Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-03-07
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Russia is talking of spending 5000, 600 on
its exhibit at the Chicago fair.
An immense eight hour meeting has been
held in Dublin. The crowd in attendance
| included workingmen from all the Industries
in the city. A resolution was adopted favor
ing the eight hour day.
A snow slide buried the boarding house of
the Bullion King mine at Crested Butte, Col
orado. Several persons were still under the
snow. with many workers trying to get to
them, at the last dispatch.
Over $50 houses at Yuma, A. T., are in
ruins from the food ana ], 400 people are
homeless. Not single business house re-
mains standing and it is feared that hundreds
of lives has been lost in the Gils valley.
Anna Dickinson is insane and has been
taken to an asylum.
Three hundred and fifty Durham, England,
strikers have been fined $3.50 each for quit
J ting without notice.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, says that
as soon as the force bill Is surely buried he
will send special message to the legislature
suggestirg an appropriation for the worlds
fair. His figure is 100000.
Something of blizzard prevailed through
out Nebraska last week. Advlces from points
in the west are to the effect that snow fell
rapidly, the wind blowing gale. The cuts
are filing and the railroads are having great
difficulty in keeping the tracks open.
The Empress Frederick arrived at Dover
from Calais AID was enthusiastically received.
The arrival of the yacht was announced by
salvos of artillery, anu when the imperial
visitor stepped ashore she was heartily
cheered by the crowd present.
Governor Hill. of New York. has declined
to honor Connecticut requsition for an al
legged criminal, bearing the signature of Nor
gan G. Buckley, on the ground that he did
not recognize Mr.. Bulkley as governor of
the state of Connecticut.
Mrs. P. R. Caffrey, wife of an Omaha me-
chanic, has received notice of the death of
her father at Bradford, England, and that
she is the sole heir of his fortune of SI5, $780,
900. She was disownea by her father ten
years ago for her marriage.
Queen Victoria has cabled her sympathy
for the victims of the Spring Hill mining
disaster in Nova Scotia. Steps are being
taken in London, Glasgow, and other leading
cities TO raise funds for the victims, many
of whom have relatives in Great Britain.
Serious damage has been done by floods to
railroad and other property in the southern
portion of California. Several big bridges
were carried away, while large gaps were
made in tracks in many places. The
through lines suspended the sale of tickets
for week.
On the Twelfth street steps of the new city
hall at st. Louis. now in course of erection,
will be pedestal for an equestrian statue,
the subject for which has not yet been Sc
lected. 1t is now proposed to have an eques-
trian statue of General Sherman placed upon
the pedestal.
The Pail Mall Gazette, appropos of the
vote on Welsh disestablishment. points that
they are the 7S5, 900 disSenters in Wales as
against only lie, 900 members of the Church
of England. The absurdity of the existing
situation is made manifest by consideration
of these figures.
The waters of the Ohio river rose sixteen
feet in six days, at Cincinnati; the Tennessee
at Chattanooga rose thirteen feet in four
days; the Cumberland at Nashville three feet
in three days; the Mississippi at st. Louis
five feet in one day. An immense flood down
the last-named river must result.
All but two buildings in Yuma have gone
down with the flood; these are the Southern
Pacific hotel and the penitentiary. The water
just touched the strngers of the great bridge
when at its height. In order to prevent the
bridge from being carried away by the freight
depot being set afioat, the building was blown
up with dynamite.
Yuma, Arizona, at last accounts, was
doomed to certain and speedy destruction.
The last news was a statement by a telegraph
operator that he was forced to leave his key,
as the building would be gone in few min
utes. The railroad bridge there, 500 feet
long, was about to go. The town of 1,2OO
people is probably washed away.
The pope has informed the propaganda |
that he is exceedingly displeased with the |
last nominations for bishop made in the |
United States and sent for the approval of |
his holiness. This explains the delay in |
making the appointments which, according |
to a previous announcement, we're to be |
made on Thursday, February II.
Three hundred immigrants left Illinois for |
Iowa and Nebraska the same day, half of |
them from Mclean county. There were |
three trains of thirty three cars each, of |
which seven we're passenger coaches, at the |
start from Bloomington. Nine more cars |
were added at other points. The greater |
portion were ticketed for Webster City, Iowa. |
The widow of the late Emperor Frederick, |
of Germany has been visiting Paris. Her |
presence there caused demonstrations of dis |
approval which became serious The French |
minister of the interior warned the German |
ambassador of danger and suggested the |
dowager's early and secret departure. Pres
ident Carnot dared not call on the empress |
on account of public opinion.
Over thirty of the principal type founders
of the United States have combined with
capital of $6,OOO000. Wholesale cutting of
the price of type has been the rule, and, ow-
ing to this, plants of printers have been de-
creasIng in value, enabling new firms to put
in entirely new plants at half the cost of
new plants in before the decentralization of
prices. The combine is in the interest of eS-
tablished printing offices.