Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-30
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During the past week 1920 immigrants
were landed at New York. This is the largest
number landed in any one week this year..
Mrs. Sarah j. Richards. surgeon generals
nurse, in charge of field hospitals of the Sec
ond army corps during the war of the rebel.
lion, is dead, aged seventy-two years.
A rushing crowd down stairway at the
Hemstead, England, railway station, caused
dozen deaths and injury to many Others.
1t was upon the occasion of an excursion.
The Kansas City Journal says that the
Santa Fe just is.ued orders for the building
at Guaymas, Mexico, of mammoth hotel,
of which C. d. Barnes, of Denver, is to be
the manager.
It is now proposed to grind coal at the
mines, add water so that it will mass through
pipes to the great cities, be there drained,
moulded and dried for consumption.
Stories of killings are coming in from the
newly opened lands in Oklahoma. One story
is that eight men were shot by soldiers upon
their third attempt to crowd over the line be-
fore the time set.
Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James, and
Jack Palmer, who has been very intimate
with Ford, have been driven from Jimtown,
Col, and instructed not to return it they
cared for their lives.
An English corporation owns and is pre-
pairing to extend the railroad system of Peru;
opening up new territory which is said to be
fertile and healthy; and giving an outlet to
valuable mining sections.
The men in the mines at Mount Hope, N.
j., thought an earthquake had occurred when
the powder mills at Lake Hopatcong ex-
plooed. They left the mines, but SO far as
known no cave-in occurred.
France is making preparations to more
vigorously fight the king of Dahomey;
French papers charge English influence
against French interests in the quarrel,
while the black king is defiant.
Justice Lamar, who has been very seriously
i'll. is now convalescent and able to walk
about the house. He has not been out of
doors since his illness, and will not go out
until the weather becomes settled.
The Rothschilds had a cashier to serve
them at Berlin forty years. He was sue
ceeded by his son, who has served them fif-
teen years, and who is now defaulter for
large sums and has ''gone somewhere"
While some boys were playing in a sand pit
ut Toron' slide occurred. covering por-
ton of the pit to the depth of several feet and
smOtherlng three boys named Alfred Lucas,
aged II. Ernest Lucas and Henry Petit,
aged II.
During exercises attending the laying of
the corner stone of the Y. Nj. c. A. gymna-
SUM at Holyok Mass, an iron girder, upon
which people had climbed, gave way. George
Merritt W $ killed and Mrs. II. R. Terry was
fatally injured.
Seven attempts were made to burn the city
of Louisville, ky., in one night, and In four
hours fifteen buildings were destroyed and
loss of $4,000 entailed. They were of in
cendiary origin and two of the incendiaries
have been arrested.
The seven democratic aldermen. of st. Jos
eph, Mo-, who ran away from the council
chamber to prevent the seven republicans
from electing a president, are still in hiding,
although the entire police force of the city
is searching for them.
Ex-senator James NJ. Harvey, of Kansas,
has been selected by few members of the
senate as their choice for executive clerk,
just made vacant by the dismissal of Young, |
who had held the place for fifteen years. |
Harvey has been asked if he would accept.
William Roberts, who lives on claim ten |
load of freight. When he returned he found |
his cabin in ashes and the charred body OF |
his wife among the ruins How the fire started |
or how the woman met her death is mys-
terry.
The flood which caused such damage at |
English, Ind. played sad havoc all along the |
Little Blue clear to the Ohio. Some of the |
best farms had just been plowed and the |
washout has ruined them. Thousands of |
dollars were lost in fences, lumber and stock. |
All bridges were washed away.
Senator Morgan will report bill creating |
a county of the Quapaw, Miami and Seneca |
lands, and makingit a part of Oklahoma |
Territory. The bill will provide for the al |
chase of the remainder. It will cover all the
land held by the Indians in the Ponca agency. |
Lizzie Dennis, the abductress of little Da-
vid T. Beals, Jr., will spend two years be-
hind the walls of the state penitentiary at
Jefferson City, and Melvin Sipole, alias Al
bert King. her paramOur and cO-cOnspirator,
double that length of time. Ralston. the
mysterious, or Robertson, the Denver lawyer,
who conceived the plot, is still at large.
The president will issue proclamation in
4 few days promulgating the modus vivendi
and warning all citizens of the United States
against its violation. 1t has been settled that
The ratification of the treaty of arbitration
shall be exchanged at Washington and the
secretary of state and the British minister
are now making arrangements, for that for
nality.
The secretary of war has submitted a re-
port on the bill which proposes to donate the
l60-acre military reservation near Oklahoma
City, to that city. The report says the reser.
ration is not needed for military purposes
md there is no objection to the bill. The
dill provides for ten acres for the location of
public buildings and public park. Twenty
lcres for the use of weather bureaus, ten acres
n the northeast corner for an orphans
home. The remainder to be sold for cash,
proceeds to be used in city schools.