Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-09-21

one or the tenants was burned TO death
and three firemen injured
ARRANGEMENTS for a combine of all
the window glass manufacturers in
the western district were perfected at
Chicago on the 10th and the price of
window glass was boosted So or per
cent. Hereafter the entire product of
the seventy glass concerns in the dis
trict will pass through the hands of
but two sales agents, one at Pittsburgh
and another in Indiana.
THE steamer Ionia, plying between
Edin burg and London caught fire
when in the river Thames, near Graves
end, and five women and one child,
passengers, and the stewardess were
burned to death and a number. of
others badly injured. The saloon pas
sengers were in the widest state of
excitement, some of them having
rushed on deck almost naked, and
were not pacitied until the flames were
put out.
a FREIGHT train was blown from the
track at Madison Junction, Wis, re-
Gently during storm and four men
were seriously injured.
A VEHICLE containing six persons,
supposed to be Joseph Callahan, of
Rustburg, Va two women, a girl of
about 16 and two small children, was
crossing the tracks Of the Southern
railway at Lawyers station, near
LYnchburg, Va, on the 10th, when it
was struck by the engine of passen-
ger train. Five of the occupants of
the vehicle were killed outright and
the young girl was so severely injured
that she died shortly afterward.
AT Gloversville, n. Y, on the morn
ing of the 18th the mercury registered
80 degrees and ice formed.
THE little town of Braggs, I. T., was
the scene of a tragedy in which Eli
Baldridge, a prominent young Chero-
kee, was instantly killed by Jim Swim
mer, young Indian. Bad blood had
existed between the men for some time.
The two men met at a restaurant and
mer, without any warning, pulled his
gun and fired two shots, killing Bald
ridge instantly.
The fourth national irrigation con-
gress opened at Albuquerque, n. M,
on the 10th, being the largest and most
influential body of the kind which has
yet assem- bled in the west. Large dele
cations were present from Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Okla
homa.
JOHN HALL and wife, daughter
Maude, IS years of age, their son John,
aud DR.. Gillian, of Guthrie, Ok. have
been drowned in fording the Arkansas
river 10 miles northeast of Guthrie.
THE q. A. z. encampment at Louis
vile, KY, closed on the 18th after
passing resolutions declaring that all
veterans should be favored by civil
service boards without regard to age;
favoring military drill in public
schools; asking congress to defray the
expenses of Memorial dag services;
deprecating niggardliness in pensions;
favoring the erection of a monument
at Washington to commemorate the
loyal women who acted as nurses, and
recommending to congress the equal
ization of widows pensions so that all
should receive at least $12 month.
The failures for the week ended
the 18th (Duns report) were 1877 in
the United States, against 219 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against A last
year.
The question having been raised
whether the New York Baseball club,
which now holds the Temple cup,
should defend it against this season
champions, President Young submitted
the matter to the league clubs for
their decision and it was decided that
the Temple cup series should be played
by the clubs holding first and second
place at the close of the season.