Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-14


to marry August Nobleen, at Peshtigo,
Wis, he drew a revolver and fatally
wounded her. He then fred three
bullets into his own breast and fell
dead beside the body of his victim.
The mother of the girl witnessed the
tragedy.
AT the meeting of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor at New York on the
9th the reports of the president, secre-
tary and treasurer were read and re-
ferred and John Swinton and Rev.
Father Ducey made speeches, the
priest being very emphatic in his re-
marks against certain capitalists who,
he said, lived in luxury and piled up
fortunes with the blood money of the
poor" There was a mass meeting at
night at Cooper union, when President
John Mcbride spoke on trades unions.
THE British steamer Principal caught
fire in the forehold when about 40
miles north of Cape Wrath, on the
northwestern extremity of Scotland,
struck a rock and went down with
twenty-seven of her crew, only one be-
ing saved. He was taken from the
water after clinging to wreckage for
eighteen hours. A passenger was also
drowned.
THE tug Pearl Campbell was re-
ported lost off Huron isle, in Lake SUI
perior, and all her crew drowned,
mum boring seven men.
The socialists on the Sth arranged
for demonstrations against the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, which began
its national meeting at New York on
the 9th. The socialist delegates to the
convention will demand the abandon
ment of the trade union movement, an
end to strikes and boycotts and the in
dorsement of the socialist labor party
instead. The Federation of Labor will
discuss, among other things, the car
rying out of movement for a general
eight-hOur law on May I, 1896.
THREE men were killed and two
more were injured in railroad wreck
on the New York & New Haven rail
way in Harlem. The engine and it's
tender were proceeding with the usual
speed, when without any warning, it
left the track and went humping along
fireman leaped for their lives at the
moment the engine toppled over and
the others of the crew were crushed
THE dynamite packing house of the
Ottawa (Ont) Powder Co. blew up and
John Reynolds, of Thoms Falls, n. j.,
flying splinters.
AT Colgate, l. T., three masked me
recently entered the cooperative store,
forced the clerks to lie on the floor,
face downward, and made the manager
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about $500 and escaped.
THE National Live Stock association,
in session at Chicago. elected William
81. Thompson president and chose Fort
Worth, Tex, as the place for the next
meeting.
THE town of Mariestad, Denmark,
has been almost wiped out of exist
ence by fire. Three-fourths of the in
habitants were made homeless.
ATTORNEY HARMON, in his
annual report, shows that the number
of criminal cases pending in the fed
eral courts July /, 1895, was IL, 495. He
calls attention to the fact that too
much of the time of the supreme court
Is occupied by criminal appeals and
suggests that such appeals be disal-
lowed, save in capital cases. He also
calls attention to the growing abuse of
the writ of habeas corpus.
IN answer to call signed by Mayor
Strong, Chauncey M. Depew, Martin
T. Mcmahon, Andrew Dickinson,
Charles A. Dana, John j. Garnett and
other we'll known New Workers met
on the 5th and organized for reunion
and parade of the veterans of the civil
war in the streets of New York July 4,
1896.