Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-01-23
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Pronounce It Ar-ka-lon, with the aecnt ON
sound.
Influenza is rapidly spreading IA AGthem
Italy. Four hundred cases were reported in
Leghorn, and people are greatly alarmed.
The mortality from the disease is very heavy.
During fire in the Sunday school building
at Calvary Episcopal church in Pittsburg,
Pa, the roof fell in, carrying with i NUM-
Der OF firemen. Several are reported killed
and injured.
About 81, O00, 900 in dollars, halves, quar-
tens and dimes, now being coined frsm &C
cumulations of mutilated and unculrent coins
IN the treasury, are beginning 70 b distrib-
uted.
Monseigneur Magnasco, arehh6hop of
Genoa, Italy, Is dead; of influenza.
A long continued rain raised The Alabama
river at Montgomery thirty-6ve feet, and at
that stage was still rising half . feot an hour.
Gas works, railroads and many cabins are
flooded.
At several primaries in Philadeiphia reso-
buttons were adopted instructing delegates to
the Minneapolis June convention t. support
the nomination of James 6. Blaine for the
presidency.
Members of congress of both parties are
getting excited over the Developments OF the
investigation of the Valparaiso inoide1t and
talk speedy action to enforce suitable repara-
ton by Chill.
dispatch from Rome says that 10 eoinci-
dence of the deaths of Cardinals Simeoni and
off, oko1k h1
claimed: ~ feel that my hoE , 80 ap-
preaching"
Reports from northern veynsaA Asv the
rural sections to be suffering from severe at
tacks of Ia grippe. Many families are pros
trated BY it. and there has been remarkable
mortality among aged persona
The results of artificial irrigatiea IA Mon
tana have been most encouraging. 0vertwo-
thirds of the farms of that state are supplied
with water by artificial means, and they have
developed high degree of fertility.
Henry l. Preston, editor Of the Kansas
City Sunday Sun has been indicted and ar
rested. Tho penalty in Missouri for publish
ing or selling q publication of the character
of the Sun is from two to five years IN PRISON.
The two Kansas City, Mo-, fires Sunday
left the ruins festooned with icicles, and the
streets a mass of ice; the water at enc time
being four feet deep in places. Some OF the
fremen's trucks had to be chopped cut OF the
ice next day.
The New York World, in an article about
Senator Plumb, calls him George B. Plumb
all through it. New York Newspaper writer's
are getting to be about as Ignorant eoncern-
ing Americans as the London newspapers
have always been.
The Dearborn building in Kansas City, No.,
10 burned. The building and all OF its occu-
pants suffered losses, which are covered by
scattered insurance; no one company beng
heavily concerned.
The infantry companies now stationed at
Fort Reno, o. T., have been ordered to Texas
for service. It is presumed they ere to take
part in the troubles on the Rio Grande. The
Fifth cavalry is expected to take up the march
for Texas at any moment.
On the London stock exchange business
has been notably contracted. The fact that q
remarkable number of members are suffer-
ING from influenza retarded dealings. The
general tendency was downwards, yet several
American railroad securities advanced.
The collier San Matoe has been chartered
at San Francisco to take coal from Nanaimo
to Chill. The captain of the collier states
that the United States government has char
tered the vessel and has ordered him TO get
Victoria has announced that the funeral OF
the duke would be state affair and that IT
would be held in st. Georges chapel WIND
marriage of the duke to the Princes Victoria
Mary was to have taken place on February
81 next.
Halifax is experiencing the most extraor-
binary weather in its history. No snow has
fallen 80 far and there have been but one or
two cold DAYS. It was as mild as spring
day and ram fell. The unusual weather Is
the cause of q great deal of tbs prevailing
sickness.
An Enplishrnan in Washington has started
a subscription among English ship owners to
raise the required amount to send donated
provisions from this country to Russia 1t
viii be remembered that the lower house OF
congress refused to allow governments YES
sci to carry that cargo.
The heavy snowfall in the north q Ireland
has greatly impeded traffic. At Tyrone
funeral procession became lost in the storm,
and after many fruitless attempts On the part
of those taking part in it to find out where
thew were the horses became exhausted and
it was found necessary to abandon the hearse
in snowdrift.
General Schofield says that the latest re-
ports from General Stanley, commanding
the department of Texas, indicated that Car
za's band was badly scattered and nearly dis
organized; the men were hiding in the chap
paral and that United States troops were close
on the trail of Cara, with reasonable e1pec-
tations of capturing him.
An academy in Montreal burned day or
two since. It is conducted by the Providence
nuns, and there are over 800 children in the
institution. The flames spread rapidly and
the greatest confusion reigned. The nuns
had the utmost difficulty in preventing a
panic. The fremen finally succeeded in get
ting all the nuns and pupils safely eat OF the
building. The loss will be heavy.
GENEKAL MARkEE%