Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-12-08
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The headquarters of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Fremen is removed from Terre
| Haute, Ind. to PEORIA Illinois.
The syndicate to whom the administration
Jumped the late issue of bonds is retailing
| them out at handsome profit.
Chairman Caldwell. of the Western Pas
| senger association rendered his resignation
November %: it was accepted, and the asso-
citation has passed out of existence.
Colonel Close of the North and South rail-
road says that the Santa Fe wants to sell
his company the branch of the Santa Fe
between Florence and Arkansas City.
The Missouri Pacific railroad has discon-
Kansas, and Van Buren,, Arkansas on &C
count of dangers to passengers from ban
dts.
Heavy gales along the Atlantic coast pre-
vailed during the last days of Novemb Der.
Many reports of damages are coming in.
Rev. Robert Lee Harris. known all over
the United States as the Cowboy Preach
en-" died at Memphis, Tenn. Novem Der %.
Consumption was the cause of his death.
Postoffice inspectors are working on the
wholesale frauds being perpetrated
mem bers of the Knights of Pythias all over
the country by men who profess to be men,
bers of the order.
The president is held close to his ''gout
chair" while out of bed, and very little
owing to the almost constant presence of
excruciating pain.
A million dollar cargo has arrived at Ia
coma, Wash, from Yokohama, Japan, which
includes silk worth 100000.
1t is stated positively at the department of
state that there is no fresh reason for appre-
hension touching the safety of American
residents of Pekin.
meeting is held of the plate glass manu-
facturers to devise means of decreasing the
cost of production and at the same time ad-
vance prices to consumers.
The Great Western Manufac. uring com
pany. of Chicago, one of the largest manu-
featuring concerns of electrical supplies in
| America, is in financial straits.
Daniel c. Zercher, assistant secretary of
state, and J. NJ Senter, clerk in the office of
the board of railroad commissioners, will
both be candidates for secretary of the SEN
ate this winter.
General Frank C. Armstrong, assistant
commissioner of Indians affairs, has re-
signed to take effect Decem Der 81. General
Armstrong will become connected with a
railroad operating In the Indian territory.
Chairman Taubeneck, of the peoples
party, has called meeting of the national
central committee of that party to meet in
St. Louis, December %. The object is to
map out an educational campaign" for
1896.
There is strong undercurrent of belief
among mem bers of congress that the Mica
rauga canal will receive very earnest con-
sideration during the present session of con-
gress
The regular monthly treasury department
statement shows an excess of expenditures
over receipts for the month of November of
So, 156.367. which makes the deficiency for
the five months of the present fiscal year
500, SO, 226.
According to current reports the car has
caused constern atiou among the officers of
his household by leaving the palace unat-
tended and walking through the streets in a
military mantle or walking arm in arm with
the first officer that recognizes him.
The report of James Kerr, clerk of the
house of representatives, shows that for the
year ending June 30, 1894. the salaries of
membe and other expenses of the house
amounted to $3.50. $50, of which total $685.
$50 was for the hire of mem bers' clerks
The total cost of finishing the armament
of our twenty-eght chief seaports is esti-
mated to be $20,639,987 for guns, SO, 801, 120
for mortars. So, 100000 for gun carriages,
So 1000 for mortar carriages: total, in
GLIDING contract work, of $50, 81, 248.
Orders were issued November % from the
headquarters of the American sugar refinery,
Wall street. New York, to shut down COM
pletely all the refineries of the company in
L
thousand operatives are effected by the shut
down.
Thieves have been at work in Pottawato-
mic and Cleveland counties, O. t., and have
stolen the stoves, chairs, water buckets, APP
paratus and other articles from mum Der of
school houses. making it necessary to close
the schools until other furniture can be OBJ
tanned.
The recent edict calling for the seizure at
frontier foreign
ing accounts of the Armenian massacre,
prohibits the entry of every American news
paper into Turkey. This is treaty right,
exercised upon occasion, by all the great
powers of the world.
Never in any war has such patriotism been
shown as evidenced by the japanese. Rich
and poor have contributed to the war fund
and enrolled themselves as membe of the
Red Cross societies, in the ranks of which
are royal princes and mobiles. The society
has hospitals in every part of the empire.
Forest fires are still raging over the bot
toms of west Tennessee and destroying cot
ton and other property. Eight lives have
been lost in the fires ana it is estimated more
than million dollars in property has been
destroyed. No rain has fallen In this vicln-
ity in seventy days and stock is suffering
for water.
The call for bondsmen in the cases against
election frauds in Kansas City, Mo-, is SO
great TO nearly exhaust the list of those
who are willing to sign such bonds. Even
Ed Findlay, the policy man. who is in the
list of those already arrested for election
frauds, found it difficult to give satisfac-
tory bond.
Representative Hartman, of Montana has
already introduced bill for free coinage of
silver, which contains a provision requiring
import duties to be paid in gold in cases
where the articles of importation are brought
from countries whose government refuse to
bai m nj
and gold.
GENERAL MARKERS.
KANSAS CIrE. December 5.
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