Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-05-02
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In the Creek nation larceny is punished
with death for the third offense.
Sixty gold hunters on the Cherokee strip
we're overtaken in a gulch by clOudburst.
They lost their horses and outfit. They were
tracking man who claimed to have found
gold.
Last year there were 1,131 strikes in Ger;
many. involved 39i. 40 worklngnen ana
women. Only 1877 of them we're successful;
1853 were only partially successful, while the
utter failures numbered 40
BY a general strike of employees, twelve
horse car lines are tied up at Detroit. Cap
tain Burger, the chief detective, was struck
on the neck by a brick thrown by one OF the
malcontents and seriously injured.
Grand Duke Nicholas. uncle of the car.
| is dead. He had been insane since last NC
tober. He was 60 years old.
Congressman n. NJ. Ford died of apoplexy
at Grand Rapids, Mich. He retired in his
usual health at midnight, but was found IN
sensible in his bed at o'clock a. m. and re-
! NAMED IN that condition until bus death.
It is stated that crazy pauper has landed
| in New York whose passage was paid oy the
German government. 1t Is beng lnvesti,
gated and Germany is liable to be called
l ~ssS-'
Governor Penoyer, of Oregon said that
when the president of the United States
visits Oregon 'he should pay his respects to
me "a it's Official executive. have no bust
ness to 90 pay homage to him." Heap.
Big InJun!
The spring tide of Immigrants continues
unusually large. On one day there were
| 3,227 to be landed at the barge office, New
York. Among the number were eighty
Mormons, in charge of two elders, en- route
for Utah.
The American Protective Tariff league will
hold great banquet in New York on the
29th inst. The dinner will be served on
American linen with American CHINA and
glassware and all the eatables and turntables
will be American products.
Some of the doctors are now saying that
Roscoe Conklng died of the grippe; that
similar symptoms have been since met and
patients cured, and that Conkiing's case was
not bad one, only nobody knew then what
it was.
During the last winter the great scarcity
of grain throughout Dakota caused stock
men to dispose of their cattle at any price.
Arrangements are being made to have a
great number shipped from Texas and Cali
fornia at great expense.
The Hooking Valley, Ohio, miners have
agreed to work the present year, nine hours
a day. An effort is being made, with this as
starter, by the officers Mutual Mine Work
ers' Association to stop the movement Tor
May day strike.
Fire broke out in the stables of the Gal
weston, Tex, Street Railway company and
spread very rapidly and number of the
employees sleeping in the stables narrowly
escaped with their lives. Sixteen mules
were burned to crisp. Six cars we're also
burned.
The work of the census shows that g. II per
cent. of the population of the United States
live in cities of 5000 or more. In 1889 the
percentage was 22.57; in 1880, 12.49 per cent.
and in 1850, 3.35 per cent. Rhode Islands
1890 percentage is 1889 and that of Massa-
chusetts $3.50.
The managers of the Paris exposition had
about Sc, 00O, 600 at their command. For the
coming worlds fair in Chicago there is first
the $40, COO,OOJ which that city has provided,
then 81, 500, 900 appropriated by the govern
ment and $4,0OOGoO already promised IN
state appropriations.
A broken rail caused the last coach Of a
ssBig Four" train. a Pullman, to leave me
track not far from Indianapolis. The coach
rolled over into the ditch and as the tram
was running at very high speed every
occupant of the wrecked car was bruised,
some receiving bad hurts.
The Texas railroads have decided to COM
ply with the state law requiring separate
cars for colored passengers which Will go
into effect June Is, by placing in each coach
a portable partition. by which space as
large as may be required for the colored
passengers can be fenced OF.
The Worcester light infantry-the Ineal
descendent of the old Massachusetts sixth,
which will be remembered as the hrSt armed
and equipped regiment that marched to the
relief of the national capital-celebrated, IN
Baltimore, the anniversary OF the massacre
of the Sixth by Baltimore rebels.
Mrs. Bette Eaton, sister of President
Harrison, was seriously injured by being
thrown from carriage, at Cleves, y. She
is 60 years old and idolized by high and low,
rich and poor, at her home at Great Bend,
Ind. Her brothers, the president and Scott
Harrison, of Kansas City, Mo-, were advised
of the accident by wire.
They are having more trouble with the
Hungarian and Polish coke workers In west
ern Pennsylvania. Many of them have re.
turned to work and those who still refused
were being evicted from their tenements.
The sheriff of Fayette county again called tor
militia, but the governor replied that the
civil power must be first exhausted.
ssrhe Kansas State Agricultural college |
owes its location and initiative momentum |
to the pioneers of Manhattan, who, unlike
the first settlers of many western towns, |
were mostly people of education and cul- |
ture." So says Prof. ]. D. Walters, OF the |
Kansas Agricultural college. Prof. Walters |
liz wrong. Most western towns had first set |
tiers equal with those of Manhattan in tho
Qualities named; SO many, indeed. as to |
make the exception the contrary of his propo- |
sit,on. The professor should become better |
acquainted with Kansas.
GENERAL MARkErS