Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
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Atchison income bondholder4 are preparing
to resist the reorganization scheme.
Major General McCook, commander of
the department of the Colorado, with head
quarters at Dsuver, is placed on the retired
list of the army April % on account of age.
President Diaz, of Mexico, in the pres
ence of full cabinet. diplomatic corps and
a large cOncOurse of military and civil per
sonages, received Hon. Matt Ransom the
new American minister
The St. Louis Pressed Brick com pany suf-
fered a loss of 100000 by the destruction of
the works at Glen Carbon, ILL.,. sixteen mile:
e st of St. Louis, by fire. About 25) men
are employed at the works.
Several earthquake shocks have been felt
throughout the Cape Verde islands recently
Mrs. Parnell, who was robbed and beaten.
will not die, but is likely 10 be permanently
deranged.
Since the democracy has no daily paper
in Chicago a com bination of partisans of
that TX are organizing, with $l,0)0.00) CAPT
tai stock, to start a new one to be called
The Inquirer.
Three hundred men employed by the Chi
cago City Railway conn any IN the construc-
ton Of lts electric lines struck because their
request for an increase Of wages from SIPS
to $l.5O per day was refused.
Quite severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Burlington, VT, April II, at 1:20 a.
IN. Buildings and their contents were
shaken, but there was no ser Gus damage.
The movement was from southwest to north
east.
The earnings of the Santa Fe system. all
lines, for the second week in April were
S733,3l3, a decrease of $50, SOB; for the month
to date. l.509.554, an increase of $3.50.
All the earnings given are approximate gross
earnings.
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S2OC a front foo. A contract has been made
for a new court house and jail, subject to
approval by Attorney General O.ney. The
two daily papers are consolidated, eliminat-
ing the Alliance Herald.
The receiver for the c. B. Hamilton and
State Printer Snow printing plant opened
bids for the purchase of the SAM. j. K.
Hudson, the newly elected state printer, bid
$1,000 for the plant entire. Other bids
were for the stock on hand.
Colorado cattle that came through the
winter SO we'll are now suffering from spring
storms. 1t is said the recent sand and snow
torn will cause loss of 10 TO 20 per cent
in the northeast portion of the state, and
down the Arkansas valley of per cent
dispatch from Toxic says the mikado
has expressed the de ire to pay a personal
visit to the emperor of China at Pekin, in
order to discuss with the latter the question
of an offensive and defensive alliance into
which it is proposed to invite Siam to enter.
Professor E. H. S. Bailey. with a class Of
nineteen students in chemistry, who are now
taking up sanitary and applied chemistry.
visited Kansas City, Kan. from the Univer-
sity of Kansas. They visited The packing
houses to study the use of chemical agent
there.
DR.. Salmon. chief of the bureau of animal
industry, has reported to Secret Try Morton
his findings in h4 investigation of the en-
hancad price of beef 10 consumers. 1t
says that the price Of beef on foot does not
warrant such sensational prices to the con-
sumer.
dispatch to the London Standard from
Vienna says that the inspired ST. Peters
burg correspondent of the Poitsche Cores
pondenz declares that a conflict between
Russia and ] pan is inevitable if the pub
li,hed details of the Chinese japanese treaty
are correct
In the District Of Colum bia the negroes
own $1,000, 900 worth of property; in Vr-
ginia, 81 100000; in West Virginia, they own
$1,OOO,OO0; in North Carolina, $4,000, 900;
in South Carolina they own 1900 0): in
Tennessee, $13,00O,000; in Arkansas, $12,-
100000, and in Georgia, $l5,0OO,O00.
R. H. Mclean, an ex-naval officer of the
United States, has been appointed to COM
mand the army of Hawaii, with the rank,
pay and allowances of a colonel IN the
United States army. He graduated from
the naval academy in 1872 and honorably
resigned after an excellent record in 1883.
A company of Soung Mormons, sent out
by their chi rch in Utah to do missionary
work in the southern states visited the Tenn
pie lot IN Independence, Mo. The party is
headed by d. G. Young, the eighteenth son
of Brigham. They propose to separate at
Chattanooga and each gather recruits as
he can.
1t is learned the state department ha'
made no protest against any proposed Brit
ish action in Nicaragua, for the reason the
British governm ent has regarded the issue
between itself and Nicaragua as one in
which no other nation can have any concern
and has not acquainted the govern ment of
the United States with its exact purposes.
With the retirement of General Alexander
Mcdowell McCook the last of the fighting
McCooks goes into private life, and for the
first time IN nearly half century the army
will b. without McCook on its active rolls.
1t is a most not worthy fact that General
Daniel McCook. father of General McCook,
and nine sons were all in the field fighting
for their country at one time, ard that four
of them attained the rank of general.
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