Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-10
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The daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, Mrs.
Joseph Benton, aged 20 years, died at Rlch-
field Springs, n. T., recently.
Senator Plumb was sick on the I'd, SO as to
find Il necessary to deny himself to all Vlsl-
tors except his physician.
The old Wilkinson & Green mill at Provi-
dence, R. l., has been Quilted by fire; only
the walls remain. Loss, $125,OOO; fully IN
sured. The mill was built in 1913 and has
lately been run by the Dexter Yarn company.
Murders over claim contests are of fire.
ouent occurrence in Oklahoma. The last
reported is the killing by REPRESENTATIVE
Terrill. of Payne county, of q. w. Embree,
who had testified that Terrill was sooner.
Late advices from Caroline Islands state
that an era of instruction and bloodshed set
in among the native and Spanish troops
CHARTERED in this group.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley has taken to at
tending the theatre instead of going to hear
her husband lecture.
Keachi, a small town in Louisiana, was
struck by cyclone at a. N. OF January l:
The Masonic hall and pOstofhce and several
stores were demolished. The Spencer house
and several dwellings were more or less
damaged.
The North British Railway company is
now able to run full passenger service, and
fine freight business shows evidence of i'm
provement. The Caledonian company's
freight traffic is heavy. The strike Is de-
feated.
The original package case from Kansas
will now get its day in court, as the appoint
ment of Justice Brown completes full
bench; which the supreme court gave notice
would be awaited before arguments were
heard in the case.
Mrs. Woodwork, who has been long
time conducting meetings in Indiana, IN
which hypnotism is practiced, has recently
added miraculous cures. An old lady who
had worn clutches for many years obeyed
the order to 'Arise and walk"
New York's states prisons have suffered
by fire of late. First that at Auburn had
several of its shops and material for the same
burned. Then the new part of Clinton prison
burned with loss of $780, 600; leaving 80
prisoners to be otherwise provided for.
The troops of the Fourth cavalry, stationed
at Fort Meyer, Va, have received orders to
proceed to the front and 500 ''travel ratlons"
we're issued. 1t is understood that other
troops stationed in the division of the Allan
tic will also be sent west at once.
The proposal to colonize 100000 Russian
Jews in Argentine Repuolc, there TO MAKE
their livelihood by tilling the soil, perhaps
furnishes a feasible plan of escape from
Russian persecution, but whether the Jews
would make success as farmers is doubtful.
Clerks at Union Pacific headquarters at
Omaha are distressed by the circulation of a
report that there is very soon to be radical
reduction of salaries of clerical forces all
along the line. The order has been practi-
cally issued for reduction in wages of clerks
and agents amounting to from 10 to % per
cent.
Among the cases which the United States
court advanced on the docket, but announced
that it would not assign for argument on a
particular date until there was full bench,
are three or four suits brought by the ex-
press, sleeping car and telephone companies
against the state of Tennessee. The general
question at Issue with them is the constitu-
tionality of state laws imposing license taxes
on the agents of these companies, especially
when none but an interstate duty is per-
formed.