Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-13
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Missouri has new law in which train
rObbing is made capital oHense should the
jury decide infiict SO serious a punishment.
The penalty ranges from hanging to impris-
Cnment in the penitentiary.
A Liverpool cable says: "Cable advices
from Argentine report the wheat surplus
turning out seriously short. There is rea-
son to believe Europe Will require consid-
cradle American wheat the ensuing four
months"
A Rock Island passenger train was robbed
in Oklahoma. About $500 was taken from
the passengers and several watches The
robbers failed to open the express safe. Elk
press Messenger Jones was shot through the
wrist and in the leg.
Governor Clarke, of Arkansas, was fined
$50 in a Justices court in Little Rock for
carrying pistol.
The men indicted for election frauds in
Kansas City, Mo-, have all taken changes of
venue and their trials are delayed thereby.
The Cleveland ''World'' has been sold to
Robert T. Porter, census superintendent.
for 100000. It will be personally conducted
by Porter and his wife.
Hon. George I. Anthony, state supern-
tendent of Insurance, has appointed Eus
tace H. Brown, of OIathe, to the position of
assistant superintendent.
1t now develops that the beet sugar and
chicory bounty law which passed the Ne
braska legs allure just adjourned carried no
appropriation with it, and the auditor has
announced that he will draw no warrants
for bOuntieS.
D. s. Pipes the law book man of Topeka,
was severely cut about the face and an eye
nearly put out at Cross. o. T. He was in
passenger coach of the Santa Fe when some
one threw a stone through the window at
which he was sitting.
There we're sixty three cars of choice cat
tie taken at the Kansas City, Kan, stock
yards on April 3, for export In the lot
were sixteen Short Horns from Cherokee
county which brought $99.87 per head, at
So per hundred pounds.
Three hundred and sixty inmates of the
Kansas penitentiary at Lansing were poi
soued by eating beans which had been soaked
in lye in some unknown manner. They are
all out of danger, but there was quite a stir
for time within the walls.
The court of appeals in St. Louis refused
Attorney August Rebenack a writ of man.
damus to compel the school board to allow
his unvaccinated children to attend school.
The judges unanimously hold that the school
board has the right to enforce this rule.
There is furry of excitement in admin
istration circles over rumors that the presi-
dent has determined to enforce the Monroe
doctrine, no matter what the consequences.
This. if true, means war with England un-
less her Venezuelan course is pure bluff.
The Kansas City, Mo, grand jury have in
dicted forty-seven men for frauds connected
with the election of last Novem Der. Against
these forty-seven criminals over eighty In
dictnents have been found and the prose
cutting attorney says beginning has scarcely
been made.
northeast wind pied up ice on the shore
of Green Bay. at Menomine, from twenty
to thirty feet high. Docks are displaced
and broken up and the tracks IN the railroad
yard are, some OF them, under twenty feet
of broken ice which is in cakes from twelve
to sixteen inches thick.
Thomas DoIan & Co.. of Philadelphia,
have granted a Is per cent increase IN the
wages of their emp Dyes IN the cloth weay-
ing department. The increase was asked
for by a committee who waited on the hrm
last week. The comm ttee has beer notified
that the advance goes into effect at once.
In Pawnee county, O. T., an unknown
man on horseback set fire to the dry prairie
grass during a high wind and the county
was devastated for many miles. Seventeen
farmers lost everything they possessed, hav-
ing hard work to save the lives of their fam
lilies, and the village of Chico was a imost
entirely destroyed.
The postmaster general has notified the
St Louis postmast to withhold all mail
from the St. Louis Mutual Bond Investment
company, the Guaranty Investment COM
pany ana the American Mutual Benent So
Gle y, which are conducting lottery enter
prses. and their mail must be 'held up'
according to law.
The Britt government has given our am
basSador. Mr.. Bayard, to unders and that It's
little tracas with Venezuela is none of Uncle
Sans business. This is a fair rendering of
wordy diplomatic note in response to
Bayard's presentation of the reSo ution of
congress asking that England would arbi-
ira te the Venezuelan dispute.
Governor Clarke. of Arkansas, and Rep
re-entative Jones. of Marion county, spit in
each Others faces in a hotel in Little Rock.
Then Clarke drew a pistol, Jones having
only a chair to defend himself. Others who
were near captured Clarke's pistol and the
two men were taken away in opposite direc-
tionS. This was after Sunday dinner.
The April Oklahoma weather bulletin says:
The condition Of wheat is very poor every
where Throughout Central sectiOn) Payne,
Logan, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kinghsher and
Cleveland counties (the heaviest wheat pro-
ducing counties) and the northern central
portions of the Chicka-aw nation, from 80
to So per cent of soft wheat is reported killed
and hard wheat somewhat injured.