Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-30


eating them with gas, Herman Hatten.
horst. boxing instructor at Brook
lyn, committed suicide by sending a
bullet chasing through his right
temple. No cause was assigned for the
deed, other than dependency over
business matters.
THE Transmississippi commercial
congress began at Omaha on the 25th
with 800 delegates present George @
Cannon, OF Salt Lake City, was in the
chair Only routine work-appointing
committees and examining credentials
was done.
AN unknown negro tramp was
lynched near Calvert City, KY, re-
Gently. He was caught trying to
wreck a train and was pursued into
the woods, where he was hanged an
riddled with bullets.
FIRE occurred on the 25th in the
apartments of William Collins, on the
second floor of the fve-story fiat, 221
West Tenth street. New York. Lillian
Collins, years old was burned to
death and William Collins, an infant
of 10 months, received fatal burns.
A SPECIAL from Alley, Ga, reports a
sensational 1ynching there. Prof. Per-
due, a school-teacher, was held pris-
oner at Alley in custody of Sheriff Nc
Gregor on charge of betraying Miss
Willie Grady, an assistant in his school.
mob overpowered the sheriff, took
Perdue from him and then cut Perdue's
throat and riddled his face and body
with bullets.
THE executive committee of the Ma
tional Educational association met in
Chicago recently and decided to hold
the 1896 meeting of the association at
Buffalo, n. Y.
THE acknowledgement has made
his annual report to the president
The receipts of the department for the
year ended June 80 were S76. III, O9O
and the expenditures $50, go, 172. Mr..
Wilson recommends the extension of
the free delivery service, notes the
abuses of second-class mail matter and
recommends the extension of the civil
service rules wherever practicable.
COMMISSIONERS STUMP, of the immigra-
ton bureau, in his annual report
recommends legislation for the sup
preston of the padrone system and
urges the passage of an act by con-
gress forbidding persons or corpor-
atoms engaging in the business of
procuring employment for alien immi-
grants without first securing a license
from the immigration bureau.
THE failures for the week ended No
vember % (Dun's report were $50 in the
United States, against 322 last year,
and 80 in Canada, against 81 last year.
THREE persons lost their lives by an
incendiary fire in a cabin at Stony
point, near Brownsville, KY. The
cabin was owned by Gibson Arm
strong, colored, who, with his wife and
two daughters, and niece, Mollie Whit
ney, were asleep when the fire broke
out. Nancy Armstrong and Mollie
Whitney were burned to death. Fan
ME Armstrong was so badly burned
that she died. The others were un-
Armstrong, had quarreled with his
foster parent the day before the fire
and he is suspected of arson.
THE represen ia tives of District as
sembly 40, X. of L., of New York, pre-
sented charges against General Master
Workman J. r. Sovereign, at the ses-
sion in Washington on the Goth, to the
effect that his administration was not
in line with the best interests of la Dor
and that he and his officers had com
promised with capitalists. Mr.. Sow
ereign defended himself warmly and
at the close of his speech rendered his
resignation, but by an almost unani-
nous vote the assembly refused to ac-
cept it, and adopted a vote of conf
dence in Mr.. Sovereign and the other
general officers