Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Summary OF the Daily N eWS.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
CHIEF HAZEN, of the secret service,
has given notice of the discovery of a
new counterfeit SO silver certificate
1t is of the series of 1891, check letter
D, with the small carmine seal, the
portrait of Hendricks and the names
of Messrs. Tillman and Morgan as
register and treasurer respectively.
1T was said that the nomination of
Terrence V. Powderly, formerly grand
master workman of the Knights of
Labor, for commissioner-gener of i'm
migration, would soon be sent in to
the senate.
THE navy department at Washington
has prepared for issue the fifth volume
of the official records of the union and
confederate navies up to the middle
period of the war of the rebellion.
IT was reported that President Nc
Kinlev had offered the Russian mission
to Carl Schurz-
Ex-CoNGREssMAN KEIFER, of Ohio,
will be made assistant commissioner
of immigration at New York.
GENERAL NEWS.
DANIEL BARRY, aged II, shot and
killed Howard Byers, aged Ii, at the
Newsboys' home at Chicago. Barry
held revolver in front of Byers and
said: do you see that?" and then fired.
AT White Cliffs, Ark, George Clegg,
an engineer of the White Cliffs cement
works, became involved in a quarrel
with two of his firemen and killed both
of them.
A CIOUDBURST six miles west OF
Lodge Pole, Neb., washed out one mile
of railroad track. Every dam between
Lodge Pole and Sidney was washed
out.
ABOUT 5000 persons saw John R. Gen
try and Robert j. pace exhibition miles
at the Crosse FONT track at Detroit,
Mich, on the 10TH Gentry made the
mile in 2:O415, Robert J. was second
slower.
The steam yachting bark Hope, with
Lieut. r. E. Peary and party on board.
bound for Northern Greenland, left
Boston on the 10Th. The object of the
voyage is to establish a settlement in
Northern Greenland which shall be
used as a base of supplies for expe-
dition in search of the north pole I'M
der Lieut. Peary next year.
JUDGE PHILIPS, of the federal court,
has granted the temporary injunction
restraining the association of cattle
spectators at the Kansas City stock
yards, known as the Traders Live
Stock exchange, from interfering with
the business of others The order will
hold till the trial of the case on its
merits in The November term and dis
solves the exchange till that time
THE section around Altoona, Pa, has
gold excitement rivaling that of the
Klondyke country. Assays of gold
bearing quartz taken from a recently
opened claim at English settlement.
near Titusville, showed over 81, 600 per
ton. There is rush to secure the best
claims.
ORNAMENT, the great three-year-old
of the year, was beaten by Fleischman
at Cincinnati on the nth. Whether
Fleischm an is really the better horse
of the two, however, is still a matter
of doubt as the race was run over a
track deep in mud, and was not what
could be termed contest of speed.
The purse was for Sc, 900.
FOREST and field fires are doing much
damage in various parts of California.
Near the town of Red Bluff about a
dozen residences have been burned,
cattle ranges destroyed and standing
crops threatened. In the vicinity OF
Mount Diablo fire was laying waste
the fields and the mountain houses
We're threatened.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at Chicago to
form national billiard league and
establish circuit of cities represented
in the league, almost identical with
the system in vogue in baseball. so as
to create national in terest in billiards.
A GREAT celebration was held in
Marquette, Mich, the other day in
honor of the unwilling of bronze
statue of Father Marquette, the eN.
plorer and priest whose name the city
bears A feature of the parade was a
band of so Indians on horseback
dressed in feathers and war paint.
THE announcement has been made
authoritatively that William d. Felts
will make an aerial excursion from the
summit of Pixies peak to Colorado
Springs, Col, a distance of ten miles
on an air line, and drop of 5000 feet
In making the flight Mr.. Felts viii
use a series of rigid aeroplanes