Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-25
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Hurried Readers.
Tho civil war IN Venezuela seems to b
turning In favor of the rebels.
The Comanche and Kiowa Indians, through
Indian Agent Day, are insisting on being al
lowed to lease half million acres of grazing
land IN their reservation to certain cattlemen.
John g. Otis was very bitter in his denun-
citation of people whom he called low down
trucksters and politicians, constituting tho
Topeka gang, whom he charged with his de-
feat at the Emporia convention.
Investigation by the war department,
through army officers in. Oklahoma, shows
that there is reason to believe that the excite
ment IN Guthrie over negro prisoners was
manufactured to discourage negro emigra-
ton to that territory.
Ex-senator Ingalls, is at the head of new
paving brick company organized at Atchison.
The Boies boomers at Chicago say it i first
place or nothing; that their candidate would
not take second place on the ticket.
The democratic presidential ticket for 1899
Will be Cleveland and Gray. Such is the i'm
preston of leading men of all factions ct
midnight Monday night.
The town of Bayou Sara, La. is submerged
TO depth of four to eleven feet. The levee
broke. The loss of property, both public
and personal, is large. The people reached
high land with difficulty and in danger.
Three terrible storms swept through Du-
buque, Ia, in twenty-four hours. An inn
mense amount of rain has fallen, doing great
damage to the crops. During the storm four
men were struck by lightning. Three of
them have recovered.
plague has broken out in Mesopotamia,
the country between the Euphrates and Tigris
rivers. The dispatch does not mention the
nature of the disease, but it is thought to be
cholera, which, travelling eastward from Per-
STA, has entered Aslatic Turkey.
Mrs. st. John says that her husband will
not be candidate for president on the pro-
hibition ticket, but that General John Bid
will be nominated. Mrs. st. John says that
BidweH will certainly be elected.
Armour's cd" elevator, at Morgan street,
Chicago, WAS struck by lightning and COM
pletely wrecked. Charles j. L. Roberts, who
was at work In the boiler room, was buried
beneath macs of brick and timber and his
body was not recovered until evening.
Moses Harmon, editor of Lucifer, will be
sentence. He was found guilty on three
counts. Harmon is 81 years old and has
published Lucifer twelve years. He has
once before served term in the peniten-
tiary.
Governor Seay was on his way to WASH
ington and turned back upon seeing sensa-
tional reports from Guthrie. He proposes
that the parties who caused the several street |
brawls and attempted to incite a riot shall be |
given the severest possible punishment under |
the laws
Henry Amer, living near Goddard, Kan,
IS causing his friends much concern by his |
sudden disappearance. He sold car load of |
hogs in Wichita last Saturday, since which |
lime be has neither been seen or heard of. |
His young wife of only year is distracted. |
Foul play is feared.
Two churches in Spain were recently |
struck by lightning, while full of people at |
ending mass. In the two fifteen persons |
we're killed and large number injured. |
During the same storm the Burgos cathedral, |
one of the Oldest in Spain, was struck and |
great damage done.
A violent storm swept over the province of |
Burgos, in Old CASTLE, Spain. A number of |
villages in the vineyard district were de- |
'troyed and the inhabitants are reduced to |
poverty. The storm ragged with unusual fury |
lone to trees and property.
During the storm in Chicago the cable |
ines experienced considerable difficulty IN |
handling their trains, the electricity on the
,ables being in some instances conducted |
through the levers to the hands of the grip |
men, and on the State street line several |
we're quite severely shocked.
the fifteen Usage Indians arrested for out
ages committed on Charles McGill were
,ound over to the court at Guthrie, O. T.,
lnder $1,000 bond each for assault with in
emit to kill. AS every member of the Usage
ribe, old or young, is worth SIS, 600 they will
make strong defense in the court.
Chairman Peel, of the house committee on
indian affairs, has at last reported bill for
he opening of the Cherokee Strip, which, he
avs, blocks all sooners, land grabbers, town
Of grabbers and claim jumpers. He has the
'romise of the committee on rules, of day
within month; and believes the bill will
Ass.
furious wind storm struck Hammond,
nd, unroo6ng houses. tearing down avn
ngs and filing the air with debris The
torn assumed the features of a cyclone west
f Hallets. The wind played havoc with the
telegraph wires, most of which are down.
Iuge trees were torn out by the roots and |
arried away. No lives are reported lost.
The storm in southern Minnesota, which
in Martin county, left trail
,arked by ruined houses, devastated farms,
cad and mangled men, women and children.
he groves of trees surrounding farm houses