Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-22
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General Miles says that We have not seen
the last Indian war.
Queen Emma, of Holland, has been ap-
pointed regent to govern the kingdom while
King William lives, or until he again be-
comes sane, which is considered hopeless.
One Slocum, dentist of Guthrie, o. T.,
has eloped with the wife of a hotel man of
that place, the woman taking $4,000 along.
Slocum's daughter remains to still be leader
in Guthrie society.
It is said that John Wanamaker and John
d. Rockefeller are largely interested IN the
half dozen tin plate manufactures being
located lust now. The company has bought
LOCO acres of land at Park Ridge, Ill, and
will push work on buildings.
A collision at Ottawa, Kansas, killed one
man and destroyed 800, worth of prop
erty. Two coal oil tank cars were in it and
helped to make big fire.
Judge David Mclean, ex-president of the
Savannah Savings bank, at Savannah, Mo-,
has been sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary fer defrauding his depositors out OF
100000, which he lost in speculation.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging at
Clementville, Ohio. There have been al
ready eighty-n.ne cases, of which twenty hVe
have been fatal. At present forty persons
are stricken, and business is entirely sus-
pended.
Cholera is as fatal as ever this time. In
one week at Nagasaki, Japan, there were o41
deaths in 8S3 cases. Latest from CONSTANT
nople says that Aleppo and Orfa, ana sur
rounding villages are infected, and there
have been many deaths.
Traffic Manager Hanley, of the Santa 'Fe
says that if the Is cent rate on hogs from
Kansas City to Chicago is made, as pro-
posed, Hutchinson and all points IN Kansas
can ship right through to Chicago and other
points independent of Kansas City.
The November returns to the department.
of agriculture of rates of yield per acre, make
the average of corn 1919 bushels, which is IS
DER cent. of the average of the last ten years,
a period which included four unusually poor
years and only 70 per cent. of last years
crop.
A furious gale occurred along the Irish and
Welsh coasts, and quantities of wreckage
have been washed ashore. There was an in
cessant downpour of rain and the mountain
streams became torrents, and In the Festi-
nlog district swept away number of work
mems cottages.
Superintendent Porter, of the census, says:
ga partisan census is an impossibility. The
eleventh census is not the work of one man,
but will represent the united labor of $1,000
persons. To assault the census, therefore, Is
to impeach the honesty of a vast army of in
telligent and conscientious men and women"
The secret of the financial troubles of
Barring Brothers is said to be that the Russian
government withdrew very large deposits
from that firm. Russia was scared because
of political and financial troubles in the Ar
gentine republic. where the Barings were
large holders of securities.
North Dakota people are scared because
the Sioux are providing themselves with
much arms and ammunition. Many settlers
between Mandan and the reservation are
abandoning their farms and ranches b ;auss
of lack of protection afforded them by the
government.
A London dispatch says that there is genu-
Inc feeling of indignation among the@Brltish
public because of the disgrace brought upon
the nation by the acts of the men employed
by the Emin committee. There is a prevail
ing belief that the relief of Emin was a mere
pretense for mercenary motives
Reginald Birchall has been hung in Can
ada for killing Frederick c. Benwell; both
Englishmen. Birchall's scheme was to lure
wealthy young Englishmen to Canada to
teach them farming. He got much money
this way, but the first one actually taken 20
the country, on the pretence of going to ''the
farm" was found murdered. The jury said
Birchall did the murder.
Fisher (alliance) is elected representative
from Atchison county. County Clerk Krebs
came to Topeka instanter when it was pub
ished that the official returns elected Boy
ngton (repubhcan). He found that there
had been mistake In entering the footings
in the majority column, and that the probate
Judges figures had been put in the repre-
line.
There was furry of excitement in Topeka
November Is, caused by a statement that
Barring Brothers. the London bankers who
ire backing the Santa Fe railroad, had failed.
ri->z were in trouble but tided over it. Kid
Ter, Peabody & Co., the American represent
.tlves, say that the American business of the
irm will not be affected.