Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-08-01
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The Brush patents for tho manufacture
and use of storage batteries in the United
States have been held solely valid by the D.
s. circuit court of New York.
Jerry Simpson announced in . speech at
Birmingham, Ala. that he would spend
month in Ohio, taiking Day ana nisas against
late London dispatch says. in summing
mp the Parnell program: PILOTS depenaens
upon the existence OF how OF dollars IRON
America are now paralyzed."
Campbsll 4 Elliort's cotton and wooden
loss over $4,000. The building was 200 feet
square and 40 people were employed In it
Congressman Neidrinahaus' st. Louis fac
tory employees over 400 hands on tan plate
alone.
William 81. Pope. the defaulting state
treasurer OF Tennessee, has been arrested IN
the City of Mexico and is held by the police
awaiting the action of the Tennessee author
titles.
Rebels in great numbers gathered at Lex
inGton, Va, to do honor to treason. The
occasion of their gathering was the unwilling
of bronze statue of General Stonewal
Jackson.
The supreme court of Kansas, as soon a.
1t got together after Judge Mckay, OF Har.
per county, had set aside its orders, took &C
| ton to uphold its own dignity and MAINTAIN
it's authority.
All that remained of the James family living
i've miles west OF Clay City, III, were found
The family consisted Of husband, wife, con,
daughter and grandchild.
Internal machines made in the form Of
books have been received by several officials,
of the French government. Their character
was happily discovered in time to prevent
serious consequences.
Tahiti is now entirely under French gov.
erment The island was contracted and paid
for by France in 1880, the bargain to be fully
consummated on the death of King Pomare
V, who died July 10.
Chief w. II. Ross, of the Cherokee nation,
is dead. He was 6S years old. he was edu-
Gated ut Princeton, N. j., and since u years
old has almost constantly been in some office.
senator.
A resident of Monroe City, Mo-, has re-
covered 500 from a man who tied his mules
to a handsome maple shade tree belonging
to the villager, letting the mules bark and
kill the tree, 1T being one his grandfather
planted.
In the first half of this year Atchison earned
per mile s2,251, against sass by st: Paul,
81, 81 by Rock Island and $2,616 by North
ern Pacific. As far as earnings per mile are
concerned, southern roads are ahead OF those
in the northwest.
Bishop Turner. the Georgia colored divine.
is back of movement to send colonies OF
his people to Africa. He will make trip
across the water to investigate the promised
land before completing arrangements for
the first shipment.
]. Waldo, traffic manager of the Missouri,
Kansas d Texas, has just come from trip
of inspection over the Katy, and he says that
crops are big all along the line, and that
over 20 COX, 900 bushels of wheat is being har.
vested in Texas this year. The state will
have 2,OOO, 900 bales of cotton.
The governor of Tennessee is met with this
article in the constitution of the state: The
militia shall not be called into service except
in case of resellion or invasion, and then
only when the general assembly shall declare
by law that the public safety requires IT.;
and is in trepldatlon about it.
The farmers about Hainesville, Sussex
county, N. j.. are much alarmed about q
disease that has caused the death of a num-
Der of valuable cows. The state inspector
pronounces it tuberculosis, and by his direc-
ton ten COWS have been killed. There are
grave apprehensions that the malady will
spread.
Tho Briceville, Tenn, war seems to be
over. The militia assembled at Knoxville
have been discharged and the men are going
homo. The miners committee and caszens
committee agreed that the convicts and their
guards should be returned to the mines and
not be disturbed; awaiting the action OF the
Legislature.
Government officials hold that the provi-
sions Of the law forbidding the importation
of lsborers under contract, itself provides
that skilled labor may be 80 imported to 30
employed in new industries in which this
country is deficient in skilled laborers. Thus
il in the interest of the tin factories now be-
ing established in this country.
Leading lawyers. including Chief Justice
Horton and Attorney General Ives, say that
the alien land law, passed by the last legis-
Iature, must be held to prohibit foreign cap
ital from holding any real estate in Kansas
for manufacturing purposes This cuts out
the big schemes which were about to mate
rialize at Kansas City, Kansas.
Sawyerville, Osceola county, Mich, con-
sistin9 of thirty houses, one genera! store,
large saw mill, single mill and lumber yard
was totally destroyed by fire. The entire
property is owned by the Cutler Savidge
Lumber company, of Spring Lake, Mich.
The loss is between $250,OOO and $4,000,
partly covered by insurance.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, con-
ferred with a committee of the Briceviiie
miners and proposed to them that he would
call Q special session of the Legislature and
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contractors the labor of convicts; the miners |
TO mbmit to the unemployment of the con:
victs at the mines until the Legislature shall
have taken action.