Newspaper Page Text
jy- it '."'' r'?TssV7?lsiwTlisMaiiLjfiil";"rg fj - . - -jjyrJSS " ' T"-' "" "fcJfifcB is!?" 9U0P tUESSBfBEmESmL i 1 'Vr!BBBBBBBBBBBBBKBBBHsBBBBi,1' T-ssr-tis"'"Bsi ".Ask s W saw .sbsssbl '! ''PssssaaBBS liaiaB m" OT r. in mm ii n iiii in i i iiwm wimi , n ii i i w , iu, - - . i -sm a, . ' i I- J : . , . '& -n.! - te. a- & s. &, , !i IP sis' SQ&'. ft 'rtjws: TTIE-AJE&IjTr STJBSCBlPTION $2.00. SETENTH XEAB, AT THE OLD STAND, Will in the Future as in the Past, keep a full supply of DRY GOODS CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS. Also, Qneensware, Flour, Feed, Stoneware, Confectioneries, Cigars and Tobacco. i A Liberal share of the Public Patronage is Solicited. i COME AND SEE US. WE WILL TRY AND MAKE IT FOR YOUR INTEREST TO COME AGAIN iWA-KEENEY MEAT MARKET. WHOLESALE W. S. HARRISON, Proprietor. 'Bologna Sausage & Pressed Corn Beef a Specialty. The) Trad Supplied. Bast Prlcas paid for Calf la and Hogs. KELLEY & AGENTS Buckeye Reaper and Mower, Keystone Corn Planters, Horse Rakes, Weir & Deere's Plows and Cultivators, Springfield Superior Grain Drills, JCEMENT, LIME and PLASTER PARIS, Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Iron, Steel and Glass, PLOW AND WAGON-WOOD STOCK, Franklin Street, THE LOW-PRICE STORE. WAG1TEE OILS, PAINTS, BRUSHES, And the usual line of goods found in a first-class We can and do meet anybody's prices in Western Kansas, both WHOLESALE -A.IST3D IRZBT-A-IX.. We furnish SULPHUR at bed-rock prices. COAL OIL we have bought 'way down, and on five-gallon lots will make great reductions. GBOOEHIES. A full line of staple and fancy Groceries have been added to our stock. Those who buy of us will get strictly good goods at low prices. ( Weoave a select stock at prices which defy competition. Don't take our word for it, but come and see. . , mvestigatibnofourgoodBisinvited . BOOTS .AJSTD RETAIL. WALKER, FOR THE WA-KEENEY, KANSAS. & O-KIIM:. stock: eh&tjstg- the basis op otj":e& insriDTrsTiEMCES- WA-KEESTEY, KANSAS, NEWS SUMARY. WASHINGTON TOPICS. A dispatch from New York, on April 7, stating that Gen. Grantwas delirous, caused the postponment of the reception at the White House on that evening. Wm. E. McLain, of Terre Haute, Ind., was appointed first deputy commissioner of pensions, vice C. B. "Walker, resigned, the appointment to take effect April 16th. L. G. Dyerin forth, assistant commission er of patents, has resigned that office. Ex Representative Robt. B. Vouce, of North Carolina, will be appointed to fill the va cancy. The president has appointad as postmas ters, Geo. M. Houston, at Harrisonyille, Mo., vice Wm. Bryson, deceased; Beni. B. 3niith, at Chillicothe, Mo., Vice Ely Marsh, resigned. Secretary Whitney has appointed a com mittee to investigate and report to him whether the "Dolphin" has been con structed in accordance with the terms of the contract. Senor Batres, minister from Gautemala, has not received any information from Gautemala confirming the report of the death of Gen. Barros. He has, received dispatches from San Salvador, however, confirming the report. On April 9th, Secretary Whitney receiv ed a dispatch from Commander Mohan, of Wachusett, dated La Liberated, San Salva dor, which says Barros is certainly dead. Nicaruguan troops entered Honduras rout ing the enemy, who retreated in great dis order towards Guatemala. A telegram from Sealdavar to the authorities here says Mexico will make a formal alliance with 3ealdavar. It is expected this will end the trouble without another snot. Probably both armies will march on Guatemalai City. The Commissioner of the General Land office has ordered that final action in the land office upon all entries of public lands, except private land entries and such loca tions as are not dependent upon acts of set tlement and cultivation, be suspended in the following localities: All lands west of the first guide meridian in Kansas; all west of range seventeen was in Nebraska; the whole of Colorado, except the lands in the TJte reservation; all lands in New Mex ico, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada, and that portion of Minnesota north of the Pa cific railrord and east of the indemnity limits of the Chicago, M. & M. railroad. Fi nal action in the land office is ordered to be suspended upon timber culture entries under the