Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-11-24
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/ OF NoVen Der 10.
The seaport town of Limasol on the Island
| of Cyprus, has sustained much damage
through the recent floods, during which
! twenty-three persons were drowned.
! dispatch to the London Times from
/ Berlin says that the marriage of Car Mich
4 olas to Princess Alix has been absolutely
| fixed to take place on November p.
The tin plate factories at Pittsburg, Pa.
! and at East Liverpool, Ohio. have COM
| menced work, employing free workmen.
! The locked out union men are, as yet, quiet.
The Nebraska institute for the deaf and
dumb in Omaha has been turned into hos
pital. Thirty of the inmates are afflicted
| with typhoid fever and others are threatened.
H. o. Havemyer negotiated for the pur-
| chase of Aix. The price said to be agreed
| upon is $4,000.
| The Grand Army in Indiana will ask S15,-
1 600 of the legislature to institute state sol
| diers home on the 258 acres the army has
secured near the Tippecanoe battle field.
1t is stated in London that the European
/ powers are not disposed to take any action
| in regard to the war between China and Ia
pan as long as the government of the United
States is offering mediation.
| Senator Cameron denies that feature of a
| Denver story which states that he has CORES
| ponded with the projectors of the new SSH
| yer party" about to be launched and is in
| hearty sympathy with the movement.
Gold was quoted November 10 at Buenos
\ Ayres at $50; Madrid, 10; Lisbon, 230; ST.
| Petersburg. so; Athens, II; Rome, 107.50;
/ Vienna, 103.
The government of Denmark has issued
decree to take effect Immediately, forbid
| ding the import oe live cattle and fresh meat
from the United States.
Judge Colt in the United States circuit
court at Boston has decided that the family
| of deceased person cannot control the re-
| production of photographs of that person.
Nebraska republicans still talk of contest
| ing the election of Holcom b as governor and
| the opposition threaten to contest all the
rest of the state ticket as against the repub-
licans.
The funeral of ex-Pgesident McCosh, of
| Princeton university, took place November
20 at Marquand chapel. Eight members of
the faculty, who formerly we're pupils of
DR.. McCosh. acted as pail bearers.
Pullman Conductor Brown, OF the Arkan-
| sas Valley road, was killed and thrown from
| his train at Mckay, Indian Territory. His
| body was picked up. He was evidently
| killed while in his berth, as he was in his
| night clothes.
| w. Fl. Seymour, United States consul at
| Palermo, reports that anthrax or splenic
fever prevails to an alarming extent among
| the cattle of that district. Several people
|
| of the diseased cattle.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria have suddenly
broken out in Montreal. Seventeen cases
| of scarlet fever and dipththeria are known
| to exist in the Protestant Infants home and
| twelve in the Founding home. There have
| been five deaths
There is some prospect of new railroad
| bridge at Atchison. The old bridge, which
| Is owned by private corporation. is in
| precarious condition by reason of the cutting
| of the river. The next rise is liable to render
it useless to the railroads.
| Upon a decision handed down in the su-
| preme court by Justice Brewer the Delaware
Indians are soon to receive. per capita,
| little over $500. The money has been tied
| up for some years owing to dispute be-
| tween the Delawares and Cherokees.
struggle is going on in Kansas City. Mo-,
which is likely to result in numerous addi-
| tions to the population of the penitentiary
| of the state, from the election fraud gang.
| st. Louis is at the same good work. 1t is
! non partisan movement to punish crime.
The executive committee of the American
| Bi-Metallic league has called a conference
at st. Louis for November 81, at which the
| present situation will be fully discussed and
| the policy to be hereafter pursued by the
| friends of free coinage of silver be decided
| upon.
The board of trustees of the Garfield
|
| Garfield monument have chosen Andrew
| Squire, of Cleveland, o., and Hon. Levi j.
Morton. of New York. for the vacancies
| left by the deaths of ex-Presdent Hayes and
James 6. Blaine
| Further reports from the south and east of
| England report enormous losses to property.
| A number of villages are inundated and the
| inhabitants of all the low lying parts of
| these places are being removed in boats to
places of safety. The wrecking of several
| small vessels is reported from along the east
| and south coasts.
There we're elections of judges in four
| Kansas districts this time. The Eleventh
| elected A. II. Skidmore, (reD) of Colun-
| bus the Twenty second elected K. Nj. En-
| cry, (rep.) of Seneca; the Twenty third
elected Lee Monroe. (rep) of Wa-Keeney,
| and the Twenty fourth reelected g. w. Nc
| Kay, (pop) of Africa.
In ninety -four of the los counties of Kan
| sas there was total of ,324 votes cast at
! the election. OF that mum her only 202, 13l
| voted on the suffrage question; 85,478 voted
| for, and 1868 against. This shows ma
| jority against the amendment of 81 ,175. The
other eleven counties are in the western Dor
Der, and have small vote.
Coroner Edwards has held inquest over
the remains of the men who were shot at
\ Washington Court House, Ohio. by militia,
| at the time a mob was attempting to take
| prisoner out and lynch HIM. The coroner
| has given his verdict that Colonel Colt. who
commanded the militia, and Sheriff Cook
are guilty of murder in the first degree.
Twelve millers, representing 500 merchant
| Touring mills, with a daily capacity of 350,-
/ 600 barrels. met insecret session at the Audi
| torium. Chicago. to consider the proposition
| to reduce the output 100000 barr is of flour
day for thirty days, or 100000 barrels
| in all. Those present represented mills in
! Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wiscon-
| sin, Missouri and North Dakota.