Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-04
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Hurried Readers.
The silver convention ct Washington, D.
c., before it adjourned, provided for the
publication, occasionally of q newspaper in
the interest of free coinage.
The secretary of the interior has authorized
the making of leases for grazing cattle on
the lands of the Kiowa and Comanche In
dams, in Oklahoma territory.
At Coventry, Warwickshire, q mob pre-
| vented a sale of goods seized to make q pay
ment of a wears rate claim and made demon
STATIONS of violence toward the vicar.
A3-year-old grizzly bear escaped from the
Zoo" at Washington, d. c., and caused
alarm in all the surrounding country. A
squad was soon on his trail and he was killed.
Planters in Cuba complain of the prolonged
drouth, which they fear will seriously affect
crops. The drouth extends into Florida.
Richland, Mo-, had cyclone also, which
played with big trees, leveling and twisting
| them. and carrying their branches SO far
away as not to be found in that region.
Creole, the new Colorado mining camp, is
in the narrow valley, or canon, of Willow
creek, which the melting snows have changed
into torrent, threatening to carry away the
town bodily.
Three well known gentlemen of Kansas
used the wire in notifying Senator Perkins
that they would accept the position of consul
general to Cairo. which was made vacant by
the death of Anderson.
| The Wergeland, Captain Weis, the first
steamship to make the trip from Norway to
| Chicago has arrived there. She brought
| roo ~ foh opd odd livar oil ond rr;11
| back provisions.
The loss by fire in the United States was
| greater last year than for many years previ-
GUS, reaching the enormous sum of s14S, 1884,
961, which is an amount greater by $S5,OOO,-
600 than the loss the year before.
Seven ballots were taken in the republican
national convention of 1876, thirty-six in 1850,
four in 1884 and eight in 1888. There will be
1893 delegates this year, and the successful
candidate must receive at least $50.
The stock yards on Kansas soil at Kansas
City are now $1,000 head of cattle in excess
of number handled up to this time last year.
In 1890 these yards handled 103, 16O cars of
stock, which will be surpassed this year.
Colonel Cole, of the Montreal artillery gar
rison, called on General Knapp, United States
consul general, and apologized for the out
rage committed by some irresponsible men,
Der of his corps in ordering down the Amer
lean flag.
Within few months new town will be
built on the east side of the river, two miles
north of Madison, ILL.,, by the st. Louis Tin
Stamping company. of which w: F. and F.
C. Niedringhaus are the principal stock
holders.
Miners at Ullen, Idaho, will not allow the
non-union men to 90 to work in the mines.
If they attempt it bloodshed will follow.
mob of 500 armed and unarmed strikers
stopped passenger train at that place, re-
fusing to let it pass.
Colonel Pope offers $500 reward for the
parties who delayed the bicyclers who rode
with military dispatches from Chicago to
New York. Wire was stretched across their
way; the rubber tires on their wheels were
cut and other annoyances committed.
Emma Blum, daughter of farmer at Mas
coutah, ILL.,, was pecked on the arm by set
ting hen. The young woman was taken very
sick and the arm swelled to unnatural pro-
portions. surgical operation was per-
formed and it is thought she will recover.
A fatal collision occurred at Birmingham,
England between trains on the Northwestern
and Midland railways. The two trains were
approaching the station at the same time.
The engineers saw the impending danger,
but too late. One person was killed and
many others injured.
The state department having been officially
informed of the conclusion of a treaty of
commercial reciprocity between Austro-Hun-
gary and the United States, the president
has proclaimed the details of the arrange
ment, which is similar to that with Germany.
1t takes effect at once.
The steamer Norge, from Copenhagen, ar
rived at New York with twenty-five young
women from Sweden and Norway bound to
Dakota, whose avowed purpose Is to seek
husbands in the woolly wilds of Dakota and
Minnesota. There landed at New York on
the 18th, 1929 immigrants.
There are between 10000 and $4,000 Yaqui |
Indians in the state of Sonora, the greater |
part of whom have assumed an aggressive at |
titude. They are poorly armed, however, |
and as rule refuse open battle, preferrlng |
ambuscade and guerilla warfare. A battle |
between them and Mexican troops is officially |
reported.
Among Kansans who are mentioned to |
succeed John A. Anderson as consul general |
to Egypt, Ed. c. Little, president OF the |
state republican league; Colonel NJ. Stewart, |
of Wichita General Caldwell and S. B. Brad
ford, of Topeka, and State Senator Kirkpat-
rick, of Wilson county, are being urged by
friends more or less prominent.
A decree has been issued form Rome that
Archbishop Ireland's plan, as instituted In
the schools of Farribault and Saltwater, Min
nesota. be tolerated. The arrangement made
by the archbishop was that secular instruc-
ton in these schools should be in hours dis
tinct from time devoted to religious instruc-
ton; with the privilege to scholars to take
both or either courses.