Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-22
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| A great republican meeting in Chicago
4, comes Just after the worlds fair dedlcatUry
exercises and promises to be national re-
publican gathering of great importance. j.
j. ingalls, has been urged to speak.
Fourteen hundred citizens of Chicago have
| already purchased tickets for the inaugural
reception. The committee received LOCO
acceptances 1ro N distinguished guests. and
it is estimated that 10000 will De present at
the ball.
| While gang of men were repairing wall
IL sluiceway of Gleason d Bailey's mill at
| seneca Falls. n. Y, the WALL thirty feet hi "a,
toppled over ard buried seven men in the
ruins. Five were killed, and two slightly
! injured.
| General F. T. Dent, brother-in-law of Gen.
eral Grant, is very sick.
The most sensible act of Lord Tennyson's
life was his request that his dead body should
not be placed in a hearse.
| Every young man should have a practical
business education. Many OF our boys APP
preciate this and are taking course at Eli
otis Business College, Burlington, Ia.
| Acting Commissioner Belt, of the Indian
| bureau, stated to q correspondent that the
| system of approving attorney contracts with
Indians had been practically set aside.
One of the large double beam pumps at the
Chicago avenue water works is disabled. In
consequence the city will be deprived OF q
daily water supply of Sc, Oc0, 900 gallons until
repairs can be made, which will take thirty
\ days.
| Eight horse thieves who had long been a
source of great less to the farmers and stock
men in northern Idaho were overtaken by a
posse while at dinner, on October II, and all
killed and hung to tree, and allowed to re-
main there to become the prey for buzzards.
During republican parade at Pittsburg,
| Pa, on the evening of October Is, cable
| car ran into the Eleventh Ward marching
| club, killing one man and iniuring four 9TH
ers. The accident was caused by the inabil-
| ity of the gripman to stop on heavy grade.
The remains of Christopher Columbus
were offered to the United States as security
| for a loan of $1OO, 900, at per cent interest,
| mingo. The proposition was rejected as the
department authorities in Washington have
no right TO make purchases of relics.
Notices have been received at western gen.
eral freight offices that until further notice no
shipments of any kind would be received by
the c., c., c. & st. L., better known as the
Big Four. This shut off Is on account of
strike among the switchmen of the road,
which Is likely to spread over the entire
system.
James G. Blaine is guest at Ophir farm.
Whitelaw Reid, whose guest he is, met him
at the station and accompanied him to the
country. 1t is understood that he makes
visit of several days at least, and that during
his stay he is likely to meet, either at Ophir
farm or in New York, number of leading
republicans.
A heavy snow, rain and sleet storm, with a
heavy wind, blowing down signs, tearing off
cornices and uprootlng trees, set in at Den
yer. Col, October II. Several persons were
fatalities occurred. Half dozen horses were
killed by being struck by the breaking of
'live wires"
democratic rally at st. Louis on the evening
of October Is fourteen persons were hurt,
two fatally, by an explosion of sky-rOcket.
The rockets were fired from a wooden chute.
One giant rocket exploded, hurting stones
and pieces of board among the crowd with
fearful force aua the effect already noted.
Consul Nicholas Smith, representing the
United States at Three Rivers, Canada, made
a report to his government which criticised
the sanitary conditions of Three Rivers, and
when his report got back there his house
was stoned. Police were detailed to guard
the premises while demands for his recall
were made to the government at Washington.
All telegraphers, including station agents
who also run the ticker, on the Gulf, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe, from Purcell, 1. T., to
Galveston, struck Sunday night. They de-
mand a maximum salary of $50 instead of
$50; and pay for overtime, over twelve hours
day. At 10 a. m. of the 18th all operators
on the Santa Fe system left their keys; hun
dreds upon hundreds of them; on an order
which was forged at Dodge City as joke.
The decree annulling the contract between
the Union Pacific railway and the Western
Union Telegraph company, in the suit insti-
tuted at the instance of the late ex-Congress-
man Anderson, of Kansas, has been entered
in the federal court at Omaha. Superintend-
ent Dlckey, of the Western Union, says that
his company will open no new offices along
the line of the Union Pacific, but senders of
messages to or from points of the Union
Pacific must pay the Union Pacific as we'll as
the Western Union tolls.
An explosion of gas occu1nd at the Ster-
ling colliery. Shamokin, Il October IL,
which caused the death of one man, four IN
jured and eight entombed. 1t is believed
later that all are dead. News of the awful
disaster was soon carried to the homes of the
miners and the wives and mothers of the I'M
fortunate men gathered at the mouth of the
PIT crying and wringing their hands hysteri-
cally. The miners quickly organized into
squads and the work OF clearing away the
wrecka2e and rescuing the entombed men
was begun. At 10 a. m. two men were taken
out In an unconscious condition and Will