Western Kansas world., 1892-12-03
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience Of
Hurried Readers.

big brewery at Fairbault, MInn., hai
been burned. 1t was forty years old. The
loss Is 5000
apolls, Ind, had a ten days hunt in the In
dian territory; returning to Parsons, Kan,
| with much game.
Homestead claims on the lands making
up the townsite of West Guthrie. o. T., have
been dismissed by the secretary of the inte-
+ rlor and the townsite board will issue deeds
to lot claimants December q
Justin Mccarthy has informed commit
tee of the Irish parliamentary party that he
must resign the chairmanship of the party,
owing to ill health. He proposes to make a
long stay in the south of France.
A Union Pacific freight house agent is
charged with carrying on for long time a
system of underweighing grain cars; being
paid by grain men
The First National Bank of Liberty, Mo-.
has been wrecked by dynamite. Many val
liable papers were torn and burned but the
burglars did not get at the money.
The typhoid epidemic at St Louis contin-
ues frghtfully. There are over 20 cases in
the asylum for the blind, alone, with prob
ably 400 new cases in the city, daily.
Charles F. Church. representative of
dry goods house of Winnipeg, Mani, was
found frozen to death on q prairie near Nc
Leod. He had started to drive across the
prairie and was caught in blizzard.
The secretary of the English Master Cot
ton Splnners' federation announces that
eight-tenths of the spinpers organized in the
federation are now stopped or are running
on half time, affecting 64,0Oo employees.
John S. Boyd, who went from st. Charles,
Mo-, TO teach at Glasgow, KY, was taken
from his boarding house and whipped into
insensibility by five disguised men. There
had been difficulty between him and the
school board.
A slight earthquake shock was felt at San
Francisco Thanksgiving day morning. A
shower OF meteors was observed in the even
Davidson, of the coast and geological survey,
In less than two hours.
The government of Baden has publicly
lean pork and has ordered all American
meat brought into the Duchy to be exan-
lned even though accompanied by an Amer
ican certificate of inspection.
]. s. Sebastian, Rock Island brakeman,
nephew of General Passenger and Ticket
Agent Sebastian, of the Rock Island, was
fatally injured by falling between the cars
of a freight near Flagler. Colorado. He
struck on the back of his head rupturlng a
blood vessel.
A brilliant meteoric shower was witnessed
at Mount Pleasant, Ia, November %. The
falling stars were very numerous over at
Burlington. At Chicago hundreds of mete-
DIS shot across the sky an6 the display was
far ahead of anything of the kind seen there
in many years.
Stamboul is again king of the turf. He
srotted mile on a kite-shaped track at
stockton. Cal, in 2:07a. The day was not
favorable, 1t being cloudy, cold and the track
lamp from rain. The stallion was in good
condition and had it been better day his
lime would have been lower.
A great sou'wester gale at San Francisco,
asting from Saturday night, all day Sunday,
Knocked vessels together promiscuously all
lbout the bay: dragging anchors, wrenchIng
hips from wharves. destroying wharves,
tc., yet no loss of life is reported. What
nay have occurred outside on the open
ocean is still so be learned.
Fire broke out in the Blossburg mine, four
niles south of Ration, N. NJ, owned by the
Topeka d Santa Fe road, the larg-
st mines in New Mexico, the average pro-
!uction being seventy-tive cars per day, and
all the mules and mine cars. Over
90 men were at work in tho mine at the
ime, but all escaped through the abandoned |
ntry.
President Weihe. of the Amalgamated as
ociation, is quoted as stating, in connection |
With the Homestead strike: mo other strike |
vas SO broad IN its influence and men were |
lever SO prosecuted in any other strike. On |
he estimate of S1.4O per day for laborers
md s. for skilled workmep, the 300 strikers |
n the Homestead, Lawrenceville and Beaver |
falls mills lost So, 900 daily, or s., ,000, 600
Turing the strike"
An earthquake at La Union. San Salvador,
las laid low nearly all the houses in that city,
nd those left standing had their walls 80 |
racked that it was not safe to remain in |
hem. The people are living in tents and |
ne in fear of further disturbances The |
esidents of the city were almost driven to |
renzy, and professions paraded the streets |
nth ringing bells, headed by priests praying |
or the abatement of the disturbances. Many |
ersons were killed and many we're seriously |