Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-01-28
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Seven tons of powder exploded in the
large mill of tine Kellogg powder Mor tb.
near Huntington, W. Va, wrecklng the
plant and shaking up the city.
Sister Joseph Maria. of st. Joseph hospi-
tai, Denver Col, fell down the elevator shaft
from the third story Of the building. striking
upon her head and was instantly killed. her
family name was O'Connor, and she came
from Albany, n. Y.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Fairchnd
says the only remedy for the present silver
agitation is the suspension OF purchase ana
coinage of the white metal by the govern.
ment The Bland act would give no relief
If substituted for the Sherman law, now
operative.
Cattleulen of Oklahoma ask that the Texas
fever quarantine line be moved farther south.
Justice Lamar. of the United States SUI
preme court, died at Vineville, Ga, at
o'clock o. M, January %. HIS death was
sudden in the extreme, although he has been
aillng for some time.
2Grzat excitement was created at Denver
Sunday night by the arrest Of all performers
at Sunday theaters and the closing OF the
houses, which was followed by an assault
on the house of Dean Hart by mob OF
hoo1lums.
There is an unbroken field of ice from De-
troit river to Put-in-Bay. Fishermen have
driven fifteen miles out from Monroe and
returned with the statement that the ice was
solid all the way, and that it extended as far
as they could see.
The publication of the Plumb memorial
volume has been long delayed by reason of
circumstances which could not we'll be over
come. At last the proof has been read, ana
the volume will soon be ready for those who
desire to possess it.
Judge william Lindsay, will, in all prob
ability, fall heir to the senatorship from
Kentucky, made vacant by the formal re-
signation of Senator Carlisle. This seems
to be the opinion of most of the Kentucky
delegation at Washington.
The Northwestern Methodist College at
Albany, Gentry county, Mo-, is destroyed
by fire. The building was not plastered,
but was otherwise finished. The fire is sup
posed to have been the work of an incendi-
airy. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
The general deficiency DILL as ready to be
reported to the lower house of congress car
ries appropriations of SIC, 1856, $40, of which
the largest item is $14. 149, 437 for pensions,
$l3, 844, 437 being for payments of pesions and
surgeons.
The healthy tone of the general cattle mar
ket at the Kansas City, Kan. stock yards is
encouraging a good demand for young cattle
and feeders and nice, smooth stockers have
reached the highest point of the season, but
there seems to be plenty of buyers for all
desirable offerings.
The very radical anti-silver men are insist
o. that the o. no aH
Lutte suspension of silver purchases, while
the radicals on the other side of the question
state that they will not agree to the repeal
of the Sherman act unless they can have
free coinage of silver or the coinage of at
least 100000 a month.
The. Illinois Centarl Railroad company
FLED with the secretary of state mortgage
for $25, OOO. 900, executed to the United States
Trust company, of New York, to secure
bonds for that amount, bearing per cent
interest, and maturing in 1903 to be used in
acquiring bonds and stock of the Louisville,
New Orlean d Texas Railroad company.
Chairman Peel is somewhat gloomy over
the prospect of getting any of the treaties
ratified for the opening of the lands in the
Indian and Oklahoma territories, excepting
that of the Cherokee strip. The committee
is being urged very strongly to Immediately
take up the other bills which concern 4, 00O,-
600 acres of land south Of the original Okla
homa.
Senator Rodgers, populist, of Washington
county. says that the populists we're now 60
ing to see who were elected members of the
house, and when that was done the populists
would yield if in the minority. However,
am not a member of that body, but the
contests will be commenced at once in my
opinion. Then we will know who is entitled
to the organization of the house,
The most appalling and disastrous wreck
that has occurred in years occurred at Alton
junction, Ill, January 81, by limited pas
senger train running into an open switch
and crashing into train consisting of seven
tank cars. The result was a fire and after
wards an explosion which cost six persons
their lives and fatally njuring nineteen 9TH
ers, while fully fifty others are suffering
from painful burns.
The exercises at the opening of the worlds
fair next May, it has been decided by the
executive committee of the board of dlrec-
tors, will be open to the public. They will
be held out of doors, and as many as can
find space around big grand stand will
have an opportunity of seeing President
Cleveland and hearing his speech, as we'll as
the expected poem by Oliver Wendell
In the Illinois legislature there are bills to
reduce the price of sleeping berths in rail-
road cars. to reduce the price of kilograms
and the cost of telephones, to establish
state printing house for the printing of
school books, to prevent trusts, pools and
combinations, to license and regulate the
business of undertakers, to compel the Pull
mans to carry safes for the keeping of valu-
Rbles on their cars, for establishing a new
savings bank system, and for amending the
general banking law of the state.