Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-12-19
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Dom Pedro was given royal funeral al
Paris and at Lisbon: many accompanying
tha remains to the latter capital. where they
were placed in the family vault
A oano of negroes compelled the night
agent at L,nwood, Ark, to give up two ex-
nress packages containing $500 and $2o.
They have not been caught.
Bushnell & Bushnell, real estate dealers OF
GUS investors to mourn their departure. They
failed for $500, 900; assets nominal.
President Hyppolite, of Hayt. has declared
a general amnesty to political Offenders;
which also reaches that class who were In
prison, setting them all at liberty.
Longs are equeezing shorts IN the grain
markets with December corn.
Governor Hogg. of Texas, has offered q re-
ward of 500 for each of the men VINO re-
Gently tarred and feathered J. a. Dean. the
alleged correspondent of the Kansas City sun.
Seventy-three miners lost their lives IN the
coal pits of ST. Etienne. France. 1t was
fete dav and but small number, compare
tively. of men were at work ut the time Of
the gas explosion.
dispatch from Vladivostock, Russia, says
thieves have robbed the government treas.
ury there of $4,000. The thieves entered
and escaped from the treasury by means Oh
an underground passage.
News comes from San Francisco tn the
relatives of Mrs. G. c. Williams, low
worth s75G. OOO, are fearful that she has been
hypnotized into marriage contract with LII.
q. w. Abbott, spirituahst.
The congregation of Mongolian missions
at Schent have received news confirming the
report that 500 native Christians have been
massacred in the Patton district, and that all
the Europeans there escaped.
At Single Springs CAL, Wells-Fargo
express Office was robbed at night by two
masked men, who COMPELLED the agent tc
give up the key of the safe. They got only
a watch and $50 in money.
The boiler of the Otterville, No., sawmil
burst, killing Henry Jennings and Sterling
Coe. The building was torn to pieces and
the plant entirely destroyed. The mill was
known as the chatham sawmill.
A barn on the dairy farm of Jacob Kicker,
in Nittany valley, Pa, was burned, with Its
contents. including seventeen COWS, hve
horses, three colts, 200 bushels of wheat, forty
tons of hay and ], 800 bushels OF corn.
collision occurred at Mountain Glen,
near Murphysboro, Ill, on the Mobile q
Ohio road, between freight train and con.
struction train. Three persons were Killed
and nine injured, one OF them fatally.
Governor Hogg, of Texas, has stated that
it ia his purpose to call an extra session OF the
Texas Legislature in the spring. The friends
of Mr.. Mills are active in promotion OF ms
election to the United States senate at that
time.
Louisville. Ky., has had another awful hire
and explosion, the loss of lives numbering
fourteen and the injured a greater nu'- Der.
both lists including some fremen. In one OF
the buildings destroyed were forty girls al
work wrapping candy.
This is the fifty-second congress, but only
thirty-two speakers have been chosen to pre-
side; Henry Clay was elected speaker SIX
times. and Blaine, Colfax. Randall, Carlisle
and Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina,
filled the Office three times each.
The New York Mail and Express publishes
a rumor that Mr.. Blaine has formulated let.
ter to be made public holiday week. in which
he sauarely refuses to be candidate before
the Minneapolis convention next June; anC
emphatically favoring the renomlnatlon o.
President Harrison.
An exploring expedition in southwestern
Mexico, looking for pass tor railroad
the Pacific coast, report finding in the noun
talns city of AZtecs, not before known. In:
explorer was not permitted to pass through
the canon, the only route of access: but wa
olindfolded, placed on mule, and after I
three days journey was left on the ocean
shore.
Russia is preparing to declare protector
ate over the Corean peninsula. the objec
being to secure seaport further south thar
Vladivostock, which is now Russia's mos
southern naval station on the Pacific. Por
Hamilton. which was occupied by the Eng
lish in 1886, and which has always been tn
objective point for powers hostile to Corea
has been selected by the Russians as nava
station.