Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-08-15
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Lake freights from Chicago to Buffalo
have been advanced cents on grain.
Robert p. Murray is held at Louisville,
n.y., charged with the murder of a Sister OF
Mercy at Emporia, Kansas, some time ago.
At Comanche, Iowa, August 6, II. w.
Easty's saw mill and lumber yards. a miller's
residence and E. c. Lum's barns were burned.
Loss, s15O,0OO.
The Lockport, N. Y, aluminium works
have reduced the price of that metal to so
cents pound in ton lots. This puts it in
competition with copper.
The wholesale price of granulated sugar,
as result of cutting begun by Spreckles
and met by the sugar t.ust, is 1892 net per
100 pounds IN Philadelphia.
The Belfast Morning News, which has
hitherto supported Parnell. now declares that
public opinion is setting in the direction OF
the policy of Dillon and O'Brien.
The queen has prorogued parliament. In
her speech she referred to negotiations With
the United States about the seal fisheries,
and said that they were not completed.
The largest and longest rolls of tin plate
ever made are now produced at Apollo, Pa.
The plate is of the best steel full coated with
TIN, redipped. and is without a blemish.
In Honey county, Alabama, four negroes,
two men aud two women, were under arrest
on tie charge of arson, and while they we're
being taken to Jail mob shot the four to
death.
The Madrid (officia) Gazette publishes q
decree FORMULATING the new treaty between
the United States and SPAN in regard to
trade between the United States and Cuba
and Porto Rico.
It is understood at Washington that the
president has signed the papers in the ChOc-
taw and Chickasaw claim case and instructed
the treasury to issue warrants for the amount,
nearly s., 100000.
The Madrid Imperial says it learns that
President Ba'maceda,. of Chilli, and the lead
ers of the Gillian insurgents have appealed
to the Spanish government to act as arbi-
traitor and end the war.
Pork took a tumble in the Chicago gam
cling 6en, almost amounting to panic.
The drop was checked. however, when the
price had run down 80 cents on barrel.
Other pork products went down.
When the panic occurred in pork products
in Chicago all the grain pits got excited and
a general slump seemed certain for awhile;
falling tide, leaving betting prices only q
little lower.
very large portion of the S2O0oO,OOO OF
made up of halves. This is the lot which
Secretary Foster was so anxious to get rid OF
and about which he talked with the New
York bankers when he made his visit there.
A reported discovery at Eureka Springs.
Ark, of rich vein of silver at a depth OF
ten feet, running through solid rock, causes
local excitement. The mineral has been
found by assayers to be very rich, and the
development of the mine will follow at once.
The boiler makers strike in the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe shops, at Topeka, came
to an end as soon as the superintendent of
machinery returned. He says the strike
came about from misunderstanding; no
man is required to work over hours ii he
prefers not to do so.
Governor Thayer. of Nebraska, is at De-
troit; Lieutenant Governor Majors is away
somewhere, location unknown; President OF
the Senate Poynter threatens to assume the
Office in their absence and call an extra ses-
sion of the legislature. There is panic In
Lincoln in consequence.
The Weeks house, an old landmark OF
Palmer, Mass, has burned. There were
about thirty-five guests in the house and they
had barely time to escape in their night
clothes. Rev. Mr.. Williams, retired Con-
preeational minister, was burned to death.
The guests lost all their personal effects.
The Diario Centric America, printed in
Guatemala, claims that the family of the un-
fortunate General Barrundia, who was killed
aboard of Pacific Mail steamship in the
port of San Jose de Guatemala by soldiers,
has won its claim against the United States
{. AS a crowded passenger train on the Denver
d Rio Grande road was passing cut land
slide, nearly quarter of mile in length,
CO. of fna, koIy int
cut, sweeping the train from the track and
nearly burying portion of it. The passen-
gers were badly frightened. but luckily none
were injured.
The great flood at Melbourne stopped bust
ness and rendered 1900 people homeless.
Factories and railroad tracks and buildings
we're submerged. At least ten lives were lost.
In the interior washouts and floods did great
damage. great number of sheep were
drowned. Much sickness prevails, attributed
to exposure.
Thirteen Cheyenne Indians. Chief Old
Crow leading them, started for Walker lake,
Nevada, to see the Messiah. They hope to
induce him to come and annihilate the whites
faloes to come from the north and again
cover the prairies. The Messiah dancers are
everywhere to be seen and the Messiah craze
has not by any means ceased.
Yuma correspondent says a report
brought in by the Cocopah Indians states
that the earthquake on the Goth ult. resulted
in changing the course of the Colorado river.
It left its old bed and now flows through a
crevice forty feet wide and LOCO feet long.
The report is not generally believed, but one
result of the recent earthquake was the re-
newed activity of the volcanoes in the Coco
pah region. The earthquake also caused
great tidal wave at the head of the Gulf of
California.