Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-17
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| Among the Normannia's passengers is the
Rev. John F. Hendy, of Emporia, Kansas.
Striking iron workers at Hughes and Pat
loose from the Amalgamated association
and are being taken back to work as fast a.
places open for them.
The selection of the Marquis Emilio VS.
cont Venosta, as the italian member of the
Behring sea arbitration, is believed to give
satisfaction both to the British and the
United States legations.
Rocky Bar, Idaho. had been destroyed by
| fro and the people rendered homeless.
Money, blankets and clothing have been
literally contributed by other towns in the
southern part of the state.
The entire republican ticket in Maine is
elected. The republican nominee for gov
ernor received II 900 majority.
We are pleased to know that our young
friend E. Nj. Birkes, upon the completion of
his course at Elliott's Business College, Bur
lington, Ia, secured an excellent position Ia
st. Louis.
Six teachers of the Kansas City. Mo-, pub
lie schools were detained after the date of the
opening of the school term, by being held in
quarantine in New York harbor. They had
been to Europe in party.
A Hamburg correspondent describes the
Ohlsdorf cemetery and adds: ALREADY co.
600 bodies have been buried in the cemetery
since the outbreak, 200 gravediggers working
at increased wages day and night"
Big failures are occurring in London, pre-
cipitated by the collapse of gigantic bank
and building associations. The losses which
led to the suspensions are chiefly traceable to
injudicious speculations in land blocks.
The American Bankers Association, in
olution to do away with the customary three
days of grace on all notes. All banks of the
country are expected to be governed by the
new rule.
The Pacific express on the Missouri Pacific
Wichita train was robbed of all money in its
safc by two robbers who entered the train
soon after leaving Kansas City, and who
bound and gagged the messenger, and left
the train at the next station.
Two hundred policemen in fourteen pa
troll wagons ralded the Garfield race track,
Chicago. during the progress of the races.
One hundred and sixty people were arrested,
ly as many jockeys.
Gnadalajara, one of the principal cities of
Mexico, has scarcely passed day IN three
months without an earthquake. The NUM-
cipal and state buildings there were among
the most elegant and substantial in Mexico,
but are now dangerous to occupants.
Secretary of the treasury, Foster, and
Surgeon General Hamilton visited the
quarantine stations at New York harbor, aud
the secretary congratulated DR.. jenkins, of
the local board of health, for the extent and
effectiveness of the work he is accomplishing.
Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin was
visited, September 10. by one of the worst
wind, rain and hail storms known in twenty
years. The damage to crops will DO heavy.
In some places turkeys and chickens we're
killed by hail and sparrows covered the
ground.
Eight men were killed and three fatally
injured in a collision on the Clearield d
Cambria railroad at p. m, near Altoona,
Pa, September 8. AS result of disobeying
orders, the work train met the passenger
train in a deep cut. None of the passengers
were hurt.
A London cable says: Official reports
show that cholera has been absolutely
stamped out of the united kingdom. The
local government board authorities of the
chief ports and the greatest populous centers
concur in the statement that no cases OF real
cholera, and but only few choleric cases
have occurred.
Nancy Hanks trotted mile in 2:07 flat at
st. Paul, September Z; beating her own
record, which already beat the world. She
made the first quarter in 2215; the half in
:0S13; thIee-Quarters in :34A, and as she
came under the wire in 2:07 she turned her
head to the grand stand, with the plain ex-
preston of 'Well, have done it."
Santa Fe passenger train was held up at
Wharton station, twenty miles north Of
Guthrie, o. T., September 8, but the rob
bers secured nothing but couple of baskets
of grapes, the express messenger having hid
the valuables of the safe while the robbers
were effecting an entrance to the car. No
effort was made to rob the passengers.
At Watertown Junction, near Cambridge
station, at 10 40 p. m.. September 10, a heavy
freight crashed into the rear end of passen-
ger train standing on the track and tele-
scoped the rear car, killing eight persons and
woundinR thirty others. The force of the
collision smashed the front end of the boiler
and cylinders and the escaping steam added
horror to the situation. Nearly every per-
son on the passenger train was more or less
injured.
A.mob of from 800 to 400 took possession
of the docks at Fire Island, armed with shot
guns and other weapons and twice resisted
all attempts made to land passengers from
the steamboat Cepheus, which was hired to
take them from the Inflated Nornannia. |
The hotels and houses had been secured for |
the accommodation of the first and second |
cabin passengers, but appeals from men and |
women to let them land were received with |
brutal jeers by the mob. and the day will be |
looked upon as one of the most horrible re-
proaches on American civilization that ever |