Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-23

Chicago to San Francisco in AZ days
and 10 hours, beating the previous rec
ord held by Martin Duxbary by 23
hours. Blakeslee followed the Santa
railway from Chicago to Los Angeles,
and claimed to have travelled 600 miles
further than Duxbury did.
COMET was recently discovered by
Mr.. Perrine at the Lick observatory,
in California, in the constellation
Virgo
OVER 400 employees of the ]. B. & j.
M. Cornell iron works at New York
went on a strike on the 18th and also
500 men employed by Milliken Bros
Some men were also called out in
Brooklyn, making total of 1000 men
belonging to the two firms on a strike.
1t was stated that from 10000 to 10000
men were also likely to be called out
in sympathy. The wage scale was the
cause of the trouble.
PETER W. BREENE, president of the
defunct Leadville (Col.) Savings and
Deposit bank, was reported missing.
lie had borrowed $40. 900 from the
bank
THERE has been trouble for some
time between the white and negro
laborers at Moss Bluff, a tie camp on
the OelIlawaha river, about SO miles
from Ocala, Fla, and on the 10th
whites surrounded the cabins in which
the negroes were sleeping and poured
in volley after volley from Winches-
ters. The negroes fed in terror. 1t
was reported that three were killed
and several wounded by the fusillade.
The whites resented the importation
Of the negroes by the contractors and
threatened to drive them away.
FIRE destroyed the sash and blind
factory at Meridian, Miss. A large
quantity of lumber was also con-
sumed. About the time the above fire
seemed under control, fire broke out in
the Citizens compress and warehouse,
which, together with large quantity
of cotton, was entirely destroyed.
Losses-Sash factory, 500, 900; ms ur-
ance, $50, 900; compress warehouse and
cotton, $112,Ooo fully insured. Two
hundred and fifty men were thrown
out of employment as consequence
of the destruction of the, sash and
blind factory.
JAMES Comes. who hacked Miss Liz
zie Jones at Frederick, Md, on the
10TH with a razor, after she had given
him something to eat when he begged
for it, was taken from jail by mob of
300 men on the 18th and hanged to u
tree in a field mile from the city.
The mob battered down the doors of
the Jail to get at the man.
AN electric car at Cleveland, o.,
plunged over the draw into the river
101 feet below on the night of the 10th.
All those in the car who did not jump
were drowned. The car struck the
stream with great splash and disap-
peared from sight Fifteen dead
bodies have been recovered and four
were still thought to be missing. For
some reason the signal that the draw
was open was not needed. The scenes
about the river while the work of res
cue was being prosecuted were pathetic
in the extreme.
A NATIONAL organization of agricul-
tural newspaper men was organized
at Chicago on the 18th 1t was named
the Agricultural Press league, and the
officers for the coming year are: Nj. j..
Lawrence, president; j. W. Wilson,
vice president; j. 3. Conner, treasurer.
The next meeting of the league will be
held in Chicago next March.
A WINE merchant at Paris, France,
named Domergue, suddenly went in
sane and shot his wife and mother and
then began shooting at passersby from
his window, killing three persons and
wounding a number of others. After
using up all his ammunition he barri-
caded himself in his house, but was
finally arrested by the gendarmes.