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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-23
NINETEEN DROWNED.
A Cleveland Electric Gar Plunges
Headlong into a River.
1Fifteen Bodies Recovered and Identified
and Four Are still Missing-Pathetic
Scenes in the Vicinity of the
Terrible Disaster.

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 1S.-About the
3hour when traffic is heaviest on the
street railway lines, Saturday evening,
the West ClevelanderS, on their way
from business to their homes, crowd
ing the cars, one electric motor car,
loaded to the steps, approached the
viaduct at an ordinary rate of speed,
when cry of warning arose. The draw
was open, but for some unaccOunta bic
treason, the signal was not received in
time, and the car, with its human
freight, shot over the edge. plunging
1O1 feet to the river below. There were
about twenty-five people in the car and
all who did not jump in time were
drowned. The car approached the
draw just as a vessel was nearing it
and the bridge attendants had closed
the big iron gates and were preparing
to swing the draw. As is the rule,
the car stopped and the conductor
went forward to release the switch
in case the way was clear. He
must have been blinded by the electric
lights, for an eve witness declared that
although the gates were closed and the
draw was already in motion the con-
eductor raised the switch handle. The
-motorman applied the current and the
car shot forward and struck the
gates with crash. There was only
"a moments pause and then the heavy
car ground its way through the
wreckage and plunged over the brink
amid the screams and frantic strug-
giles of the passengers, who at the first
intimation of danger rushed for the
rear door. The car struck the stream
with a great splash and disappeared
from sight under the water. As it went
over the brink the motorman jumped
from the vestibule front, but all the
other occupants of the car with the ex-
eception of the few who had managed
to jump as it toppled over went down
to certain death, everyone of them be-
ing drowned Within five minutes
after the accident the surface of the
river revealed nothing of the tragedy
that had just been enacted. The wa
tiers had closed over the car and it's
passengers and the work of rescuin Q
the bodies in the uncertain light was
slow indeed.
The scenes about the river Saturday
night and Sunday while the work of
rescue was being prosecuted were pa
thetic in the extreme. In tho center
of the bridge men, women and children
went this way and that way, scream
ing, jostling each other, women tear
ing their hair and calling upon God to
save their dear ones. Women tainted
and were trampled upon by the mad,
rushing and insane crowd. It was i'm
possible to keep any kind Of order and
the effort was finally abandoned. The
number of victims recovered is fifteen.
All of the dead have been identified,
but four persons who were supposed
to have been on the Inflated car as it
made it's awful plunge are still miss
mo
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sewerage for 1895 estimated.
Wheat Yield and Prospects.

The total yield of winter wheat
amounts to Is, 512, 241 bushels on the
4,O56,51 acres sown, or 8, 179,9 bush
els more than the growers at the be-
ginning of harvest estimated for the
acreage then regarded as likely worth
cutting. Of spring wheat the yield
was 4Ss, $40 bushels on 115,457 acres
sown. Only &C per cent of the wheat
is reported as strictly merchantable
for milling purposes, and the average
price now ruling at the nearest milling
or shipping markets is AZ cents per
bushel, covering range of 35 to 60
cents, dependent on quality and loca-
ton.
The area sown to winter wheat the
present season is estimated as about 20
per cent. of last years sowing, or
2, $50, 559 acres. This notable decrease
is accounted for by low prices of the
product. inability in many localities to
secure supply of satisfactory seed
and unfavora BILE condition of the soil.
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THE KANSAS VOTE.

In Ninety Counties Martin Had 75,OS3
Votes More Than MIR. Holiday.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 14.-Oficial re-
turns have been compiled from ninety
counties of the los. and the total vote
on chief justice stands as follows:
Martin, 1o7. $50; Holiday, 80, 73S; Mar
tins majority, 75,Os2. The fifteen
counties from which returns have not
been received are small ones for
the greater part, and will not add
more than 10000 to Martins vote or
3.O0Oto Holidays. OF all the counties
reporting, Doniphan carries the repub-
lican banner so far as the vote on chief
justice is concerned. The vote there
stood 1895 for Martin to $50 for Holli-
day, which is a higher per cent in
favor of Martin than even his own
county, AtchiSOn gave.
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FARM WEALTH.

