Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-12-29
Brief WirinRs.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE Nor IN IT.-Judge
Horton in an interview in Atchison said that
he was not candidate for the United States
| senatorship.
| les were taken from a wrecked train at Chel-
| ford, England, and over sixty others were
injured, some of them fatally.
INSUFFICIENT REIIEF.-The Nebraska state
| relief ommssion reports a lack of funds
| and supplies to prevent actual suffering
| among the citizens of twenty western coun-
| ties. which they name.
OPPosING INCOME TAx.-New York busi-
ness men have started a movement to OPP
| pose the execution of the income tax law.
| They propose to refuse to pay the tax and
| appeal to the courts.
| STORM IN ENGLAND.-All parts of England
have suffered destruction of property by
| furious storm. Thirty people are already
reported as killed. Buildings and ships have
been wrecked in many directions.
No AGREEMENT.-The commission work
| ing with the Usage Indians for an agree
ment to take their lands in severaty has
| been for the time defeated by the deter
mined opposition of the full bloods.
| HYPNoTIc VERDIcT.-The trial of Tom Nc
Donald at Wellington, Kan., ended by a
verdict of not guilty of murder, the jury
| finding that Mcdonald was hypnotized to
| do the deed by Anderson Gray. Gray had
previously been tried and convicted of the
same crime.
FoR THE FIVE TRIBEs.-A bill has been Of
fered in the lower house of congress to sub
! divide the lands of the five civilized tribes;
each Indian to get eighty acres as a home
stead, except the Choctaw and Chickasaw
| freedmen, who get forty acres. The rest of
the lands to be equally divided among the
Indians.
THE MArsoN MURDER--The city police of
Topeka and the sheriff and his deputies and
the self appointed squad of volunteer detec-
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is working upon their own theories, which
do not at all harmonic with each other.
Nothing new has transpired up to Monday
morning.
Snow ON THE SLoPE.-N Ninety-six inches of
snow fell during five days of the week be
fore Christmas at Sissons, Cal, and railroad
traffic is comp pletely blocked. The big Meth
odist church at Sissons collapsed under the
weight of snow. Other important buildings
have fallen in and numerous smaller ones.
Snow shoyelers were paid $l.50 an hour.
To WH1TEwAsH TURKKY.-The other pow
ers of Europe which were parties with Tur-
key in the Berlin treaty, whereby the welfare
of the Christians of Armenia was guaranteed.
are in such a situation at present that any
attemp pit at Intervention in their behalf would
endanger the peace of Europe. This is
likely to cause the inquiry into the Turkish
massacres in Armenia to result in a white
wash.
AN AsToR DEAD.-Mrs. William Woldorf
Astor died December p, at her castle at
Clivendep- on the Thames. She leaves three
children, two boys and girl. The oldest
boy 10 years of age Clivenden-on-the-
Thames. where Mrs. Astor died. Is beauti-
ful stone palace, which was formerly the
residence Of the Duke of Buckingham and
more recently the residence of the Duke of
Westminster.
dynamite A TRAIE.-Burglars looted
store at West Liberty. Ia, then boarded a
train for Iowa City. Before reaching there
they left the train and took another to
Davenport. Officers were on their trail and
attempted to arrest them on the train, when
they left the train and threw bonlb under
the smoking car. which, with another car,
was wrecked. This delayed the train 80 that
the robbers had tisnt to get out of the Vay.
They were caught. however.