Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

President Cleveland charges that the pres
emit financial crisis is solely due to the use OF
gold for the purchase of silver bullion.
A gang of tramps raided the town of Waun-
akee, Wis, on Thursday night, terrorized
the citizens and plundered every store and
resident in the town.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, publisher of the Frank
Leslie periodicals., has been granted a divorce
from willie Wilde Wilde will have no
share in Mrs. Leslie's estate, before or after
her death.
Lieutenant Jennings, of the q. S. weather
bureau, stationed at Topeka, asserts that 1t
| rained everywhere in Kansas except at places
where the professional rainmakers were put
| ting forth their efforts.
R. G. Dun's weekly review says that trade
| is slightly improving and says there is ma
| terial improvement in the financial situation.
| The ''Home" coal mine of Leavenworth
was awarded the contract to supply the Sol
| diers' home with coal for the year ending
June 30, 1894. The contract calls for IL, 600
tons, or 700 cars, the price being 2.45 per
| ton.
Chicago d Alton train was wrecked at
Vandalia by striking a COW. The express
messenger was badly injured, three passenger
| coaches was badly damaged and the engine
| turned upside down. None of the passengers
! rwee injured.
| Right Rev E. S. Thomas, bishop of Kan
sas, goes to Minnesota on the 10th of June to
| fill two weeks appointments for the bishop
| of Minnesota. Both Bishop Whipple and his
assistant, Bishop Gilbert, are very i'll, the
latter with pneumonia.
| Illinois state troops have been called out
| to suppress an unruly mob of strikers at
Lemont, where work is being done on the
canal. A fight between the sheriff s deputies
and the mob was considered sufficient cause
for calling out the militia.
| Assistant General Passenger Agent Black,
| of the Santa Fe, says that there will be no
| further cuts in worlds fair rates. An under
standing has been reached that competing
| lines will meet the Santa Fe rate and that
| there the prices will remain.
| Leavenworth miners do not hesitate to say
| that the new screen law passed by the last
Kansas legislature does them an injury, and
| mine operators insist that the said law makes
it absolutely necessary for them to reduce
the price of mining to 80 cents per ton.
Half of the thriving city of Fargo, N. D.,
| is in ashes, nearly 1900 people are rendered
| homeless, and 81 ,000,0O worth of property
| has gone up in smoke. The fire started at
3 O'Clock p. M, June Z, in a restaurant on
| Front street. Several persons are reported
burned to death.
The democrats are giving Senator Mar
| tin what under other circumstances would
| be called an ovation. The senator receives
| them on his shaded lawn, where the requests
of the faithful mingle with the signing OF
the trees. His levees last from early morn
ing until late at night.
Police Judge Goodrich of Guthrie, o. T.,
and Attorney Allen Carruthers got into
wordy war which resulted in the judge leav-
| ing the bench and having set-to IN regular
| prize ring style with the attorney, and when
the police got them parted both had black
eyes and blood was flowing freely.
The wheat harvest in southern Kansas has
commenced, the machines are in the field
and the grain is being put in the shock.
While the straw is not heavy the heads are
gram will be good. The prospects for all
crops are much better than expected.
DR.. II. G. Linn, of Topeka, has an interest
in the Chick and Chock three millions. His
contract was made through Governor Brine.
of the Greek nation, but the good governor
is now dead and Linn is having trouble IN
getting himself identified as entitled to some
of the cash, but his friends hope he will sue
coed.
On account of the scarcity of freight BUSH
ness in its Chicago division, the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company has laid
off twenty-five engineers employed on that
division. The present season Is considered
by the company the dullest IN the year, and
the old men will not be taken back to work
until the freight business picks up.
The clerk of the house will now commence
the work of selecting evidence in the Fun
ston- Moore contest case, which is to be
printed for use of the committee on elections
Colonel Moore is there and, assisted by Sid
ney Clarke, will look after his side of the
case, while the interests of Funston will be
looked after by ex-senator Perkins.
Judge Woods. sitting in the United States
circuit court, decided to allow the world &
Columbian exposition an appeal from the
decision granting an injunction against
Sunday opening of the fair The time and
place of hearing the appeal wall be fixed by
Chief Justice Fuller. Application for a
supersedeas which will suspend effect of the
injunction pending hearing on the appeal
was refused, leaving the decision in force.
Nsrd,s Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln
was killed, and of late occupied by the pen
sion bureau of the War department, was
wracked by falling of the floors, Friday a.
M june 8, while 475 men were at work in It
| Il was believed that 100 were killed, but the
| exact facts were not at once obtainable. Ii
is said that ]. r. Pagan, E. G. Shull, both
formerly teachers of Topeka and Shawnee
County, and E. Sterling of Fort Scott, are
among the dead. Others employed in the
building from Kansas are SON of Sheriff
Wilkerson, of Topeka, O. ]. Field and John
r Myers. Wilkerson is safe.
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