Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-08-05
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

There are but very few Americans among
the striking Kansas miners.
Most of the mills at Fall River, Mass, are
to shut down during August, for the reason
that they cannot afford to pay per cent. on
time loans required in their operation.
Passenger agents at Denver, on all lines,
agreed upon a So rate to all Missouri river
points, to, enable men who want to go east
to do so. A large number of miners will
leave the state.
Sheriff Arnold had local merchant order
three dozen Winchesters by wire. Reply
came from a Kansas City firm that their en-
tire stock had been sold to party in south
eastern Kansas.
By order of state court the gates of the
worlds fair we're open last Sunday, but they
might as we'll have been closed. as scarcely
any attendance was seen.
Grand Commander Weissert, of the g. A.
R., has requested the people of Indianapolis
to forbear from unnecessary expense, such as
for fireworks, in their arrangements for the
national reunion there.
Fire'in the Edison electric plant at To-
peka stopped business in dozens of shops,
printing offices, laundries, bakeries. ETC.,
etc., for all the electric motors in the city
were run from this plant.
General George ". Morgan, who was the
last surviving general of the Mexican war,
died this week at Fortress Monroe, Va,
where he had gone from his home in Mount
Vernon, o., for his health.
The Dalince & Grosjean agate and tins
ware factory at Woodhaven, Long Island,
the largest establishment of its kind in the
United States, has shut down, throwing out
of employment 1000 persons.
The Chicago sub-treasury refuses to receive
silver coin, having such large amounts of it
now on hand, which is uncounted and not
checked up, that more cannot be handled
until this is got out of the way.
The Champion Wagon company, of Oswe-
60, N. Y, the chief industry of the city, en-
ploying over 100 men, has ordered reduc-
ton of 20 per cent. in wages. Their collec-
tions are good, but their sales are bad.
peddler was showing the qualities of
liquid stove polish on stove in Pittsburg,
Pa, when the polish exploded, killing three
persons, injuring half a dozen more, and
starting a fire which destroyed the house.
The head of prominent New York city
trust company says: ''The banks will stand
by each other and see this thing out. Times
have changed since 1884, and the banks were
never better organized or prepared to stand q
siege"
It is reported that the management of the
Pennsylvania road has decided to dispense
with the use of the telegraph wires and to
substitute long distance telephones. It is
said the change is made in the interests of
economy.
Notice has been posted of a general re-
sumption of work on Monday next at the
Burden iron works and the Clinton foundry at
Troy, n. Y. This is much sooner than ex-
pected. Several thousand persons will be
benefited.
John Carr, superintendent of the Leayen-
worth Coal company, reports that the miners
in the Leavenworth coal field had made
propositions to return to work, but that the
operators have now decided not to resume
until September 1.
Train loads, box car trains, of unemployed
miners are passing into and through Ne
braska from Colorado. Some of them are
travelling hungry and unfed. Their tales OF
actual suffering among comrades and their
families in Colorado are startling.
Hon. W. C. Perry, of Fort Scott, went to
Chicago to argue before Judge Foster mo-
ton to imprison, for contempt, M. L. Wal
tiers for his anarchistic utterances Satur-
day night, and A. H. Skidmore, the Col
umbus attorney, is preparing papers in other
similar cases.
The mid-winter fair managers have been
notified by the continental freight COM
mittee that the concess ions desired for the
carriage of exhibits from Chicago west to
San Francisco have been granted. Full
charges will be made on shipments west, but
exhibits will be returned free.
Captain Cleary, who has charge of the
Cowboy guards in stockade at Weir City,
went around among the negroes and hunted
up the disaffected ones and discharged them
and put them outside the stockade. There
were fourteen of them, which makes sixteen
who have left out of a total of 276.
The striking Armourdale coopers want IA
cents for hopping and 81. % per day for head
ing barrels. The men feel confident of
winning the strike, as the demand for barrels
and tierces will increase in few weeks and
the stock on hand will run out and the firm
be compelled to employ workmen.
A bartender was killed in Kansas City, and
while the body laid at the undertaker's three
different parties of mourners visited it, bring
ing flowers. Each party was in company of
young woman who was engaged to the
dead man; and it appears that no one of the
three affianced maids knew of the existence
of the other two.
A Boston special tells the tale of huge
conspiracy to swindIe. Employees of four
great elevator companies of Minnesota issued
81, 10000 of forged duplicate certificates for
grain on storage in country elevators; sent
the certificates east, and as collateral raised