Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-05-10
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iIroad stocks touched Al on

Santa Fe railroad stocks touched Al on
May day.
Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of
Wales, has been Kissed at French railroad
station.
Afire swept over Wright county, Minnesota,
destroying farms, timber; everything. The
losses are very heavy. Every slough, swamp
and small water course is dry, and the fire
finds nothing to stop 1T.
Paris had bit of scrimmage on May day.
Five hundred arrests were made out of dis
orderly gatherings. There was some parties
wounded during charge of cavalry upon
mass of people who disobeyed the order to
disperse.
The strike at Ottawa, Ont, of the bricklay-
ers, stonemasons and carpenters is ended.
They wanted the contractors to grant nine
hour day and the contractors yielded.
Spotted fever is epidemic in Sumner and
Webster counties, Tennessee. 1t is more
than usually fatal; nine out eff ten dying.
Farms and all kinds of stock are offered for
almost nothing by the panic stricken people.
Frank Woodruff, at one time suspected of
completely in the murder of DR.. Crvnin, was
before Judge Halves, of Chicago, on the
charge of horse stealing. He pleaded guilty
and was given sentence of six months in
Bridewell.
A meeting at Denver of the Colorado Silver
association took action in favor of the free
coinage of silver, which, they say ''win bring
back the price of land and the products of
was demonetized.
The entire business portion of Gilboa, n.
Z, is destroyed by fire, twenty-five buildings
in oil nt ctc loft fhe ov,1
most Of the stocks were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at from $50, 600 to SIT, 900; in
surance estimated at about $4,000.
Half million people took part in the labor
demonstration at Hyde Park, London, with
out discord of any kind. procession to the
park numbered 10000 people. There were
thirteen speakers stands, which were sur
rounded by the solid, respectable artisan
class.
There is duel going on at Lexington, Mo-,
between a pontoon bridge and steam ferry
boat. The boat has to pass the draw in the
bridge every trip to make the regular land
ings; and it makes trips as rapidly as posi-
BILE and swells the water every time trying to
destroy the bridge.
One of the striking signal men of the::Great
Southern i Western railway, Ireland, who
was prosecuted by the directors of the COM
pany for abandoning his post, was tried and
found guilty. The court imposed fine of
910 upon him. The prosecution against six
other signal men was withdrawn.
Richard ]. Hinton, formerly of Kansas,
has been appointed superintendent of the
artesian irrigation department of agriculture,
and has an appropriation of 81, 900 to eX-
pend before July 1, proximo, in ascertaining
whether the agriculture of the Dakotas and
adjacent states can be benefited by the arte-
sian system.
At meeting of the Carpenters union, at
Boston, the president reported that fully 80
per cent. of the strikes had proved success
full. The chairman of the executive COM
mittee stated that the men were confident
and firm. The council will send letter to
every labor organization in Europe and the
provinces.
The supreme court of Michigan has de-
cded that the high license liquor law, as
passed at the last session of the legislature,
Is null and void, as the act which was en-
rolled ana signed by the governor was
not the act which that body passed. 1t fur
Their holds that the act of 1887 must now gov
ern the liquor traffic.
In March the excess of exports over i'm !
ports was So, 452, 1885, being 81, 607, 481 against
SCI, 154, 495. Excess of gold and silver coin |
and bullion of exports over imports was ST.
dNO,-VOs Iohooo NlbJ III
to $59,377. The total immigration |
for the month was 81, $50 persons, against g.
S01 for the corresponding month last year.
The latest reports on the condition of the !
growing crop show the present condition as
follows: Illinois "a per cent, IndiaRS 6616, |
Ohio IS, Kentucky So, Missouri "a, Kansas |
81, Michigan n, Wisconsin 76. Condition of
winter wheat May 1, 1889: Illinois 100 per
cent, Ohio 50, Indiana 9815, Kentucky SO,
Missouri 101, Kansas 116, Michigan SO, Wis
consln 80.
renewal of the 81 900 chattel mort
gage, executed by the Union Pacific Railway
in 1887, to the American Loan and |
Trust company, has been filed with the reg
ister of deeds of Wyandotte county, Kansas, !
by Noah W. Jordan, of Boston, trustee of
the loan and trust company. The mortgage /
covers the rolling stock of the Union Pacific |
company.
There is apparently good authority for
the statement that the government of the
United States and Great Britain are now
further apart IN their negotiations in regard
TO the qeestion whether or not the BehrinQ |
sea is closed sea, than they have been at
any timeesince the negotiations were begun.
The United States maintains that it is a
closed sea and was made SO by the treaty of
Of 1926, while the British government con-
lends that that treaty does not at all cover
he case.