Western Kansas world., 1893-10-07
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

English journals are still passing arcund
the news that Esther Cleveland is boy.
1t is said that foreigners in Buenos Ayres
have taken sides with the revolutionists.
! Considerable fighting has occurred and both
sides send out hopeful reports.
Forest fires are raging TO an alarming ex-
tent near Winchester, O., and people are
teelng from their homes, as there is no water
| to fight the flames. Many farm houses and
barns have already been destroyed.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad COM
pany has sued the Machinists' union of Lou
isville, Ky., for damages; charging the de-
| PENDANTS with preventing men from going
to work who are willing and anxious to work.
The comptroller of currency has granted
| hearing to those interested in the First
| National Bank of Arkansas City. and dele
| CATION representing the interests of that bank
has met the comptroller in conference.
Martin E. Boland, president of the Grand
Rapids Typographical union, has committed
| suicide by taking morphine. At one time
| he owned and edited newspaper in Kansas,
| and was once a member of the Kansas legis-
! lature.
Fourteen anarchists were arrested in Vien-
| na. Many bombs were found hidden at their
| place of meeting and in their rooms. 1t is
| supposed that they intended to terrify the
SitJ WIN cA AkJlOSIOuS dI several
points in the city.
A report, by way of London. says that the
| rebel fleet stopped bombarding Rio Janeiro
upon the notice given by the foreign war
vessels in that port that their guns would be
turned upon the rebel ships if they did not
cease firing upon the city.
The miners of Aspen will not accept the
sliding scale the managers adopted, and
from the present outlook there will be no
work there to speak of until such time as
the prlce of silver will justify the employ
ment of men at the old wages.
Representative Curtis, of Kansas, has in
troduced a bill to extend the benefits of the
pension laws to state militiamen and to the
widows, children and dependent relatives of
deceased militiamen who rendered service to
the country during the civil war.
The report of the Utah commission recon-
mends an amendment to the federal consti-
tuition inhibiting polygamy and empowering
congress to prescribe conditions of marriage
and divorce, and also cession of unappropri-
ated and unreserved public lands.
The Santa Fe's railroad bridges on the
Canadian in the Panhandle. and the one at
Purcell, and the Rock Islands bridge at
thion City, are all washed out. 1t is re-
ported that the bottom lands along the
Canadian have suffered great damage.
Large numbers of private war claims are
being daily introduced in both house and
senate. They are mostly for the payment of
damages to citizens of Maryland and Penn
sylvania for occupancy of towns during the
war by both federal and confederate troops.
Mr.. Gladstone in closing speech at Edin-
burg. said that if the house of lords forces a
dissolution of parliament the home rule bill
will not be the only issue in the next elec-
ton, but the independence and existing of
of that house would be taken into considera.
ton.
The action of the grand secretary in de-
clining to furnish Archbishop Katzer copy
of the ritual was confirmed by the l. D. 0. F.
ity exists for revealing the secrets of the Or
der to any man except by initiating him as a
member.
express train against highwaymen at Cen
tralia, ILL.,, are to be rewarded for their brav-
cry. The Illinois Central and American Ex-
press companies have decided to bestow re-
wards, which will consist of six gold medals
and $1,000.
The announcement that ex-President Pelli- |
grini has been captured by the rebels, i'm
prlsoned at Tucuman by order of the revolu-
tionary junta, and that he was in danger of
Dy COUTG uldTIldI duu SIlOU, CduSSu
an almost unprecedented sensation at Bue- |
nos Ayres.
Now that the war department will investi- !
gate strip matters the fight is on to compel
an investigation of the part of the interior
department in work of opening the strip. 1t
is met by able friends of the secretary who
so far have prevented a full hearing in the
house of the charges made. /
The Colina volcano on the Pacific coast,
south of Guadalajara, Mexico, is again active
and the people living near the base of the
mountain are greatly alarmed. Many have
abandoned their homes. The sight is i'm
pressive at night. The flames may be seen
for long distance on the sea and land.
The appointment of Briscoe. an Illinois
man, to the land office at Wa-Keeney, Kan
sas. has raised an opposition In the senate to
his confirmation. Home rule in presidential
appointments is quite popular in the senate.
Secretary Smith says he named Briscoe on the
request of the vice president, but Mr.. Stew
enson says this is false.
One of the Washington correspondents,
who is connected with Chicago paper, was
at the opening and he will be called before
the committee by Delegate Flynn. He states
that he himself bribed for So one of the dep
uty marshals at Arkansas City. That he had
q booth certificate and after he got on the
train he watched the deputy and saw HIM
and his partner make dozen others pay the
an rna am0unt