Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE WESTERN STATES. A Bbookville (Kansas) dispatch says the Lawrence Hotel, six business houses, and three dwellings were burned in that town. Four men were burned to death, as follows: Fireman Brimer, of Wamego; Brakeman Harngan, of Wamego; Mr. Farnsworth, of Lincoln; an unknown man. Charles Moss, of Tower Springs, Kan., was badly burned, and will probably die. The guests of the hotel were obliged to jump from the second story windows. The total loss is *22,000, and the insurance *5,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. The new stock yards at St Joseph, Mo., comprising 440 acres, were opened Thursday. They cost *1,000.000, and are said to be complete in every detail A hillside site in Greenwood Cemetery, sixteen miles south of the city, on the Chicago and Grand Trunk Road, has been selected as the burial place of the dead anarchists, says a Chicago special The lot, which is on a high hill overlooking the surrounding country, was offered at very, reasonable figures, and entire control of the property given to the Central Labor Union, to arrange matters without interference on the part of the cemetery Trustees. The funeral services will be held next Sunday. A coal famine exists for 400 miles along the Santa Fe Road in Kansas. A train was stopped by farmers at Syracuse and six cars of coal unloaded.