Other Items Cleaned from the Kansas
Agricultural Report.
The following additional facts in re-
gard TO Kansas products are gathered
from Secretary Coburn's final crop bull
letin.
The total yield of rye is 1866, us
bushels, on 1851 acres; worth 81
cents per bushel, or 1923, 62513.
Irish potatoes. 635, 500 bushels, on
90, 22S acres; worth 33 cents per bushels
Or So. SOC, 35s.
Sweet potatoes-s72, 429 bushels, on
20! acres; worth 81 cents per bushel,
or $1S7, 7144l.
Oats-31, 664, 74s bushels, or 1906, 343
acres; worth 17s< cents per bushel, or
So, $50. 1sS
Barley, 600. 545 bushels, on lis, sos
acres; worth % cents per bushel, or
SAL, 43f.
Buckwheat-6,59 sos bushels, on e73
acres; worth At cents per bushel, or
So, 101.
Sorghum planted for forage or seed
-2s3 1877 acres; value, ST, s94, $50.
SORGHUM planted for strip or sugar
90, 500 acres; value, $500. 500.
Kaffir corn-1S4, 1913 acres; value, ST.
COS, 3S9.
Jerusalem corn-31, s23 acres; value,
S262, 27S
Milo maize-1e,S77 acres; value, $685.
451.
Millet and Hungarian-63s, 232 tons,
on 301, 672 acres; value, 1921 per ton,
or So, 04S, 761.
acres; worth $40 40 per ton, or 81, 222,-
300.
Timothy hay, clover, alfalfa and
prairie hay cut in 1895, value (approxi-
mately), So, So7, 900.
Cheese made, 729, 494 pounds; values
SIG, 596 81.
Butter made, 81, 100, 365 pounds; value,
81, 054, 74z As.
Live Stock.
The numbers of the different classes
of live stock in March and their values,
based on their average prices for the
year, are as follows:
Horses, $50, 7S9 head; average value.
$2S; total value, $23, SIS. 092.
Mules and asses, 95 16O head; average
value, $34; total value, So, 235, 746s
Mich COWS. SIT, e54 head; average
value, $24; total value, $13, Ala, 096
Other cattle, ], 25S, 919 head; average
value, Sl9; total value, go, 919, 4o1.
Sheep, 1876, $50 head; average value,
So. 40; total value, 1927, GAS.
Swine, 1.666, 221 head; average value,
SIS. so; total value, SO, 164, 215. so.
Total value of live stock. $72, &c.,
25S SO.
There are no diseases of live stock
reported except the so-called cholera"
among hogs, and this is common in
counties where they are most numer-
Gus. The losses from this little un.
derstood scourge have been enormous.
Kansas is overlooking with both for.
age and grain and could winter to
great advantage vast numbers more OF
cattle and swine than are now obtain
able at prices likely to permit profit.
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MANY BAD DOLLARS.
Work of the Secret Service Outlined in tn
Annual Report of Chief Hazen.

Work of the Secret Service Outlined In the
Annual Report of Chief Hazen.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 Chief Hazen Of
the secret service, treasury department,
in his annual report, shows that, dur.
ing the year, SOB arrests were made,
with few exceptions for violations OF
the statutes against counterfeiting.
One hundred and eighty -one per-
sons were convicted; 119 others
pleaded guilty, Il were indicted and are
awaiting trial, 81 awaiting examina.
ton, 16 were nolle pressed, SO were
discharged by United States commits
sioners and 81 were acquitted. Altered
and counterfeit notes, counterfeit
coins, etc. Representative value), were
captured during the year of an aggre.
gate face value of almost SIS. 100000
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MORE MASSACRES.
A Terrible State of Affairs Existing
Asia Minor.


Asia Minor.
CoNSTANTINoPLE, Nov. 18-A About
800 persons were massacred by the
Mussulmans at Kharput and eight out
of twelve buildings belonging to the
American missions were sacked and
burned. The missionaries, however,
escaped. This was in spite of the as
.surances of the porte to United States
Minister Alexander w. Terrell that
the lives and property of the Ameri-
cans would be protected. The inhab-
itants around Kharput are in a state
of great distress from hunger, and if
cold weather should set in suddenly
there would be much more suffering
and considera BILE loss of life.
From Guran, in the villayet of Sivas,
where the Knrds have been besieging
4. 900 Armenians, it is reported that all
the Armenians have been massacred.
is a large Christian population of
Ghaldeans and Syrians, a number of
villages have been burned to the
ground and the people are destitute
and suffering from sickness due to ex-
posure and hunger.
These outrages confirm beyond doubt
he impression which has prevailed
here for long time that the move
ment has now assumed proportions be-
-yond the control of the Turkish au-
thorities, even if the latter were really
DESTROYS of furnishing the Mussulmans
for maSsacreing Armenians.
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IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.
The Commissioner Recommends That In
spection Be Extended to Cabin Passen

