Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-12
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Wheat gamblers in Chicago have been on
big tare again. the shorts going wild to get
under cover, and trades reached $1.A
Missouri court has decided that woman
WHO was elected county superintendent of
schools IL not eligible, because she is woman.
One of the bank robbers at Corder, near
Higginsvilfe, Mo-, was captured, hung and
| rr0.ed by bullets. He was left hanging,
covered with blood, in PLAIN sight of passen-
CERT trains.
Madrid dispatch says: An.express train
coiiided with luggage train near Medina
del Campo on the Northern railway. Eight
carriages were wrecked and forty-eight peo-
pie were injured.
A thief drove to q church in Springfield,
Mo-, and told the janitor he bad been sent
| for the organ to repair it. He took it to .
music dealer and traded it for q gold watch
and some money.
Excursions eastward are arranged for from
points in Texas, Colorado, Kansas ana Mis-
souri,. to Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Tick
cts will be on sale September q, one fare
for the rouno trip.
The Dalton boys were seen IN the lower
part of tho Sac and Fox reservation. They
were probably making for their fastness in
the Creek mountains. No deputy marshals
or posses were in pursuit
The New York correspondent of the Lon
don, England, Dry Goods Record writes:
production to a prodigious extent, and there
has been no advance IN prices"
Secretary Noble has directed the payment
to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians, of
South Dakota, of 1916, 578, less 10 per cent.
involved in the Sanborn claim, under atreaty
confirmed by the act of March 3, 1891.
great coal oil beds in the region of the Cas-
plan sea. The production of these fields il
said to be more than ten fold greater than
that OF any other existing oil territory.
A steamer belonging to the Union Pacific
company, and plying between American ports
and Victoria, B. c., has been seized by D.
s. revenue cutter and its officers held on the
charge of smuggling Chinese into this coun-
try.
Jay Gould was at Fort Scott September 2
and assured the citizens that he intended to
put on another train to Kansas City, running
by way of Chetopa and Minden through Fort
Scott, which would be through line from
the south.
In case from Garfield county the Kansas
supreme court has decided that contested
election cannot be settled by bargaining
among the candidates. The will of the PED
10 Oh ho fhn hoS m
of contests.
The question of the disposition of the refu-
gees on board foreign ships OF war, IN Cn,n ia
United States steamer Baltimore and Ger
man man. of war left for Peru with the refu-
gees on board.
The proposals recently received at the trea-
sury department for the construction OF the
government building at the Columbian expo
sition will probably pe rejected and propo-
sails invited for the construction of build
ing of a less expensive character.
Malcontents and exiles from Hayti are
gathered at Kingston, Jamaica, and rumors
are afioat that they are prepared to move on
Port au Prince, President Hypolite's capital.
Foreign residents of that place are removing
their families to places OF greater safety.
The town hall at Pressburg, Hungary, has
been blown to atoms by the explosion OF gas
ol,ue stored in the basement; used for the
Manufacture of gas for the building. 1t
occurred at time when the hall was not
occupied, 30 only three persons were injured.
Mrs, Mary Salisbury, aged 102 years, died
at her home near Buckingham, MINI. Her
husband, Daniel Salisbury, who is 10S years
old, has been sick for over week and Is rap
idly sinking. They had been married eighty
years, having been married January 6, ISL
They had no children.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times SAYS that Russia has purchased with
the so-called Appanage fund as many Sue2
canal bonds as could be procured In order 70
acquire influence at the company's meeting
40 as, at the opportune moment, to turn the
scale in favor of the French element.
Louis Bulling, the cowardly murderer of
his girl wife at st. Joseph, Mo-, was hung ct
Savannah. just before he was taken to the
scaffold, .and while in his cell with minister,
he shot himself twice. How he got the pistol
ia not known. The minister is under arrest.
BullinQ was carried out believing and bleed
ing, and hung.
A marty of officials, sent to kill animals in
fected with disease, in order to prevent the
disease from spreading, was attacked q
Maikop, Russia, by crowd OF lnha6ltante:
A detachment of Cossacks, ordered to queu
Gn0
If stones, The Cossacks then fired volley,
killing seventeen persons and woundlns
many Others.
The president has appointed John s. Dur;
ham, Kentucky, minister resident and consul
general to Hayti. Mr.. Durham is now con.
sul to San Domingo and is colored man OF
Education and ability. This transfer was
made also on account of the necessity of dis
patch, owing to the presence of yellow fever
and revolutionary troubles.
In compliance with instructions from
President Gross retrenchmentsi in the working
force of the Missouri, Kansas d Texas rail-
Way have begun. At Sedalia, Mo-, thirty
two men were discharged at the car shops.
AZ Denison Tex, reductions occurred in sew
eral departments, over 100 men being dis
CHARGED. These dismissals will be made all
along the line.
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