Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-11
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The Union axle and spring works, located
at Carthage, o., have started up, giving enl
| ployment to about 200 men.
Hezekiah L. Hosmer, ex-chef Justice of
Montana, Is dead, aged 78. He died at San
Francisco. He was appointed under Lincoln
in 1854 and held the position eight years.
| adjournment of the senate was that OF Allen
Brisco, of Illinois, who was named for re-
ceiver of the Wa-keeny, Kan, land Office.
The Johnson Iron company, of Johnstown,
Pa, which has been running all summer on
| half time, has resumed operation on double
time. This will probably affect about 1900
men.
At Denver there we're eleven tickets in the
field for county offices, with $50 candidates.
Every body is for free silver coinage, but all
| parties we're split up on other issues.
Major Kidd, of Indiana, and Dawes. of
Massachusetts,, and McKennan, of Arkansas,
have been chosen by the president as the
commission to treat with the Cherokee In
dams.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has
accepted the resignation of his entire cabi-
net and is consulting with leaders of the
three parties upon the formation of new
cabinet.
At Anderson. Ind, the Irondale rolling
mill is burned. Loss, 100000; insurance,
$4,000. The mills were about to start after
six weeks general repairs; $50 men are made
idle by the fire.
Speaker Crisp laid before the house a
letter from the secretary of war, transmit
ting information about the alleged outrages
to6 in onnnoofinn with tho
of the Cherokee strip.
Congressman John Davis, of Kansas, is to be
q member of the subcommittee of the house
committee on public lands to report on the
resolution providing for an investigation
of the Strip Outrages.
The empress of Austria while out horse
back riding saw distractions on the track OF
the railroad, and with the help of her groom
removed them just a moment before the
fast express went by.
horse race dispute at Kansas City. Mo-,
has got before the courts and will be watched
by turfmen; not SO much with regard to the
point in dispute as to whether the courts will
legaliZe the rules of the turf.
The great turf mare, Santa Ana, winner of
over twenty-five races for Lucky" Baldwin
and holder of two track records, died at Bay
District track, San Francisco, of lung fever
The mare was valued at $4,000.
The Pennsylvania steel works at Steel
town, Pa, which have been running half
time for the past three months, have re-
sumed operations in every department, CIV
ing employment to about 1920 men.
1t is said that Sedalia is to lose the divi-
sion terminals of the Katy. If true, it will
cause the removal of 400 people to some
other lay over points. The mail clerks will
have Fort Scott as the end of routes.
William Mackey, a prominent wholesale
merchant of Sedalia, Mo-, was badly burned
by an explosion of an oil burner in furnace
at his residence. His eyebrows and hair
were singed off and his face badly burned.
An unusual amount of counterfeit silver
quarters and half dollars have been put into
circulation in North Enid, 0. T., and nearly
every business man has been caught. Ell
Reno has also been flooded in the same way.
Sells Bros, the circus firm, have attached
all the property of the province of New
South Wales at the worlds fair, in an effort
to collect damages from that government
for horses slaughtered on ship board while
quarantined there.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the newly appoint
ed first secretary of the American embassy,
is dangerously i'll in London from an over
dose of laudanum, taken by mistake. She
was Miss Bell Aston, second daughter of the
late John Jacob Aston.
Several labor organizations, whose head
quarters are in Pittsburg, Pa, are arranging
a gigantic com bination, the primary object
being to assist those organizations which
have suffered heavy reverses in the past year
or two, and make them stronger than before.
The statement of the comptroller of tho
currency shows that since October, 1882, the
increase in national bank notes outstanding
amounted to 1885, 72, and for October,
1893, 1921. 1894, making the total national
bank notes outstanding on October 81, 1893,
sos, PIX, 166.
Coinage executed at the several Inints of
the United States for the month of October |
aggregated 1882, $50 pieces of the value of
$10,003, 800 as follows: Gold pieces 1,14O,14O; |
value $4,000. Minor coin pieces, 4,810, 600; |
value $4,000.
The Bank of England has reduced the |
price of American eagles to 76s Sd. This is |
to protect it's supply of sovereigns in view of |
the threatened withdrawal of gold from the
bank, in the immediate future, for shipment |
consider certain.
Representative Bailey has taken a stand |
against the bill to place Judge Foster, of
Kansas, on the retired list. He has con-
cluded that it would be good plan to repeal
all similar legislation. He introduced bill
to do this very thing. He is after Judge
Deadly, of Oregon. in whose favor bill was
passed last session.
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