Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-07-18

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Near Atus, Ark, twelve persons were poi
soned at picnic. Some of them fatally.
A flibuster party Is being recruited in Viz
ginia with some indications that Its object u
| to join some existing or to Be revolution on
some part of the shore of the Gulf of Menco.
A grasshoppsr parade halted upon the
Rock Island railroad tracks in Colorado and
| the engine could not make its friction drivers
stick to the rails. So the hoppers held mp
| the train.
Tho Iowa railroad commissioners have
ruled in the case of the citizens of Selma
| against the Rock Island that the cabooee OF
freight trains must be made to stop st depot
platforms in that state.
The trial has commenced OF ex- State Tfea-
surer Noland, of Missouri, in the circuit
court at Jefferson City. He is an embezzler.
In the case of the townsite of Norman VI.
B. 8. Blakeney, involving land in Oklahoma
City district, decision of commissioner ID
affirmed and Blskeney's application to enter
the tract - homestead denied.
The Missouri state board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners hes reduced rates
on wheat from Missouri river points to st.
Louis from 1 to Q cents per 100 POUNDS. &C
cording to the varying conditions governing.
The reduced rates are to be put into effect a
eOOn "a Dr0ctic0blo
Jews to the number of about 800 left Lith-
uania (Russian PoIand) last week. The
police Of Smolensk ordered them to embraces
orthodoxy, but the Jews assembled in the
synagogue and vowed that they would NOT
abandon their faith. They then sold their
houses ana in two days left the country.
The farmers organizations now apparently
feel in position to make demands calcu-
lated to yield pecuniary profits to the agri-
cultural classes, and they propose to begin
with gigantic combination in wheat. Cir
culars are being mailed TO every member
advising Withholding wheat from market un-
til the best prices are offered.
Fire at Jennings, Mich, licked up the
lumber piles as though they were finder un-
til there was nothing left to feed their fury.
Before the flames had died out, 1000, 600
feet of lumber, the immense planning mill
and eighteen dwellings we're reduced to ashes.
The total loss is placed at 100000. The IN
surance announced to only $4,000.
A strip two miles wide and thirty-five miles
long, on the west line of Beaver county, Ok.
T., NO Mans -Land) has been, by deci-
sion of the interior department., declared to
be in New Mexico. The 103d meridian, the
boundary line, has been three times surveyed
and they each vary from the other two. The
decision referred to establishes the line as
herein stated.
Fitzgerald and Mallory have been sued by
the Kansas & Colorado Railway company
(the Mo. Pac.) for S3,0OO,00O, for fraudu-
lently obtaining control of the road and con-
verting to their own use money subscribed
by towns and counties in aid of the road.
They ask for an accounting, and that the
contract giving the defendants certain stocks
and bonds be set aside.
The execution of the four men at Sing
Sing 10 declared to have been perfectly sue
cessful and without any of the horrors at
tending the execution of Murderer Kemmler
at Auburn prison. The first victim to take
his seat in the electrical chair was Slocum;
he was put to death at 4:42 a. m. Next came
Smller, who died at 5:13. Wood was number
three at 5:431 and Jugigo followed at 6O9.
Lieutenant Macdonald of the Sixth cav
airy has been ordered to proceed to Ft. Ben
nett, OAK, and there organize into a mill
tsry company q body of Sioux Indians.
Most of the redskins were hostlles in the In
dian war of last winter, and their leader Is
the wiley Chef Hump, who heretofore has
been considered a very dangerous Indian.
Now, however, Hump is willing to become
soldier.
The villagers in the slope of Mount Vesu-
vius are abandoning their homes and vine
yards, fearing that one of the greatest erup-
tons in the history of the mountain is inn
pending. It is the opinion of Italian scien-
lists that the earthquakes affecting the PENN
sula will increase In violence until VeSuvlus
breaks out in serious eruption, and that
then the earthquake visitations will for the
present subside.
The northern peninsula of Michigan is
having terrible experiences with forest fires.
There has been no rain for over three months
and tho country is in q similar condition to
that during the dreadful fire OF 1873, when
hundreds of people persisted all through The
north. The sun is obscured, breathing Is dif-
icult and 90 dense is the ar with smoke that
st. Marys river is navigated with difficulty
resulting in the grounding of five boats.
General Daniel e Sickles, who visited
Tennessee just before the Baltimore conven-
ton Of 1854 on private mission for Presl-
dent Lincoln, denies the statement now be-
ing made that his visit had reference to An
drew Johnson's candidacy for the vice presi-
dency. Sickles says he went to view, and
report to the president, the manner OF john
sons work as military governor OF Tennes-
see, and to influence johnson to conform
more fully with Linboln's views in that re-
gard, but that that there was no suggestion
of johnson for the place of wee president.
Col. A. K. Mcclure, of the Philadelphia |
Times, took the occasion Of the death OF
n ~. awkG hat