The Commissioner Recommends That In
spectiOn Be Extended to Cabin Passen.
gers.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-The annual re-
port of Commissioner of Immigration
Senner for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1895, recommends that the inspec-
ton of immigrants be extended to
cabin passengers and to all vessels
coming from foreign ports without ex-
ception. The total MN Der Of steerage
passengers landed at this port during
;994-95 was 216, 724, which was only A.
967 less than the total number landed
q lring the previous year, but the de-
crease in the number of alien steerage
passengers landed amounted to %, 49,
The cause is to be found in the CORES
pondingly larger number of United
States citizens who returned in the
steerage during the fiscal year 1S94-95
(25, 1866, than in is93-1S94 (12, 665).
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FIVE NEGROES HANGED.
COlored Men Found Strung Up Near Port
arrirnc TnY

Colored Men Found Strung Up Near Port
BarriOs, Tex.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. IA spe-
cial dispatch from Port Barrois, dated
November Is. says five negroes were
found hanging by guards miles from
town. They were recognized as being
some of the negroes lately arrived
here to work on the railroad
construction, but who became dis
satisfied and fed. An investigation
was made, but like all Investigations
in this country, nothing resulted ex-
cept that it was learned that the ne
groes came from Louisiana. It was
given out they must have been MUIR
dered by robbers, but it is believed
they were pursued by the contractors
and killed SO as not to allow them to
escape. The life of the American ne.
groes at work here is terrible. Many
have been beaten to death
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FOUR HEADS CUT OPEN.
A COlored Man Yields n Hatchet with
Deadly Effect at Dunlap, Kan.

COlored Man Yields n Ratchet with
Deadly Effect at Dunlap, Kan.
EAIPoRIA. Kan, Nov. 19.-Late yes
terday afternoon, David Henderson, a
colored school teacher at Dunlap, &c
miles north of here, attempted an as
sault on Dora Ray, a 14-year-old col
ored girl. This it is claimed, is his
second attempt. The school board
met last night to investigate the first
case. With the assistance of lawyer
the matter was settled and Hen
derson virtually exonerated. The girls
father, Samuel Ray, however, was not
satisfied, and wanted Henderson held
for trial. A quarrel ensued and Hen
derson grabbed a Ratchet and split
Rays head open. He then made a
rush for the door and was met
by Mrs. Ray in the aisle. He struck
her in the head with the Ratchet
and Mrs. McFall, sister of Dora
Ray, also had her head cut open. Just
as he was going through the door,
Henderson split Thomas Starkey's
dead with another blow. He then
fed and has not yet been captured.
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WRONG CAR CUT OFF.

Robbers Successfully Hold Up a Train, but
Secure No Treasure.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Nov. 19.-About
10 o'clock last night an express train
on the Great Northern railroad was
held up near st. Cloud. The robbers
were evidently after the express car,
and, snpposing it to be second from
the engine, cut it off from connection
with the mail car. The engineer then
threw open the throttle and pulled
safely into ST Cloud with the treasure.
1t is not known at this hour whether
the passengers were molested. A
special train with all the city detec-
tives on board left here at midnight
for the scene
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MORE MASSACRES.

Four Thousand Armenians Said to Have
Been Slain by Turks.
CoNsTANTINoPLE. Nov. 19.-Further
massacres are reported from Sivas, and
there is report that 1000 Ar
n4enians have been massacred at
Gurun. Although the reports of this
latter massacre are not confirmed,
the Turkish officials here admit that
the Kurds have made two separate at
tacks upon the Armenians of that lo-
cality, and that there was considerable
loss of life, due, according to the
Turks, to the rioting of the Armenians,
which could not otherwise have been
SuDOraSSed
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Earthquake i'm Colorado.

