Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26
LATEST NEWS.

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Condemned for Convonlonoo q
Hurried RoadoTs.
len persons were injured in q collision OF
eiecsf1c street scars ut St Paul.
-Four powerful steam tugs pulled scroes
Niagara nver to Black Rock about LOCO fest
OF gas pipe coupled together, thus giving the
Ene county natural vas connection with ite
fields in the Dominion.
In the Michigan Methodist conference q
vote was taken on the matter of admitting
women as lay delegates. After discussion
the conference decided in favor of the ladies
by vote of 1l9 to q.
Many Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indiana are
dying. They have been holding grand dance,
dancing all night and Teasing ON melons
during the day for week. They fall with
tine power in great numbers, and many die.
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, near Greensburg. parted on grade
and come together again, causing a wreck;
then cattle train piled on top of the wreck,
killing twenty car loads of cattle. Engine
men were injured.
All men known to have been active sup
pOrters of Balmaceda. as we'll a. those who
property BY confiscation. The supreme
court has already organized, and all of these
cases will be submitted to it.
A heavy rain and hail storm fell at Ash
land. Wis. Thousands of dollars of damage
has been done throughout the district. A
heavy wind prevailed and several boats on
the bay were capsized. No lives were lost.
At the same time acyclone struck Iron River.
The interior department sends to Okla
homa land officers, with the approval of the
president, instructions to receive filings with
out distinctions of color; that the talk of the
Sac and Fox Indians about ceding the land
for white settlement" is not to be taken any
notice of.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, has entered
his protest against the removal of the head
quarters of the NJ, K. & T. from Sedalia,
Mo-, to Parsons, Kansas. Meantime Gov
be made or the road will be forced to the
wall under the laws of Kansas.
The Russian government has requested the
European Danube commissioners to permit
the Russian naval cadets to take passage on
board vessels belonging to the commission,
in order that the young officers may be in
structed in the pilotage of the Danube and
become familiar with the navigation of that
river.
The Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land, at it's twenty second annual reunion, at
columbus, O., elected General w. S. Rose
Grams president. General r. A. Alger was
chosen orator and General w. S. Boynton as
alternate orator for the next meeting, which
will be held at Chicamauga, September Is
and 26, 1892.
Baimaceda has escaped from the clutches
OF his enemies and is now safe on the high
seas under the protection of the United States
flag. Admiral Brown arranged for his es-
cape to one of the vessels of his squadron,
which at once set sail for San Francisco. 1t
is likely that Balmaceda will stop at Callao,
where many of his a1herents are.
The interior department has forwarded IN
structions to land officers in Oklahoma in
tended to stop false entries by means of
powers of attorney from old soldiers. The
multitude of such cases in which such papers
have been bought up for small amounts from
soldiers who have no intention OF making
settlement on the new lands rendered this
action necessary.
Among the miracles asserted to be anthem
tic as resulting from the exhibition OF the
holy coat at Treves are the curing OF the
withered arm of an abbess, the restoring OF
the sight of blind persons, and the curing of
cripples. Each case Is declared to be sup
ported by medical testimony, but the details
will not be published until the exhibition OF
the relic Is finished.
All indications are that, in the event of q
Russian invasion of Galieia. the Poles Will
rise as one man to battle against their hered-
itary enemies. The reason of Polish devo-
ton to Austria is that nowhere has Austrian
rule been more bene6cent than in Austrian
ohn ~ Sno
oppression exercised by the Russians on the
other side of the border.
When the train stopped at one of tho lonely
watering stations between Sacramento and
the Nevada line. the robbers entered the cars
and founo the conductors and porters asleep.
They did not take the trouble to 60 through
the occupants of the cars, but took their
clothing and everything but their pocket
knives and pistols. The aggregate loss in
the two coaches was over "a, 200.
The fac. that the price of wheat is to 6
cents higher in st. Louis than in the Chicago
market il causing considerable uneasiness
among the traffic officials of the Chicago
roads. As natural consequence of such
Nebraska is mostly going east by way OF st.
Louis, some of it being shipped by river to
New Orleans for export.
The statement made that British vessels
had taken possession of Mitylene caused .
great excitement in diplomatic circles
throughout Europe; with much elect on
business centers. II turns out that boat
loade of marines were landed for drill exsr-
ciee; but it il still believed that there va
politics in the movement; showing of what
could be done on short notice.
Balmaceda is dead by his own hand. De-
spite ali rumors of his escape from Chill be
failed to get away, and took refuge in the
Argentine legation at Santiago, where be was
long concealed, and where he shot himself.
He left . letter to the New York Herald say
him; that many of the cruel acts charged to
BIN be knew nothing about; that the q. 8.
minister, Patrick EaGan, gave him good ID
nee, which be regrets he did not heed, theye-
by closing the war sooner.