act of June 3, 1837, which law has not already been examined; also in alL cases of desert land entries. FOREIGN. The Prince of Wales left London for Ire land. The Anamese have risen against French authority. Party conflicts at Paris are increasing in bitterness. Cholera, it is said, has broken out at Iativa, Spain. Spies report heavy desertions from Osman Digna's army. English ship-owners refuse to take rice from China. Henry M. Stanley will soon visit the United States. Mrs. Susannah, the celebrated Canadian authoress, is dead. The river Thames is on a rampage ,and has overflowed her banks. German holders of Russian stocks are scared and are unloading. Floquet was elected president of the French chamber of deputies. Forty thousand coal miners are on a strike in Yorkshire, England. The new Prime Minister of France has read the riot act to China. Indians at Froglake, in the Northwest erritory, killed eight whites. The Prince of Wales received many repre sentative bodies at Dublin. The parliament of the Island of Jersey negotiated a bill to expel Jesuits. French troops at Formosa will evacuate the island and go-to Hanoi. ' Several of the Paris papers urge the im peachment of the ministry. M. Brisson, it is stated, has succeeded in forming the new French ministry. Canadian troops are ready to eo to Win nipeg to put down the rebellion. In4he event of war between England and Russia Turky has decided to remain neu tral. It is said that the family of the late Gen. Barrios have left Guatemala for San Fran cisco. The heat is so intense at Suakim that the sickness among the British soldiers is in creasing. A grand dubar at Rawal-Pindi in honor of the ameer of Afghanistan was a great success. Haaheen, recently the headquarters of Oiman Digna's entire army, is now de serted. France will send reinforcements to China until a final treaty of peace shall have been signed. Conservative members of the British par liament have resolved to oppese the Ezyp tian loan of 145,000,060. Battleford is surrounded by 1,000 hostile Indians, and there is no telling when ah at tack will be commenced. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1885. The lord mayor of Dublin was hissed as he drove along in official state in the pro cession in honor of the prince. The French government will form two divsions to be sent to Tonquin in the event China does not came to terms. 3 The new French ministry have indorsed the project of Feriy'B cabinet concerning the enlargment of the Suez canal. The enthusiasm over the Prince and Prin cess of Wales is reported on the increase among the common people of Dublin. An official circular issued at Constanti nople denounces the mahdi as an imposter and a robber chief of tha worst kind. Snow is nearly five fleet deep in some of the streets of Montreal, and a hsrd rain is adding to the uncomfortable situation. The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Dublin. The flag floated from the Man sion house. There was a large demonstra tion and the citizen's committee presented an address of welcome. Nationalists met at Dublin and denounced as flunkey ism the preparations made in Ire land to receive the Prince and Princess of Wales. A serious riot is reported in the Island of Cyprus, growing out of a- wanton attack upon a religious procession of the Greek church. The Central American states asked Presi dent Diaz of Mexico to appoint some one to mediate between them, and Joaquin Bo randa was chosen. Justice Andrew Wyle, of the United States Supreme ( ourt, has notified the President that he desires to be placed upon the retired list. Justice "Wylie iB 71 years of age. The czar of Russia has informed the Ger mtn and Austrian cabinets that he does not desire war, but naval and military pre parations are "being carried on with great energy. It is learned from St. Petersburg that the Ameer of Afghanistan's plan of campaign in connection with the English army in the case of war with Russia is about as follows: The Ameer's troops are divided into four corps d'armie, one of which remains in Ca- bul while the other three have taken up positions against the Russians. The three corps embrace 27,800 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 116 guns. These three corps stand at present in position at Tachtaput and in Saribul. Together with the troops in Ca bul the Ameer has an army of 67,000 men. