Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-06-20
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Hurried Readers.
General John McNeal, aged q, dropped
dead at a branch postofice in st. Louis.
Prof. Garfield has accepted the place Of
chancellor of the university of Nebraska
His salary is to be $1,000 He takes the office
July L
The secretary of the treasury has amended
the general regulations of 1884, relative to
execution of bonds, 90 as to provide thas
CORPORATIONS other than q trust company
can in, no event be accepted as surety"
The London Times says: I'VE almost
wish, for the sake of English society, that as
the result of this unhappy case, the Prince
of Wales had also signed declaration that
be would never touch a card again."
The New York school board has squelched
the ldiotic luancy of registering every
females name that il capable of it with q
final lie. They command that Harriet shall
be Harriet and Susan, Susan; ct al.
The Russian government is making such
arrangements for sending 900 convicts to
Siberia that the chances are by the time they
arrive in September all the women and chill
dren will have persisted by the way.
A cloud burst in the foot hills above Fort
Collins, Colo. caused the Poudre to overflow
its banks, damaging crops, drowning stock
and destroying bridges to the extent of $15,-
600. So far as known no lives were lost.
The bill to enable her majesty. by order in
council, to make special provision for pro-
hibiting the catching of seals in Behring sea
by her majesty's subjects, during the period
pamed in the order, has passed the house OF
ords.
The Santa Fe company hired all the men
to be found, and hauled many train loads OF
stone to Purcell, I. T.. in their efforts to save
their tracks there. The water had washed
away nearly eighty rods of track and under
mined much more.
Ferdinand Ward, the New York banker
who brought financial losses upon General
Grant, and is in Sing Sing prison for it, now
mourns that he must receive the same treat
ment as other criminals, since there has been
a change in the wardens.
The Usage river, in Missouri, is reported
higher than for many years. Bottom farms
are overlooked and wheat fields entirely un-
destruction of crops and fences and railroad
ties carried off by the high water.
M. s. Beal, of Topeka, has commenced
suit against a Boston mortgage company for
the profits he would have made on their
money in Kansas if they had not broken
contract and refused to send on the money
for him to loan. He wants $23,S5O.
Fire broke out in the main building of the
Philadelphia Abattoir company. Valuable
machinery and ], 900 carcasses of dressed beef
and 10000 green hides were consumed. The
loss will DO about $376. 900, covered by lnsur-
ance divided among fifty companies.
In sinking an artesian we'll two miles west
OF Warren, Mimi, natural gas was struck at
q depth of twenty feet. It comes out with
such force that it throws stones thirty feet
high. Gas was accidentally ignlted and q
fame shot up into the air forty feet high.
cloud burst over Dayton, Ohio, flooding
everything. Lightning struck in many parts
of the city. One tenement was torn down,
but no other casualties were reported. The
Miami and Erie canal bank broke two miles
south of town and flooded the garden lands
along the river.
A tubular tank containing 1900 gallons of
kerosene, on a train, at Wilder, one mile
from Newport, Ky., woke up everybody in
Newport, Dayton and CovingtOn: and the
bright light from its burning called out the
entire Cincinnati fire department. The force
of the shock was felt for ten miles around.
A hurricane has swept over eastern CALI
cha. An entire forest was partly uprooted,
and the towns of Podkamin and Prnikwa
suffered. Several churches were unroofed
ground. Several people we're killed outright
and numbers were injured by falling debris.
The secret service officers have notified ali
the jewellers of Chicago that hereafter they
will be prosecuted for counterfeiting in case
they are caught gold plating silver or nickle
coins for use as bangles. This action is
taken because it has been discovered that
some of these bangles have been passed -
the gold coins they resemble.
The London News says of the baccarat
scandal: 'sThe pity of it all is in the pres
ence of the heir to the throne at the head of
the baccarat table. The prince is bound to
a pure simple and clearly life, as an example
to his future subjects. Woe to the monarchy
when it can no longer perform what may be
fairly called its last surviving USE"
A waterspout burst near San Luis Paz, in
the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. the water
from winch swept away many houses and
cattle, uprooted trees; in fact. for space OF
three miles, the width of the current, the
country was completely devastated. Il Is
not known how many lives have been lost.
Hundreds of people are homeless and in q
destitute condition.
Pupils at the Indian schools at Genoa,
Neb., have been, by the solicitation Of the
Indian bureau, given employment in the
beet fields of that region. Nebraskans pro-
test against this, and Commissioner Morgan
asks of the superintendent If tho people OF
Nebraska are SO hostile to the school in its
effort to make helpful, independent citizens
of its Indian pupils, whether it would not
be best to stop all projected Improvements
with view of closing the school and aban-
doning the enterprise. The money, he says.
can be expended to advantage in states where
the citizens are only too glad to have these
institutions Of learning.