Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-04-07
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Never before, not even at the death of roy
atty, has there been such a genuine displa
of popular regret as that which marked thu
arrival of Kossuth's remains at Buda Pesth
Massachusetts has an insect pest, for whicl
congress is asked to appropriate 100000 T.
enable the department of agriculture to ex
terminate it. This pest is known as tn
ocneria dispar, or gypsy moth.
The Guthrie, o. T., grand jury found in
dictments of three member of the schoo
board for accepting brides, several contract
ors for Offering brides and a number of par
ties for perjury in lot and land cases.
Commodore Verny Lovett Cameron, tn,
distinguished African traveller, after hunting
with Baron Rothschild's hounds at Leighton
| Buzard, Bedfordshire, England, was thrown
from hrs horse and died four hours latee.
The war department has been informed o.
the death from heart disease of Lieutenant
John H. Alexander, Ninth cavalry, one o.
the very few colored officers of the army, al
Wilberforce, Ohio, where he was detailed.
The new Platte river paper mills. erected
| in Denver, COL, at a cost of 1925, 900, have
begun operation with force of 200 men il
addition to those employed in the old mill.
| The plant is considered one of the finest in
the country.
Fire just after midnight Quilted and prac
hcally destroyed Hotel Pullman, one of the
| finest hostelries in Hot Springs, Ark. The
| damage to building and furniture will reach
| $4,000. 1t was stone and brick building
of the latest style, inside and out.
| Explosion of natural gas at Alexandria,
| Ind, killed half dozen people and injured
more. A barber shop and the American ex-
press office were blown to pieces.
| General Frye's division of Coxey's indus
| rial army had good times after reaching
Arkansas. They were we'll fed and the rail,
roads moved them without grumb!e.
Governor Tillman says the issue is whether
| The state is to be turned over to hoodlums
| and toughs or be governed by its intelligent
| citizenship. The result will be in favor OF
the dispensary.
President Cleveland vetoed the Bland
seignIorage bill in a three column message
| one reason given being that the bill does not
protect the credit of the government by au-
| thorlzing the secretary of the treasury to
issue and sell bonds at his discretion.
c. P. Huntington says that if the govern
| ment does not accept the proposition of the
Central Pacific, postponing the time of pay
ment of the roads debt, the probability is
that the first mortgage bondholders will take
the road.
Rumor gains credence that the Burlington
railway system will enter Topeka soon by
leasing or buying the abandoned Leaven-
worth and Topeka line from Leavenw worth
10 Meriden and building the ten mile gap
into Topeka.
After much hard work, covering a period
of six months. Springfield, Mo-, has sue
ceeded.in securing the state normal school.
Balance of $4,000 bonds is raised and the
contract for the building awarded, the work
to commence Immediately.
There are 10000 sheep, half of them the
property of the Mormon church, near the
Colorado boundary and Governor Waite is
called upon by the Colorado cattle men to
prevent the entry of these sheep into the
state and upon their ranges.
The wires have been loaded with reports
of damages by frost but they are exagger-
ated of course; at least appear so from the
fact that where there is indication of any
damage some fellow telegraphs and where
there is none, nothing is said about it.
The Missouri penitentiary has over 1000
convicts in it. The number of convicts not
under contract is about 1000; a dead weight
for the taxpayers to carry. Every cell is
occupied, with prospects of a large in
crease in the number Of convicts this year.
Keeping fleet at Rio has been expensive.
Stores and supplies there are always dear
and the cost has been EXCHANGED by the war.
Coal alone is a considerable item, the price
at Rio being about $11.50 per ton and the
consumption of the new vessels is very
large.
Colonel Breckinridge's church member
ship at Lexington, Ky., is in serious danger.
There will be a change in the passionate
shortly and a move, it is said. will then be
made to cast him out. Colonel Breckenridge
has been a member of this church for thirty
years.
The secretary of the treasury returned to
the committee the bill introduced by Con-
gresham Curtis to close forty ports of entry
where the receipts are not equal to the ex-
pense connected with maintaining the offices.
The secretary recommends the passage of
the bill.
The vessels of the British navy which will
cooperate with our naval force to police the
seal waters are at or in the neighborhood of
Esouimault, B. c. The vessels selected for
the service can be coaled and supplied with
everything needful for their cruise in very
few days.
The Jury in the case of Laidlaw versus
Sage, in which Russell Sage was sued for
damages sustained Oy Clerk LalQlaW Oh Iue
occasion of the throwing of a dynamite
bomb by the crank, Norcross, in Sage's Of
fee, has returned a verdict for $25,OOO for
the plaintiff.
The senior class at Kansas university has
decided to start loan fund for the use OF
students who would otherwise be unable to
attend school. The fund will be large enough
to enable at least two students to attend
school. 1t will be placed in charge of the
board of regents. :
Business in Rio de Janeiro, says a cable
from there, is rapidly reviving. This is espe-
cially true in the case of houses dealing with
American merchants. 1t is the general opin-
ion here that the attitude of the United States
during the trouble here will result in mate
rial increase of the business done with that
country.
At Darlington, s. c., row occurred be-
tween spies and citizens; the former in state
employ in connection with liquor laws, and
several citizens were killed. The spies were
then corralled in timber tract. Governor
Tillman called upon the militia. but regi-
ment after regiment, after Assem- bling, re-
fused to 60 to Darlington.