Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-14
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are striking for more pay.
From st. Joseph is wired the tale of death
and destruction by storm in the vicinity OF
McFall. Missouri
May day in Paris was, instead of being, as
| many persons supposed it would be, day of
excitement, fighting and bloodshed, without
exception one of the quietest, most unevent-
| full Sundays that has passed in many years.
The Illinois conference of German Luther
ans has agreed to support, to a man, the po-
litical party in that state which will promise
to repeal an obnoxious. to them, school law.
church taking unanimous partisan posi-
ton!
Attorney General Stockton, acting under
the direction of Governor Abbott, is investi-
eating the Reading coal combination with q
view of crushing the conspiracy in the courts
of New Jersey if it be found that the state
has the power.
Kansas City, Mo-, has heretofore sold its
school bonds above par from to 3 cents, and
when bids for more bonds were opened and
it was found that there were but two of them,
at 92x and 9SH.
Jay Gould went from Ell Paso to Albu-
querque for a couple of days. Mr.. Gould is
still suffering from bronchial trouble, but his
physicians think the high altitude will greatly
benefit him. The party went from Albu-
querque to Colorado.
Judge Broderick is being referred to as the
Unanimous consent member" of the house.
He has put through more local and small
bills than any other member, and in order to.
do this 1t is almost absolutely necessary to
secure unanimous consent.
Determinations in freight rates is not con-
fined to Kansas: as appears from complaints
by Cincinnati wholesalers, who say that rail
roads carry New York freights through that
city to southern points at rates which cuts
them out as competitors.
The Illinois r1ver is higher than it has been
since 1874. Opposite Pekin a 200 feet break
in dyke flooded reclaimed land, two and
half miles by five miles; all cultivated and
occupied by farmers families. A rescuing
party went out to save lives.
Great alarm was caused at ST. Petersburg
by an explosion that occurred in a street near
the Nicholas bridge. It was at first thought
that dynamite had been at work, but an in
vestigation soon revealed the fact that the
explosion was caused by gas.
From Pattonsburg, Mo-, comes report of
storm which took everything in a strip 800
feet wide and ten miles long, IN thickly
farming country. Two deaths and many
people injured; and stock crippled in large
numbers. Buildings all gone.
Judge Broderick has introduced general
pension bill which relieves widows and minor
heirs under all pension laws from establish
ing the cause of death of the soldier. Under
the bill it is not necessary to establish the
fact that death is the result of service.
Another tremendous gold excitement has
been created by rich discoveries in the Orphan
Boy mine at Copper Rock, about fifty miles
from Denver. They are assayed from 5000
to SIS, 5000. About 500 claims ale located there
and the rush of prospectors has begun.
The Ohio & Mississippi and Pennsylvania
roads, from Chicago to Washington, have
decided to offer a round trip on the occasion
of the national encampment of $3.50. If
this is correct it would make the Kansas City
rate $3.50 for the round trip as matters now
stand.
The Wabash company has purchased L, 600
tons of steel rail weighing seventy 1.-TWO pounds
to the yard, to be put into its main line be-
tween Toledo and ST. Louis. The rails taken |
up are to be used in extension of yards at
Toledo and additional sidetracks along the
main line.
A severe rain and wind storm suddenly |
came upon Marietta, Ohio. The heavy irop |
roof of the Leidecker Tool company was |
lifted, trusses and all, and dropped in the |
street. The side wall was cracked. Forum |
ately the workmen escaped injury. Several |
unfinished buildings were wrecked.
The "Readlng' freight station at Philadel- |
phia is burned; loss, $50, 900, including build |
ing, freight and the stationery supply for the |
entire Reading system, which was distributed |
from that point, and valuable car records for |
seven years past. Other books were saved |
intact. The loss is covered by insurance.
Colonel G. w. Bushyhead, delegate to the
Baptist convention, breathed his last at At
lanta Georgia. Colonel Bushyhead was an |
ex-chief of the Cherokee Indians of the North
Carolina reservation. He was cousin of
the famous Bushvhead, chief of the Cherokees
of the reservation in the Indian Territory.
LaSalle, Peru, Ottawa, Marseilles, and the
entire valley in wich these cities of Illinois
are located, suffered untold loss by floods. A
storm the first of the week was bad in its re-
suits, and this was followed by another
Wednesday night which was much worse.
Long washouts ccurred on all the railroads.
O'Donovan Rosa, the New York politician
and editor, tells senate committee which is
immigration matters in New
York, that English prisoners, when their
lime is out, are sent under escort of prison
znards from the prison to the ships sailing
Tor America. Rosa ought to know, for that
q the way he came to America.
Chairman Hatch, of the committee on agri-
culture, will make an earnest effort to secure
of the anti-option bill as soon
l. L. = - L.
bill is, however, vigorously OPP
posed by many members, who will use all
he devices known to parliamentarians to
Keep the measure in the background.