Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-05-27
LATEST NEWS.
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James G. Blaine's young wife, who was
divorced from him in Dakota, Is to marry
Dr.. William T. Bull in June.
Montana has floods making ferries useless
aud stopping railroad trains. Damage is
threatened, as the waters are still rising.
Passes were refused government officials
who had business in Jackson park and two
fair officers were arrested by q. S. deputy
marshal charged with obstructing United
States revenue officer in his duty.
Normal, Ill, is excited over the failure of
the Exchange bank of that place. w. H.
Schurman, the banker, has been arrested on
numerous warrants, charged with receiving
deposits after ho knew his bank was insol-
vent.
An elevator in the Hartford building in
Chicago, containing ten men, broke and
dropped eight stories. Only one OF the ten
men was seriously injured.
Rapidly melting SHOWS have caused the
Eagle river to rise TO the highest point it has
reached in fourteen years. The Rio Grande
track is washed out for long distance, and
Rio Grande trains are running over the Mid
land tracks.
Seventeen business buildings and resi-
dences were burned at Montfort, Grant coun-
ty, Wisconsin. At Monello, Greerlake
county, fire swept away fourteen buildings.
Both were of incendiary origin, and the
losses each foot up $100,00O.
The steamer Gettysburg lost her raft of
lumber. The Fanny Campbell arrived at
Port Huron with part of her canvas gone.
The Nipagon lost her consorts. The schooner
Smith and Post lost most of her canvas AID
part of her deck load of ties and telegraph
poles on Lake Huron.
Five of the largest Peoria distilleries,
which had been leased for twenty-five years
10 the Whisky trust, took advantage of over
due rents to declare the leases cancelled, and
now are in the hands of their owners, who
will operate them. The trust was to have
closed them all on June L.
Forest fires are doing great damage in
northern Michigan. Louis Sands lumber
camp, near Lake City, burned and ten men
were killed. Near Tustin the fire ran two
and half miles in eight minutes and
farm house in Its path, in which a woman
and two children were burned.
After putting up a reinsurance reserve ac-
cording to the New York standard, which is
the highest in the United States, the Bur-
lington Insurance company has still left the
enormous ratio of 100 per cent. surplus to
policy holders, for their additional protec-
tion.-Iowa State Register, Des Moines.
The cost of building in Kansas City is said
to have increased from one-fourth to one
third above the cost of the same work last
year. The principal reason for the advance
in costs is the increased wages paid all kinds
of workingmen engaged in building. The
cost of brick has also been increased very
materially.
The action of Assistant Attorney General
Hall in referring the seventy allotments in
~. IL, a. 80 ako
who are entitled to share i'll the seventy al
lotments to be made by James Duncan, the
Rllotting agent, is looked upon at Tahlequah
as being a bad mistake on the part of the
interior department.
Not only are the arrivals at the Kansas
City, Kan, stock yards of cattle running
ahead of any previous year, but they are be-
ing sold on that market. Between the home
killers and the eastern order buyers, ready
demand is being furnished for all receipts,
and the shipping through business has be-
come thing of the past.
After the storm in Oklahoma tree was
found lodged near the wreck and into the
body of the tree the blade of a new spade
had been driven seven inches. The spade
was not bent nor the handle damaged in the
least The tree was taken to Guthrie and ex-
hibited in a tent, 10 cents admission being
charged for the benefit of the injured family.
The Northwestern Guarantee Loan COM
pany OF Minneapolis is now in an embar-
rassed condition owing to the financial strin-
gency. It's business has been the floating
of commercial paper on sufficient collateral
and the guaranteeing of the paper. 1t has
some three millions of this paper and the re-
fusal of its patrons to take up or renew their
notes has precipitated the trouble.
OF the four measures which the democratic
leaders desire to get through the next con-
gress-the tariff, the income tax, the repeal
of the election law and the repeal of the
Sherman act and the bank act-the income
tax was the only thing, it is said, that Mr..
Cleveland hesitated about. 1t is believed
now that on the advice of his cabinet, he
will take decided position in favor of the
income tax.
John D. Rockefeller has given $3.50, 900 to |
the University of Chicago in order that Mar |
TIN A. Ryerson's gift of $lOO, 900 conditional |
available. About 500, 900 has been raised |
already, so that there now remains but $780, |
600 to complete the half million dollars |
needed rs an equipment fund. The money
must be secured by July or the Ryerson |
and Rockefeller gifts will be lost to the uni |
versity.
The International Association of Press |
clubs, in session at St. Paul, chose Atlanta, |
georgia, as the place of the next meeting. |
The governing board was instructed to es- |
tablish fund for a home for iutirm jour- |
nalists. John A. Cockerel, of New York, |
was elected president, Charles w. Price, of |
New York, treasurer, and H. d. Fought, |
Among the vice presidents elected |
were: George w. Childs, joseph Pulitzer, |
and Mira Sallie White, of Boston.