Western Kansas world., 1893-07-22
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for ConVeniencs Of
Hurried Readers.

Waterloo, Iowa, suffered severely by wind
July 13.
Three Indian territory robbers held up
bank AT Mound Valley, Kansas, and got
nearly 81 GOO. One of them said they needed
the money to get Henry Starr out of jail.
Judge jenkins, of Milwaukee, who, being
director in the Plankinton bank, was IN
dicteo together with the other directors, is
said to be as great a sufferer from the banks
failure as any one.
The supreme court will not meet until the
second Monday in October, SO the president
will have three full months in which to make
up his mind regarding the appointment of
successor to Justice Blatchford.
Fannie Post, an attractive young lady of
Schuyler, Neb., is thought to be held pris
oner by tramps on an island in the Platte
river.
An incoming passenger train on the Grand
Trunk road ran down crowded street car
at Chicago, July IL, killing three people and
injuring number of others.
A revolver in a policeman's pocket went
off in a street car in Burlington, Iowa. He
was hurt, but Judge Fleming, an old man
who was in the car, received the ball In his
leg, making dangerous wound.
Miners who went to work at the Litchfeld
| mine, for the Texas Coal company, have
| been persuaded to quit by the strikers: so
| that there is no work being done IN any OF
| the deep mines in the Cherokee district.
Herr Krupp, the noted gun maker. with
| large party of distinguished German manu-
| facturers, has started for the United States.
| He has accepted an invitation to be the re-
| cipient of a reception in his honor at Pitts
| burg.
The Missouri Pacific officials intend to re-
| duce expenses in every direction until the
cost of operating the road is reduced to
| minimum. The pruning knife is sweeping
westward and will extend over the entire
system.
At 5:3Op. m. of July a sudden squall cap
sized yacht, few miles off shore, at Chi
| cago. Four of the nine people on board were
| drowned: one of them, Miss Ethel Chase. of
Boston, was an operator for the Western
| Union in Chicago.
The Milburn Wagon company, of Toledo,
| Ohio, whose works are the second largest IN
| the world, served notice on its 800 employees OF
| % per cent. reduction in wages. large
| number of men at once laid down their tools
| and walked out.
| A bolt of lightning struck at the camp
| grounds at Camp Douglass, playing great
havoc. George Clary was killed outright
and William McMahon was fatally injured.
| Eight others were burned and bruised but
| none of them fatally.
Revolution is imminent in France. It is
freely predicted that the least that will hap
| pen will be the resignation of President Gar
not before the election of deputies next
| month. Labor leaders declare they have
100000 men ready to take arms.
Italians held Sunday picnic on Midway
Plaisance, with fireworks for finale.
| bomb was to have been fired from mortar
to explode high in the air with colored hre'
| It exploded, instead, while yet in the mortar
and two people were killed and many injured.
Archbishop Satolli, the papal delegate.
| said mass in the open air in the presence OF
nearly II 600 people, the whole Catholic pop.
ulation of Butte, Montana. The one little
| Catholic church in the city holds 400 only,
| Thousands of miners with their families We're
| present.
Around the base of the smoke stack of the
| burned building at the worlds fair is tan
| gled mass of steam pipes, heavy machinery
| and half burned timbers. From this heap
come foul oders which suggest the presence
| of more human bodies. A gang of men was
kept busy all night in sprinkling disin.
fectants-
Architect Clarke has made his formal re-
| port on the condition of the federal build
| ing at Chicago to Secretary Carlisle. He
said that there was absolutely no danger OF
| the building or any part of 1t collapslng, and
| that, in fact, the structure was IN really bet
ter condition than in 1887, when the Last gov
eminent inspection was made.
The state insane asylum at st. Joseph, Mo-.
| sent. without word of warning, twenty-five
insane people to the county board of Jackson
| county, at Independence, because the board
had not provided for paying for their keep
| ing at the asylum. The board was in session
| when the car load of lunatics arrived and the
scenes which occurred were pitiable.
The Kansas board of live stock commits
| sioners has made an investigation of the
deaths of cattle in Chautauqua county and
, found that it was not Texas fever that pre-
walls there. Eleven head of cattle died in
| one herd of $50; and while the board is In
| doubt as to the nature of the disease, it yet
believes that it is not the dreaded fever.
| The board has learned that the fever exists
| in parts of Oklahoma and the Cherokee
| strip.
General Passenger Agent George T. Mich
olson says that the reduced rate which the
| Santa Fe has just been instrumental in max
| ing to visitors to the worlds fair is for pas
| sage on all express trains with reclining chair
cars, and not for slow and badly equipped
| trains, as has been reported. The tickets
| which will be sold for these Monday excur-
sions will not entitle the holder to passage in
| Pullman sleeper, but this is the only point
| of difference between them and full fare
tickets.