Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-05-20
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gas in fine two story house, destroyed the
| house and blew the family some distance.
They were all hurt, but zone killed.
The failure of the State Investment and
Insurance company of San Francisco il
complete. The company was carrying half
a million dollars of risks in Kansas.
The 'go home" card issued by the presi-
dent to the Office hunters created thorough
sensation among the swarms of Office eek
ers and Office brokers at Washington.
Mr.. Blount remains at Honolulu as sue
cessor to Minister Stevens. Mr.. Blount car
ed with him instructions to Minister Stew
ems to turn over the legation to Blount.
Republicans have succeeded in electing a
majority of the Rhode Island Legislature and
will elect their state ticket.
The Touring mill and elevator of Bennett
& Reese at West Plains. Mo-, Is burned.
Loss. 5000; insurance 5000. A spark
from locomotive set fire to the mill.
The three great valleys of Oregon, the
Columbia Snake and Willamette, are
flooded and the snow is still very deep on
the mountain slopes. The Colville river
has lost every bridge but one from its mouth
forty miles up.
William H. Tracy, of Springfield, ILL.,, was
elected at Louisville to succeed ]. S. Clark
son as president of the republican league.
When the league adjourned it was to meet
at Denver. Col, next May.
dispatch from Rio Janeiro says a inan-
clal crisis prevails in that city. Both insur-
gents and the government are claiming the
victory IN the battle fought on Saturday near
Uruguayana, in Rio Grande de Sui.
Receivers have been appointed for the
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Day Cordage company and the Chelsea
Cordage company, in Massachusetts, all of
which are subsidiary to the National Cord
age company.
The averages of the principal wheat states
are: Ohio, So; Michigan, II; Indiana, 70;
Illinois, g.; Missouri, p; Kansas, 81. The
average of these six states is 63.3, against
74.2 in April, being a decline of SO points
since the first of last month.
1t is reported that Lieutenant Plummer,
gent for the Navajos, was killed while try
ing to arrest Costiana. friendly Navajo
says it is probably true, as the Indians would
kill him if he attempted to arrest Costiana.
Trouble Is certain if the report is true.
James B. Lamb. of Scranton, Pa, grand
tearsurer of the International Machinists'
association, is defaulter in the sum of 3d..
400. An investigation showed that Lamb
0aQ drawn WnaU money GIfe dSSOCldIlOu HdO
deposited IN Indianapolis, Ind, and fled.
The fleet of foreign war vessels at New
York has begun to scatter. Three British
ships sailed May 10 for Bermuda and an
other for Halifax. One of the French ships
left at the same time, and dates are named
for most of the ships, the latest to start late
in May.
Secretary J. Sterling Morton, of the de-
partment of agriculture, has taken an en-
phatic stand against the appointment of
fusion candidates in Kansas; the standing
of all applicants as straight democrats to be
no matter who recommends
them.
The allotments to the preferred Cherokees
are so controlled by instructions from the
department that as many of the seventy-one
claims as may be desirable for the purpose
are at once to be transferred to a town-site
syndicate 1t is an immense swindle of the
future settlers.
Gladstone, a small Ohio village, has a
church composed of crazy people; at least
many of them are mad or idlotic. They
quarrelled over having or not having an organ
in their church, and, one morning, the organ
was found chopped up, leaving no piece
larger than clothespln.
The law department of the government
are entitled to the seventy-one allotments in
the strip. AS there are double that number
the right the tribe is likely to take
an indefinitely long time in settling who
shall be the lucky seventy-one.
At Houghton, Mich. ten men came up the
shaft in the cage, from a mine 5000 feet
deep. and when the cage reached and struck
the tim bers at the top something gave way
and the ten men went down with the cage
The 1900 feet to the bottom. 1t is likely
hey may have been dead before the awful
crash.
A rear end of one of the boilers of the
steamer Ohio, a Cincinnati and Memphis |
packet. blew out, filling the deck cabin with |
steam and boiling water Several of the |
1eck hands and deck passengers, who were |
eating break fast at the time, were literally |
cooked alive, and large number received !
serious burns.
North Galveston, village in Indiana, is |
amily of B. J. Jackson, consisting of him |
elf, wife, two sons and a daughter, were |
burned to death. Several other persons |
we're badly burned. Many families lost their
entire earthly possessions and made their
'scape clad only i'll their night clothes.
In the forthcoming report of the Kansas
of labor statistics one chapter
will be devoted to history of the late strike
If boilermakers ana machinists of the Santa
Ee system. The commissioner inserts this
lpon the request of the railroad men. who
make a statement of their views of the
rouble. Against this is put a statement
rom the management of the Santa Fe.