Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-16
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| man was killed in Cleveland, O., by pus
| ting his hand ON an iron awning frame which
had connection with an electric light wire.
Destructive waterspouts are reported to
have occurred at Winona, Mo-, and in Ala
bama. The latter ravished wide territory.
General W. S. Singleton died at Baltimore,
| aged 81 years. In 1865 President Lincoln in
| trusted General Singleton with mission to
Richmond, whittier he went four times and
conferred with Jefferson Davis and Others.
The Southern Express company, the United
| States and Pacific, have all followed the lead
of the Adams Express company, and are get
| ting nd of brotherhood messengers as they
| find a chance. The Southern DISCHARGED
| ninety.
4 The president of Argentine has issued a de-
cree declaring martial law at Buenos Ayres.
The Methodist church at Mandan, N. d..
| is burned, and there ia great Indignation ex-
pressed since it is supposed to have been SET
ON fire out of revenge on the pastor and lead
ing members for their work in enforcing pro-
hibition.
The Passaic chemical works at Newark, N.
J., was damaged by fire to the extent of $50
600. Owing to the heavy fumes of chemicals
the fremen had difficulty in fighting the fire.
About twenty fi1emen were overcome with
the fumes.
Nelson Morris & Co., Chicago packers, have
entered suit to recover $3.50, 900 from various
railroad companies for alleged overcharges
protest for fourteen months after the enact
ing of the interstate law.
The whole of the city of St. Petersburg was
hob ho If fiyo toy, ~
cotton at the factory for making smokeless
powder. So much fear of dyn7 mite is felt
there that the first impression was that an
archists had got in their work.
Captain Hall with two companies of cavalry
has elected several hundred boomers from
he strip and burned their houses. The en-
tire 100000 acres of the strip will now be
put under military patrol and all boomers,
hunters and settlers will be kept out.
The commissioner of the Indian bureau
has been informed of serious damage to the
building of the Haskell institute. He made
known the fact to Senator Perkins, who sue
ceeded in attaching to the appropriation bill
81, 900 to be used in repairing damages.
A tin cylinder filed with gunpowder ex-
ploded on window sill of house occupied
by q magistrate at Compiegne, France. The
windows was shattered and the house was
otherwise damaged, but nobody was hurt
The magistrate recently imposed severe SEN
fences on poachers.
A colony of negroes have laid out town
four miles north of Kingfsher, near the line
of the Rock Island railroad and on the line
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation.
It is to be called Cimarron City, and Is chosen
IS place for the colored people to radiate
from to the new country.
Edward Partridge has been selling short
on wheat in the Chicago grain gambling den,
to very large figure. A combination was
organized to bust him and it is probably sue
cessfuL Wheat was pushed up 38 cents a
bushel in two days. If he covered his doing
so has been well concealed.
The New York Federation of Labor will
take part in the coming May demonstration
by holding a mass meeting on April 81. Inc
Central Labor union has appointed special
committee to secure the permit for the use OF
Union Square on May 1 for the purpose of
holding an eight hour mass meeting.
Two decisions by two boards of arbitrators,
in two cases of complaint of one railroad that
another railroad had done certain thing,
both boards of arbitrators hearing each its
case at the same time, were exactly opposite
each other. This occurred in Chicago few
days ago and shows that arbitration does not
always result in justice.
A spark from locomotive set fire to the
car shops of the Philadelphia q Reading Rail-
road company at Wayne Junction, on the out
skirts of Philadelphia, and the structure.
with eighty box cars, was destroyed, the total
loss being about SEC, OO0 The flying embers
ignited the residence of Henry Summers,
some distance away, and it was burned, with
q loss of $50
The Bittman-Todd Grocery company and
Roehfing & Co., wholesale grocers of Leav-
enworth, filed motion in the district court
to interplead in the suit of the Symns Grocer
company, of Atchison, to restrain the rail-
road commissioners of Kansas from putting
into effect the order of the board of March 5,
affecting fifth class rates. The Leavenworth
jobbers heartily indorse the action of Symns
& Co.
Great excitement was caused at Madrid by
the discovery of an anarchist plot to blow up
the chamber of deputies. Two arrests were
made. A document was found on the pris-
oners containing the draft of the plan of &C
ton of cosmopolitan society accordingt
which the conspirators were first to blow up
the chamber of deputies; second, the senate:
third. the law courts; fourth the council OF
state; fifth, the ministry of war; sixth, the
royal palace in the chapal, and seventh, the
Bank of Spain. All this work was to be COM
pleted before May day.
The investiture of the young kedive of
Epypt was to have occurred few days ago;
great ceremony having been observed in the
transmission of the firman of the sultan of |
Turkey by accompanying fleets of all the |
great powers of Europe. Before the investl- |
tllre the English ambassador demanded to
eoa a coDv of the firman and was first refused,