Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-08-09
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed fer the Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.


Cholera is raging in Bagdad and vicinity.
Great apprehension exists lest the scourge
should spread westward.
A Johnstown, Pa, paper prints what is
claimed to be correct list of the dead. The
total number is given at ., 18T, which. if cor
rect. leaves over 200 bodies not yet recovered.
Arrangements for the Odd Fellows de-
monstration at Chicago include grand
stand in the Lake Front park, which is nearly
half mile long, and will seat 10000 people
revolution against President Barrillas, of
Guatemala has broken out, headed by prom
1nent military men of that republic, and
BarriIlas is pleading for foreign Intervention
in his favor. T
The plant of the Monitor pillow works in
Minneapolis, Mimi, is destroyed by fire, en-
failing loss of 1900, of which $75, 600 is
the buildings, and $4,000 on the stock. The
loss is fully insured. ~ s---. rs
A tramp was dragged with rope on his
neck, and nearly killed, at Racine, Wlscon-
sin, for assaulting a Catholic priest. He
would have been strung up had he not been
rescued by the police.
Alexander Frazier, of Kansas City, has
purchased of Brooks and Haas, OF Laporte,
Ind, the trotting mare Eva Wilkes, who re-
Gently made a record at Kankakee, III, OF
2:26L. The purchase price was S2o,UOO.
The leading Jewish firms in Berlin, Ham
burg and Frankfort have communicated with
representative Jews in London for the pur-
nose of preparing relief for distressed He
brews, who are being prosecuted IN Russia
It is lust a hundred years since the first
mechanical patent was issued by the govern
ment. It was granted to Samuel Hopkins
on1 Toorl och0S The total
number of patents issued during the century
was 433, 432.
The appointment of Lord Wellesley to the
command of the military forces in Ireland is
regarded with marked disfavor by the Ma
tional league, and with equal satisfaction by
the Loyalists. Lord Wellesley is an Irish
man, being native of Dublin.
A Santa Fe train was stopped near Trini-
dad, Colorado, by red lantern, and the four
men who did it mounted the engine and shot
both the engineer and firemen. The engi-
neer put on the steam and the four men
jumped off. Both have severe wounds.
At the Pelisser pit at st. Ettinne, France,
an explosion occurred and fifty-nine of the
persons who were at work in the pit when
the explosion occurred have been rescued.
The bodies of the victims of the explosion,
numbering ninety-eight have been recovered
The Christian population of Erzeroum is
wailing not alone for fathers and brothers
slain, but for wives and daughters missing.
Since the day of the terrible massacre scores
of Armenian women have been missing, and
there is no doubt that they are prisoners in
Turkish harems.
The captain of the British steamship Glen
ogle, from Yokohama and Amov, China, re-
ports the suffering from the rice famine to be
fhn Itn rnvor 1oT1f
come to the assistance of the people, how
ever, and is importing large cargoes of rice
from Siam, Cochin China and Burmah.
Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost its knitting
factory by fire. The loss is nearly total, ex-
cept small amount of manufactured goods
carried out. Some buildings adjacent we're
also destroyed. The machinery was very
fine. The loss is estimated at about SIS, 600,
with $685. 900 insurance distributed among
large number of companies.
=. The committee on elections, of the house
of representatives, has been ready to report
on the case of Representative Breckenridge,
of Arkansas, which report would be to the
effect that Breckenridge is not entitled to the
seat to which Clayton was elected before he
was killed, but have been prevented from
making their report by failure to secure
quorum of the committee.
A general strike has been ordered on all
the public schools of New York city now be-
ing repaired. There are only three contrac-
tors Objectionable to the board of walking
delegates, but this general movement is Or
dered to compel the board of education to
get rid of them. About 1. 200 men are out of
work and there is serious doubt of the public
schools being able to open on September 9.
Very Rev. DR.. Smyley, dean of Derry, is
authority for the statement that not less than
20, 600 Protestant Irishmen are organized in
lodges in military companies, and prepared
to resist by force of arms the establishment
of home rule in Ireland, should home rule
follow the return of Mr.. Gladstone to power,
whenever. if ever, he may return. ''The
Protestants of Ireland" said the reveren]
gentleman, ''are satisfied to have Ireland
remain as 1t is under the rule of the British
imperial parliament"
At the conclusion of the decoration of
chivalry, in l. o. 0. F. 'doins" at Chicago,
which had been going on by the light of
hundreds of electric lights hung ON poles in
the park, the generalisimo placed h1s foot
upon switch in his tent ard the electric
lights were instantly put cat. By pressing
another switch he sent the electric current
over the wires that fired the first piece of the
great pyrotechnic display, causing a mighty
eruption of fire from the shore of the lake,
and sending hundreds of shells into the air.
The house of lords seems determined to
smother the directors liability bill which
passed the house of commons by an en-
phatic majority. The bill seeks to hold to
strict accountability for fraud and deception
those titled gentlemen who have been enabled
to make living by lending their names to
doubtful schemes, the stock of which is un-
loaded on the British public. 1t was with
difficulty that the lords were restrained from
Immediately rejecting it. AS it is the meas
use win probably be pigeon-holed in COM
mlttee.