Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-08-29
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Hurried Readers.
Wizard Edison says that the tine APP
| proaches when a house will be heated and
lighted by electricity for 60 cents year.
Cardinal Gibbons conferred the paIlium
upon Archbishop Katzer, at Milwaukee, with
the most imposing ceremonies ever held in
st. Johns cathedral.
Statistician Dodge says that the wheat
acreage of the country will approximate 4Q-
| 100000 acres. According to this the crop
will probably be at least 600, 000, 600 bushels.
The strike of the freight brakemen and
conductors of the Lake Erie & Western has
extended to Indianapolis, and 1t is now feared
that the train men of the entire system Will
strike.
Down in Texas the mercury stood at los in
| the shade at d. M; about midnight
norther set in and by IL a. m. there had been
fall OF A degrees; down to 62.
Charlton river and Muscle Fork flooded
| the country from bluff to bluff along thirty
| miles of their passage through Macon county,
| Missouri, destroying all crops, DC, in the
low lands.
A train consisting of thirty cars is being
loaded at Guthrie with Oklahoma products
to 60 direct to Chicago. The intention is to
decorate every car. Wheat, corn and melons
will be the principal freight.
An italian railroad inspector, who was at
work about seventy miles from Salonica, has
been abducted by Turkish brlRands and he
is supposed to De held a prisoner pending
the payment of heavy ransom.
At Bloomington. Ind, the storm of August
81 flooded a portion of the city; lightning
set fire to the the top of the Catholic church
spire; damaged other property, and south of
the city cyclone did great damage.
At Leavenworth, Atchison and through the
country, extending into Brown county, Fri
days storm did heavy damage; particularly
in Atchi5on, where many buildings lost their
roofs; whole blocks lost chimneys and win
dows.
Citizens of Midland, Texas, are indignant
that the rain making expedition, experiment.
ing at Morris ranch, near there, sends out
dispatches which give that region the name
of suffering from drouth, which, they say, u
not true. q
The alliance has formulated cotton trust
Columbia, S. c., which gives the power to
withhold the entire crop, if desirable, one
year from market. 1t is expected that the
movement will force the price OF cotton up
to ten cents.
terrific storm ragged in tho English
channel August q. The sea greatly dam
aged the public squares at Havre. and the
Frascati baths have been washed away.
bark has been wrecked at Yport and four OF
her crew drowned.
A -. Co.. al Of
the alliance at st. Louis for Tuesday, Sep
TENDER Is. It emanates from q. S. Hall,
the head of the Missouri state alliance, and
others of a committee appointed for that
purpose after the Fort Worth conference.
At Moberly, Mo-, the entire marching bri-
gade of the Salvation army, men, women
and children, were arrested for making q
racket on the street. All were discharged
after being locked up over night, except the
pealed.
Cherokees are taking claims in the strip,
being moved thereto by the presidents deci-
sion that Cherokees. and they only, can hold
cattle there. Of course they all Ego into the
cattle business" and mostly for the benefit
of the cattlemen whose herds have been rang
ing there.
Ed Short, the marshal who has been 30 long
on the trail of tram robbers who looted q
Santa Fe train at Wharton. /. T., has been
killed by the gang, but not until he had sent
q bullet through Bryant's head. Charley
Bryant was supposed to be the leader of the
robbers.
The Texas railroad commissioners are in
trouble. The employees of the various lines
protest against the sweeping reductions in
rates ordered by the board. They say the
reductions will affect their wages, and have
forwarded strong petition against the pro-
posed changes.
At Shelbyville, Ind, a boy was arrested
for breaking plate glass windows. His father
came to town and got into row for the pur-
pose of getting a chance to get even" with
Bruce, the city marshal, and shot Bruce.
That night the citizens, almost en- masse,
lynched the murderer.
A severe storm occurred in the Gulf of
California. At San Jose Del Case, in Lower
California, the storm lasted three days. Hun
dreds were rendered homeless, two persons
killed and q number badly injured. The
town was flooded and the scene presented
was one of destruction and ruin.
The National Elsted6fod was in session at
Swansea, Wales, 5000 people assemb led un
der and about a canvas pavilion to hear the
singing. squall tore the pavilion from
over them and tremendous rainfall drenched
the people. In the struggle to get to cover
many were trampled down, but none serl-
ously hurt.
Fully $500, 900 has been spent on the en-
press of Austria's new palace at Corfu. The
wood carving alone in one suite of rooms cost
$4,000. A villa built for the empress near
Vienna few years ago at an expenditure OF
$4OO, 600 has never been occupied by her be-
cause she took dislike to the place after 1t
was finished.
Two women have been increasing the cir
culation at Memphis by making small pur-
chases and getting dollars changed. where
they thought it prudent to do so, they would
then ask to be relieved of the load of dollars
in their pockets and got them exchanged for
bills. The dollars turn up in the banks,
whore they are detected as bogus.