Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-07
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March Ii, the anniversary of the killing OF
Car Alexander, is approached with fear and
trembling at the Russian capital.
Clay county, Miss, had Obstructive cy-
clone, on January 81, which blew down many
buildings and timber, and injured several
people.
The cause of and responsibility for the
accident in the Mammoth, Pa, coal mine,
by which more than a hundred miners were
killed. is being investigated by legislative
! committee.
The largest county in Kansas is Butler
county, which has ], 1913 square miles. Rhode
Island has 1,085 square miles. There are six
| counties in Kansas each of which has larger
area than all of Rhode Island.
Mr.. Cleveland and Governor Hill saluted
each other, the first time IN two years, at
New York banquet the other night.
Three negroes were burned to death in a
Jail at Friar's Point, Miss, they having set
! the fire themselves to burn down the door.
Late reports tell of another engagement
off Cencud, the capital of the Island of Chi
loe. The battle was between a government
man-of-war and an insurgent war vessel.
The insurgents were defeated.
At Kansas city, No, a cable train became
unmanageable and dashed down the steep
incline from the bluff to the Union depot and
was broken into small pieces. Nine persons
were on board but none of them we're killed.
It is said that ''Old Hutch" the veteran
Chicago board of trade gambler, has lost SO
much of his millions that he has but single
million left, and that his son and other
friends have influenced him to stop trading.
General Lees birthday was celebrated
throughout Virginia by general suspension
of business, professions, speech making and
banquets. In Richmond the confederate
flag was displayed in addition to other bunt-
ing.
Additional advices from Chill state that
after battle lasting several hours the regu-
lar troops have reoccupied Valparaiso. Ac-
cording to these advices the insurgents lost
heavily, and it is believed that the revolt will
be speedily suppressed.
The worlds fair managers are clamoring
for more money already. They estimate
that at least $4,000, 900 must be expended
before dollar is taken in at the gates. The
ways and means committee threaten to sue
delinquent stockholders.
Jeane Louis Earnest MISSIONER, the French
painter is dead, aged 70. His most famous
paintings are the Napoleon Cycle" four
small pictures illustrative of the life of the
great Bonaparte. His masterpiece is ''1814,"
one of this group. 1t illustrates the cam
paign in France of that year.
Superintendent Keigly of the Inflated
Mammoth, Pa, mine, was assaulted by the
wives of the victims of the recent explosion.
They stoneu him and some of the missiles
struck him, causing painful bruises. The
families of the victims are being well cared
for and there is no actual want.
Corporations in Missouri, as per their own
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of 81, 1854, $780, 1855; while the entire assessed
valuation of the state is less than $500, 000 000
1t is estimated that more than billion and
quarter dollars of this class of property es-
capes taxation in that state.
An examination of the records of the pen
sion bureau discloses the fact that there are
only about Il, 900 cases on file which are not
represented by attorneys. These will be
taken up by board appointed for the pur-
pose and pressed to final determination.
The claimants are to be assisted and not
hindered.
The United States senate is shaping up it's
business with a determination to adjourn
March without leaving behind it the neces-
sity of an extra session. For this the steer
ing" committees of the republican majority
have already arranged a programme that
would of itself occupy the attention of tbs
senate for two weeks.
Senator Plumb has introduced q bill to
confirm the entries of settlers on the Usage
trust and limited reserve land. and Mr.. Peters
introduced the same bill IN the house. This
measure is very important to many hundreds
of settlers IN southwestern Kansas, owing to
recent decision in the interior department,
though the bill will not become law at this
session.
In Ireland the boycott is disappearing, and
for the first time in many months member
of the leagues vigilance committee has been
absent from the Tpperary pig market. The
tenants who have resumed possession of the
Smith Barry estate have formed an organic
alton for mutual defense and support against
any movement to subject them to boycott or
persecutloa in the future, and they are ac-
lively engaged in preparing to put in crops
the coming spring.
1t appearsthe order to stop quarrying stone
in the strip affects Cherokees only, and big
men among them. These fellows sent a
protest against the order to the interior de-
partment to which Secretary Noble promptly
replied by wire. There has been no over
sight, and it is not my intention to change
the order. / have the opinion of the law
officer of this department that you have no
right where you are to quarry stone. Wheth-
er Cherokees or not, the order will be en-
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