Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-06-13
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European financial reports show q better
ment in general condition, with, perhaps,
Spain excepted.
The NJ, Z. & T. goes out of the receiver-
ship on July 1, when it returns to the control
of the stockholders; SO Receiver Eddy is re-
ported as saying.
]. l. Hazzad is appointed general agent of
the Atchlson-' Frisco lines, with headquarters
at the City of Mexico, vic, II. E. Parker, 10
signed, the appointment becoming effective
June l.
Major General John NJ. Scho6efd, COM
mander-in-chief of the army of the United
States, and Miss George Kilbourne. of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, are to be married at Keokuk,
June 10
| Orangemen IN Canada are opposing the
accession of Sir John Thompson as successor
to Sir John Macdonald.
| Railroads are being pushed forward.in the
Argentine Republic, notwithstanding the
general financial ruin there.
The secretary of the treasury has decided
that polygamists belong in the debarred class
| OF immigrants. and has directed that they
be detained and returned to their native
country.
Minister Price, of Hayti, has received a
dispatch from Port au Prince, which states
that the rebellion which broke out on the
18th of March has been suppressed and forty
of the rebels executed.
It is reported that Bill Wyatt, alias "Six
Shooter jack" who murdered the telegraph
arrested in the Antelope hills, in the south
western corner of the Cherokee outlet.
The whole north of Italy has had an earth
part of Tuscany. It centered at Verona.
Reports Of casualties so far give three killed
and seventeen injured by falling walls.
DR.. John B. Hamilton, surgeon general of
the marine hospital service, has resigned that
Office and accepted the position of professor
OF the principles of surgery and surgical
pathology IN Rush medical college, Chicago.
The convention of the Peoples party of
Iowa nominated a full state ticket. The
platform adopted demands the establishment
OF the Australian ballot system, favors state
reforms and ratifies the Cincinnati platform.
Two distinct companies, or syndicates, are
planning to enter upon immense irrigation
operations in western Kansas. They each
control large capital and are both negotiat-
ing for much land held now by loan COM
panies.
1t is claimed that the Itata received her
cargo of arms, &C., from the vessel which
took them from San Diego, at an island out
side of the jurisdiction of the United States,
and therefore did not violate international
law.
John Burns, the London labor agitator,
has been arrested while on bus persuading
the driver to join the drivers strike. He at
first resisted arrest. The strikers allow
"plrates" to carry people If they will pay q
crown day into the strike fund.
At Los Angeles, Cal, the Norton house, a
four-story apartment house, on the corner
OF Hill and Seventh streets. an adjoining cot
tage, two-story dwelling and the Church of
the Trinity were totally destroyed by fire.
Total loss about 1000; insurance small.
The strike of the coal miners is felt all
over the northern part of Iowa. The supply
of coal is giving out and large factories will
in many cases be compelled to shut down or
reduce the working force. The railroads at
many points find the supply about exhausted
At Latonia, Ohio, 1000 people were on the
grand stand to view the races. Binding
sheets of water driven by a forty miles an
hour wind drenched everybody. The wind
rocked the structure and caused stampede,
and it is a wonder that of the many hurts
there were none very serious.
At the conclusion of ball game at Brad |
ford, Pa, the wooden bridge across Tuna |
creek gave way under the crush of people, |
precipitating 200 men and boys into the |
creek. Six persons were quite seriously in |
jured and great many others received |
slight hurts and a severe shaking up.
There was great rejoicing at Ell Reno over
the decision of the commissioner of the gen |
eral land Office at Washington, awarding |
Major Foreman his claim, on which Ell Reno |
Is built. Flags, flowers, bonfires and anvils |
that he would begin executing war
rantee deeds to town lots June Is.
There is a row at Atchison over charges
brought that the bridge company charged |
the Missouri Pacific only about half the
rates that other roads have had to pay, and |
that the Santa Fe for the past year has en- |
joyed special privileges. 1t is also stated that |
the Rock Island will soon begin proceedings |
against the bridge company to recover $4O,-
600 overcnarges.
The memorial programme in New York
city included services at the tomb of General
Grant, in Riverside park, under the dlrec-
United States man-of-war Enterprise was
anchored in tho Hudson river opposite the |
tomb and fired minute guns during the con-
tlnuance of the services. number of ex-
confederate soldiers were present as guests
of the day, including Ex-Governor John s.
Wise, of Virginia, who delivered the Grafton.
A Chicago dispatch says: Over half the
United States was simultaneously covered
with water. and the edge of the great spot of I
vet was ravaged by a cyclone. The condi-
and west from this city showed state of
Affairs seldom. if ever, equalled. Soaking
rains were in progress accompanied with driv-
ing winds to New York on one side. to New
Orleans on the other, stretching beyond st.
Paul and Minneapolis to the north, and in
he west for an indefinite distance.