Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-27
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Mrs. Elizabeth Clrson. Chicago widow.
has expended $4,000 in ten years. She has
not been off the ocean more than day at
time in all those years.
Five thousand tons of tin plate were loaded
at Swansea, Wales, in one day. on board
steamers bound for America. Stocks of tin
plate are lower than for months past
The $4,000 worth of Colum bian half dol
lars, which were received at the Boston
United States sub-treasury, was exhausted in
an afternoon, all having been sold in limited
amounts TO individu is.
Houston. Texas, suffered by fire on Octo-
Der 16, which destroyed much property, in
GLIDING some of the buildings of the st. J O.
seph intrmary. Two sisters and two patients
were burned to death and Others suffered.
A fierce gale swept the British coast Octo-
Der 20 and q, doing much damage.
There we're 107 cars of cattle, feeders.
shipped out of Kansas City, Kan, stock
yards on October II, to eat the corn crop.
Comptroller Eckles spoke at banquet of
bfnkers in Chicago on financial conditions.
He said: The clouds are lifting and
short time will see the country more pros
porous than before the depression occurred )"
The state irrigation commission for Kan
sas Is Judge j. W. Gregory. of Garden
City, chairman: W. B. sutton. of Russell:
A. B. Montgomery, of Goodland: F. D. Co
burn, of Topeka, and E. r. Moses, of Great
Bend.
Reports of fatal encounters are very fire.
quent from Oklahoma. Claim contests are
the usual provoking cause.
The residence OF Sylvester YeagIe, near
Carlisle, Ohio, was struck by lightning and
consumed. Mr.. 1eagle and two children
were killed and their bodies consumed.
One hundred AZ fifty thousand iron work
ers of the United States have sent delegates
to the conference in indianapolis. Various
branches of the iron industry are repre-
sented.
The president seems to have bushed the
Indian bureau and the interior department
on their proposed change of policy concern
ing Indian agents. Army officers are to be
continued in that branch of service.
Breckenridge the notorious one of that
name, is a full-fedged candidate for the
United States senate. Legislative conven-
tons are. some of them, instructing their
nominees to vote for Breckenridge.
Three footpads followed Charles McCue
onto the Rock Island railway bridge in To
peka, robbed him and pushed him off where
1t was thirty feet to water. He could swim
and was taken off the foot of pier by the
police.
The London Times in a leader says it is
almost impossible to estimate the changes
in the evolution of European questions de-
pending on the withdrawal of personal au-
thority SO great and so consistently employed
as the ear.
The official records in the Kansas state
house show that Pullman sleeping cars have
been regularly assessed every year begin
ming with 1879. The assessment was each
year made at $1,000 for each car, with no
change until 1893.
Secretary Smith has allowed it to be un-
derstood that all employees of the Interior
department may go home to vote at the
coming election. There are a NUM- Der of
employees in the interior department who in
tend to avail themselves of this privilege.
Fire at the county hospital at Denver. Col,
caused great excitement among the patients,
but all we're removed without injury. The
ire started from an electric wire IN the
building occupied by consum ptives and was
The supreme court of Nebraska in the
Bryan case, held that there exists no author
lty for the printing of candidates name
in more than one column on the ticket. This
is almost parallel case with that of Jerry
Simpson in the Seventh district of Kansas.
Bank Commissioners Breidenthal, of Kan
sas, gives one chapter of his report to build
ing and loan associations. He proposes
legislation to govern them, especially those
of Kansas associations to formulate legisla-
ton.
Things are in desperate state of affairs
in the Indian Territory. and more devilment
is being committed Just now than at any
time in the history of the territory. Movers
passing through that section are being robbed
by highwaymen, who do not stop short of
murder.
A mad dog at Guthrie. o. t. bit two school
,irIS 10 No4o
and Jenny Sturgess The dog then attacked
two horses Bullets fred at the dog went
everywhere but to the dog one of them hit
a woman, Mrs. George Littlejohn. Her con-
dition is serious.
William Morris Barker. bishop of western
Colorado. was elected as bishop of the mis-
sionary jurisdiction of Olympia, state of
Washington, at q secret session of the biSh-
ops of the Protestant Episcopal church of
n merica. held in the church mission house
Al New York city.
General Howard in his report recommends
that the army be doubled. He, however, ex-
presses the opinion that already our coast
that, in conjunction with our ever increasing
naval arma ment, there would be little fear
from outside aggresslons.
The Shawnee county district court refused
to take action in the two cases brought be-
fore it regarding the ballots. Democrats
asked that simpson name De pfonlolUeo ON
the democrat ticket and the parties named
on the Corning state ticket asked that their
ticket should go on the ballot. The court
ruled that there WIS no appeal from the &C
ton of the election board.
The Choctaw senate has passed bill that
no non-citizen shall build any house. fence
any land, yard. lot or garden, and such per-
son who violates such act shall have their
permits revoked and be reported to the In
dian agent as intruder<, and in case that he
fails to remove them, then the sheriff of the
county is to summon such help as he may
need and proceed to destroy such houses and
as they may have.