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL. Carter Harrison was re-eleGted mayor of Chicago. St. Louis Democrats elected their entire city ticket with the exception of one candi date. John Henry Brown, formerly a resident of Missouri, was elected mayor of Dallas, Texas. Dr Trumbower was appointed state vet erinarian by the curators of the Missouri university. Gen. Grant told Senor Romero that he felt anxious about the financial future of his family. A recount of the votes cast at the Chicago election is talked of. Mr. Harrison says he is willing. Ex-Congressman Eobt. B. Vance.of North Carolina was appointed assistant commis sioner of patents. Secretary Manning was tendered a recep tion by the bankers of Albany, but he de clined with thanks. , On April 7, Gen. Grant suffered the pains of another hemorrhage, and created much alarm for a short time. Evan P. Howell, of the Atlantic Consti tution, has declined the appointment of consul to Manchester, England. Dispatches on the 30th announced Gen. Grant to be in a most critical condition, barely lingering between life and death. Patti is out in a card denying that she said she wouldn't sing any of Wagner's operas, or that she spoke disparagingly of Miss Kellogg. Michigan went Democratic by 10,000 majority, the election being for a supreme court judge and regents of the state univer sity. Kate SmuBley, who went so long without eating anything, died at Ft. Plain, N. Y., after laying in a comatoes condition for Bevenu uaya. - Dr. Joseph Robbins, a political enemy of Gen. Logan, received one vote for United 8tates senator in the Illinois legislature, cast by Collins of Quincy. The Tammany general committee adopt ed resolutions of sympathy for Gen. Grant. The committee also endorsed the adminis tration of President Cleveland. . At a meeting of the Wabash Directors, April 2d, Mr. Gould's resignation as a mem ber of the board was accepted and E. C. Clark elected as his successor. Republican members of the Tennessee legislature absented themselves to prevent a vote on a legistration bill. Arrests were ordered and there was a lively time gener ally. At the city election in St. Louis, precincts that gave a Democratic majority of 500 last November now eave a majority of 2,000. Francis, Democratic candidate for mayor received 1.800 votes more than Ewirg,, Re publican. Complete returns of the Cincinnati elec tion gives Smith, Republican, a majority of 3,893 for the mayor. J. w. juizgeraui is elected police judge by 1285 majority and Vincent Schwab is elected- magistrate by 1428 majority. These were the only suc cessful Democratic candidates. ' Cyrus W. Field has resigned as member of the executive committee of the Manhat tan Railway Company and Western Union Telegraph Company and will retire from active business life having completed fifty years therein. He still remains a director in both companies, and will spend the sum mer abroad. Election day at East St! Louis produced some exciting scenes. Maurice Joyce, Dem ocrat candidate for mayor was surrounded by his opponents who placed revolvers at his head and forced him to retire before the polls were opened in the morning. His as sailants, one of whom was a candidate for Councilman were arrested. Seven fights nave occurred. The Iroquis Club, Democratic, at its last meeting adopted the following resolution unanimously: Resolved 'that the Iroquis Club of Chicago Hereby extends to Gen. Grant its sincere sympathy in this hour of his great Buttering and trial. A sympathy which is heartily ehared by a great mass of American people and by tne masses of tne enlightened civilized world. , The President made the following ap pointments: Consuls Charles T. Russell, of Connecticut, Liverpool, England; A. Haller Gross, Pennsylvania. Athens, Greece; Wm. M. Long, Texas, Hamburg, Germany; Henri Vignaud, Louisiana, Secretary of Le gation to Paris: Augustus Jay, New York, second Secretary of Legation, Paris. The The three consuls named above were nom inated during the special session of the Sen ate but their nominations were not acted upon. A delegation of Californians headed by Gen'l Chimy and Christopher Buckley, and accompanied by Herbert O. Thompson, called on Secretary of the Treasury Man ning at his residence, in relation