Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-13
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compel division of China into three dis
finct powers. Western nations will likely
be called in to decide about this.
There were 1O3 cars of stockers and feeders
shipped 10 the country October from the
Kansas City, Kansas, stock yards. Better
pasturage and the extra amount of fodder
is the cause.
The fourteenth annual session of the farm
ers' national congress opened at Parkers-
burg, ". Va, October 8. The attendance is
not as large as expected, though several men
Of prominence are present.
The Mckinley meeting in Topeka was a
big one Excursion trains came in early on
all roads The crowd at the state house dur
ing Governor McKinley's spe CHI is estimated
all the way from 5000 TO 10000.
On October Senator D. B. Hill had not
yet acc pted the nomination as democratic
candidate for governor of New York.
Wheat sold in England in September at
an average price of p shillings pence per
quarter. the lowest in over 200 years.
The United States moves its troops around
from one fort to another every third year,
and this is the year. The Santa Fe is hav-
ing several special trans of them. The
Union Pacific Is hauling a good many, too.
Kaffirs in Morocco are growing worse.
The Jews, while on the way to the markets
are continually pluudered and stripped of
their clothing and on the principal roads an
i'm perial tax of e5 is demanded for free pas
sage.
The populists of the south are generally
protectionists, while the populist leaders of
the west are generally free traders.
Governor Mckinley talked to thirteen dis
tinct and separate crowds of Kansans during
lis fourteen hours presence In the state.
The Choctaw council has repealed the
ing right of way through the Indian Terri
tory.
new antitrust distillery at Peoria, H..
has just commenced to work 5000 bushels
of grain a day. 1t IS the largest and most
complete distillery in the world.
Marceline, Ohio, has had most disastrous
fire. The loss on buildings and stocks will
not fall short of $4,000. and the Insurance
was very light. The city has no fire service.
Oliver Wendell Holmes died at his resi-
dence at Beverly farm. Massachusetts. in the
afternoon of October Z. He was born
1909.
From nephew of DR.. Holmes it is learned
that the poet was sitting in his study IN his
easy chair chatting with his son, Judge
Holmes, when death came upon him with
out moments notice.
Andrew ]. Curtin, the last of the great war
governors, died at his home in Bellefonte,
Pa, of old age, in the morning of October Z.
He was born in 1915
The seventh annual convention of the del
egates of the different lodges of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen on the Gould
system met at st. Louis, October 8. General
Chairman George 7. Reed, of Osawatomle,
Kan, presided.
Three houses built by the marquis of
Clauricarde at Woodford. county Galway,
arr fwn blown n
and the third burned. Each of the struc-
lures stood on the site of homestead from
which tenant had been evicted.
In the Connecticut town elections returrS
from all but two towns show a republican
gain of twenty hve towns. The most lmpor-
tant republican gains have been in the man
ufacturing towns, where complete reversal
of previous majoritles has been made
Georgia democr is seem to have elected
thirty majority IN the state senate and fifteen
in the house. Every congressional district
except Blacks, in the Tenth, or Watson's
district went for the democrats There was
fusion between republicans and popullsts.
General Averill and Colonel Cooke are
sitting for facts and getting them, IN their
investigation of the Leaven worth Soldiers
home. Each witness is examined separately
and what he knows is received, while gues'es,
surmises and differences get no encourage
ment.
trade with Cuba, IN sending their American
made flour from American grown wheat, are
now entirely shut off from that market. The
duty they paid under the reciprocity treaty
was 81 a barrel; this Is now raised to $50
barrel.
While the lesson of the war may lead China
to adopt western ideas, so far as they con-
Germ he organization and equipment of her
army and navy, there is little probability
that it will have any effect in changing her
mil tod DIV V-hi haS
the test of many centuries satisfactorily to
her.
Such an exodus from Washington of de-
partment officials to take the stump was
never known in any previous ad m nistration.
Every otficehOlder under the administration
who can make a speech is down for leave of
absence and has string of dates and APP
pointments which will keep him moving un-
til election day.
Reports from various parts of eastern South
Dakota and the western part of Minn"sOta
are to the effect that a severe snow storm
prevailed October z. accom- panied by high
winds and heavy rains. The snowfall at
Huron, S. D., was heavy and lasted three
hours, while west and north of that city the
storm was even more severe.
The Chicago police arrested woman who
was found at the Union depot with a bundle
of anarchistic literature. In her poss asSion
was found several circulars signed Lizzie
Lotus, Queen of the Anarchists" and order
ing the destruction of Chicago ION about
October g." The woman, who was plainly
dressed and of middle age, refused to give
an account of herself and was locked up.
The sundry service appropriation act con
tains an item of appropriation of $500 for
a portrait of Benjamin Harrison to complete
the gallery of presidents portraits in the
White house Colonel Wilson, the superin-
tendant of public buildings. has accordingly
no: fled the ex-president of the action of
conpre 6. and has suggested that he select an
artist himself and have the picture painted.