Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-14


Chicago with SIS. 900, 900 to irrigate and
reclaim land in the valley of the Santa
Cruz river along the southern border
of Arizona.
GEN. j. B. GORDON has given notice
to the United Confederate Veterans
that they have been invited to the
Atlanta exposition on September 81 by
the authorities.
SECRETARY MORTON has issued a spe-
cial notice to all railroad, steamboat
and other transportation companies,
stating that hereafter the owners of
animals which are subject to quaran-
tine detention and about to be i'm
ported into the United States will be
required to give satisfactory assur-
ances of the payment of quarantine
expenses.
A BAND of colored children was
taken to London by the president OF
the negro orphanage at Charleston, S.
c., to play in order to raise money,
and on their arrival there they found
that the law would not permit chill
dren under IL to perform in public and
they were all stranded without money
and had to appeal to the authorities
for help.
THE masonic temple in Boston was
ruined by fire on the 18th. In less than
an hour the roof of the magnificent
building fell in, carrying down what
the fire had left of the three upper
stories and making HOPELESS the task of
saving anything but the two lower
floors, The library and the museum
of relics escaped serious damage. 1t
was believed the loss would amount to
$500, OOO
AT Specht's ferry, small station on
the Milwaukee road, IL miles above
Dubuque, Ia, boy was shooting his
rifle off near his home under which 600
pounds of dyna mite was stored. He
was warned of the danger by a passing
neigh Dor, but fired another shot after
the warning was given, when the dy-
Mantle exploded and wrecked the
building, killing four people and also
the boy and injuring three others, be-
sides doing considerable damage to
property in the neigh borhood.
LATE on the night of the 18th party
of Irishmen invaded Lion park, n. Y,
where the Lafayette guard was cele-
brating an anniversary, tore down the
British flags, which together with all
other nations formed part of the wall
decorations, and trampled them under
foot amid the shouts and jeers of the
onlookers. The appearance of the pO-
lice alone prevented riot.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipa1 cities in the United States for
the week ended September 6 showed
an average increase as compared with
the corresponding week last year. Of
Is I; in New York the increase was
$50; outside New York the increase
was LIS.
JAMES WARD murdered his father-in-
law, Aaron Hunter, and his brother-in-
law, John Hunter, by cutting off their
heads at Sullivan, Ind He was pur-
sued by mob, but just as he was about
to be captured took his own life.
THE banking house of Baron Al
phonse Rothschild at Paris was en-
tered by an anarchist on the 5th who
attempted to light the fuse of a bomb
from a cigarette he was smoking. The
anarchist, seeing he was observed,
threw down the bomb, but it did not
explode. He was arrested.
AN engine used to supply the govern
ment building at Chicago exploded
near midnight on the 4th and the en-
ployes were terror stricken for short
time, anticipating more explosions.
Every one of the 1000 lights went out
In fifteen minutes, however, they were
at work again, another engine having
been set going.
The Nashville, Tenn, baseball club
won the Southern league pennant.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.