Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-25


hall claimants all over the country was
issued by Judge McMasters at Indian
apolis, Ind. on the goth. Upon the APP
plication of Receiver Failey the court
directed that June 10 be fixed as the
final date. on which all branches of the
order must complete their accountings
with the receiver at Indiana polls and
all claims for allowance must be fled
under penalty of being shut out from
all future benefits arising from the
payment of the final dividend.
FIRE started on the Intercolonial
railways long wharf in the cattle
sheds at Halifax, n S, and both wharf
and sheds, in which were sixty head of
cattle, were soon consumed, as well as
the freight and immigration sheds
The fire then swept the immense coal
ing pier, trestle work and wharf of the
dominion government, on which were
a number of loaded coal cars. The
losses aggregate $500, 600, and were not
insured.
NEAR Klamath Falls, Ore, the Alger
stage was recently stopped by masked
robbers and all the passeD gers were
made to turn over their valuables.
The mail sacks and the express box
were also robbed. The amount stolen
was not known, but it was large.
A COLLISION of coal and freight trains
on the Central railway of New Jersey,
near Round Brook, on the 18th,
wrecked both trains Engineer Buck
was instantly killed and William San
ders, his fireman, terribly burned.
The conductor of the coal train was
severely cut and scalded.
ST.. ALBANs, VT, was visited by a dis
astrous fire on the 10Th, many stores
and tenement houses being destroyed
The fire started in lumbe yard and
high wind carried the burning en-
bers in every direction. The loss ex-
ceeded $500, 900.
THE civil service commission an
nounces that an examination for store
keepers and gaugers will be held in St.
Louis and Kansas City some time in
the latter part of June.
The Whitney paper mill plant at
Stevens Point, Wis, was destroyed by
fire on the 10th, causing loss of $780,
600.
AT Parker, near Muncie, Ind, at an
early hour on the 18th the boarding
house of Mrs. John Hewitt was wrecked
by dynamite explosion. Mrs. Hewitt
and her daughter were taken out of
the wreck unconscious. Mrs. Hewitt
was injured internally and her daugh-
ter's legs were crushed. Four other
occupants of the house were slightly
injured. Mrs. Hewitt was living apart
from her husband and when he APP
peared at the scene of the disaster Mrs.
Hewitt accused him of causing the out
rage.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May II showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of 81; in New
York the increase was sos; outside
New York, 90.
THE failures for the week ended
May II (Dun's report) were 211 il
the United States, against 219 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against "a last
year.
The glycerine house of the Hancock
| Chemical Co., at the Woodside dyna
mite factory, near Houghton, Mich.
was blown up on the 10th. Nearly al
the other buildings comprising the
plant were destroyed. So far as known
only one life was lost, though severa
persons were severely injured. Franz
| Shopper, an employee, was in the build
ing when the explosion occurred anC
| he was blown to atoms
A NUMBER of warehouses and facto
ries near the leather market at Der
mondsey, London, covering IL acre:
of ground, have burned. The loss wa:
estimated af 81. 900. 600.