Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

as Cleaned from the Wire Reports,
Count Kalnoky; Imperial Foreign
Minister Of Austria, has resigned.
Cuban insurgents have captured two
forts In the Province of Santiago.
The most destructive forest fires in
years are raging in Pennsylvania.
Advocates and opponents of the 16 to
aaeA are drawing the lines very tight
IN Texas.
Statistics show that England con-
tFOls more than one-haf of the trade
Of the world.
Sam Jones denounced the "Trilby''
spH and society at large as being NOR
airy depraved.
Van Lauven, the crooked pension at
torRsy is said to be dying in the Ana
NOSE penitentiary.
There are 23 murders to be investi-
gated at this term of the United States
Court at Ft. Smith, Ark.
Lives of foreigners are endangered
on the Island of Formosa by depreda-
tions of the Black Flags, Chinese al
lies.
William Longtoft, secretary of the
Green Glass Blowers Association of
the United States, is said to be short
IN his accounts.
| It is reported that the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf is trying to arrange
n N %ro in@N Go
Of Shreveport.
| Executive officers of the Southwest
eFn roads are still in session in ST..
Louis. An attempt is being made to
readjust Texas rates
In an interview Prime Minister Can
Oras of Spain says that country will
sacrifice her last soldier and last dol
lar to retain Cuba.
Theodore Roswell, Col Fred Grant
and A. D. Parker of New York, have
been sworn in as police commissioner
to succeed Messrs Martin, Kerwin and
Murray.
| The Oklahoma Central and South
western line is to be built at once, and
| contractors have under taken to have
the work finished before the end OF
the year.
Governor CuIberson Of Texas, has
vetoed the bill legalizing the consoli-
1ation of number of small roads
with the Houston and Texas Central.
The veto is based upon constitutional
grounds.
The Grand Council of Missouri
United Commercial Travellers, closed
business session in Sedalia, Mo.
Officers for the year were elected as
follows: Grand Councillor, E. S. For
ker, Kansas City; Secretary, F. y.
Gould, Chillicothe; Treasurer, d. H.
Haffner, Hannibal.
Young Mr.. Somerset, son of Lady
Somerset, is tall slim youth with a
grave and severe face. He is about 20
years of age, and is very popular
among Americans owing to his unaf-
fected and pleasant manner. He end
! ed 9 short visit to New York the other
day, when he sailed for the other side.
Alderman j. Eugene Gordon of Seat
| tie, has been sued in the supreme
| court by his wife, May Gordon, who is
trying to assert her interest in proper
ty to the amount of half a million dol
lars. She alleges that Gordon desert
ed her at Oaudersport, Pa, ten years
ago, and since going to Seattle has
| accumulated about seventy-five pieces
Of valuable property.
the Glen Falls of New York, and the
Traders of Chicago, both represented
by Voss q Co, San Francisco, have de-
| rided to close up their business there
This action is ascribed to the whole
sale rate cutting practiced for two
months, resulting in filing the books
OF the insurance companies with bust
ness on which there can be but little
profit.
Fifty eight new converts to the
Mormon faith went West last week.
on their way to Utah, where they will
be provided with homes by the saints.
The party was made up of Germans,
English and Swiss and was about
equally divided as to sex They ar
Choir line steamers. Elder Raymond
was in charge Of the converts who ap-
pesred to be below the average in in
te1ligence.
A tabulsted statement just pu blish-
ed by the Marine Hospital Bureau al
Washington, gives the number OF
deaths from smallF OK which occurred
in each state and territory In the
Union during the year 1894, as we'll as
The mum Der of cases. Deaths were:
Arizona, /; Arkansas. 81; California,
?; Connecticut. IT: District of Column
bia, 6; Illinois, SIT; Indiana, 10; Kan
sas, 7; Kentucky, /; Louisiana. 1;
Maine, l; Massachusetts,, %; Michigan
81; Minnesota, 4; Missouri, 2; New Jer-
sey, 12:New York, 337; Ohio, 81; Penn
sylvania, "a; Rhode Island, 8; Tennes.
see, /; Wisconsin, 253.