Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-02-18
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience o.
Hurried Readers.

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Hurried Readers.
Algernon Charles F. Sartori5, the husband
of General e. S. Grants daughter, Nellie,
died at Capri, February 3. The news ex-
tied much interest in America IN circles.
Melvin LaAghlin, whose dead body was Gre
mated in the Big Four wreck at Pana, Ill,
formerly lived at Atchison, Kan. He started
ten days ago With his family for Cleveland.
He was injured in a wreck in Kansas and
died in Kansas City hospital.
The conference committee of the farmers
and industrial organizations of Missouri has
about completed a scheme for the consoll-
dalton of all the farmers organizations on
| non-political basis, and the only thing In the
way of its success is the reluctance OF the
grange to join with the others.
New Orleans street cars, in large numbers,
burned in their sheds.
And now comes King Teburieno, of Buta-
ritari, asking protection by the United States.
His commissioner, sent to Washington on
this errand, says that British war vessel
seized the islands on receipt of the infor1na-
ton from Sidney, Australia, that the king
had sent to the United States to ask protec-
ton.
Bills have been introduced in the Kansas
senate creating 123 new offices, VIZ: luo
supervisors of agriculture at 81, 500 each per
year, nine commissioners of the supreme
court at S. 900 per year each, three judges OF
appellate court at So, 900 per year each, and
i've live stock commissioners at 5000 per
year each.
Senators Carey, DuBoise, Perkins and
IlllpO9kn hnl n the
four state bill. They decided that the
chances were sufficiently encouraging to war
rant a close watch on their part, seeking an
opening to get the bill before the senate.
1t is believed that if action can be reached
the bill will pass easily.
It is claimed that the ratification of the
eXtradition treaty with Russia marks the
conclusion Of a strong and significant triple
alliance between the United States, Russia
and France, under which the two European
contracting powers agree to sustain, with
what may be needed, the United States In
upholding the Monroe doctrine.
Public opinion in Paris is substantially
unanimous that the sentence to five years
dinand de Lesseps, the worlds famous en-
gineer and canal constructor, went beyond
the requirements of justice. The newspapers
all consider the sentences very severe, and
especially that of Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Joseph Wolf, New Orleans, whisky deal
er, secured a judgment for $4,000 against
the whisky trust. He agreed TO buy his
whisky exclusively from the trust and was
to receive a rebate of cents gallon. He
bought of other parties, however, and the
trust declined to pay the rebates. 1t was
decided that Wolf was not compelled to con-
fine his trade to the trust.
The court of arbitration selected to settle
the controversy between the United States
and Great Britain relative TO the Behring sea
will be convened in Paris on February % and
will adjourn for a month. Voluminous doc
1ments relating to the controversy have been
deposited in sealed boxes at the British en-
bassy and will not be opened until the court
of arbitration is constituted.
Chicago was flooded in the morning and
at night it froze up as tight as Il drum. In
many places the sewers have overlooked,
flooding the streets and causing many of
the big business houses and soma schools to
call on the sewer department for aid. The
rapid changes in the weather, thawlng one
day and freezing the next, have made it
utterly impossible to keep the basins clear
of ice.
There are several delegations of white In
dams at Washington from the Indian terri
legislation. Some want the four state bill
passed; some want separate state for the
five tribes: some prefer to become a part of
Arkansas rather than Oklahoma. 1t is we'll ;
as it all helps to open tho eyes of congress
to the necessity of wiping out ''our nation"
once for all.
Wholesale stealing of freight has been 60
ing on for year on all divisions of the Wa
bash route, from Toledo and Chicago to
Kansas City. The amount Of stolen goods
is estimated at 500, 900. Detectives find it
almost impossible to locate any one case in
any one county, because the cars are entered
and the goods taken without breaking the
seals on the cars. Tn prevents arrests, as
definite evidence of particular thefts cannot
be obtained.
The county insane asylum four miles north
of Dover, N. H., burned Thursday night,
February 10, and forty-four lives were lost.
The Waterman, in making his 10 o'clock
rounds, discovered fire coming out of the
cellar, occupied by woman, and gave the
alarm. William Driscoll, a keeper, lived in
the building with his family, and he at once
broke the locks on fifty-four cells and tried
to get the inmates out. de then got his
wife and children out. Of the forty eight
inmates only four escaped. The building
was of wood and only two stories high.
The second section of the passenger on the
Santa Fe from Chicago, due at Kansas City
at noon, was wrecked at Barring, Mo-, Feb
ruary IL. The train went through the trestle
and the first five coaches were precipitated
distance of forty or fifty feet. The third
coach, a sleeper, was caught by one end of
the trestle work in a vertical position. Not
a passenger on the entire train was killed,
though a number we're injured. Among
those most seriously hurt are Ex-Governor
Thomas A. Osborn, Topeka, cut badly on
the head, and P. l. Bonebrake, Topeka, Sc
yerely bruised.