Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-05-19
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Hurried Readers.
Chief Hazen of the secret service of the
q. S. treasury, is looking after the many
counterfeiters of the worlds fair medals an6
diplomas for advertising purposes.
Fire at Braddock, Pa. caused the explo
sion of tank containing 400 gallons o.
benzine. A great crowd was at the fire anc
scores of them were burned, some badly.
The house disposed of the bill to buy site
for new government printing office by in.
structing committee to select suitable
place from property alre ;dy owned by the
United States.
A Minnesota crank has sent $40 to the CHIEF
of police of Wichita to buy flowers to deco
rate Mrs. Leases corpse on May 20; che date
he sets for his obeying the command of The
Nazarine to kill her.
A car load of aluminium has been sent
from Turner, Kansas, to Chicago. This in
| dustry has now become success and will
soon be able to supply the large and increas
ing demand for this material.
| At Fredericksburg, Va, the monument
erected to Mary Washington by the Mary
Washington Monument association was un.
yelled May 10. The president and his cabl.
net were present, and Mr.. Cleveland and
Others spoke.
The Missouri Pacific has made reduc-
ton of cents a hundred on yellow pine
lumber from all points in the Iron Noun
tain district to Kansas City, and a max
| imum of y cents to all points on the Mis-
souri, Pacific system.
Six families of Laplanders have arrived at
| New York on their way to Alaska, where
| they are to be employed at the reindeer sta
lions.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease is very sick at the
deaf and dumb institution at Olathe. She
has inf1ammatory rheumatism and the doc
tors say she cannot be removed for several
weeks.
The loss on the Talmage tabernacle is
100000. insurance $4,000; on Hotel Re
gent 100000, insurance $8O0,000; on ada
cent residences. 1900; on Summerfeld
Methodist church, $1,000.
Boston, Mass. on May Is, had fire which
caused the loss OF S1,OoO,OOO worth of prop
erty and rendered over 500 of the medium
and poorer classes homeless. The fire was
the work of an incendiary.
The preliminary examination of John
Sherman Sanders and his arInyaat Fort
10, was postponed because w. G. Perry, o.
S. attol icy, had not arrived.
The officers of the farmers national con.
gress met in Chicago May IA. The object of
the meeting was the preparation of pro-
gramme for the fourteenth annual conven-
ton of the organization, to be held in Par
kersburg, W. Va, in November.
Representative-at-La Large Harris says that
Mrs. NJ. E. Lease is candidate to succeed
him and that he will not be candidate, but
would like to see her elected. He believes
that, if elected, there would be no trouble in
her being admitted as member of the house.
Talmage's tabernacle for the third time,
each time on Sunday, was burned May Ii.
The fire destroyed other property, with total
losses estimated by some as high as $780,
600. The fire started in the organ just as
the last 100 people were leaving the church
at noon.
The receivers of the Union Pacific road
are taking steps to put an end to the move
ment of industrials over the lines in their
charge. This end may be peaceably accom-
plished, but if resistance is made it will be
met with bullets, and the possibility of seri-
Gus trouble exists.
Marion c. Butler, president of the Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial union, made an
argument before the house committee on
postoffices May II in support of postal tele-
graph legislation. The alliance favored the |
postal telegraph scheme because it would |
correct an evil monopoly.
The grand lodge, knights of Pythias, of |
Arkansas, in session at Hot Springs, raised |
a $1,000 fund for the raising of an addi- |
tional Pythian home, to be erected at that |
place, and recommended an assessment |
upon each member of the order in the United |
toto 20 ol tod r\f 49,
A Leavenworth negro has been drawing |
two pensions for several years He served |
two enlistments, one under his former own
ar's name and the other under his fathers |
name and secured pension under the record /
Of each enlistment. 1t has just been discov-
cred at the Leavenworth postofice.
The village of Pawnee. H., is almost wiped
off the face of the earth by fire. The entire
east side of the public square, with adjacent
houses, is in ashes, and the best portion of
the south side is gone- saving the rest of the
square. Twenty-Five firms and families we're
otally ruined. The total loss will reach
S100, 900.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease is i'll at a friends
house in Kansas City, Kan, suffering from
nervous prostration. She is in a serious
and there are strong symptoms of
Uphold fever. She is in a state of extreme
|
Minnesota crank, telling of his divine mis-
ZION to kill her.
A Washington dispatch says that sit is
Known the government is becoming some
what annoyed at these repeated acts of high
handed robbery on the part of these so-called
armies of peace and is likely to use heroic
measures to put stop to them" This was
u connection with the news of the capture
IF the Colorado army in Kansas.
George Rose, a printer. shot and killed
Aari Kuhl, assistant postmaster at Cotton
wood Falls, Kansas. He was searched for
~ everybody, but in the night it was learned
hat he had surrendered to the sheriff. An
ttempt to take him was overcome, but the
text night this was accomplished and Rose
vas hung from railroad bridge.
At largely attended meeting of the Con-
,regational union in London May II, it was
resolved, on motion of DR..
Horton, to express sympathy with the Chris
ians of America who feel the scandal and
hame of the barbarities of the lynching of
he negroes of the United States, and we
DIN our prayers with theirs that this reproach
will be removed from our common hui
nanity."
GEN ERAL Markets.