Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-17
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Hurried RoadoTA
The heavy trains of enc of the cable roads
of Kansas City. Mo-, loaded with people on
the night of tho Priests parade, broke the
cable and stopped all cars.
From North Dakota and northern Mime.
sofa comes the word that there 10 much wheat
still in the shock and that the wet weather
has sprouted it 90 As to destroy its value.
The Office of the Times and warehouse OF
Ewing d Enrich, at Lima, o., are destroyed
by fire and the adjoining buildlngs Dedly
damaged. Loss. 100000; insurance, $75'uo'
Rev. Samuel Benedict, an Episcopal cier-
gyman of Cincinnati, o., ageo 81, loss MS
life ~ being caught in an elevator IN q resi-
dence fiat, where he had been visiting par
ishoner.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands next;
and before great while.
It is reported that General Count Valdez
zee, at q recent banquet of the German Ninth
army corps, said: Possibly We shall meet
in the spring for serious business"
The planning mills, factories, warehouses.
sheds, ETC., composing the plant of Messrs.
Neel d Wampler. at McKeesport, Pa, are
burned. Loss, $150.OO0; no insurance.
One English writer says that Parnell came
of race in which were many crazy people.
He was from an old English family that
lived IN Ireland several generations before
his day.
The Kansas Supreme court has sustained
Harper county It was McKay's enjolning
man from selling liquor, pending hearing
of his motion to appeal.
R. C. Vaughan, a merchant of Fremont,
Neb., had maynard son whose bad record
So effected the father that he laid down with
his neck on the rail, under freight train.
so that when the train started his head was
cut of.
By order of the car. no court balls will be
given during the coming season of winter
festivities. On the other hand, the money
usually devoted to such entertainments will
be devoted to the relief of the famine SUI
ferers.
Judge Goodrich, at Waco, Tex, has re-
turned Judgment in the alien land law test
case. holding that the law is void and uucon-
stltutional, its caption insufficient and it is in
conflict with existing treaties with other
powers.
Train wrecking is the most profitable in
dustry in Turkey. the band of brigands
who practice it are amassing large fortunes.
Railroads are threatening to quit operating
unless the government will make good their
losses by the brigands.
DR.. Dorchester. superintendent OF Indian
schools, IN his report, says that although I'M
provement has taken place in the govern
contract schools, which are conducted BY
different religious bodies.
Three men robbed national bank at En-
n e oh th<a
counter. One held revolver on the cashier.
another put the money in a sack and the
third, with two shooters, kept back the citi-
zens. They then mounted and got away.
The distress IN Russia ia a greater menace
to the government than all the efforts of the
nihilists. The famine may cause a revolu-
ton where love of liberty has failed. Aid IS
being sent in by the Holland Jews and nihi-
lists of America. The latter have sent *, 800.
At Altoona, Iowa, the horses in funeral
procession were stampeded by one team up
ting scared at a steam thresher. This team
plowed through carriages In advance OF 1t.
upsetting and breaking them to pieces, until
a stampede ensued. One man was killed
and five more fatally injured.
The meeting of the Society of the Army of
Tennessee, at Chicago, closed with banquet
at the Palmer house. General Granville NJ.
Dodge, who succeeds General Sherman a.
president of the society. presided. Generals
Miles. Gresham, Porter and Noble were
among the respondents to toasts.
The new government of Chill has the
American legation there practically beseiged;
arresting such of Balmaceda's adherents, who
have taken refuge there, whenever they show
themselves. When the o. s. steamer San
francisco reaches Valparaiso Minister Egan
will demand that these refugees may be
taken on board and out of that country.
Conflicting influences keeps wheat dodg-
ing back and forth across the dollar line in
the Chicago market. First. the report of
sproutin2 in the shock sent it up a little; then
Bradstreet's enlarged figures of the supply
in sight; then rumors from Russia about
purpose to prohibit expectation, the increased
shipments from New York and firm state of
English markets, all had influence pro and
con.
After the ceremonies of unwilling the statue
of General Grant the veterans of the socie- |
ties of the Armies of Tennessee, Potomac
and Cumberland and General Miles and stan
called on and paid their respects to Mrs.
General Grant at the residence of Mrs. Pot |
ter Palmer. All the officers were in full |
dress uniform. The pathos OF the gathering |
was one of the most striking witnessed in |
Chicago for many a.day.
The funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell was |
the occasion of the greatest gathering ever |
seen in Dublin. The streets were full and
the houses were covered with people. Forty
thousand, 4 LARGE rrs.t vo.sli y:eyed the
corpse in city hail. a fine passifs the bier FOR
moro than four hours; from 10 a. N. until
after two. It rained hard all day until nearly
fou-, when the sun came out while the pro.
cession was forming. It was dead dark and
2 O'Clock before the burial Was completed. |
All Dublin, and delegations from all Ireland
were present. The procession with its fol-
lowing crowd is estimated at 2O.OO people,
of whom large part we're women.