Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-03

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Hurried Readers.
The funeral Of Hon. W. 1. Scotk At Erie.
Pa. W. attended bY ox-P President Cleveland,
odcials Of tho Psnnsylvania railway. and
oehae prominent msn.
Ths Southern sNebroska n. Z. confluence
voted In favor of TIE admission OF women q
delegates TO the general conference BY vote
of 81 for and q against
Il 10 reported from Rome that no moro
American cardinals will b appointed at
present Six of tho new cardinals will b
Italians and one Hungarian.
Tho Sovereign grand lodge, L Q. q. r,
convened at St Louis September u. 1t y
said to b one of tho most numerousiy at-
tended gatherings of its kind.
Leadvine bad fall of snow ON Septem-
her a
Iowa's corn crop is reported safe, and tho
amount harvested will reach 800 00Q. 600 BUSH
eis, including all drawbacks.
Parts of the skeletons of elephants, includ-
ing tusks, have been found IN the western
part OF Galesbur9, H.; ton feet below tho
surface, next bed Of gravel.
The governments of tho United States,
Great Britain, France and Germany have
arranged to act q one in protecting the per-
sons and property of either nation in China.
The London and Westminster bank of
London, England, was robbed of packages
Of bank notes of something like q million
dollars. The robbery was in business hours.
English goods have been imported IN great
quantities through Persia into Russia; the
goods bearing Persian marks. Russia il now
figuring to get Persia to stop this smuggling.
A work train on the Pittsburg 4 Western
road. at McKim's Landing, killed nine Ital-
ians and injured many more. The engineer,
John Houghton, was the only American
killed.
In the 351 towns and cities of Massachu-
setts 248 now have free public libraries, and
the state has lately provided aid for the 10S
libraries.
The racing stables at the fair grounds at
Dallas, Texas, and private stables near by.
horses lost their lives, amepg them the trot-
ting horse Wilkes.
A Mexican woman who is said to be los
years old has filed her final entry for 100
acres of land in Stanislaus county, Cal. She
is hale and hearty and the mother of twenty 4
five children.
ment com pany of st. Louis has lost its 'tfire
proof" five story building, full of imple-
ments and machinery, by fire; loss $15O, 600,
insurance 100000.
The Plant Milling company's mill and
warehouse, at st. Louis, which has made
flour for thirty years, Is burned down, with
1000 barrels of flour; loss $3.50, 200, nearly
covered by insurance.
The board of home missions of the Re-
formed church held Its annual session at
Lancaster, Pa. The treasurer's report showed
q balance of $2,528.49 in the general fund
and s., 643 in the building fund.
Prairie fires sweeping over the Dakotas,
stacks, villages and stock; lorna
does tumbllnx over other property not in the |
trail of the fires, make trouDl0us tunes for |
people on those northern plains.
It is now Enthusiastically asserted, and |
proof offered, that Tascot Is now with the |
Turtle Mountain Indians, B. c., where he |
went from Winnipeg and Joined the lndiaLs, |
adopted their customs and married squaw. |
It has been over month since rain of any |
has fallen at Vandalia, Ill. Pas. |
lures are completely burned up and wells |
have gwen out. Farmers are hauling water |
aud feeding stock. Dust in public highways |
is ankle deep.
The announcement in London and in New
York that the Missouri Pacific dividend was |
likely to be deferred caused furry IN both
Itock markets. rally soon occurred, and
IN London the advance in American stocks
ranged from 4 to ~.
A government surveying party which has
been fourteen years on q survey line begin
ming at Sandy Hook, has just reached Kansas
City. The party has never made more than |
thirty miles in q month; as the work Is
doubled. checked and proven every ten miles.
At Jacksonville. Fla, an all night revival
Meeting was being held by q negro church,
when the gas fickered awhile and went out.
panic resulted, and rush to the outside
TILED one girl, fatally injured three more,
INJURED.
The extraordinary high tides have done
.reat damage to Wostmoreland county, New |
brunswick. Many thousands of acres are
overed to a depth of five feet. The country
round Moncton, the headquarters of the In
srcolonial railway, looks like vast sea.
thousands of acres are under water at Sack
lille and Mamramcock.
Dom Pedro is reported to be deeply disap-
ointed by the emphatic refusal of the Bra
lllan congress to grant him leave to live In r
'razil. The emperor's devotion to that
ountry is touching, and visitors say that {
,ars come into his eyes every time Brazil 10 :
Mentioned in his presence. All that he asked
'as the privilege of dying in Brazil and this
rs been refused HIM.
James C. Carlisle, Q member of the last {
[lssouri legislature. representing st. Joseph,
.ys that lit had been definitely settled By |
70 democratic leaders. az q conference held
| st. Louis recently, that Morehouse was to
Q the next democratic nominee for governor,
nd a the nomination for that Office 10 equal | I
, election Albert p. Morehouse would have
zen the next governor OF Missouri had be I
Of cut his own throat"
GENERAL MAKkEr% ~
KANSAS CRY. September g.
steers 90 @ Is
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