Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-01-30
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Frank Smith, farmer near st. Joseph,
No., was killed by the discharge of revolver
in the hands of his neighbor. The two were
hunting and the neighbor stumbled, which
discharged the weapon.
Of twenty three mail trains due in CHICAGO
ON the cold morning from all parts, fourteen
had, up to noon, failed to arrive and not one
of them was on time. A blockade is on, the
most extensive the postoffice officials remen-
Der to have ever experienced
| The interstate commerce commission has
decided that railroad company cannot ex-
act from coal shipper promise to nay de-
murrage in case he fails to unload coal within
forty EIGHT hours; the promise being made a
condition OF delivery upon the dealers switch.
| A Kansas City dentist is patenting proc, Q
by which he claims to be able to make of
| copper like quality of bronze used by tn,
| arcients of Egypt in the form of wood and
stone working tools.
| New York upon the anniversary of the dis
covery of gold in California. Former like
meetings usually called together many more
| than this one; less than fifty being present.
Forty-four years is 'Quite spell" added to a
mans prime.
The force of men at work at Mare Island
navy yard, CAL, is larger than it has been for
years. Work no longer ceases at shutdown,
but is continued by the aid of electric lights
until 10 O'Clock at night, while the distinction
between Sundays and week days has been
lost sight of for weeks.
If it becomes necessary for congress to take
| action and give the president war powers, in
connection with the Chill trouble, the vote
will be emphatic, having but little opposition.
Members of congress of both parties are GER
tain to sustain the government in case of q
necessity to enter upon war.
People of Ccokson, Neb., relate havire
witnessed the appearance for two SUCCESSIVE
nights, at about midnight, of bright electrical
clouds, giving out sufficient light to read b..
The aurora was bright, also, at the san 9
me. A slight crakling noise was observed
while the clouds passed oyec.
Senator German was reelected by the
Maryland legislature. The ballot for second
senator was widely distributed among niue
candidates. There was no election. The
most prominent candidates seem to be ex-
Governor Jackson, Senator Gibson, present
incumbent, and Governor Brown.
Mrs. Mary Simpson, a fashionable dress
maker, committed suicide in novel manner
at Chicago. Walking out upon the ice at the
foot Of Ohio street she Invested herself of all
her clothing and lay down in perfectly nude
state upon the ice to die. Her dead and rigid
body was found there next morning. She had
been sick and is supposed to have become in
sane.
A Vienna inventor has produced material
which combines some of the properties of
glass and celluloid. By change in the pro-
portion of materials it becomes flexible ard
tough; being then suitable for machine
betting. It is made from gun-cotton, alec
hol, castor oil and Cunada balsam. mix
ture of zinc white gives it the appearance of
ivory.
Since the new wheat has been available the
Minneapolis mills have run as they never run
before, their work for the first four months
of the crop year being unprecedented as to
the quantity of -four made. The output for
the calendar year, too, is above anything ever
before done. The year of 1888, heretofore
the banner year, is exceeded by over 10000
barrels.
The mouths of the tunnels at the supply
cribs, out in the lake, at Chicago, were choked
with aneh0r ice during the cold snap and for
several hours the entire city's supply OF weeef
was cut of. This stcrpsh most manufa1kI
ing; stopped elevators in the tall buildings,
and, what was worse, put the entire city In
danger from fires. The blockade was broken
by fire boat, which attacked the masses of
ice with powerful streams of water.