Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-02-14
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Stanley denies the report of his giving
away jewels. Says ne knows nothing about It
1t is reported here that secret allianct
has been signed between Guatemala and
Honduras against San Salvador. Guatemala
is preparing for war and bringing her army
up to the standard required by law.
General Miles says of the stories IN Mrs
JEFF Davis book about her husband beng
abused by General Miles while a prisoner at
Fortress Monroe: ''There is not particle
OF truth In the statements made by her"
1t comes from good authority that the
president told California member that he
contemplated seriously of appointing John
F. Swift, of San Francisco, secretary of the
treasury. Swift is now minister to Japan.
A terrible blizzard has occurred in the
Dakatos; the worst since 2S8.
w. h. Mcbride, of Osborne, who was ap-
pc nted to succeed d. W. Wilder, as super
lntendent of insurance, received conhrma-
ton by the senate, he having 81 votes.
The Mckinley tariff act, according to M.
Berger. director of the late Paris exposition,
/ has chilled the zeal of French merchants in
regard to sending exhibits to the Chicago
| far.
Governor Humphrey has sent to the senate
for confirmation the name of Hon.W. II.
! Mcbride, of Osborne county, for the position
of state insurance commissioner to succeed
Hon. D. W. Wilder, whose term expires on
July l.
A car load of butter was ordered by tele-
graph from Milwaukee at p. M, left the
station at 7:30 the same evening and reached
Kansas City at 1875 next day. The run was
on regular freight schedule and was not spe-
cially pushed.
Frank Parmeiee, now "a years old, was
the first guest of the Grand Pacific hotel in
Chicago, II years ago. He has been regQ-
lar boarder ever since, never missing meal,
and has paid $50, 900 for his board bill dur
ing that time.
3 The Guild hall memorial of citizens of
London to the car in favor of more lenient
treatment of the Russian Jews was returned
to Lord Salisbury from ST Petersburg, with
out comment, through Baron Destaal, the
Russian ambassador.
The German government has definitely
abandoned the monopoly of the production
of KCchine, but measures are being prepared
for rigid state control of its sale and strict
supervision of its manufacture. So far as
received majority Of the official reports are
in favor of the treatment.
claim has been fled in the United States
general land Office in favor of the heirs of
the late DR.. Samuel Hugo, and it claims part
ownership to a part of capitol square at
Washington. If the claim holds good it in
wolves the ownership of the ground on which
stands the national capitol.
Five republican members of the New Mex
leo legislature were sitting in room in
Santa Ee, in the evening, when two men
rode up to the window an6 opened fire on
them with shotgun loaded with buckshot,
and q Winchester. One n1an was badly hurt.
Ten thousand dollars was promptly offered
for their arrest.
A terrible accident occurred at GAINESVILLE,
Pa, whereby seventeen men last their lives.
It occurred in a working beneath a worked
cut lead which was flooded; drilling CT a
hole through the pillar liberated the immense
body of water confined in the old workings,
which flooded the new workings and drowned
all the men IN that portion OF the mine.
A London correspondent affects to know
that Gladstone has given the required assur-
ances jUstifying Mr.. Parnell in retiring from
the leadership of his section of the Irish par
lament. Mr. Dillon, thecorrespondent adds,
will replace Mr.. Mccarthy as the leader of
the McCarthyites' section and will be selected
as leader of the reunited party.
A special to the Omaha Bee shows that a
number of lives were lost in Nebraska dur
Cummings, farmer near RushFille; Eddie
Chester, Steven st. Peters and the IA year
old Kearney boy were found frozen to death
in q corn field. l.. Eissent. of Chadron, is
supposed TO beiburied under the snow.
NJ. Jules Ferry, the new chairman of the
senate tariff committee of the French senate,
said recently that the protection spirit in the
United States had advanced the cause Of
protection in France. The temper of the
chamber and senate is more in favor of pro-
section at the present time than it was IN
1889, when the existing tariff was adopted
The glass of the White house is very fine,
and Intakes a great deal of it for the wines
which are used at the state dinners. A great
deal of the glass was manufactured in this
country, and a New York firm made fifty
dozen pieces at one time few years ago.
These were ordered early during Cleveland's
term, and-so of the articles have an Amer
'ican eagle cut upon them.
The ratification of the bargains made
with the Sac and Fox, and the Iowa Indians
does not give the right of settlement on their
lands until proclamation is made by the
president. This will not be done untiithe
Indians have selected their lands in severalty,
which will take several months. All who go
there viii be driven out, and such as stay
will be ''sooners" under the law and can
never acquire title.
A table giving the range of prices for the
bonds Of foreign governments. in the Lon
don markets during 1880, shows that the
lowest prices fer the United States fourrper
cents. was 1891 while the highest quotations
for the four per cent. gold bonds of Austro-
Hungary was SO. Italian five per cents.
never went above 974 or Spanish five per
cents over 70. Neither France, Germany
nor even Great Britain can sell bonds st
such prices as the United States can obtain
at any time