Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-01-12
CONGRESSIONAL.
Summary of News From WASH
ington and Elsewhere.

Fire broke out in the engine room of the
monastery at Usage Mission. Kan, totally
destroying it and the gas plant adjacent. By
heroic work of the bucket brigade the other
buildings near were saved. Loss. s., 900; in
surance. $1,000.
dispatch form Moscow stated the car,
in revising the list of officers for promotion,
which list gives the age, religion. ETC., of the
officers. struck his peu through the column
marked religion, declaring that it was
question that did not concern him.
letter just received in Boston from
point near the seat of the recent outrages in
eastern Turkey places the mum Der of slaugh-
tered Armenians at fully 1900. 1t is writ
ten by man IN whom the highest confidence
IS pl ced, and portions are too horrible to
repeat.
The Toronto, Canada, Globe is burned
out. Its building cost $4,000 and its plant
was valued at $4,000. There were other
heavy losers by the fire.
On January 2. the day the wool schedule
of the new tariff law took effect, the duties
collected at the New York customs house
was 81 ,627 ,655, of which no less than 81 ,097,-
656 was for woolens. The numbe of pack
ages of wooens withdrawn was 21,o17.
Senator Hill, of New York, has for the
second time during this administration been
at the White house. The first time was soon
after his colleague, Senator Murphy, was
elected. This time was as an invited guest
to the cabinet dinner" given at the execu-
tive mansion.
The Ohio river is getting dangerously high
at Cincinnati.
Nebo, twenty miles northeast of Ardmore
l. t., is in ashes, the work of burglars.
Judge Phillips. of the United States court
sitting in Kansas City, Mo-, has granted a
new trial of the DR.. Fraker insurance case.
Pullman is making a big fight in the
United States senate against Senator Sher-
mans bill regulating charges for berths in
sleeping cars
The Quapaw Indians. having been allotted
lands in severalty, now have delegation in
Washington asking that they be empowered
to sell the remainder of their lands.
Corning mill No ?, of the Miami Pow
der works, located five miles north of Xenia,
o., exploded, completely demOlishlng the
building and killing Adolph Krebel, Ar
thur j. Harris and Clifford Horney. The
mill contained several hundred pounds Of
powder.
Sidney Clarke. chairman of the Oklahoma
statehood committee, has prepared bill for
the admission of that territory. which COM
promises some important differen ces in the
other measures before congress. 1t retains
the Usage country and adds part of the
Chckasaw country to Oklahoma.
Senator Martin has introduced a bill pro-
viding for the settle .nent of sand lands" in
Kansas belonging to the public domain
The bill is intended to make terms of entry
on such land easy, so that much of it can be
taken up. 1t is recommended by the COM
missioner of the general land Office.
The Cologne Gazette, reviewing the colo
NAL year, says it wishes to point out that
America intends to withdraw from the ''un-
fortunate Samoa treaty" In the new set
Element Germany will have to energetically
defend her title to this group, as the British
claims do not compare with the German
claims.
The boilers of the steamer Port Nichthe-
roy, in Rio Janeiro harbor, which had quite
a large number of excursion lists on board,
exploded, and the shock drove the redhot
Goals from the furnaces in every direction.
of those board jumped overheard to es-
cape the flames. Altogether 120 persons
were drowned.