Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-22
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General Booth, of the Saly Army, Is
coming TO this country and will visit the
principal northern and western cities.
Frequent accusations appear in Japan
newspapers of unwarra q ted acts of Partially
committed by British officials in China's
favor.
Good crops in the southern states has bet
tered the horse market at Kansas City, in the
matter of demand and in quicker sales, but
prices remain low. p
The Omaha board of health are all likely
to serve Jail sentence for contempt of
court in failing to obey an order regulating
city sanitary matters.
Kansas City. Kansas. has eleven Catholic
parochal schools. Bishop Fink is consider
ing the advisability of.establishing school
board to control these schools.
According to the decision of the internal
revenue commissioners incomes exceeding
$4,000 will be taxable next January on the
returns for the current calendar year.
Recent discoveries by scien tiic explora-
tons In Assyrian ruins seem to prove an
antiquity of the human race ten centuries
older than science had heretofore known.
The postoffice department has ordered that
no more paid publications of lists of I'M
claimed letters shall be made. The expense
of publishing the list last year was SO, 900.
A dispatch from Varsin says that Prince
bismarck continues to enjoy good health
and that Princess Bismarck is recovering.
She has left her bed and is gaining strength
daily.
demand is arising in Switzerland for
young American cattle.
Tom Reed. of Maine. will speak once
somewhere in Kansas in October.
R. T. Van Horn, editor of the Kansas City,
Mo-, journal, is candidate for congress.
There are now only four of Napoleon s
grand army living. Three are in their 101st
year and one is past 1O2 years Old
Ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton was
nominated for governor of New York by
the republican convention at Saratoga on
the first ballot.
Mckinley is to speak once in Kansas; the
date fixed is October 3, and he names Topeka
as the place. The republican committee
would prefer he should speak in Hutchinson.
General McCook has issued an order with
drawing the troops from Ration, n. NJ, where
they have been guarding the tunnel on the
Santa Fe road ever since the A. R. .. strike
began.
P. C. LOOMS, grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias of Kansas, died Septem-
Der ID at Pittsburg. His Fort Scott lodge
and friends went to the funeral in special
train.
The American continents have more than
one half the railway mileage of the world,
and the United States comes pretty near
equaling Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia
combined.
Don Pho Pico, the last Mexican governor
of California, died at Los Angeles, Septem-
Der IL. He was 81 years old. Until within
few weeks ago he was in good health,
though feeble.
The Hamburg American Packet company
Is building five steamers to carry cattle from
America to Europe. The first finished has
maze the trip with $40 head. The capacity
of the five steamers is 400 head each.
strange disease, resembling blackleg in
cattle, has broken out among horses in the
Vicinity of Cole Camp, near Sedalia, Mo.
Four valuable horses have died and twenty
more are not expected to recover.
Judge Foster, of the Q. S. district court at
Topeka, has appointed n. d. Todd receiver
of the bridge across the Missouri river at
Atchison. The application was made by first
mortgage bond holders, who hold $850,000
of bonds.
The Chicago board of election commits
sioners decided that the women who should
take advantage of the right to vote at the
Novem Der election should be furnished with
special ballots to be placed in separate
ballot box.
The Oklahoma supreme court decides that
all Indians who have taken allotments must
pay taxes on their personal property, includ-
ing all improvements on their land which
is held in trust by the government and is
non taxable.
has made its appearance at Annoy, some fifty
cases having been detected. It is supposed
to have been brought by victims who trav-
eled from Hong Kong overland to escape
medical scrutinies.
A cargo of 300 negroes Will sail from Mo
bile in October as emigrants to Liberia.
Hundreds of south Alabama colOred people
are said to be selling out their crops, prepar-
atory to going to Africa as soon as the ships
are ready to carry them.
ST don't take much stock in what they call
labor leaders, said President Debs, of the
A. r. u, IL a speech at Harrisburg, Pa. I'm
the past workingmen have been following
others and thinking by proxy. Now let
them do their own thinking.
Recorder of Deeds Taylor, of the District
of Colum bia, late of Kansas, is likely to be
indicted in Washington courts, by action of
the civil service commission. 1t is said that
John Martin, of Kansas, has already picked
out white man to succeed Taylor.
Seventy of the 125 teachers employed in
the schools of Kansas City, Kansas, neglected
to attend the institute for which the board
had provided high priced instructors for the
benefit of the teachers. Now the seventy
are required to give satisfactory excuses or
be discharged
At the opening of the Mexican congress,
President Diaz, in his speech, announced
that Mexico had proposed the holding of a
conference by the American and Asatic
powers on the silver question, but the pro-
ject had been delayed by the war between
China and Japan.
1t is definitely announced that General
Nelson A. Miles will be transferred to Gov
leland unOn the retirement of Cen
eral Howard. which occurs Novem Der 8. 1t
is said that General Kruger will succeed Gen
eral Miles as major general in command of
the department of Missouri
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