Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
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Toledo and Detroit have both suffered
| from big fires; the first causing a loss OF
nearly a million dollars.
A thousand deaths from cholera have oc-
| CURED at Teneriffe, one of the Canary islands,
| since the beginning of the outbreak.
The revenue cutter Corwin reached San
Francisco on the day it was expected, but no
person on board would give out a word of
Honolulu news. The Corwin went and came
as dispatch bearer for the state department.
During 1893 the loss by fire in the United
States was almost $150, 900, 000-greater than
has been recorded in any one year except
that in which Chicago was burned and that
in which the best part of Boston was blot.ed
| out.
Secretary Marin called on the secretary of
war and urged that an army officer be. de-
tailed to duty at the st. Johns school at
Salina, and the secretary promised that he
would comply with the request.
The pension Office has decided that in view
of the act of congress of December q. 1893,
it no longer has right to withhold the pen
sion of Judge Long, of Michigan, and has
directed that he be again placed on the pen
sion rolls.
The Nebraska state alliance, the State Re-
form Press association and ali the Nebraska
leaders of the peoples party, with number
from other states, met together this week at
Hastings, Neb., to lay out plans for the next
campaign.
January 2 was the day set when Secretary
of State Osborn should appear in the Shaw
nee county district court and be sentenced
for the crime for which he was tried and
convicted. His attorneys, however, secured
few more days delay.
Sidney Clark. chairman of the Oklahoma
statehood committee appointed at the King
fisher convention, reached Washington, to be
speedily followed by the other members of
the committee, who propose now to get down
to work in real earnest.
Denver's city treasurer has word from the
New York brokers who were expected to
take city improvement bonds, that they are
unwilling to contract for the bonds until it
is known what the special session of the Col
orado legislature does.
The private fortune of King Humbert of
Italy, amounting to 10000, 900 lire, has been
deposited with the London house of Roths-
childs. The greater portion of this sum has
been saved out of the civil list at the rate of
about 100000 lire per year.
1t is reported that the TUDOR Iron wor ks at
East st. Louis. H., are about to resume ope-
Yations in full. AS soon as the Belleville
mills resume these works will have an ample
supply of steel, and it is expected 500 en-
ployes will have steady work.
Judge Phillips, of the U. S. court, has re-
leased the county judges of st. Clair county,
Mo-, to give them time to go home and put
county business in order. They have been
in Jail year or two for refusing the courts
order to make levy to pay fraudulent bonds
Secretary Morton gives it out fiat that all
microscopic inspection of export meats will
stop at Kansas City on March 1, and that if
he is compelled to keep up the work in order
to meet the demands of the foreign trade, he
will do SO at other points and not at Kansas
City.
1t is understood that Colonel Tom Moon
light made an application for the appoint
ment of consul to Victoria, and also that he
insisted that he wanted the place now, right
now, and did not want to be put off until
this 1narshalshIp matter and all others are
settled.
The revenue cutter Corwin, anchored in
San Francisco bay, is taboo. Influential
men have endeavored to board her, but are
not permitted. Wild rumorS are afoat, one
being that Minister Willis is aboard her,
having been sent about his business by the
Hawaiian government.
In the damage suit of John J. Rhodes, of
the Minnesota coal bine, against the leg
islators who forcibly seized his books, the
supreme court, as the referee in the case. has
decided that each of the seven legislators
must pay Rhodes the sum of 500. The state
will have to foot the BILL
The warm, open winter Is seriously affect
ing the coal trade in the Pittsburg, Kan,
coal region and the railroad side tracks in
that entire section are full of loaded cars
awaiting shipment. This state of affairs has
resulted in the gradual laying off of miners.
until there are large number unemployed.
J. W. GerdIey, who has been hunting fos-
sils in the Wyoming bad lands for six
months, has secured enough material to re-
store the skeletons of at least four different
animals of mammoth proportions, which
will be fitted up and placed on exhibition in
the American museum at Central Park, New
York.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease instituted proceed
ings in the supreme court of Kansas to pre-
vent j. w. Freedom, who was appointed to
take Mrs. Leases place on the state board of
charities, to act as such; and for an order
restraining the governor and Freedom from
interfering with the acts of the board pend
ing final hearing of the case.
Fire started in the Casino building on the
worlds fair grounds on the evening of jan
uary 8, destroying that building, the Manu-
features building and other buildings. The
loss up to 1870 a. m. is placed at $l,OOO,OOO.
The origin of the fire is said to be revenge
on the part of two tramps. who were kicked
out of Music hall and told to find quarters
elsewhere.