Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-29
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of the National Grange. is holding a series
of meetings in Kansas.
Edwin Gould denies the report that his
sister, Anna. now in Paris, is engaged to
Prince Francis of Battenburg. This is the
sixth engagement of Miss Gould rumored
within the past year.
Populists of Atchison county have a full
fusion county and legislative ticket; Bailey
T. Waggener Is the fusion candidate for the
legislature in the city district against John
Seaton, republican.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows,
at Chattanooga. elected John w. Stebbins,
of Maryland, grand sire, and Fred Carleton,
of Texas, deputy grand sire. The old secre-
tary and treasurer were reelected.
There now only four of Napoleons
grand army living. Three are in their 110ts
year and one is past 102 years old.
East of Guthrie, o. T., paint mine is re-
ported as recent discovery. A company is
being formed to put paint mill at that
place.
Engineers have begun work on the survey
for a railroad between Springfield, Mo-, and
Harrison, Ark. Eastern capital is interested
in the project. Right of way has been guar
anteed along nearly the whole route.
The Rev. William Mossbarger, aged 80
years, a we'll known Adventist minister, while
assisting in shingling a house at Nevada,
himself internally SO that he will die.
Governor Flower, of New York refuses a
denomination, and says he could not be
elected, while some other democrat might be.
o. E. Evans, the young man who buncoed
the Masonic lodge at Plttsburg, Kan, out of
money, has been sentenced to term In the
county Jail at Girard for obtaining money
under false pretenses.
A Washington dispatch. originating in the
interior that Fort II
reservation has the only body of native tim
Der between central Kansas and the Rocky
mountains; which the same is not so.
Acting Secretary Sims has decided not to
to pay 81 bushel for wheat for the Crow
Indians in South Dakota, but will buy flour
for them instead These Indians have
flour mill at the reservation and wanted to
make use of it.
The Globe Canning company of Leaven-
worth, is daily receiving 5000 bushels of
tomatoes for which IL cents per bushel IS
paid. The crop is a very abundant one. and
farmers and gardeners are busy bringing it
to market.
Private Joseph Kahn, of one of the artil-
lery companies stationed at Fort McHenry,
has designed a com biuation of shovel and
pickaxe, not more than a foot in length,
which can be carried at the belt and used in
digging intrenchments.
By command of General Howard the
Vernon barracks, Ala, are to be moved with
out delay to Fort Sill. [. T., where the In
dams will be placed in charge of Lieutenant
Il. L. Scott Seventh cavalry.
Charles E. Taylor, assistant superintend-
ent of insurance, has just returned from
trip in the Seventh district with Congress
man Jerry Simpson and reports that Mr..
Simpson has enterely recovered his health
and is able to fill all his engagements.
A number of skeletons with manacles at
tached to the arm and leg bones have been
found buried close to the surface OF the court
yard of the custom house at st. Petersburg,
Russia. They were the victims of tyranni-
cal rule in the time of Empress Anna; 1870
to 1875.
The cavalry troops at Fort Bowie. Ariz.,
which have been ordered to Fort Logan,
near Denver, will march the entire distance,
720 miles. About forty days will be allowed
for the march. It will be the longest march
made by cavalrymen since the opening of
railroads.
Portland, Ore, had a 81, 100000 fire on
Septem Der %. A half mile of docks, great
elevator with half million bushels of gram,
a train load of machinery just arrived for an
electric plant, many loaded cars, ETC.. etc,
were destroyed. Insurance foots up about
one-third the loss
The officials of the Japanese legation at
London have received private cable mes
sage from Yok ohama, saying that on Sep
TENDER is twelve Chinese war ships encOun-
tered nine japanese ships. with the result
that after severe fighting the Chinese lost
four vessels and the japanese none.
The new treaties which Japan is negotiat-
ing with the great powers, including the
United States, are regarded in diplomatic
circles an international event quite as i'm
portant as the Chinese Japan war, as the
treaties will for the first time give official
recognition to Japan as one of the sisterhood
of civilized nations.
The war department has been notified by
Major Phipps, president of the ordnance
board which conducted the recent tests of
the dynamite gun batteries at Sandy Hook,
n. Y, that the guns worked we'll and that
all of the requirements of the contract have
been met. The gun and equipments will
cost Uncle Sam 100000.
Rev. w. G. Wilson. colored minister of
Atchlson, was treasurer on the excursion of
four car loads from Atchison to Lawrence on
emancipation day and was attacked by two
black toughs, when leaving Lawrence. Will
son had the funds in a handb bag, hung from
his neck, nor did he lose the money although
his head was cut with a coupling pin.
Judge Ross, in the federal court at Los
Angeles, Cal, sentenced Gallagher and Buch-
anan, American Railway union strikers, to
eight months imprisonment in the county
Jail and fine of $500. The men are among
those who attempted to intimidate non union
men on the Southern Pacific railway during
the strike. There are many other cases
pending of similar import
A treasury statement shows the customs
receipts at New York custom house for the
first twenty days of September have been
81, All, 1877, against S4,652.962 for the hrst
twenty days of last month and S5,597 81 for
the first twenty days of Septem Der, 1893.
Not one dollar of god coin or gold certifi-
oates was received at the New York custom