Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-02
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The jury in the case against the officers of
the Guarantee Investment company, OF
Chicago, charged with using the mails for
| fraudulent purposes and conducting lot
| lery returned a verdict of guilty.
Postmaster General Bissell was made mad
by the receipt of six emphatic telegraph dis
patches from Topeka, signed by John Mar
tin, all denouncing the appointment OF Ar
mold, and all received on the day Arnold was
appointed.
T. V. Powderly has resigned his position
a. general master workman of the knights
of Labor. He was unable to keep the dele
gates in the line he had marked out for them,
and this decisive move seemed to be the only
thing left for him.
It is now believed that the anti-options bill
will be quietly allowed to pass congress and
will then be vetoed.
The health commissioner declared that
smallpox is epidemic in Chicago. There are
now eighteen cases of the disease in the city
pest house.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert's report
recommends the construction of one new
battleship and forty torpedo cruisers. The
report is heartily approved by the president.
The civil service commission has decided
that the charges against the recently removed
Topeka letter carriers are untrue, and that
they may be re-appointed within one year,
without examination.
The railroad and express companies are
moving upon congress in earnest to secure
legislation for their protection against train
robbers, and will make strenuous efforts to
secure some action in that direction at the
approaching session.
By the explosion of gas meter, the Engle-
wood, ILL.,, First Methodist church was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000. Stained glass
windows of great value were shattered and
the fire which followed ruined much of the
handsome furnishings.
Ex-Governor Gear is conceded to be the
strongest candidate for q. S. senator in Iowa
so far, with the possible exception of Con-
gresham Hepburn. The advent of Con-
gresham Perkins from northwestern Iowa
complexities matters somewhat.
The commission appointed to negotiate
with the five civilized tribes are called to
meet in Washington. December 4, to receive
their instructions. 1t promises to be long
job if the instructions. which seem to take
the longest way round, are carried out.
Abraham Simmer. of Waverly, Iowa,
gave deed to his palatial mansion, near
that city, to the county board, to be used ex-
clusively as home for poor people, and the
donor takes it upon himself to keep up the
expenses of the establishment till his death.
The insurance adjusters and the trustees
of the Atchison county high school have
trouble in settling the insurance on the
Effingham high school building. 1t cost
$20,SO0, was insured for $4,000 and is nearly
a total loss. The adjusters' first offer was
$40 600.
DR.. Francis L. Flanders, of Kansas City,
Mo-, must serve a three years term in the
penitentiary for swindling an aged couple in
that city out of their real estate by securing
their signatures to a deed upon misrepre-
sentation. Flanders is said to be worth half
a million dollars.
The interior department has made ruling
which is expected to lead to wholesale leas-
ing of Indian lands to cattle men. as of old.
This will set the cattle lobby to a renewal of
distractions to the work of commissions sent
to the territory to. arrange for opening of
more lands to settlement.
Fire in Columbus, Ohio, destroyed two
theaters and the Chittenden hotel. Plays
were going ON in each theater, but the people
had time to get out in an orderly way. At
the hotel there was much anxious work
among the guests to save personal effects.
Governor Mckinley and wife had elegant
rooms there.
Secretary Foster allowed an abatement of
taxes to the company having sealing rights
in the Behring sea of $289,OOO, because the
company was not allowed to take its stipu-
lated number of seals, owing to the opera
ton of the agreement with Great Britain.
Secretary Carlisle is now demanding pay
ment of this amount.
Silver Dick Bland will introduce bill at
the opening session for the re-enactment of
the law of January Is, 1887, which provides
for silver dollars of 4l214 grains, and declares
that ''the dollars, half-dollars, quarter-dol-
lars, dimes and half-dimes shall be legal
tender according to their nominal value Tor
any sums whatsoever.
Eight tramps, on a freight train which was
ahead of the New York fast express on the
Lake Shore road, near Goshen, Ind, at
tempted to cut off ten rear cars so that the
express would run into them and give
chance for q robbery. The train crew learned
of their effort and fought the tramps while
running ten miles. Two of the tramps were
captured and $4,000 offered for each of the
others.
Secretary Gresham found among the lead
ing newspapers of the country five which
support his Hawaiian policy. and to these
Ave he mailed two copies each of Bount's
report on Friday, with the privilege of print
ing it on Sunday. The papers are the Bos-
ton Globe, New York HeIali and Times,
Baltimore Sun and Chicago Herald. This is
the first instance of the kind wherein cabl-
net officer failed to treat all newspapers alike
in the matter of giving out news.
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