Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-03
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| FIRH.-Nine stores, q church. hotel and Q
residence ut Bradley, s. D., 10 burned. Los.
! $4,000
CxvEnMo.-Jesse Grant has gone from
San Francisco 10 New York to visit HE
mother and bring her back to Chicago TO
witness the unwilling of The statue of her
!! iilustrious husband.
FoR SwvDHe.-The president has appointed
Charles w. Endman. of Kentucky, to be
United States consul at Stockholm.
In SlxrY-EIGHr DAys.-A letter sent from
Mauch Chunk. Pa, TO Calcutta via Queens
town and Immediately mailed back to Mauch
Chunk via Hong Kong and San Franciscn.
made the circuit of the globe in sixty-eight
, days.
MISSION HORSES BURNEp.-Latest advices
from IchlnR. China, state that the mission
houses of both Catholic and Professionals were
! plundered and burned. The damage to
property 10 estimated at 100000.
Co1Lls1ox.-An express train running he
tween Bueugos and San Sebastian, Spain.
collided with combined goods and passen-
ger tram. Fourteen people were killed and
twenty-four injured.
ExPLos1oN.-Durine feast day celebra-
ton near Newark, n. j., a cannon exploded,
killing and woundlrg a number of persons.
The number of killed and wounded will
reach twenty.
TIE THIRD.-Governor Morehouse was the
third of Missouri's governors to commit sui
eide. Governor Thomas Reynolds shot
himself while in Office in 1874. and Gov
ernor Thomas C. Reynolds killed himself in
st. LOUIS q few years ago by jumping down
an elevator shaft in the governments building.
ELEVATOR BURNED.-The large grain eleva-
tor of Gregg Bros, at st. Joseph, Mo-. 10
burned to the ground. It was we'll loaded
with grain and the loss will be between $7O,-
600 and $1O0. 1000. covered by insurance. Four
were also destroyed.
MISERABLE LocAT1oN.-The town site of
Chandler, o. T.. is said to be q miserable
location; in rocky, bluffy land, cut up with
deep ravines.
LOUISIANA ScHooIs.-Of the 80, 226 child
rem of school age in Louisiana, only &, 900
attend the public schools, and many of those
60 but for one month.
CHoLERA.-Cholera is spreading in Asiatic
Turkey. In one day Mecca and Minam lost
405 of their population by the epidemic.
PRAcT1C1Na WAR.-Russian troops are
practicing forced night marches and other
night maneuvers across the rive. Prush, on
the Roumanian frontier, with the aid of
electric lights. The Roumanian government
has become alarmed at these warlike demon
STATIONS. Consequently it is also concen-
trating troops on its frontier and has ordered
force of Roumanian cavalry to Upper Mol
davia.
FIRES CHEcKED.-Specials from ten differ
ent towns in northern Wisconsin say the rain
Thursday night checked the forest fires.
EATING CH1LDREN.-There are stories afloat
OF parents eating their children in Mini
Noveorod. The authorities in many places
are levying tax on laborers wherever they
obtain work.
DISTRESS INCREAsING.-The distress among
Russian peasants is increasing. Potatoes
are failing in many districts and a new in.
sect, known as the sooka. more destructive
to corn than the Hessian fly, has appeared.
The whole population of some villages in
Astrakan are dying of starvation. The doc
tors prescribe corn instead of medicine.
REJECT OcALA-The Georgia alliance leg
islature defeated resolutions approving the
Ocala platform by vote of 81 to 63.
ILLINOIS DRoUTH.-A Bloomington dis
patch says: The grass is burning up and
some of the farmers are beginning to feed
their stock. The streams are nearly all to-
tally dried up and gone. The dust lies from
an inch to three inches deep on the streets
and county roads. The leaves are falling
from the trees prematurely. Such heat and !
drought combined are not remembered by |
the oldest inhabitants.