,
and was unanimously agreed to by the
committee on pensions.
The Wells-Fargo Express company has
been again robbed in Texas; this being
repetition of previous similar events; and
occurred at Dallas, where $11, 900 is miss
ing, safe-box, and all.
The tail end of the western cyclone struck
Oil City, Pa, doing great damage to prop
erty. At least one-fourth of all the oil der
ricks in the neighborhood were destroyed.
The telephone lines are nearly all down.
The Bank of South Dakota at Madison,
has failed, taking down with it Labelle
Ranch Horse Importing company. The
ranch assets are about $4,000, mostly In
land and horses. Liabilities about S6O,OOO
Five ex-state treasurors of Colorado are
being sued to recover from them the inter
est laid them by ranks during their terms
of Office, upon deposits of state funds.
These cases Will settle tie point rs TO the
right of the state treasurer to retain the IN
terest for his personal benefit.
: It is reporte in Atchison that Rev. G. D.
Gotwald, secretary of the board of trustees
of Midland college, OF Atchison. who died
in Kansas City, left a will in which he be-
uueathed $4,000 to the above college, a re-
Gently founded Lutheran institution, to
which he was devotedly attached.
At Niagara Falls the greatest sufferers are
the Canadian Web company. The wind
struck the north CAB of their factory,
tearing the roof from the brick walls and
tumbling the north and west walls IN upol
fifteen girls who we're employed IN finding
bobbIns for looms in the upper story. ALI
escaped except Alice Dicker, aged 10, who
was buried among bricks and debris. She
had one leg broken and was badly bruised
about the body.
There are no new developments at To-
peka in the Hudson Foster trouble. Some
of the leading attorneys appear to believe
that Foster has legal hold on Hudson for
alleged Irregularities in the publication of
notices, but Hudson claims he is RESPONSE
bic only to the parties to the various suits;
that the money is not Federal money, and
that Foster is going beyond his powers.
This fight will settle some important ques-
tions for publishers, who will await the rev.
Citations of the next few days with interest.
At Rochester, n. Y, during the late storm,
the wind reached velocity of about ninety
miles an hour. Water rose cons derably
and flooded the New York Centr u tracks.
A deal of damage was done about the town.
Many buildings have been partially demol-
ished and several persons have been injured
by falling debris. The south wall was
blown out of the Joslyn block on State
street. falling on and crushing a frame
building next door. The roof of the Gene
see brewery malt house, part of the roof OF
Curtis Bros. canning factory and part of
the spire OF st. Johns chnrch were blown off.