Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-15
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Won Capriyi is very confident that the army
bill will pass the relchstag by large ma
jority.
There is a serious break in the Erie canal
at Rochester N. Y. Navigation is stopped
for week at least.
Father Mclaughlin, Catholic priest at
Rolla, Mo-, is trying to stop the daily open
ing of the teachers institute of the county
with prayer and singing, and IS trying 10
have such opening enloined by the courts.
The beautiful residence of the Duke of
Veragua, in Madrid, with Its entire furnl-
ture. many valuable works of art and the en-
tire library, was siezed by his creators WINE L
be was in Chicago as guest OF honor at the
worlds fair.
The ex-minister TO Austria, Frederick ID.
Grant, arrived at New York on the American
liner. New York, and has joined his mother,
Mrs. u. S. Grant, at West Point. His fam
lily accompanied him.
In the Cherokee mining district it Is the
general opinion that the closing down OF
Colorado mines will result in big exodus
of miners in the coal districts and that with
in two weeks there will be more miners In
Kansas than there is work for them.
For more than week past a dozen or
more strikers have each day resumed work
here and there in the Pittsburg, Kan, fields
and it is known positively that there are
many Others ready to do SO if they can re-
sumo without being responsible for leader
ship.
Basil Lockwood, the colored hero of the
Ford's theater disaster. has been presented
with gold watch. Lockwood is the man
who climbed to one of the back windows by
means of telegraph pole, and SO held
ladder that about twenty-five frenzied clerks
got out.
Secretary Carlisle has instructed j. j.
Clark, an inspector of public buildings OF
the treasury department, to make thor
ough examination of the public building at
Chicago, which has been examined by the
local building commissioner and pronounced
unsafe.
Mrs. Jane Hughes, of Port Huron, Mich,
while boarding the excursion steamer Ed
wards, at Chicago, caught her dress in a re-
volvinQ shaft on deck, and was sent spin
ming through the air. Her injuries resulted
in death soon afterward at St. Elizabeth's
hospital.
On the anniversary of the strike battle at
Homestead, Pa, the mill was in full opera
ton, the workers being largely made up
from the strikers of one year ago. There
was picnic in commemoratlon OF the event
and flowers were placed on the graves of those
who fell then.
Inability to secure an extension of his
paper has forced Lowry w. Goode, the most
extensive real estate dealer of Des MONIES,
to the wall Attachments and mechanics
liens to the amount of $4,000 were filed
against his property and that of the company
in which he is the prime mover.
Emil Shuman, president of Guatemala,
came from Chicago to Kansas City, Kansas,
l., IF oor
rage horses for $500. a nice driving mare for
$3.50, good pair of drivers for $225 and four
chunks at $50 apiece. They were shipped to
Central America via New Orleans.
In the Wyandotte Herald building at Kan
sas City. Kan, was stock of fireworks which.
from some unknown cause, exploded. The
building, with the Herald Office, was wrecked.
and several other buildings and stocks of
goods in the vicinity were damaged. V. j.
Lanes loss on the Herald and the building
is put at $500.
Over sixty of the seventy-one Cherokees
entitled to allotments on the the Cherokee
strip met in the strip and selected their claims.
A few of them are along the Santa Fe and
Rock Island railways at points available for
townsites, but the greatest number are IN the
extreme eastern portion of the strip, some
covering valuable stone and mineral prop
critics.
The wind storm at Chicago Sunday p m.
was scary, but the only serious damage done
was to break up the captive balloon at the
fair grounds. 1t had been kept going up all
day with its basket filled with people.
man in the basket saw the squall coming and
signalled to lower the balloon, and it reached
ground Just in time to save its occupants
from great danger.
The cold storage building at the worlds
fair caught fire in its cupola Monday p. M.
June 10. Some forty firemen assembled the
cupola, nearly 200 feet from the ground,
when fire under them eat out Its support.
About twenty-five were burned to death.
Several small hotels, outside the grounds,
caught fire and burned. The worlds fair
stables were also burned.
In Australia strikes are imminent and tens
of thousands of people are out OF work.
number of coal mines have shut down, wages
of sailors are being reduced and omnibus
drivers went out on strike because their
wages were reduced from $40 to 1915 per week.
The unemployed swarm along the docks
seeking a chance to stow away on any vessel
bound for the United States.
Before starting for Buzzard's Bay the pres
ident directed that the law officer of the in
terror department should draft the procla-
nation to open the Cherokee strip TO settle
ment. 1t is evident the president is studying
the matter now that friends of opening have
presented the case to him direct. 1t will be
remembered that Mr.. Cleveland said a few
days ago that the interior department had
failed to place the matter before him and
that he knew nothing about it.