Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-12-05
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Judge James N. Coffinbury. one Of tho
orator and brilliant writer. died November
%, aged 70 years.
Marshalltown, Ia, has had a destructive
fire, which. destroyed the fremont house
and the best business block IN town, tho
losses agsregating $4,000.
A New York paper says that Jay Gould Is
out of Wall street to stay out; that he is now
(! on tour of the southwestern lines of his
| system, in search of health.
The Monon block, Chicago, sixteen stories
high, has been sold to a syndicate OF four,
representing Chicago, New York, San Fran
cisco and Topeka, for s675,OO0.
The water famine has ended in Brooklyn.
Advices from Canton, China, state that the
anti-foreign Chinese, in the interior, are
numbering and otherwise prosecuting those
friendly to foreigners or missionaries.
The storm did havoc in Longton, Ontario.
New York, unrOofing houses, uprooting
| trees, wrecking barns and killing cattle.
The Union Pacific has offered reward OF
removed rail and caused the wreck of the
| fast Denver passenger train at Julesburg, Col.
A fire at Escanaba. Mich, destroyed 150.-
| 600 bushels of grain, 10000 barrels of -four
and 1000 tons of coal; together with the
buildings, Jocks and sheds containing them.
An American schooner has arrived at New
York loaded with lumber from Chicago; SAID
To be the first sailing vessel that ever made
that voyage. She made the trip in sixty six
days.
1t is proposed to build up diamond cut
ting industry in the Kimberly district, South
Africa, by placing an export duty on the
rough stones and paying bounties on the cut
goods.
The announcement is made by the Amer
lean Wheel company, that the Fort Wayne
branch will be again put in operation. Five
hundred men have been out of employment
six months.
A dispatch from Suakim, Egypt, says the
tribe of -hilluks severely defeated body OF
dervishes near Fashoia. Large reinforce
ments have been sent to the scene from
Odurman.
Representatives of English capital have OBJ
tanned an option on all the breweries in Brit
ish Columbia, ano will change some of them
to lager beer breweries. all the lager con-
sumed there now being imported.
Four loaded refrigerator cars and q caboose
broke loose and run wild down grade near
Mexico, No.. jumping the track and rolling
down an embankment only moment before
1t would have met passenger train.
A crazy man shot three times at Rev. DR..
John Hall, pastor of the Filth Avenue Pres
Il. 3 Vorl ,ftt ho
passing from morning service to the parson-
age. The parson was no. hit.
Roseberry, tho equine champion of high
jumping. met with an accident while attempt
ing to beat his record, seven feet and one
half inch, at Chicago. which resulted IN his
death. The horse was valued at $25.OOO.
report has reached Yokohama, Japan,
that body of Russian troops has crossed in
to China by way of Siberia. War between
those countries is not anticipated. but Russia
will insist on large territorial concessions.
The Indiana coal miners have entered upon
a strike to the finish, having the support of
the national officers Of the United Mine Work
ers. They oppose miners leaving the state
to get work with competitive mines in llli-
nOlS.
Churches, schools, factories, oil derricks,
sewers. the state insane asylum, farm build
ings, roofs everywhere, are among the men
toned as destroyed in Pennsylvania In the
late storm. which seemed to cover almost the
entire state.
English farmers and farmers journals feel
very sore over Secretary Rusk's proposal to
prohibit the importation into the OnHed
States OF English cattle so long as the restric-
tions upon the landing of American cattle at
British ports are not removed.
1yp
Land Bill Allen, the orig inator OF the home
stead act. died at the county lnfirmary, Col
umbus, Ohio aged 81. He had spent for
tune in the interest of the bill of which he
claimed to be the originator.
English conservatives at their Birmingham
conference declared in favor of applying the
PRINCIPLES of the Irish land act to English;
giving laborers and small farmers chance
to acquire land by :n>tallment purchases, not
much, if any, greater than current rental.
"whale back" vessel, valued at $4,000, |
left Duluth with 81, 900 bushels of wheat, for |
which freight IS charged to the amount OF
$4,000. This would pay for the boat twice
over in one season. allowing return freight |
to cover expenses. Too much freight charges. |
Thirteen horse car passengers and red |
hot stove were rolled head over heels IN 'front.' |
of n switchlnR engine in Chicago, and though |
the car was reduced almost to kindling by |
the locomotive and took fire from the stove. |
the thirteen people escaped with their lives.
farmer named Little, living near Hay
den, Ind, while digging a well recently, dis
at depth of forty feet uHmistakable
evidence of the glacial period. in the shape
of we'll preserved trunks of trees. the like OF
which do not grow in that locality at present.
The late storm originated near the Georgia
and Florida line. sweeping thence northerly
and easterly, Jumping the Alleghenies and
with accelerated force sweeping the country
10 New York. A cyclone center formed IN
Mississippi at the same time, passing north
,rlv farther west than the main :orm.