Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1891-01-29

The silver bill as passed by the senate
free coinage measure, pure and simple.
Members OF the Kansas city division of
the Chicago Milwaukee d st. Paul railway
operators, say they will not join the strike
ordered.
Troops at Pine Ridge are to be gradually
withdrawn and returned to their former
posts. General Miles leaves there for Chi
cago in day or two.
Lieutenant James =. Mann. Seventh cav
airy. has died at Fort Riley. He was wound
ed at the battle Of Wounded Knee creek,
South Dakota, December p.
The Duke of Bedford killed himself with
Rpistol shot through the heart. 1t was kept
secret for several days. but the coroners
inquest revealed the truth.
The American National bank of Kansas
City, Mo-. one of the largest banks IN the
west. has failed.
Ia terrible explosion of fire damp occurred
in colliery at Ja~inowata, near the city OF
Charkow. in European Russia. Over lUo
OF the miners were killed.
Governor Tillman. of South Carolina,
charges that General Miledge L. Bonham, a
son of the late Governor Bouham, Is de-
faulter TO the amount OF about S5,Uu.
Chief Justice Fuller has announced that
Justice Brown had been assigned to the Sixth
circuit. This was the circuit Of the late JUS
tice Matthews, and is the one from which
Justice Brown was appointed.
The lower house of the Nebraska legisla-
ture passed a resolution urging the govern
ment to take steps to assume control OF the
Union Pacific railway.
The Louisiana Lottery company seems to
be on its last legs. Two hundred shares OF
Its stock were hawked about New Orleans
last week with no takers at price Just half
of that quoted last spring.
Aluminium is being produced by various
new processes 80 that it can ne sold AT SIS
per pound 1t will soon come IN competi-
ton with zinc, TN and copper: as well as
steel for some purposes.
run was made on the South Omaha
branch of the Nebraska Savings and EX-
change bank. The cause for the run Is not
known. The bank was kept open until
late hour to pay all depositors IN full.
The Brotherhood of Engineers will support
the strike on the Chicago & Ere. The strk-
ers are firm in their demand that Train Dis
patcher Scott be reinstated long enough 20
allow him to resign honorably.
As details are received the extent of dam
age done 10y the rains. floods and wind in
New England, New York and PENNSYLVANIA
Is appalling. Roads, bridges. dams, build
ings, are everywhere reported destroyed.
1t is said that ''Old Hutch.'' the veteran
Chicago board of trade gambler, has lost SO
much of his millions that he has but a single
million left, and that his son and other
friends have influenced him to stop trading.
General Lees birthday was celebrated
throughout Virginia by general suspension
of business. professions, speech making and
II. D..l. e
flag was displayed in addition to nther bunt-
ing.
A medium told Brockton. Mass. wife
and mother that her husband was keeping
company with other women. She gave her
three children each death dose and drank
of the same herself. 1t is expected that all
will die.
The towns of Gouraya and Vile Bourg,
Algeria. were practically destroyed by earth
quake shocks and forty persons were killed
by the falling of walls. The amount of
damage done to property is estimated at
$4,000.
The total collections of internal revenue
during the first six months of the present
fiscal year show an excess of S6.619,662 as
compared with the collections during the
corresponding period of the previous fiscal
year.
4 Horton, Kansas. had bad fire January Is
which destroyed most of a block of build
Ings. general store, a dry goods store a
drug store, the Horton bank and the Com
mercial printing Office are in the list. The
total loss is said to be over 100000.
Several hundred deuded negroes have
reached Atlanta bearing with them cards en-
htling them to 90 To Africa via Savannah
for 81 head. The Williams who are working
up this scheme for percentage are hard to
get at, but they are demoralizing colored la
Dor.
The binding Irvine trust is likely to be
more or less crippled 10y a device patented
by a DeS Moines man who manufactures |
Irvine from ordinary slough grass. The Ali |
Ance Irvine company has been organized |
there with capital of 100000 to engage in |
Its manufacture.
At Findlay. Ohio. an explosion of gas
which had collected in an old cistern under |
the dining room of the Marvin hotel, the |
finest in Findlay, wrecked the rear wing of
the building. ling one person. seriously in
iurlng several osherS and causing a damage
to the property of probably $4,000.
1t is announced As certain that a number
of government troops in Chilli have already
Joined the insurgent forces with their arms
and baggage. This has tended TO raise the
spirits and expectations of the insurgents,
who are preparing 10 take vigorous action.
So far the insurgents seem to be gaining
ground.
Warden Case. of the Kansas state peniten-
hary, has shipped six car loads of peniten-
tary coal to the sufferers in the northwest
ern part of the state. The coal went to Raw
Inns. Sherman. Cheyenne, Logan, Decatur
and Norton counties. Additional coal is
ready for shipment at once on the receipt
of orders.
The Iowa railroad commissioners received
dispatch from Anamosa, Iowa, saying that
the Chicago. Milwaukee 4 St. Paul railroad
have notified the citizens of towns in SYM
patty with the strikers that unless they re-
.inqulsh their sympathy the stations at such
places will be permanently closed. The COM
missioners are investigating.
A tremendous explosion shook the build
ings at the corner of Twenty-first and Cum
ing streets, and when the smoke cleared
away it was discovered that the old frame
building occupied by Klein & Speigel as
wholesale liquor store, was completely de-
molished, together with a S12,0 stock of
liquors. In the runs the body of an old un-
known man was found burned to crisp.
The cause of the explosion is unknown.
GENERAL MARkETS.