Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-10
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In May $1,000 immigrants landed at Castle
Garden, and 75,0 600 are expected in June.
Twenty-six Mexican coal miners persisted
in mine on fire which is worked by the
Mexican International railway.
Wheat harvest has commenced in Okla-
homa. Tho acreage is much larger than last
year and the yield will average from twenty.
five to thirty bushels throughout.
The Baltimore sugar refinery, one of Mary
lands greatest manufactures, located at
Curtis Bay, is completely destroyed by fire.
The origin of the fire is unknowE,.
A collision between a freight train and a
street car motor in Council Bluffs, Ia, killed
one man and injured i've persons; one OF
them, Miss Maude Bryant, fatally.
Five persons of one family were burned to
death in a fire in a New York fiat.
The National Association of Railway Sur
| geons, in session at Omaha, voted In
favor of national control of quaratine regu-
lations. This was slap on New York
| methods.
The report of the investigation of the
Leavenworth Soldiers home is directed to
| be submitted to the president. chief justice
and secretary of war, for final disposition OF
| the matter.
The galleries in the fine arts building prove
to be among the greatest attractions on the
worlds fair grounds, the American exhlb bits
| fully holding their own with those OF any
other country.
Steel mills at Scranton, Pa, are burned.
| The works were running double time on big
orders, and will be idle some months, throw
ing out of employment 200 hands. The
loss is $4,000.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs
| General Armstrong, whose duties include
the selection for appointment of Indian
| agents, gives it out fiat that no agent Will be
| appointed from Kansas.
Sunday opening gives US breathing
spell" said the chief clerk of the Auditorium
hotel, ''but it is rather rough on the bar re-
ceipts." And that is the verdict of clerks in
other hotels In Chicago.
In Columbia county, Ark. the wind cut
swath forty miles wide. 1t is a g=Sat yellow
pine region and trees and mills were alike
tumbled about. Near Waldo 165 trees we're
left lying on the railroad track.
More trouble is at hand in the iron and
steel industry of western Pennsylvania. The
workmen demand increased pay and the
companies refuse. There are now fifteen
union and nineteen non union mills in Allie
gheny county.
At a mass meeting of citizens of Hope,
Ark, reports were received showing that
thousands of acres of corn and cotton were
literally swept away by the storm. Fences
are gone and wrecked trees cover the fields,
giving no chance to replant.
The Illinois legislature passed a senatorial
apportlonment bill which left out a town
near Chicago. 1t is unconstitutional, and
to remedy the blunder another bill was in
troduced, read twice and referred when
there was no quorum present. The muddle
is the talk of the state.
New York capitalists are now willing to
buy the Cherokee bonds provided that the
CherOkees are at the expense which will be
required to get the final appropriation for
their payment through congress: they be-
lieving that the Cherokees can do this cheaper
than can Wall street.
Joseph V. Geinhart, of the Atchison. To-
peka & Santa Fe, w. c. Haskins, of the
Manhattan Trust company of New York,
and E. E. Sells, of Chicago, a Santa Fe rail-
road accountant, have been selected rs a
board of experts to investigate the govern
ment's business methods.
If the seventy Cherokees who are to select
claims in the strip do not all happen to get
the best sites for future cities, it will be be-
cause the townsite ring, which will locate
every one of them. make some mistakes in
their selections. The ring has such leaders
as Owen and Peel, Harvey and Bushyhead,
ct al.
The Carnegie Land company and Carnegie |
Iron company at johnson City, Tenn. made |
an assignment to J. w. Curt. The liabili- |
ties, due largely to eastern and northern par
ties, are placed at S125,OOO, and the assets, !
consisting of a new blast furnace, hotel, |
lands, town lots and notes, are estimated at |
100000.
If the millions of American people could |
be assembled in one place and the best of |
them selected, says the Chicago Herald of /
and genteel department the congregation of |
people in the White City on it's first open
Sunday. The concessionarIes report less
liquor sold than on any other day.
The Duke of Connaught, her majesty's /
third son. has taken his oath and seat in the |
house of lords and subsequently has shared |
in the debate on the Madras and Bombay /
army bill. He speaks we'll and with good |
elocution. During his speech he was repeat
eddy cheered and afterwards warmly con-
graduated upon the success of his maiden
effort.
A Toledo dispatch says: Colonel Smead
has issued a card to the public, in which he
announces that all differences are satisfac-
torily adjusted; that he will remain with the |
company and control its operations, and that
all its obligations will be met promptly as
fast as they mature. It is rumored on the
street that Colonel Smead has been en-
ployed for term of years at q large ad-
vance on his former salary as president to
conduct the company's business.