Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-03-17
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Representative Grow, of Pennsylvania, has
introduced in the house bill making Sl2
per month the lowest rate of pensionable
disability allowed by law.
Movements are ripening for cable connec-
ton of Australia and New Zealand with our
Pacific coast, via Samoa, Honolulu to Van
eouver. If laid it will be by international
expenditure.
The national council of the Daughters of
Liberty will take up the controversy which
has arisen over the experiment of nuns as
school teachers in the Thirty-fourth ward of
Pittsburg, Pa.
In the house Representative McRae. of Ar
kansas, introduced bill to prohibit the pay
ment of bounty for the production OF raw
sugar, and to put refined sugar on the free
list.
Fire on the steamer City of Paris damaged
the saloon to the extent of nearly $1OO,OOO.
The steamer was at London.
Mrs. Ellen Moonlight, wife of Col. Thomas
Moonlight, the newly appointed minister to
Bolivia, died at her home In LeaVenWortn'
Kan, March z, of cancer of the stomach.
Suspicion exists at Washington that Eng
land is figuring to get possession OF the
Nicaragua canal. British troops have been
landed at Bluefelds.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has no
titled the state central committee that he in
tends to resign from the United States senate
if the legislature elected by the people IN
April is republican.
Troops, or most of them, have been with
drawn from the scenes of West Virginia
strike troubles.
South Enid, O. T., is practically in state
of serge; a forced change in the city govern
ment has been brought about, and the inhab-
itants are walking arsenals.
The annual convention of the National
Republican league will be held IN Denver,
COL, June 26, to wind up with monster
celebration of the glorious Fourth.
1t is said that the railroad powers have
come to an agreement to restore rates on
California passenger traffic and are neRoti-
ating an agreement to govern all transcon-
mental lines.
The jail at Fayetteville, W. Va, is over
flowing with prisoners. The Odd Fellows
hall is crowded and they are also in churches
and school houses. About thirty-ive war
rants remain unserved.
Representative DeArmond has introduced
the constitution which shall permit presi-
dent to veto any separate item in any gen.
eral appropriation bill.
Colonel Thomas Moonlight was in New
York when his wife died at Leavenworth.
He was preparing to start for Bolivia in a
few days, but was taken sick with fever. He
was not able to come home to attend his
wife's funeral.
Representative Broderick has appointed as
cadet Lee johnson, of Leavenworth. and
Claud Keller, of Atchison, as substitute.
There we're over twenty applicants, and it was
by no means an easy task, or pleasant one,
to make the selection.
It is declared thatPresident Cleveland will
insist upon Great Britain's loyalty to the
Bulwer-Lytton treaty of 1850; which applied
the Monroe doctrine to Central America.
The occasion is the landing of British troops
at the east end of the Nicaragua canal.
Stock raisers of New York state are aroused
on the subject of the existence of tubercu-
losis among cattle. and it is proposed to call
upon the bureau of animal industry at Wash
ington to close quarantine all New York
state cattle pending a thorough investiga-
, ton.
Congressional committees are hearing pro-
jectors of ship canal to connect Lake Su-
perior and the Mississippi river. 1t is also
urged that it could be utilized to store the
upper waters of the Mississippi and prevent
the overflowS which are SO disastrous to the
lower Mississippi.
disastrous storm passed over a small
section of country near Sra Tnee, y. l.,
much damage being done by wind and light
ming. Half dozen farms were completely
ruined, three houses demolished, other build
ings wrecked, a boy killed and several peo-
pie badly injured.
Some of the republican senators express
the opinion that if the Wilson bill cannot be
recommitted it may be possible to delay its
passage until the next session of congress.
Coupled with this statement is an assertion
that some of the democratic senators would
not be unwilling to have it suffer this fate.
The Kansas state committee of the W. G.
T. U. are seeking donations of a site and
foundations for the first building for state
reformatory for women. Work on this line
is being done with the city council of Atchi-
son. There plan is, having that much start,
to ask the state for $4,000 to carry to the
work.
Joshua G. Brady, a farmer living four
miles from Versailles, Ky., while digging
post hole dug up an old earthen kettle con-
tanning several thousand dollars in Mexican
and French silver coins bearing dates in the
Eos and 3O5 of this century. The Versailles
bankers testified to the genuineness of the
coins.
Large holders of the stock of the London
Hotel company, which owns and conducts
seven London hotels and several seaside re-
sorts, are about to esta blish fruit farm in
the Ozark country of Missouri, for wine
making and to supply canned fruits. The
products of the place all to be for the use of
their hotels.
There is a man who has been in Kansas
City, Kan, insane asylum three years and it
is just now found out that there is no record
of his arrest, or of his name. or other cir
cumstance connected with his being placed
there. He does not utter a word to anybody
He is spoken of as Scott" but no one
knows why.
Two thousand striking silk weavers when
the Patterson. N. j., mills closed at night,
lay in wait for Frank Newkirk, who hao re-
turned to work after going out on strike.
When Newkirk appeared he was booted and
jeered. He started to run and the mob fol-
| lowed. Newkirk was knocked down and as
saulted with fists and stones.