Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-09-20
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Arrangements are now complete for the
establishment of telephone communication
between London and Paris, and the hne is
expected to be in operation within few
days.
An association of Iowa brewers and liquor
dealers. at Council Bluffs, Iowa, have re-
tanned Chicago attorneys to look after their
interests IN connection with testing the val
idity of the Wilson substitute for the original
package law.
The crew of the steamship State of Georgia
deserted the vessel at London just as she was
about to sail for New York. The cause of
their action was that the baker employed on
board was a non-union man, and request
for his discharge had been refused.
The census Office has announced the count
of the population of Denver, Col, LOG, go;
increase, 71,041.
The German Methodist conference for the
territory of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin and Ohio met at Indianapolis, Bishop
James Fitzgerald presiding. One hundred
and thirty ministers, representing 1900
communicates, attended the meeting.
Baron Won Strauss, an Austrian nobleman.
died of starvation in a cave in the Moran
mountains of Washington. He was we'll
dressed but penniless, and when last seen
alive he gave away an elegant empty purse
at farm house, and said that he was going
into the mountains to starve.
The New York World declares that there
are 1900 children in New York unable to
secure accommodation at the public schools.
Apparently it has not occurred to New York
ers to use the other buildings temporarily
until additional school structures can be
erected.
General A. Med. McCook, having been
transferred from the department with head
quarters at Fort LeavenwOrth to the depart
ment with headquarters at Los Angeles,
Cal, has gone theIe; his family going east to
remain until he arranges. for them III the
new location.
The constitutional convention in Ken
lucky will endeaVor to moderniZe the instru-
ment of 1852. which recognizes the right to
property in slaves and limits the suffrage to
free white male citizens" With slavery
officially abolished, Kentucky will be able to
take front seat.
Cyrus w. Field has a hennery with 1000
chickens in it at his country estate in Ards
ley on the Hudson, and cultivates an acre of
sunfowers, the seeds of which are to be fed
to them. His flock yields over 1900 dozen
about 600 ducks.
The Maryland law school, at Baltimore,
has excluded colored students. Last year
two colOred students graduated with high
honorS. The regents decided upon the ex-
clusion of colored men on account of the
objection of white students to compete with
them.
The design selected for the Grant monu-
in Napu Xnrly 10 which ic c11cooTfihlo
of much expensive elaboration, but which
may be treated with severe simplicity. AS
the architect himself remarked to the COM
mittee: sit can be built on the installment
plan"
committee was appointed by the yellow
pine manufacturers convention at ST. Louis
TO consider the shipping weights of lumber.
The committee on prices presented their
report, which favors an advance in prices of
from rs cents to 81 a thousand on the diff
ferent grades.
A resolution is before the lower house of
congress which declares that the killing of
eneral Barrundia on the steamer Acapulco,
by the authorities of Guatemala, while on
board an American ship, and while under |
the protection of the flag of the United States,
demands an immediate investigation.
The interests of the Pullman and West |
COTDOTdblOuS art W DC lOlucQ ny |
The companies at present |
will not erect factory, as they do not need |
it, each having its own plant aud attending |
to its own branch of business, one at Pull |
man, H., and the other at Pittsburg, Pa.
1t is officially announced that the st. |
joseph d Grand Island company will erect |
an elevator in Elwood, Kansas, opposite st. |
Joseph, with a capacity of 1000, 600 bushels. |
The Grand Island brings into this point |
daily from 100 to - cars of grain from |
various shipping points in Kansas and Ne
braska.
There yet remain two contested election
cases of members of the house of representa-
lives. Both contestants are black men. The
republicans are endeavoring to secure a
quorum IN order to reach the cases before
adjournment; while the opposition are using
every possible obstruction to prevent action
upon them.
A notorious burglar, who had Just been
for the second time and sentenced
% fifteen years in the penitentiary, escaped
rom Jail at Dresden, Tenn, through the
'ame hole which he made when escaping
rom that Jail two years ago. The county
court has been intending to have that hole
oricked up for some time.
Rufus n. King, president of the Catskill
savings bank, died suddenly at his residence,
ICED 70. He appeared to be in his usual
health on the previous day. He was men,
Der of the Forty-third congress. In 1860 he
vas a republican elector, and in 1880 was
one of the 300 supporters of General Grant
n the republican national convention.
Advices from Rome indicate that the pope
s not pleased with Cardinal Manning's latest
ltterances on the labor question. His holi-
less is said to have expressed the opinion
hat the cardinal was being led by personal
to endorse labor programmes
which are not entirely in harmony with the
ettled attitude of the church on such ques-