to the fed eral revenue appointments on the Pacific slope and particularly in relation to the col lectorship of the port of San Francisco. The Secretary carefully avoided making any motion of who may be the future col lector at San Francisco, but gave the dele gation the impression that the appointment would be of a character to" meet their ap proval. OKTMBS AND CASUALTIES. Geo. Harris of Shelbina, Mo., blew out the gas in a Quincy hotel. He is in critical condition. Three Deo Die were burned to deatn in a house near Asheville, Tenn. Foul play is suspected. The losses by fire during the month of MaTcb. were $9,000,000 in tne United States and Canada. A body supposed to be that of S. 8. Con ant, the mifsing editor of Harper's Weekly, was found in Coney Island creesr. Henry Daurn, a hide and leather dealer of Cincinnati; disappeared, leaving debts amounting to $12,000. Geo. Kinney, a stranger in the city drop ped dead in the Missouri Pacific freight yards in West Kansas City April 9th. Howard Cooper, the negro who assaulted Miss Kate Gray near Rockland, Mo., was caught,and placed in a Baltimore jail. Geo. Young, the Palmer, Tex., wife mur derer, was captured, but soon died of the wounds received while officers were, after him. At Fort Madison, Washington territory, an Indian woman threw a lamp at George Hoeg. It exploded and burned Hoeg to death. W. D. Rawden, the DJeria, Mo., mer chant who shot Ed. McNeil sometime ago and who died from his wounds, was releas ed on bail. Wm. Ke'tt'a and wife, who live near Can ton, Mo., were almost suffocated by the gas in a Quincy hotel. They were on their bridal tour. A.V.Arnold, a wealthy lumber mer chant of Wilkensburgh, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Poor health and business depres sion were the causes. While robbing a store at ban Vego, Tex., a gun was accidentally discharged by one of twelve Mexican bandits, causing the instant death of the robber the ball struck. Citizens pursued the robbers. Corvin Hecker, of Summerville, His., sui cided by shooting himself. Financial trou ble and drink led to the act. Hecker was 40 years old and a son of the laie Col. Fred Hecker.. He left a wife and five children. Col. S. C. Mewer, one of the proprietors of the Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, com mitted suicide by shooting. Mr. Mewer was favorably known in the military circles of Wisconsin. No cause assigned for the act. Secret organizations are being formed in every ward in Chicago. The object is not only to punish ballot box thieves and staf fers, but murderers and highwaymen, if the courts do not deal with them as they de serve. Louis Deny, a member of the city coun cil and at one time city marshall at Polar- bluff, Mo. jhot his wife four times, killing her instantly and then blew his own brains out. Jealousy is alleged as the cause of Derry's act,-he having accused his wife of being too intimate with an other man. Ferdinand Wolff, a German, and propri etor of a planing mill, shot and killed bun self at his residence, No. 509 Rutger street, St. Louis. Wolff had lost considerable money during the past winter, which, to gether with the sickness of his wife, preyed upon his mind and culminated in his suicide. Ex-Mayor B.E. Pollen, of Paris, Ky., was found dead in his room at a hotel in Lexington, Ky., havingcommitted suicide by taking laudanum. He was formerly a wholesale liquor dealer but lost his fortune. He had recently shown depression of spir its. An attempt was made before daylight April 7, to blow up Charles NicoWa sa loon on east Eighteenth street, by firing a sinsra-XiE coif-st s ceistts INTTMBEBS. quantity of giant powder alongside of the building. The force of the explosion spent itself in bursting the windows and wreck ing the plastering. Nicolas and family were sleeping in the rooms overhead. No. cause is assigned for the attempt. A Winnepeg special April 8, says it is re ported at Touchwood Hills that a band of Indians are within one day's march of Humboldt, where government supplies are stored, and that an advance of troops will be hurried forward to prevent their cap ture. It is also stated that Riel has placed a large force of rebels at the south branch of the Saskatchewan river to prevent trooDS from crossing over. Troops will reach, there in about ten days, and an