Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-10
LATEST NEWS.

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Hurried Readers.
Anderson, Indiana, has many mad dogs,
and over a dozen people have been bitten.
The excitement Is terrible.
The steamer Saale carried s., 500, 900 gold,
| 2,45O,000 ounces of silver and 1900 Mexi
can dollars to Europe.
At Independence, Ia, August 81, on kite
shaped track and in the presence of 5000
| people, Nancy Hanks trotted mile in 2:05H,
beating her own time, 2:07Z, made at Chi
cago two weeks ago.
The third explosion within three years has
occurred in one of Rothschild's coal mines
| at Bororage, Belgium. The first in 1889,
killed 123; the second. last May, killing 122;
the last killed 25 and wounded nine.
Hotel Belmont at Sulphur Springs, n. c.,
Is burned. Many guests were in the hotel,
but all escaped without injury, though many
lost personal property. The hotel cost over
$4,000 and was owned by northern CAPT.
talists.
| A moonshiners camp, with its still and
stock of sour mash. has been found between
| Liberty and Kearney, Clay county, Mo.
James Reynolds, the old he one of the con-
Germ, was captured, his pals escaping.
Small notes to the amount of s., coo, 900
were shipped to various places in the coun-
| try by the treasury department up to the end
of August, to facilitate the movement of
crops.
ship from Antwerp with several hundred
| P,,cc md NO ia on, route for
| weston, and Texas officials are alarmed at
the probability of cholera entering this coun-
| try in that way. Quarantine has been pre-
| pared in advance of the ships arrival.
| Pittsburg and Homestead strikers. out of
Carnegie mills, small squad of them. fire.
| quently 60 back to work. In one of the
| mills negro puddlerS have been put to work,
| which enrages the strikers almost to des-
peration.
The Kansas City Journal made the first
| publication of great sensation in southern
| ing how the murderers of cattlemen Gibson
| and Frazier, near Sedan in 1890, have been
ferreted out and are being arrested.
It is said that several roads have been fro
zen out of their already contracted G. A. r.
business by the refusal of the Pullman COM
pany to furnish touris5 cars to lines other
than these having a standing contract for
this kind of car.
Another attempt to hold up passenger
train was made at Lees Summit, Mo-, but
was a failure as freight train was running
on the passengers time, the latter being de;
layed. When the ruffians found they had
stopped freight tram, they left.
President Harrison visited Whitelaw Reid
at his country home. Chairman Carter and
other members of the national committee,
together with Senator Plat of New York,
spent the day with the two national candi-
dates.
Four weeks ago the Wabash killed five of
its men while engaged In repairing culvert
at kellers, Ind, by wreck. Last week an
attorney for the road visited the late homes
of each Of the victims and left a check fer
5000. Not even a receipt was taken or
asked.
The strike fever has reached East st.
Louis, the switchmen on the Air Line road
quitting work because the demand for an
other man to be added to each crew was not
granted. Their places were filled up. with
non-unlon men and trains were made up
with little delay.
The Northeastern switchmen's strike at
New Orleans, which has been on since Au-
gust IA, resulted in a riot shortly before mid
night August 30, which terminated in four
employees and one striker being shot. The
yardmaster who had been employed tempo
rarily.
Commissioner Morgan of the Indian
bureau and Delegate Harvey of Oklahoma,
have closed bargain by which the govern
ment is to pay school districts $40 quarter |
for the schooling of Indian pupils. This is
upon the ground that Indians lands are not |
subject to taxation for twenty-five years.
The Interior department is pushing the
departmental work required to enable it to |
open the Wichita and Kickapoo reservations |
to settlement as soon as congress provides |
for the same. The work of allotment of |
lands to the Indians will be proceeded with |
at once, under the act of 1891.
Mrs. John A. Logan. chairman of the TO
tunda committee, has invited Mrs. Harrison, |
Mrs. Morton, the ladies of the cabinet Off |
GERS families. Mrs. .. S. Grant ard Clara |
Barton to assist her in receiving at the Grand |
Army entertainment in the capitol at Wash
ington, September 10.
The Apache Indians are committing dep
relations i'll the vicinity of Tombstone, Ariz.
raiding Indians, and his party stole eighty |
head of stock and fled to the mountains,
where they are secure. Joe Beach, a mining
prospector, gives it as his opinion that this
fall will witness as bloody an Indian cam
paign as has ever been known in the south
west.
Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine
hospital service is unable to meet all require
ments of cholera emergency. At Galveston
alone $40 O)O should be expended at o-ce to
make effective the appliances and arrange
ments to head off the dread disease. Con-
gress reduced the appropriations reported by
the bureau $780, below what the bureau
submitted as necessary for efficiency of the
service In ordinary times.