Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
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The Iowa battle flags. 135 ID number. were
last week safely and permanently hou ed in
the state capitol. The transfer was attended
by thousands of old soldiers.
J. W. Reinhart, president and one of the
receivers of the Atchi>on, Topeka d Santa
Fe Railroad company, has resigned his posi-
ton as president and director
1t was reported, August 8, that the demo
cratic members af the tariff conference com
iron ore go free, with a compromise
sugar
The South Omaha packing houses are
again full handed; the strikers having been
taken back so far as their were vacancies to
fill. This leaves a great many outside. beg
ging for chance to get in to go to work.
General James B. Weaver is nominated
for congress by the democrats of the Ninth
Iowa district, by vote of y to 20
Oates. democrat, over Knob, populist. re
ceived majority of about 10000 for gov
ernor of Alabama. The returns indicate
safe democratic majority in the Legislature.
The town of Yerington. New, formerly
Pizen Switch, on the Carson d Colorado
railroad, is completely destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at between $4,000 and
$4,000.
mine under the western portion of Scran-
ton, Pa. caved in, for distance of three
This resulted from robbing the mine of its
timber supports.
But one bill for the erection of a public
building has passed the present congress
According to Bradstreet's estimate the re-
cent railway strike cost the country $4,000
600.
The attorney general of Illinois has com
menced suit against the charter of the Pull
man company, under charges that the
company has exceeded its charter rights.
A member of the cabinet stated that the
president would not sign the tariff bill as
passed, but that he would allow it to become
a law without his signature, under the ten
days limit.
Reports from various portions of Nebraska
Indicate the prevalence all day of August
Of extremely hot winds. and all corn not de-
stroyed by the previous drouth is now thought
to be past any possible hope.
An exasperating feature of the disturbance
at South Omaha is that labOrers and others
houses are mistak ken for packing house men
and made to suffer from violence by union
men.
The Choctaw election of governor results
III a contest; the full blood faction refusing
to count the votes of the adopted citizens,
while if the full vote was canvassed the can
didate mainly supported by the latter would
have been elected.
The bills for the admission of New Mexico
and Arizona were referred to the senate and
placed on the calendar. The house bill for
the protection of persons furnishing mate
rails and labor for the construction of pub
lie works was passed.
News comes of heavy rains in southern and
western Texas, those sections that were
burned up by drouth last spring. Good crops
are said to be assured. More cotton, it is
said, will be raised this year than ever before
in the history of the state.
Twenty-one business houses, two grain
elevators, the Illinois Central depot, extern
sive grain cribs and 10000 bushels of grain
were burned at Clifford, ILL.,, August 8. Only
two business houses in the town remain. The
loss will amount to 100000
The people who want congress to pay the
fares back home of the mem bers of the in
dustrial army now in Washington should be
reminded that the mem ers of the army will
find the walking on return journey better
than it was when they went east.
The strikers at the Omaha packing houses
seem to be DESTROYS of battle. They assault
men who work at every opportunity and
have visited the houses of workingmen and
compelled wives, by threats, to go into the
works and bring out their husbands.
Four workmen engaged in constructing a
hume for floating ties in Granite canon, on
Tongue river. thirty five miles northwest of
Sheridan, Wyo., were crushed to death I'M
der twenty tons of rock which rolled upon
them after blast had been exploded.
H. H. Warner, of Rochester the patent
medicine man, who made 1000, 900 out of
the LOG Cabin remedies which were so
extensively advertised everywhere, has
turned home from Europe penniless. He
left the last of his fortune at Monte Carlo.
Steps have been taken by the judiciary
committee of the house for investigation
of the charges against Judge A. J. Kicks,
made by the Centr Il Labor union of Cieve
land: who assume to show by court records
that Kicks was a defaulter when clerk of the
court he now presides over.
Representative Baker. of Kansas. has in
troduced bill to authorize the secretary of
agriculture to estab lish reservoirs for the
tillable lands west of the 90th meridian.
Channels for distributing the water are also
contemplated in the bill and an appropria-
ton of 100000 is asked for.
DIR. Zebalb, the Argentine minister at
Washington. has sent to the state depart
ment copy of a telegram he had received
from the president of the Argentine republic,
expressing his great satisfaction that both
houses of the American congress had voted
for free wool in the pending tariff bill.
head end collision between express trains
occurred the Santa Fe, August II, in
Express Messenger Coplinger we're killed.
Other train men and two passengers were
hurt. General Manager Frey was on one of
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