Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-18
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Emperor Francis Joseph, as king of Hun.
gary, has signed the civil marriage bill.
Spain has proposed the appointment of an
international commission whose duty it will
be to draft common code of measures
against anarchists.
A through freight on the Santa Fe ran into
an open switch at Cross, o. T. Ten cars
and an engine were derailed. No one was
killed. A track was laid around the wreck.
1t delayed trains about eight hours.
There will be no appropriations for public
buildings by the forthcoming congress il
Chairman Sayers, of the appropriation COM
mittee, succeeds in carrying out his plans,
beyond that for new government printing
Office.
San Francisco bankers and merchants are
refusing or delaying business with the Sand
wich Islands, waiting to see the result of the
new policy of the Washington government.
The Hawaiian consul general at San Fran
cisco says the provisional government of the
islands is strong enough to maintain control
and that the deposed queen cannot be rein
stated without bloody conflict.
The Kansas and Texas Coal company at
Bevier, Mo-. has imported two car loads OF
negroes from Pittsburg, Kan, to work in
mine 46. They were not landed at Bevier,
but passed on through to the mine.
The New Jersey supreme courts decision
that the present legislative apportionment
law of that state is invalid will make neces-
sary special elections for members of tho
assembly in all but seven counties.
Two Cincinnati reporters attended and re-
ported a prize fight IN Indiana have been
indicted for it and a requisition has been
made on the governor of Ohio for their arrest
and delivery to Indiana courts for trial.
Treasury department figures show that "a, -
519 immigrants arrived in the United States
during September, and that 40, 517 arrived
during the nine months ended September 30 (;
1918 for the same nine months of 1892.
Claims aggregating $1,000, 900 have been
forwarded to Ottawa by Collector of Customs
Miner on behalf of the British Columbian
sealers and will be presented against the
United States under the arbitration arrange
ment.
Woman suffrage carried in Colorado by a
majority approaching 1900. The country
districts have all given majority vote for
equal suffrage, and it is expected that later
returns will not reduce the majority now
held.
The order will be issued in few days to
have the records of the land Office at Larned
and the office at Garden City removed to
Dodge City and also the records of the Salina
Office removed to Topeka, and Oberlin to
Wa-Keeney.
The grand jury at Enid, O. T., indicted
the officials of the land Office at that place
and one of the officials at Kingfsher, and
also other temporary officials at the Strip
opening, for bride taking and other official
crookedness.
Attorney General Maloney, of Illinois, has
issued an opinion that building and loan as
sociations cannot lawfully make an assign
ment; that in case of any trouble auditors
Of public accounts, under the new law, take
charge of associations.
J. A. Burnett was elected Judge in the
Nineteenth judicial district by 80 majority
over Halsell, the fusion candidate. The
Nineteenth district is composed of Sumner
county alone. which in 1892 gave fusion 4,O57
votes, to 3,503 republican.
There is reason to believe the present pro-
visional government of Hawaii is regarded
by the president and his cabinet as the result
of the landing of marines from the Boston
in Honolulu at the time of the revolution,
and the desire of this administration is to 60
back over all the steps taken by the last ad-
ministration and undo them.
The members of the cabinet at the White
house attribute the results of the elections
to the business depression of the past several
months, and the statement was made that
this was the worst possible time for the DEM
ocrats to have an election, while SO many
people were suffering from conditions that
were not political, but wholly extraneous.
The high water mark of national bank cir
culation was reached in September, when
banks took out additional circulation to re-
lieve the stringency in the money market.
Since then a gradual reduction has taken
place and since September Is national banks
which had previously taken out additional
currency have surrendered circulation to the
extent of 81, 136, $50.
Somebody exploded dynamite bomb in
a crowded opera house in Barcelona, Spain,
wrecking the interior of the building, kill
ing twenty-five persons and seriously iniur-
ing great many more. The resulting panic
caused the death and injury of many more.
The bomb was just like the one recently used
to MAIN the commander-in-chief of the
Spanish army, during review.
The following summary is made from the
returns received from seventyeight Kansas
counties: Counties straight republican, 45;
counties straight populist, 8; counties divfd-
ed, %; republicans elected in divided coun-
ties, los; populists elected in divided coun-
ties, So; republicans elected IN seventy-eight
counties, 485; populists elected in seventy.
eight counties, 123. In the above figures
are given for the eight officers elected in each
county. Republican judges elected, 8; pop
ulist judges elected, 2; districts not heard