Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-09
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A half block in Guthrie, O. T., has burned
J over, at a loss of $4,000, with about 81, 600
insurance. 1t was business block.
Mr.. Balfour was mobbei while attempting
speech at Sheffield, Eng, and there was
great danger of women and weaklinQs being
crushed to death by the bowling crowd.
! Charlie Scott. bright young lad of 1e,
his mother, was drowned in the Marias des
Cygnes at Ottawa. His home was at Fort
Scott.
Guadalajara, Mex, has received consider
able damage from earthquakes; several
shocks occurring in few hours A hundred
buildings were wrecked and many people
hurt
Mcpherson gave A. w. Smith wonderful
reception upon his return from Topeka. Sa-
lima did the same for Mr.. Carver.
Gladstone arrived at GLASGOW, July 4, and
was given an ovation by an immense crowd.
Mr.. Gladstone delivered one of his charac-
teristic addresses.
The fight between federation" men and
union" men is bitter at Decatur, Illinois.
The walking delegates ordered all federation
men off their jobs.
| Weaver, of Iowa, the old origlna! green
hacker, was nominated for presidential can
date on the first ballot at the third party
convention assembled at Omaha, July 4
! Divers sent down to ascertain the extent of
the damage sustained by the steamer City of
Chicago. which went on the rocks at Kinsale
and sunk, report the vessels hull in bad con-
| dition.
Bayview rolling mills. at Milwaukee closed
down June 30, owing to disagreement over
the new scale adopted by the Amalgamated
association. A thousand men are made idle
by the shutdown.
cyclone struck Gloucester, N. j., and de-
stroyed several buildings. Two people were
killed and three badly injured. AS the cy-
clone came across the harbor there were no
ships in its course.
Mason, Nebraska, has been tipped over by
cyclone. The M. E. and Baptist churches,
a new brick school house, several residences
and business houses, and about all the small
buildings in town were demolished.
The League of Republican clubs met at
Rochester, N. Y, with nearly ZOO delegates
from local clubs. Letters of cheer aud en-
rison, Secretary Tracy and others.
A south bound passenger train and freight
train met in collision on the Cotton Belt rail-
way at Altheimer, Ark, forty miles from
Little Rock, and five persons were killed, five
fatally and several seriously injured.
Post, of Georgia, is for Weaver, although
PETER or John Davis, of Kansas, would be
acceptable. Post said the alliance would
carry Georgia and South Carolina, and that
the south would be pretty well split up.
Colonel W. A. Harris, nominee for con-
gressman-at large in Kansas, landed from
the steamer IN New York, returning from
England, and was met by Charles w. Gleed,
who gave hlm the news of his nomination.
GoverpQz Mckinley has been booked fog q
speech at Kansas City on the night of the 4th
of October. On the night of the 5th he will
speak at Joplin; on the night of the 9Th at St.
Joseph; on the night of the 9TH at St Louis.
The citizens alliance of Fort Scott makes
demand upon the congressional committee
of the peoples party to withdraw S. s. King
from the ticket, saying that they will vote
for Moore, the democratic candidate, any
way.
Tho Earl of Lonsdale is a tough British
peer who patronizes prize fights and has the
presentation to thirty-eight church lvings.
But he has not yet got down to making rival
claimants to a vicalage prove which is the
best man in the ring.
People of the little town of Orelande. sew
enteen miles north of Guthrie, o. T., were
much excited over what they thought would
be a cyclone. The wind blew terrifcally and
small outhouses of every kind were dashed
away before the gale.
Sam Small and Chairman Dickie ex-
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the Cincinnati convention. Dickie called
Smalrs resolution an 'idiotic performance"
and a sTom fool resolution" and Small
sailed into Dickie for five minutes.
War exists at Ell Reno, o. T., between lot
jumpers and lot holders. The townsite board
were barricaded and guarded in Contra
block, and there were threats among lot |
jumpers to blow up the block IN order to de- |
stroy the records. Everybody goes armed.
Tho fisheries building on the worlds fair |
grounds was struck by lightning and Watch |
man Casey was temporarily stunned by the |
fash, which did not, however, do much dam |
deck of a yacht, was blown into the lake ana |
drowned.
Commissioner Morgan, of the Indian bu- |
reau, says there will likely be some changes |
made in the corps of professors of the Has
keIl institute and the Chillacco school. The |
changes will be made within ten days. In |
neither case however, will there be change |
of superintendents.
The commissioner of the Indian bureau |
has under consideration plan to establish . |
number of small schools among the tribes |
down in the territory. The work to be done |
shall be - arranged as to conform to the |
Haskell institute and the Chillacco school |
Pupils can be merged from these smaller |
schools into the higher without inconvenience. |
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