Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

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The Kansas lily congregational cut
celebrated the lanii Ig OF the pilgrim faith
ers. One hundred and fifty gnest were
present. S. q. Thachsr, of Lawrence, pre-
| sided, After the banquet the toastS were
proposed and responded to.
The anarchist, Frattini, who threw a bomb
| from the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colonna, Rome, In AaZUst last, was
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment
| As he was led from the dock ne cried,
'1org live anarchy"
The New England Society of Pennsyl-
vania held It's annual meeting at Philadel-
phia. followed by a banquet. Over 800 per-
sons we're present at the banquet, including
/ Postmaster general Wanamaker and other
distinguished persons.
Secretary Window has advertised for pro-
poeals for the pr viiege of taking seals from
certain Alaskan islands.
A general strike Of GOLFERS has been inau-
purated throughout Belg .um. The scarcity
of coal is already beginning 70 be severely
felt.
Christmas was a warm day all the way
from New York to Kansas. Tennis and
croquet parties were held everywhere, ana
| Christmas services In the churches and
Christmas dinners IN t e houses were had
with open doors and windows.
Fonseca, chief of the provisional govern
ment of Brazil, is dying. The question as
to who will succeed him is engaging serious
attention. 1t is I elieved that the change In
the ministry which would follow Marshal
Da Fonseca's death would lead to serious
complications.
All the miners and laborers in the mines
of the Reading Railroad company thr ugh
out the Schuylkill valley, as well as those
employed in the individual collieues, have
been put on three-quarters time, and there
is no prospect that full work will be resumed
for several months.
The supreme court of the United States
has granted the sta5e of Virginia leave to
file a complaint against the state of Ten
nessee in the ma ter of the disputed bound
airy line between the two st ties. Subp9nas
were directed to issue AGAINST the . lvernor
and attorney general Of Tennessee.
The Brazilian government has issued q
decree providing that all persons found en-
deavoring to corrupt the allegiance of SOL
diers, or contriving or proposing any meas
ures for active opposition to the republic
shall be tried by the military tribunal. An
opposition journal has been suspended.
Great quantities of -four are side tracked
between Minneapolis and Milwaukee, be-
cause the roads east of Lake Michigan can
not take it away from Grand Haven fast
enough. There is dread OF still further
hindrance by freeze up delaying the cross
ing of the LAKE from Milwaukee to Grand
Haven.
Chief of Police George W. Hubbard, of
Chicago, has been superseded IN Office by
Captain E. II. Marsh, who was President
Cleveland's appointe as United States mar
shall for the district of Chicago. Ex-Chief
Hubbard was a hold-over from the opposI-
ton party administration preceding that of
Mayor Cregier.
A severe storm has moved, on the 26th,
from the st. Lawrence valley to the New
England coast; violent gales have pre- allied
on the lakes and from New England to Cape
Hatteras. maximum velocity of ffty-six
miles an hour is reported from Block Island
and Boston, sixty miles from Sandy Hook
and forty-fve on the Virginia coast.
Confidential figures obtained show the
stock of wheat at Minneapolis in private
houses to be about 1850, 900 bushels. This
makes the stocks at three leading points as
follows: Minneapolis. public houses), T.
572,6O3 bushels; MINNEAPOLIS, (private
houses), 2,350,000 bushels; ST. Paul. 545, COO;
Duluth, 4,379, 1886; total, IA, 646,979.
In the three weeks ending Decembery 81,
President Harrison sent to the senate l. 29
messages containing the nominations Tin
GLIDING army and navy appolntments) or
about 1,600 persons. When the senate adj
journed. that day, there had been made
DuDllC the dOOuJ 1,OOO Oh
these nominations, the great majority of
them postmasters.
The business portion of Petrolia, Pa, is
burned down. The total loss is estimated
between $4,000 and 100000, with little in
surance. The thickly settled portion of the
town north of Main street and Argyle street,
and on the south side from the tank, which
Is still standing. was destroyed as we'll as
buildings toward the cemetery. About
forty buildings IN all we're destroyed.
A mighty stream of immigration is pour
ing into Washington territory. The people
come from south. east and north. The cars
of the Canadian Pacific have been crowded
with west bound passer gers for months. 1t
appears that our western bound emigrants
travel on the Canadian Pacific because that
corporation carries PASS myers for less
money than any of the American rail-
roads do.
Lumber shippers of Atchison have been
advised from Burlington & Missouri head
quarters that after the st of January they
will be given through rates equal to the sum
of the two locals for which Missouri river
points have been clamor ng. This conces-
n is already in effect at Omaha. The B.
o. NJ. also announce that work is in pro-
gress on tariff that will give the same adj
vantages to the jobber in ell lines of trade.
The action of B. & NJ. compels the Mis-
souri, Pacific, Rock Island and Santa Fe to