DENVER, Col, Nov. ia special
from Cotopaxi, Col, 40 miles south
west of this city, in the Grand canyon
of the Arkansas, says: Yesterday after
noon at 4:1O o'clock distinct shock OF
earthquake was felt in this vicinity.
At the schoolhouse states were shaken
from the desks and at other places
windows were ratified and articles
thrown down. The shock lasted ten
seconds. It was also felt at Texas
creek, z miles east, and at Coal Dale. 4
miles west A slight shock was felt at
about o'clock yesterday morning.
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Btble Reading Opposed.

CHICAGO. Nov. 19-At the meeting of
the Chicago Labor Congress last even
ing, Delegate F. G. Hops introduced
a resolution portesting against the pro-
posed reading of the Bible in public
schools on the ground that the schools
should be devoted to the teach
ing of economic principles and
practical life, leaving ma tiers of
religion to the choice of the Individual.
He urged that instead of Bible pas
sages, the school board should cause
Choice selections from writer's on
trade unionism'' to be read to the
pupils. The resolution was adopted
with little opposition.
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HIS DECISION FINAL.

Gov. morrill,, of Kansas, Positively Refuses
to Order Two HangIngs.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 14.-Gov Morrill,
this morning sent letter to Judge s.
w. Vandivert positively refusing to
order the hanging of Arnold and Har-
vey, the murderers of Mayor Marsh, Of
Kinsley, in October, 1894. He based
his refusal upon grounds heretofore
given to him by the public, that he
could not afford to assume the RESPONSE
bility of singing out to be hanged
two of the forty-six murderers now
confined in the penitentiary under the
death sentence
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OUR NAVAL MILITIA.
Lieut.. NibIack Submits His Report an,
Makes Some Recommendations.

Lieut.. NibIack Submits His Report and
Makes Some Recommendation.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19. Assistant
Secretary McAdoo has transmitted to
Secretary Herbert the report of Lieut..
Niblack upon the operations of the
naval militia during the past year. In
indorsing the report, Mr.. McAdoo says
that the organizations are growing
rapidly in favor and the interest of the
public is steadily increasing. In the
line of Improvement of the militia as a
whole, Lieut.. Niblacf has many inn
portant recommendations to make. He
says that there has been considera BILE
diminution in the enthusiasm of the
older organizations, due largely to un-
certainty as to the real purposes and
aims of the naval military, as is indi-
Gated by the number of designations,
and he recommended that a vigorous
state and national initiative should be
at once taken. The state laws should
be made uniform and the naval de-
partment should be empowered to
bring three or four different state
organizations together in camp, which,
with cooperating squadron of ships,
would result in increased efficiency
and give defniteness of purpose.
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BURNED 10 pEATH.
A 3-Year-Old Oklahoma Child Sets Fire to
Her Clothing.

Her CIOthIng.
KINGFIsHER, Ok, Nov. IA 3-year.
old daughter of farmer, j. H. Martin,
was burned to death at their home, G
miles southeast Of Kingfsher. The
parents had gone couple of miles to
visit, leaving four children under S
years of age, including the unfortu-
nate little girl, at the sod house
alone. The oldest, a boy, says his little
sister tried to light some straw with a
match, and set her clothes on fire. The
first neighbor who arrived found her
standing outdoors nearly naked, the
fire still consuming what remained of
her garments. She lived about three
hours
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KANSAS GRAIN.

Facts Learned from the Report of the Sec
Rotary OF the State Board OF .lgrIcul-
ture.
The state board of agriculture has
issued its final crop bulletin for the
year, in which the item of foremost in
terest is, of course. that showing the
yield of corn. 1t will be somewhat
disappointing to those who have not
revised their estimates made in June
or early July and largely justified by
the conditions prevailing at that time
The total product is 201, 457, 800 bush
els, an average yield on the entire area
planted, s,394,s71 acres, of twenty
four bushels per acre. The average
price of corn for the year is given as
% cents per bushe1 and the price at
which it is being sold or contracted,
delivered, now in the principal corn
counties ranges from 16 to 2i cents and
averages Is cents. Thirty-three per
cent. of the crop is reported as likely to
be disposed of at the latter average by
the close of the present year. The
quality is reported good, with the oc-
casional exception of some molding in
the shuck, attributed by correspondents
to wet weather in August.
The following table shows by coun-
ties the acres reported to assessors in
March as then likely to be plantedl
also the acreage as reported to the
board by its correspondents June Is,
after much of the land previously sown
to wheat or oats which failed had been
replanted with corn; the yield given is
based on the entire acreage reported
planted at the later date:
nd
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ON AN OLD CHARGE.

