Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-29
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Chicago market is receiving neE wheat,
about one-third of it grading No. 2.
Great Britain has informed Siam that she
could not recognize any obligation to assist
her. In the territorial arrangements, how
ever, Great Britain will have voice.
The big driving wheel in the Memphis elee-
tric power house burst by centrifugal force,
tearing the building to pieces and killing the
engineer. The wheel was four feet across,
fifteen feet in diameter and weighed 200.
A bomb was exploded in the yard of the
parsonage of the Independence avenue M.
e. church at Kansas City, Mo-. occupied by
Rev. j. q. Armstrong, the pastor. 1t Is not
conjectured what caused such an attack
Bad financial reports, good rains in the
west, and other panicky circumstances caused
the "longs' in the Chicago grain gambling
den to unload. This knocked September
bets down to 6615 cents, the lowest point on
record.
The League of the American wheelmen have
selected the Santa Fe as the official route to
the national meeting in Chicago. large
number of wheelmen will leave Kansas City
July 81. They will leave the train at Joliet
and ride into the city.
WaterviIle, Ohio. fifteen miles west of To-
ledo, is the scene of phenomenal discovery
of oil. Thirty years ago the district was
abandoned by oil operators as worthless,
while now several wells are running from
100 to 600 barrels of oil a day.
At the Kansas City, Kan, stock yards last
Monday, the demand for cash in payment
for shipments, in place of eastern exchange,
which it has been the custom to use, knocked
buyers out of the market, and put certain
classes of stock down in price.
The worlds congress of education is meet
ing with great success. Thanks to splendid
weather, the native enthusiasm of the school
teachers has expanded and the congress is
proving one of the most profitable of the
many great worlds fair gatherings.
Word comes from Boston that the board
of managers of the National Soldiers homes,
in session there, decided. as the result of the
investigation of the Ieavenworth home, ex-
honorating the governor. Col. A. j. Smith,
and dismissing Surgeon J. L. Weaver.
Tom King. the horse thief who escaped
from the Oklahoma City Jail some weeks
ago, was re-captured at Guthrie. The pris-
oner is a woman. though she has been dressed
in mems clothes for months and affects the
style and manner of a cowboy.
Judge J ohm Goode, representing the United
States, the CHILEAN minister at Washington,
together with the Swiss minister to this coun-
try. are board of arbitration to settle the
claims and counter claims, of many years
standing, between the United States and
Chill.
The long looked for clash between the
strikers and strippers eliminated in trag-
edy at Weir City, July 20. Three strikers
were shot by the shippers and a little boy
wounded in the ankle. 1t is generally be-
heved that the battle was only skirmish
and that one in reality will soon take place.
The greatest fear at Pittsburg, Kan, lies
in the fact that the zinc smelters may be
compelled to shut down at any moment.
The fires in these smelters are never allowed
to 60 out, and should this be necessitated the
loss would be something enormous, as the
retorts are worthless by being allowed to
cool.
Pursuant to instructions from Attorney
General Little, Sheriff Allen gave notices
that all parties engaged in the sale of liquors
in Bourbon county must close up their sa-
looms and joints. From the recent letters of
the attorney general his present action is
somewhat of a surprise to the people of Fort
Scott.
The district court of johnson county, Kan,
has declared an act of the legislature of 1891
invalid because, although properly signed,
certified and published, the house jour-
nal shows that it lacked one of a consti-
tutional majority upon its final passage.
There is quite a number of acts of 81 in the
same condition.
M. Pavie, French minister resident at
Bangkok, handed Frances ultimatum to
Prince De Vowangse, Siamese minister of
foreign affairs. At the same time he in
formed the Siamese government that in case
Frances demands lould be refused he
would at once leave Bangkok to board the
gunboat Forfail. The blockade of the ST.
amese coast, he added, would be declared at
once.
The men at the Kansas City, Kan, yards
were feeling much better. All the banks
were taking eastern exchange and a very
good and active market was had. The Texas
division was full of cattle and statesmen re-
ported them lower; yet they sold from 35c
to SOC higher than this time last year. This,
in the face of the financial troubles, is most
encouraging and must be taken as promis-
ing still better things when the market gets
to running in its regular channel again.
Ex-Assstant Attorney General Allen says
that Walters speech was horrible, and that
he would never have dreamed that he would
have made use of such language. Since
Walters incendiary talk the Kansas and
Texas Coal company has determined to re-
fuse the services of the unreliable deputy
sheriffs taken from among the miners and
to bring suit against the sheriff and the
county for all losses of every kind. The
sheriff's bondsmen were notified. 1t is said
that complaint will be filed against Wal
tiers and a warrant asked for his arrest be-
cause of his effort to incite riot.