Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-20
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Fe, as agreed upon at last, reduces the in
terest account to be nually met $5,007 ,536.
In Japan 10000 Bibles have been distrib-
uted to the soldiers and Chinese prisoners
and the emperor has appointed Christian
ministers to chaplaincies in the army.
Deciduous fruits were badly damaged by
the effects of frost, which was general
throughout the Santa Clara. Cal, valley.
ApricotS were seriously injured and some
peaches are killed, but prunes are unhurt.
Under a new law in Missouri every county
is to have melon INSPECTOR who must pass
upon all melons offered for shipment The
appointment of melon in pactors is now GO
ing on by the state railroad commissioners.
Cremation has been officially declared by
Masonic authority not to be Christian burial.
The lower house of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture defeated the woman suffrage bill by
vote of 40 to SO.
The million dollar Hotel Raymond, at
Pasadena, Cal, burned on April IA. The
house was full of guests and EN- ployes, who
nearly all lost what was not on them.
At the National Association of Prayer and
| Institute of Reform at Grove City, Pa.
Prof. j. R. Dill. of Topeka, secretary of the
American Sabbath union, spoke on THE
Keystone of the Moral Arch.
Frank Trum bull. receiver Of the Gu'f
road, has sold 100000 worth of receivers
of completing the road from Trinidad to
Walsenburg, as directed by the United States
court.
Chief Justice A. III. Horton, of the supreme
court, has placed his resignation in thu
hands of Governor Morrill,, to take effect
April 30. Hon. David Martin, of Atchis0n,
was i'm mediately appointed to succeed udge
Horton.
An Atchison special says that Chief Justice
OF oil TUif
Waggener and B. w. Orr in the practice of
law. For the present he will be in charge
of an office which the firm proposes to open
in Topeka.
George w. Godfrey has been awarded
judgment for $4,000 against Jacob Schwein-
furth. the Rockford Messiah" for ali nat.
ing Mrs. Coudrey's affections from her
husband by inducing her to enter his 'heaV-
en- at Rockford.
There is not a scintillation of truth in the
published statement that any court in Kan
sas has taken judi cial recognition of hypno-
tism an element in criminal trials. East
ern dailies are full of this base lie about thu
Kansas judiciary.
A singular rumor is current in Berlin to
the effect that Field Marshal Count Yama-
gaia, the Japanese minister of war, is the
long missing Archduke John, of Austria,
who went abroad some years ago under the
name of ohm Ortiz.
The secretary of the interior has indicated
that he has little sympathy for those want
ing the Kickapoo reservation opened to set
tlement. He suggested that if any one was
camping on the line with the expectation of
going in soon, he would be disappointed.
The ST. Petersburg Novo2 Vremya says
that if Great Britain has approved the terri
toraI demands of Japan in regard to Man.
churia and Cora, Russ will consider her
self relieved of the obligation of common
oofi n Inn Ian nd
on sea.
Serious foods are prevailing in Hungary.
In Peeska $40 houses ere flooded and many
of them have collapsed. In SZerbbokl 200
houses are flooded and 700 people are home
less. The town of Cftsa is submerged. Hun
dreds of villages are threatened with de-
structlon.
It has been ascertained that large part
of the west is pretty We'll covered with the
bogus stamps manufactured in Canada, and,
despite the most rapid work of the detectives
in the case, they are being used by innocent
purchasers. The loss to the government has
been very great.
At Cushing, o. T., Charles Wilson,
Charles Moore and Jack Sims, cowboys from
the Greek country, rode into town, raided q
saloon, broke up everything and then started
out to terroriZe the town, posse of citi-
zens gave fight, killed Sims and brought
Wilson and Moore to Jail at Guthrie.
A Halifax dispatch reports the fiercest
hurricane for a decade had been raging there
for twelve hours and showed but little signs
of abatement. being from an eastery direc-
ton. Ships in the harbor have not materi-
ally suffered. Reports from the outside
have not been received. but the damage to
shipping must have been large.
The state auditors department of Kansas
is sending cut warrants in the sum of $751;
$40 to the several counties of the state to
pay for the care of INDECENT insane persons
for whom there was nos room in the stat |
asylums Many of the counties have been
main tanning such per ons in their poor |
houses or iails until the sum total reaches |
the figures given. i
Collectors of the income tax in different |
parts of the country already have begun to |
telegraph for instructions on many points; |
at the same time stating that the crush of |
those who desire to MAKE returns has al |
ready begun. All things considered, it is |
now thought that the loss to the treasury re-
ceipts from the income tax source will not
exceed so per cent of the total that had been
expected from this tax, but may reach
much higher figure.