Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28

to recover.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent at Cartagena sent word that a
tidal wave destroyed a great part of
| the town of Santa Marta, in Panama,
and many lives were lost
| A MEETING of men of both political
parties was held at Chicago recently
and it was decided to raise $50, 900 and
send delegation to the national COM
mittee at Washington and try and Sc
cure the democratic national conven-
ton for that city. The meeting was
in favor of making the Monroe doc
trine plank in the national platform.
WHfZE skating on Lathrop lake,
near Denver, Col, Charley Jones, aged
eight, fell through an air hole ia the
ice. His brother Robert, and sister,
Maggie, aged 81 and 90, respectively,
and Ida Ball, aged 16, attempted to
rescue him and all were drowned.
A FIRE at 302 and 3O4 Wabash ave-
nue., Chicago, occupied by the National
Furniture Co. and the American Dun
Auditorium hotel adjoining was also
slightly damaged.
SEVEN Mexicans broke into store
at Morencearis, n. NJ, recently. The
proprietor drove them out but was so
badly wounded that he will die. In an
attempt to arrest the burglars after
ward two of them were killed and
another severely wounded, the others
escaping. A respected Mexican, who
started to persuade the burglars to
surrender, was met with bullet and
instantly killed.
A FIvE-sToRY brick building at Gin
cinnati occupied by w. w. Thomas &
Co., wholesale dealers in teas, coffees,
spices and baking powder. burned on
the 22d. The Standard Oil Co., owned
the building. The loss is only $4,000
fully insured. Thomas & Co., lose
$780, 900, insurance $50, 900.
THE great trolley strike at Phi1adel-
phia on the Goth was reported as being
in a fair way to an amicable settle
ment, the traction management stat
ing that if the men would go back to
work it would receive a committee
from the men, hear their complaints
and remedy them if possible.
TwENTY-FoUR miners lost their lives
in the Nelson mine entry No. 10, near
Dayton, Tenn, by an explosion of fire
damp on the Goth. The explosion was
succeeded by terrific crash, which in
Dictated that the roof of the passage
through which they had entered had
fallen in. No avenue of escape was
left and there was no possibility that
any of the men would be found alive.
The men were both white and colored,
including several boys.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
| ~, ~ he 4 40
week ended December 20 showed an av-
corresponding week last year of Is. g.;
in New York the increase was 90 9;
outside New York the increase was
100.
JOE VENDIG has deposited with r. K.
Fox check for $40, 600, which he had
received from Dan Stuart as guar
antee that Bob Fitzsimmons would
meet Peter Maher at Ell Paso, Tex,
February IA. John j. Quinn, manager
for Maher, sent word that he would
be in New York with 81, 900 to post for
Maher. Many bets were being made
on the fight at the uptown hotels in
New York, Maher being slight IA
vorite
IN Moreland, suburb of Chicago,
where the sewerage was not up to re-
quirements, many hundreds of people
were prisoners in their own houses
through the heavy rains of the 10th.
The water had filled the streets and in
many instances the people had been
compelled to move to the second story
of their houses. Improvised RATS were
being used in enabling people to cross
streets. Street car traffic was entirely
suspended. In other parts of Chicago
great inconvenience was reported be-
cause of the flood.
IT was admitted in official quarters
in Havana that the position of the
Spanish cause was becoming exceed
ingly precarious. The principal bands
of Gomez, Maceo, Pancho, Careilio and
Maria Aguirre, the latter both Amer
leans, have formed junction. In the
Rejedios district Vidars band was re-
ported to be uniformed and to have
outfits equal to the troops. The dou bt
and alarm caused by the state of af-
fairs was plainly discernible in Ha-
vana, and signs were manifested that
the prestige of the recent insurgent
success had greatly increased their
power.
A DISPATCH from Guthrie, Ok, said
that the Iowa Indians have grown
tired of living on their allotments
among white settlers, and have sent a
committee to Pawhuska, !. T., to ne
gotiate for the lease of a tract of land
five miles square in the Usage reserva.
ton, on which they can erect their
wigwams and live together in camp, as
has always been their custom.
THE newspapers of England were a
unit in treating the Monroe doctrine
as a matter that could not be quoted
as authoritative in negotiations with g
foreign power, and they argued that
if the doctrine was enforced the United
States would become responsible fol-
the foreign policy of all the impetuou.
little states of South America and
would always be in hot water. Many
of the newspapers thought Mr.. Cleve
lands message an election dodge in