The DefauIting ex-Postmaster at Marys-
Vile, Mo-, Caught After Thirteen Years.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19.-Post Office In.
spector Johnson has received word
that John O'Connor, who was postmas-
ter at Marysville. Mo-. in 1882, and
who disappeared from there in Sep
TENDER OF that year, and was thought
to hare been murdered in Omaha,
has been arrested at Monet, Mo, on
the charge of embezzling government
funds when he was postmaster, thir-
teen years ago. He will be taken to
st. Joseph, Mo-, for trial. O'Connor
admits his identity.
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REPUBLICANS WILL CONTROL

An Error in the Kentucky Legislative Re-
turns Which VIII Give Them q Clear
Majority.
LEXINGTON. Ky, Nov. 16.-In the
contest of Wood (rep-) for the seat in
the legislature of Kaufman dem. a
discovery has been made which beyond
doubt gives Wood the seat
and will thereby give the repub-
licans clear majority on joint bal
lot in the legislature. It has been dis
covered that Kaufmann's election,
while holding office as city council
man, was contrary to the statute. and
Wood will be seated without further
protest
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DRASTIC cHocTAw LAW.
Sale of Land to Nom Citizens and Talk OF
Allotment Made Treason.

Sale of Land to Non Citizens and Talk of
Allotment Made Treason.
GUTHRIE Ok, Nov 1S.-The Choc-
taw council has passed bill making
1t treason, punishable by death to sell
land to non-citizen, to attempt in
any way to curtail the powers of the
eChoctaw government or even talk up
or urge change of government, the
allotment of lands or opening of the
country to settlement. This law will
stop all meetings or conventions in IA
vor of progress or treating with the
government and effectually muzzle the
press of that part of the territory.
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AUTHOR OF "AMERICA" DEAD.
Rev. DIR. Smith Succumbs Suddenly to
Heart Disease.

Boston, Nov. 1s.-Dr. Samuel F.
Smith, the composer of America, -
was on his way to Hyde Park, where
he was to preach Sunday, and was
taken i'll at the New York and New
England depot Saturday. He was re-
moved to the Emergency hospital,
where he died at O'clock from heart
disease. The writing of Americas
national anthem was enough work
for an entire lifetime, and it
is by this alone that Dr. Smith
will be remembered by posterity
DR.. Smith was native of Boston
and 81 years old last month. Last
January, just previous to the celebra-
ton in his honor, he wrote the account
of how he came to write my COUNTRY,
-9TiS of Thee -
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AImost Hnntlran.

NEVADA, Mo-. Nov. I4.-Mrs Burnett
Quick, aged 90, one of the oldest set.
home near Milo last night. She. was
born in Missouri twenty-four years be-
fore it became state. The body will
be buried at Appleton City.
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Prominent Missourlan Dead.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Nov. a.
Judge Andrew ]. King died in this city
last night, aged SO years. He was for
many years prominent in the political
life of Missouri, and represented the
ST. Charles district for several terms in
congress, besides serving on the circuit
bench a number of years.
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Has TerrelI Resigned2

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. A report is
prevalent that Mr.. Terrell, the United
States minister at Constantinople, has
forwarded his resignation to President
Cleveland. Secretary Oluey declined
to say anything about tha rumor.
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ENGLAND MAY GET CUBA.
Spain's Latest Scheme in Regard to the
Island Made Public.

Spain's Latest Scheme in Regard to the
Island Made Public.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. 16.-A re-
port from Mexico City, says that a
prominent Spaniard there. who is in
close touch with the Spanish govern
ment, says that before Spain will con-
cede Cuban independence or permit
the island to come under a United
States protectorate or rule she will
throw Cuba into the hands of England,
conceding to England ostensible pos.
session for number of years until
England collects the sum of money
which is due her from Spain for ad.
vances made tc carry on the war with
On ha
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stole Cattle from His Father.

INDEPENDENCE, Kan, Nov. I4-fn
the district court here Guy Venable. 10
years of age, was convicted of grand
larceny and will be sent to the peni-
Tertiary. He stole several head of cat-
tie from his fathers pasture and drove
them to a neighboring town and sold
them to a butcher.