gagement is likely tooccur. en- MISCELLANEOUS. The Farmers Bank at Norfolk, Va. have made an assignment. "Mediums" and clairvoyants were arrest ed by the wholesale in Baltimore and fined. The newly appointed postmaster, at Mat toon, 111., has 135 applications for assistant postmaster. Heavy axd destructive rains fell in Mis sissippi, doing considerable damage to rail way property. At Chicago in the Third ward the ballot box was stolen and several arrests have al ready been made. The ball Beason opened at Indianapolis the local clab defeating the Louisvilles (by a score of 7 to 4. The "Witch of Wall street" was arrested in Baltimore and went to jail because she had no funds. The total exports of specie from New York during the past week was $161,935; im ports, $43,852. First mortgage bondholders of the Nickel Plate road met at New York to take steps to protect themselves. The body found in Coney Island creek is not that of Mr. Coaaut, the missing editor of Harper's Weekly. The liabilities of the livery stable firm of Ryerson & Brown who failed in New York, are placed at $500,000. Edward Lambert, of Chicago, shot and killed his mother-in-law, wounded his wife and then killed himself. The Pennsylvania railroad, main line and branches, earned $30,196,884 during the year; net earnings, $10,509,926.; Sullivan and Ryan have arranged to fight at Butte City, Mont., June 16th with Bmali gloves for tha championship belt. General Passenger Agent Ford has issued an order for the restoration of rates on all of the Pennsylvania company's lines. Orders were received at Philadelphia for six iron cruisers from private individuals. It is thought they will ba sold to some gov ernment. The new Bank of Commerce building just opened to the public, is pronounced the most elaborately nnisnea Dans: Duna ding in the west. The New York Central fc Hudson River railroad was asked to reduce its freight rates to Chicago, but declined, saying the road was satisfied with the present rates. The Chicago men, who took the contract to build the new state .house for Texas, will lorieit the amount namea in xne oonarain er than go ahead with the works at a loss. The employes of the National line of steamships at New York, state that the English Government has bought the America outright, paying 250)000 pounds sterling for her. l The supreme court decided that the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad must pay taxes in West Virginia, the company claim-. ing rights not to do so under an act which incorporated a road absorbed by the C. & O. It is understood that the annual report of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. Co., to be issued soon, will show a surplus for 1884 of $850,000, without taking into ac count the advances to the Sonora road which amount to about $350,000. Governor Marmaduke has issued an -order making the members of the Legisla ture, the county clerk and treasurer of each county a local committee to secure contributors to the fund for the extinction of the disease existing in Calloway county. Trouble with Missouri Pacific machinists in Texas commenced again, but it was sat isfactorily settled when the company's at- tention was called to the fact that the re cent contract made with the men was being violated. A special from Kansas City, April 11th, says: George C. Faville, State veterinarian of Colorado, passed through the City to night en route to Jefferson City for the pur pose of ascertaining the extent of pleuro pneumonia in the State, and the result of his investigation will probably determine whether the quarantine of Colorado against Missouri will be raised or on the other hand made more stringent. Happy Thmmgkt la the Night. For years Mr. Jas. B. Acklev, of 163 Wes Fay ette street, Baltimore, had suf fered with newralgia so that he could hardly aleep. Bat he writes, "One night I was suffering very much, and the thought struck me that Brown's Iron Bitters would do ice some good, and perhaps cure me. It was a happy thought, and to my great joy it has en tirely cured me after using two bottles. After three months I hare had no re turn of the symptoms. I cheerfully re commend it as the beet tonic I hare ever cued.'' Neuralgia sufferers take the hint! Nv .4k 'jrw1 t3 J '14sirf' Ag "" Mr tSfrsft- '-fk$t,Z 3rJOs X,. 't-f t, Jn. rigPft ?&- 51 I -