Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-20


its jurisdiction all Massachusetts,, has
been suspended by General Secretary
Hayes, for characterization in admit
ting to its privileges State Master
Workman Padden, who some months
ago was suspended as the outcome of
controversy with the general board.
THE steamer Cibola, of the Niagara
River line, caught fire on the 18th at
Lewistown, n. Y, set her dock and
the American hotel on fire and then
foated down the river mass o flame,
and afterwards burned to the waters
edge. The dock and hotel were totally
destroyed. The passengers were
aroused from sleep and succeeded in
escaping, but the third engineer was
reported missing and was thought
to have been burned to DEATH Total
| loss probably S25O,OO
IRA JOHNSON, colored, who killed a
young white man named Langford in
a quarrel at Piedmont, S. D., on the
18th, was taken from the county Jail by
| q mob of 100 men, who carried him
outside the city limits, swung him to a
tree and riddled his body with bullets
JOSEPH NEALY and family, living 20
miles south of Guthrie, Ok, sought
shelter from storm in cyclone cell
| lar. Lightning struck the house and
it was burned, with all its contents.
The cave door caught fire, and the
| family came near perishing, the father
managing to tear out the chimney at
the rear and make an opening through
which he dragged his family, several
of whom were so badly suffocated as
to be unconscious.
| AT Council Bluffs, Ia, the collapse
of an artificial reservoir containing a
large quantity of water, at the corner
considerable property and fatally in
| jured J. A. Keller, an engineer.
AT Hampton, Ark, early on the 14th
two negroes were mobbed by seventy
five men. Two weeks ago white man
was killed by three negroes and two
of them were arrested. The culprits
were carried to the neighboring for
ests by the mob and hanged to trees.
| The men were not masked and made
| no effort to conceal their identity.
The negroes greatly outnumber the
whites in the vicinity and further trou-
BILE was expected.
Mr.. II. TITTsWoRTH, of South Haven,
Mich, took his new yacht, Artist, ont
for her trial trip, in company with the
builders, Messrs Coates s. Stillson.
When about miles north of the har-
Dor a squall struck and capsized her
and all were drowned.
| THE Muskogee, Oklahoma e Western
railroad is to be built at once. The
road will run from Muskogee, l. T., via
Perry, Ok, to Colorado Springs, Col.
| PAPERS were read at the session OF
the National Educational association
at Denver, Col, on the 18th, members
appointed to serve on the national
council of education for six years, a
committee of directors appointed and
a committee named to cooperate with
the United States commissioner at the
| Atlanta exposition. After the Undue
ton of the new president, n. c. Dough
erty, into office, the convention then
| adjourned sine die.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended July - showed an average
| increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of 20. 5; in New
York the increase was 4O5; outside
| New York. 1910.
THE failures for the week ended
July - Dun's report) were 253 in the
United States, against 247 last year.
The strike .of the ingram carpet
weavers at Philadelphia assumed a
Saaofe serious aspect when the employees
of the thirteen additional mills went
out recently. The total number of idle
mills was thirty-ive, and 5000 men
! and women were out