Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-02-27
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An extra session of the Texas legislature
has been called for March IA.
| Dallas, Tex, il crushed by the fight of its
Every body and every interest, real estate and
other, are losers, and all figuring out results
individually.
Twelve to sixteen feet of snow has fallen in
the eastern and central Alps. The stasm ex-
tended over Austrian-P Poland and the Tyrol.
Destruction by avalanches is almost certain
| to follow.
The grip is playing havoc with the Chero
KEGS. just east of the Usage agency. Within
| a radius of ten miles of Skiatook, twenty-five
have died within the last six weeks and it is
still spreading.
An alleged process by which calf skin can
| be transferred into frst-class leather in ten
hours is the basis upon which a syndicate is
| endeavoring to get control of all the tanneries
| in this country.
There is general feeling among the job
bling grocers along the Missouri river in favor
| ing rates on sugar, &C., in the courts and it
| Is gaining ground daily.
The Geary anti Chinese bill, to absolutely
| prohibit the coming of the Chinese into the
United States has been ordered favorablv re-
ported to the house by majority of the for
eign relations committee.
The reciprocity commissioners from Can
ada have had several interviews with Secre-
tary Blaine. They were accompanied by the
British minister resident, Sir Julian Paunce-
fote. The Canadians have now gone home.
The Trans-Missouri Freight association is
Dragging that the railroad commissioners of
Kansas were hoodwinked by the railroaders
when the late settlement was agreed upon be-
tween them and the Kansas wholesale men.
We shall see.
According to advices from Egypt civil war is
raging in Khartoum and vicinity. Cherif, the
claimant of Khaliphate is said to have been
victorious in some battles against Abdallah,
chief of the Baggara tribe. Khassala is re-
ported depopulated.
The Missouri legislature, now in special ses-
sion, before making appropriation for re-
building the state university, which was
burned at Columbia, will decide upon the
site where it shall be rebuilt. Columbia
seems likely to loose it.
In the United States court at Jefferson,
Ark the trial of the case of D. Frank Fore
against the Pacific Express company for So
600 damages for alleged false imprisonment
was concluded, and resulted in a verdict for
the defendant, the jury being out less than
five minutes.
Senior Mendoza Cortes. ex-minister and a
eer of the kingdom of Portugal, who held
the Office of president of the Lusitano bank,
has been arrested on warrant signed by the
minister of justice. Frauds are charged in
connection with the railway employees pen
sion fund. -
In the bluffs of small creek, in a billy
portion of country near Lathrop, Mo-, gold
bearing sand, in paying amounts have been
found while digging two wells, nearly one
mile apart. The gold bearing sand is fifteen
feet thick, the heaviest deposits OF gold being
in the lower part of it.
The mail service between England and the
Continent is generally delayed by the storm.
The air is so thick with snow that it is scarcely
possible to see boats length away, and a
tremendous sea Is sweeping up the channel.
The captains of the packets will not venture
out until the storm abates-
France has at last been sensible enough to
repeal the law exiting the Bonaparte family,
and the ex-Empress Eugene will speedily
take advantage thereof to visit watering
place on the Mediterranean. What deal OF
history has been made since she came,
lovely young girl, from Spain!
Lightning struck the glazing mill of the
Lafiin-Rand powder works. situated four and
one-half miles north of Columbus, Kansas,
exploding $40 kegs of powder which were I'M
dergoing the process of glazing, scarcely
leaving enough of the material of which the
building was composed to even mark the site
of the building.
Representative Harter says that he had pre-
,oo&od Tho roo,,acf for q cal1cIlS of the demo.
cratic members on the silver question to
Holman, chairman of the caucus, and had no
doubt the call would be issued. Many sena-
tors, he said, had stated to him that they BE-
lieved action on the silver question should be
postponed, and would do what they could TO
bring about such result.
Professor Hardness, of the National observ-
atory at Washington, is reported as saying
concerning the recent remarkable auroral
displays: 81 wish l could tell you more
about these auroras and their cause, but 1
can't. It is something of which We know
comparatively little, and about which there
is great uncertainty. though scientists have
made it study for ages"
Anew York paper says it is reported that
the friends of Walter B. Earle, former pa
tient of the Kelley institute, who died insane
after undergoing treatment and being dis
chared as s'cured" of his Incorporate habits,
are going to make things lively for the Kelley
people. They claim that Earle's death was
caused by the bi-chioride of gold treatment,
and will bring an action for $1OO, 900 dam
ages against Kelley and his associates.
combination of noted millionaires are
supposed to have taken in, in quiet way, all
the wheat bets offered, so that the shorts are
$1,000, 600 bushels in the hole at Chicago, and
for comparative amounts in New York and
across the ocean. Now the combination is
about to bulge the price, shaking out the
shorts and hoppering all their margins. Wheat
must 60 up; one set of gamblers make mil
lions, another set lose, and the farmer who
sold cheap only has regrets left
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