Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-24

The National Tobacco Workers
union has announced that, in accord
ance with decision of recent meet
ing at st. Louis, it would boycott every
brand of tobacco produced by the
American Tobacco Co., and that the
American Federation of Labor would
probably also indorse the boycott. and
an appeal be made to every tobacco
user to follow their example.
A MOTOR boat on the river Elbe, near
Hamburg, sank and seventeen people
were drowned.
THE Trade and Labor assembly and
the Labor congress at Chicago have
each arranged for a parade on Labor
day, but so serious has the feeling
grown between the two factions that
Chief of Police Badenoch has insisted
on laying out the line of march to be
followed by the two hostile camps tc
keep them from a collision.
THE failures in the United States fol
the week ended the 10th (Dun's report
were 1876, against 229 last yeaR
THE wife and little son of Arthur
Frances, of Englewood, Ill, were acct
dentally drowned in Spring lake, Mich
igan. The child was in bathing and
got beyond his depth. when the mother
went to his rescue and both were
drowned.
THE Gumry hotel at Denver, Col.
was blown to pieces by an explosion
early on the morning of the 10Th, and
it was feared that about twenty
people had lost their lives. It was
supposed that the battery of boilers
had exploded in the basement Fire
added to the horror of the situation,
the fremen having to abandon several
victims to their fate just as they had
been almost rescued.
PRESIDENT W. w KENT, of the West.
ern Baseball association, has trans
ferred the Jacksonville franchise to
Springfield, Ill. Poor patronage at
Jacksonville was the reason given for
the transfer.
A CHICAGO newspaper recently pub
lished interviews with national com.
mitteemen of both the republican and
democratic parties, which indicated
that each were in favor of short pres
idential campaign in 1896.
The eighth biennial session of the
supreme lodge of the colored Knights
of Pythias of North America, South
America. Europe, Asia and Africa con-
vened in Chicago on the 18th and will
continue in session four days. Aside
from the regular routine business
there was the important question of
unifcation of the various branches of
the order among colored men to be
considered.
AT Algonquin, small village near
Elgin, Ill, fire destroyed Frank
Kazer's house. Kazer managed to get
his wife and two children out safely,
but before he could rescue another
daughter the roof fell in, carrying the
child down. Crazed with grief Kazer
resisted the efforts of neighbors to
drag him from the burning structure
and his life was lost with that of his
daughter.
A DISPATCH from Clearfeld, Pa, on
the 10th said that eight men were
killed and ten seriously hurt by the
premature explosion of blast near
Mehaffy on the Pittsburgh & Eastern
railway.
JAPAN was visited by terrible storms
recently, foundations adding their
devastating effects to the havoc
wrought by the wind! 1t was cal
culated that over 1000 people lost their
lives, many being drowned.
GEN. S. B. MAXEY, a noted exc IN
federate general, died at Eureka
Springs, Ark, on the 10th. He was a
resident of. Paris, Tex, and at the
breaking out of the war raised the
Ninth Texas infantry for service il
the confederate army.