Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-25
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

General jeremiah Rusk, who has been sick
unto death for sometime, is said to be i'm.
proving and hopes for his recovery are fat
Several dwellings and the entire business
portion of the little town of Grand Ridge
Illinois, are destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Bourke Cochran, of New York city, who is
member of the house ways and means COM
mittee, denornces the proposed income tax
as vicious in principle; as class legislation
of the worst kind.
At Lincoln, Neb.. the elegant building
known as the Conservatory of Music was
badly damaged by fire. The building was
one of the finest in the city, built of brick
with stone foundation.
For hundreds of miles the coasts of Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland are strewn with
wrecks, in evidence of the awful work of the
recent storm.
A number of populist leaders have united
in demanding of Governor Lewelling that
Mrs. Lease, in view of her recent utterances,
be removed from her position as president
of the state board of charities.
According to an official of the state of
Chihuahua Mormon leaders from the United
States have arranged for the purchase of
5000, 900 acres of land in that state. A con-
tract for the purchase has already been en-
tered into.
The bill introduced by Congressman Black,
of Illinois, ex-commissioner of pensions, to
repeal in toto the Indian depredations act
of 1890, is attracting considerable public at
tention and has caused the claim agents
much trepidation.
Senior Romero, minister from Mexico at
Washington, has filed protest against mem
bers of the American legation at the City of
Mexico taking too active part in the work
of securing a new concession for the Mexican
Lottery company.
An unknown man gave himself up to the
authorities of Mason City, Ia, as being i'm
plicated in the Kessler, Ind.. Lake Shore
train robbery. He says at the proper time
he we'll tell the whole story and give the
names Of those implicated.
Counterfeit tickets have been honored by
roads east out of Chicago to the value of
thousands of dollars within a short time.
One road was robbed thus, in one days col
lection of tickets reading ''from Chicago to
New York" 5,4OO worth of tickets.
Vandals enter houses in Washington. D.
c., when they find the occupants away. and
destroy curtains, furniture and clothing by
slashing them into shreds. They visit kitch-
ems and pile up all provisions found in the
house in heap and empty the oil can on it.
The NJ E. church decided to devote $751;
600 of its missionary fund to Oklahoma.
North Dakota work was voted $9,778. and
the work among the whites in the south was
referred to a committee with instructions
that not more than 1000 was to be ex-
pended.
Van Roberts, a hotel keeper at Rush Hill.
Ill. ALDAI IL
has fallen heir to 100000, left him by John
Bennett, who died at Las Vegas: n. M.
Roberts saved Bennett from drowning in the
Sangamon river, near Decatur, ILL.,, twenty
years ago.
Drouth in Pettis and surrounding coun-
ties of Missouri is such as has never been
known before. Stock wells have gone dry,
ponds that never went dry before are empty.
and in Johnson county some of the heavier
feeders are compelled to haul water three
and four miles.
A bronze, life sized statue of General James
Shields. of Missouri, hero OF two wars and
United States senator from three states,
illinois, Minnesota and Missouri, has been
received at the capitol and will soon be
placed in Statuary hall between the statues
of Lincoln and Hamilton
Worlds fair exhibitors who were awarded
medals are complaining of the delay IN get
ting them. The value to exhibitors of the
medals won is for advertising purposes, and
they are kept out of their use indefinitely.
The treasury department has not yet asked
for bids for making the medals.
A chartered steamer left San Francisco for
Honolulu having on board newspaper men
and doubtless sDme communication from
Minister Thursten to his (the Professionally
This steamer is now due at
Honolulu, but not before the next steamer
to arrive from Honolulu had left there.
Assistant United States District Attorney
p. L Soper, of Topeka, has handed in his
to take effect December 81. He
will remain in the Office until that time, in
order to initiate his successor, Mr.. Cliggett,
into the work. Mr.. Soper has not as yet
made any definite plans for the future.
An old man, 66 years of age, was sentenced
by Judge Phillips, at Kansas City, to three
in Jail, for forging blind pensioners name
ments. He was indicted on three counts,
them and the Jail sentence for the third. He
plead guilty.
Rev. Henry Kay, gifted Methodist min
ister, died in the St. Joseph. Mo-, insane
asylum. His father, an old and wealthy re-
tired merchant, grieved over his sons in
sanity and when the news of his death was
brought to him. he remarked that he could
not stand the blow, and died an hour after
of a broken heart. Father and son were
buried in the same grave.