Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-04-04
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Ex-Governor Robinson, of New York, is
lead.
Five young Irish women were naturalized
| the other day at Kansas City. Kansas, so as
to vote at the city election. They are said to
be five as neat appearing, pretty, rosy girls
as ever get together.
| A Springfield, Mo-, republican paper has
been sold and becomes democratic; demo-
cratic paper at Sedalia has been said and be-
comes republican.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
road, ], 200 miles in length, has now been IN
operation twenty years, and it is stated OIL
cially that there has never been passenger
killed on that system.
The last $4,000 AZ per cent bonds come
due September 1. The government is ready
to pay them now.
With growing doubt as to the emperor's
callow wisdom being poor substitute Tor
| the ex-chancellor's genius and experience,
the national sentiment reawakens toward
Bismarck.
DR.. Howard Crosby died at his home in
New York Sunday, March %. of pneumonia
He was 60 years old in February last. He
had been pastor of Fourth Avenue Presbyte-
rian church in New York since 1863.
Surveying parties are leaving Washington,
in the employ of the international railway
commission, to determine the route OF the
proposed railway to South America. Their
first work is to be done in Guatemala.
Dispatches from New Mexico report
great deal of distress among cattle, sheep
and other live stock in that territory. The
weather has been cold and the ground is COW
cred with snow, so that the sheep can't eat.
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L. Couch, the boomer leader, over disputed
claim near Oklahoma City, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree by jury
of the United States district court in session
at Wichita.
A dispatch from Washington says it is
known to be fact that ex- Representative
Carter, of Montana, has been offered the
commlssionership of the general land office,
to succeed Croft, resigned. Carriers friends
think ne will accept.
From this side of the Atlantic it does not
seem much for the British government to
brag of, that 5000 Irishmen are given relief
work at S1.75 a week in money or IN meal.
Here we pay laborer almost as much as
that for days work.
The British linen industry, according to
last summers returns of the board OF trade,
paws average annual wages of $121.66. The
the state bureau of labor statistics, shows
average annual earnings of S3O2.29.
In New York the board of railroad COM
missioners is recognized as an executive de-
partment of state. All laws passed by the
legislature that refer to railroads are referred
to this board by the governor, for their ex-
animation and report, before they are signed
by him.
The Arkansas house of representatives was
the scene of knock down and an attempt to
shoot, between the state coal oil inspector
and railroad president while in the hall.
Representatives fell over each other in trying
to get out of range, and as order could not
be restored the house was declared adjourned.
Scotch crofters to the number of 100, who
had been evicted from their homes on the
northermost of the Hebrides islands, In or
der to make room for deer preserve. have
returned to their ruined homes and have en-
trenched themselves there, with the deter
mination to resist by force any effort to GUST
them.
On dit. Andrew Carnegie to get out of the
iron business: become president to the Baltl-
more g. Ohio railroad, and, by building GER
tain wanting links to parallel with that
road the Pennsylvania's lines from Baltl-
more to Chicago; shortening the distance |
seventy-ive miles between Pittsburg and
Chicago.
England has war on its hands in South
America. An old unsettled dispute concern
ing the boundary line between Venezuela
and British Guiana has brought on an appeal
to arms The disputed territory is about the
size of the state of New York and contains
many dissatisfied adherents of each dlsput-
ants, many of them being native Indians.
l.. J. Worden, of Lawrence, Kansas, re-
publican politician since the party was or
ganiZed, a state senator four years and post |
master at Lawrence eight years, has lost his |
mind so as to become violently crazy. 1t Is
said that financial troubles is the cause. Mr.. |
Worden never had children, but has wife |
who has been his companion for many years.
The Earl of Derby owns more drinking |
places than any other English peer. He has |
seventy-two of the places to his credit or dis |
credit, while the next largest owner is the
Earl of Bedford, with forty-eight grog shops. |
The Duke of DevonshIre Is but one behind |
Bedford, and so it goes through list of 152 |
peers, who own 1, 529 places where liquor Is |
sold and drank.
A Chicago dispatch says: A careful esti-
mate justifies the statement that nearly ESQ., |
GOO people in this city are under medical
treatment. Every branch of business Is
crippled by the prevailing sickness. The
present epidemic of the grip Is as bad as |
season of cholera, so far as the number OF
people affected is concerned. Every doctor
is overrun with business.
A stampede occurred in religious meet
ing IN an opera house at Springfield, Ohio.
A Miss was overcome by the heat of the
crowded house and tainted. This created
sensation, and during the excitement some
one in the gallery cried Sire" Many were in
jured in the jam at the entrances. A preacher
commenced singing ''Nearer My God to
Thee" in which many joined, an0 this Quoted
tho tI1mult