Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-12-04

LOCK, aged % years. one 6uO mary SP11k8s
aged 20 years, occupied the same house.
some tridipg matter, when the younger
woman threw lighted kerosene lamp at the
elder, striking her face. The lamp exploded
and Susan was most roasted alive. Mary
Sprigg was arrested. She denies having
thrown the lamp.
A Washington special says: The fate of the
Indians captured In the Miles campaign, is
practically settled. It was not decided when
they were first sent east whether any OF
the m would be tried for crimes or not. The
president has examined the case very care
fully, and has come to the conclusion that q
life confint ment for all these Indians in
Florida, where they can do no harm, will
be the best and most thorough punishment
which can be visited upon them.
Henry Jeffries and q companion named
Ross, stockmen from Texas, were murdered
recently at q point between Bastrop, La,
and the line of Ashley county, Arkanras.
Jeffries and Ross stopped the preceding
night at the house of planter. The next
morning they were followed distance of
twelve miles by three men who had noticed
their money the night before, and who at
tackled them with clubs, knocking them from
their horses and beating them to death. The
assaseins then plundered the bodies of the
victims and escaped. It is expected they
win be caught and hanged.
Mr.. Levi, the Mexican fnancier and agent
of the Associated Press in the City of Mexf-
CO, passed through Ell Paso, Tex, on his
sent in specials to certain American news
papers that Minister Manning had been on
q debauch we're without foundation. Min
lister Manning drank considerable for
chronic disease, and he had been confined
to his room by illness since before the al
legged debauch. Ex-Minister Foster, who
resides in the Hotel Jardin, next door to
Judge Manning's, and other reputable per-
sons bear witness that the alleged debauch
was fiction.
The board of commissioners of the mill
tary prison, which was directed to inquire
into chages made by Gen. Miles to the effect
that the shoes furnished to Lawton's COM
mand we're of an inferior quality, has made
q thorough investigation of tho working of
the government shoe factory at Leaven-
to the secretary of war that the best mate
rial is used in the factory and the workman
ship good. In the case of Lawton's CON-
mand the shoes were subjected to extraor-
binary wear over the toughest count y,
whore shoes gave out within month. The
men have been reimbursed in accordance
with the army regulations.
A terrible accident happened in the new
syclorama building on Larned street, De-
troit, Mich, about twenty feet of scaffold
ng gave wav, precipitating four carpenters
to the ground, distance of fifty feet. Two
others saved themselves by catching the
broken scaffoldings. Michael Gegler was
killed instantly. j. Onsten's face struck
piece OF scaffoiding, crushing it SO that he
liam Rearder had leg broken and was in
jured internally. His recovery is doubtful.
George Phillips sustained int injuries
be sides having q broken leg and smashed
arm. 1t is said that he will recover. The
accident was caused by the men crowding in
one spot.
The secretary of assembly No. 80, Knights
of Labor, con prising the miners of the
and Youghiogheny rivers, has
addressed letter to the coal operators re-
questing an advance in wages, and giving |
them until December 2, to reply. If no an
swer is received a convention will be called
for the purpose of taking final action. There |
are 1000 miners in the four pools which
comprise the district. The operators are
willing to confer with them, but say the
market will not justify higher wages. A
olnt convention of miners belonging to the |
Knights of Labor and members of the |
Miners association, will be held at Scott |
lale, December 4, to decide upon united &C |
ion in the event of strike in the Connells- |
lille region.
The Continental hotel, at the southeast |
corner of Wabash avenue and Madison
extent of about $500. The fire started in
room AZ on the third floor, in lot of bed
,lothing. A panic ensued among the guests
If the hotel. Many women rushed out
screaming in their night clothes, or scantily
lad at best. The fire burned rapidly and
noke filed the whole house. When the
ire department arrived most of the guests
sere assembled in the parlors and Office in
canty dress. 1t was over half an hour be-
ore the blaze was entirely extinguished.
luckily no one was injured. "rhe fire was
the work of an iucendiary,"
aid Chief Sweeney. "The fire did not start
D room AZ alone. The hotel was on fire in
il different places on different floors, and
7ere Disconnected"
John Willard, one of the best known sub
marine divers on the lakes, died at Cleve-
and. He was commonly called "Pig-iron
diller," nickname that he acquired manyl
ears ago. Willard was almost an amphi-
ious animal from his youth, and his repu-
alton as q swimmer and q diver became
established long before his arrival at man.
God. In 1850 the Griffith burned and sank
4 Lake Erie and large number of lives
ere lost. Willard recovered most of the
odies by diving, and thereby won his first !
scognition from the public. During the
ar he served az q seaman on the United
tates frigate Niagara whose pursuit of the
labama furnished some of the most inter-
sting events of the struggle on the ocean.
hree years ago the board of trade of C]eve-
nd presented him with gold medal after I
heroic rescue from drowning of several =
9rsone.
John V. Wright and G. F. Larrabee of the :
ldian commission repors that they had a q
cond interview with the Mile Laos, but d
'uld not induce them to consent to remov- IA
to the White Earth reservation. An offer q
BIS made to give them two years. rations at d
,vernment expense and to provide them n
th land, oxen, houses, aericuI- =
raj implements, etc. The Land would be 9,
Itented to them direct and wo1ld be free 9,
ON taxes for fifty years. Having refused 81
IL, the commission then offered the Indi- q
u $25, 600 cash for their right of occupancy .,
the reservation, but this was refused also. 81
10 Mile Laos reservation lies twenty-five n
lies southeast of Brainerd, Minneeota, and te
ls sold By the Indians to the government e1
1863. There WAS a Glance in thu kreakv -