Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03

/ against any railroads or other corpor-
ations of trying to intimidate any OF
their employees into voting against
their convictions
| SIX prisoners assaulted Warden
Reed, of the New Castle. Del, jail and
and made their escape. They had not
been gone five minutes before the
whole town learned of the jail break
| and citizens started in pursuit and re-
| captured two of the prisoners.
Miss MARGARET JEFFERSON, daughter
of the veteran actor, Joseph jefferson,
| was united in marriage to Mr.. Glen
| McDonough, of New York, at Buzzard's
Bay. Mass, on the 2sth, President and
! Mrs Cleveland being present
HARRIS BOONE, colored, shot the
town marshal at Sparta. Ga, in a fuss
| and citizens then shot Boone to death
A WRECK occurred on the Pennsy1va-
| mia road between Baltimore, Md, and
Washington on the 27th. Five freight
cars were derailed and piled in heap.
Nobody was hurt.
Miss CARRIE HoRNER, of Westminster,
Md, was informed by her lover on the
eth while walking in cemetery that
he could not marry her and soon after
wards she was found dying on a grave
from poison.
DURING democratic rally at Mount
Erie, ILL.,, team belonging to Joseph
Sunday ran away, throwing the FIVE
occupants out and severely or fatally
injuring all of them.
COUNTY TREASURER G. E. MORRISON,
of Troy, N. Y, reputed to be worth
$500, 900, has been Jailed, charged with
the embezzlemento of $3.50, 900.
MOUNT HoLYoKE woman's college at
South Hadley, Mass, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $50, OOO None of
the 400 students were injured.
A SPECIAL from Shanghai said that
everywhere through Thibet the revolt
against the Chinese government was
spreading.
Goth washed away the south part of
orally were aimsy and foated away as
if they were boats The NJ, K. & t.
lost about u miles of track.
BEN BUTLER, a negro, aged %, shot
and killed Thomas Carter and seriously
wounded Edward Nelson, both colored,
at cake-walk near Buckeye Stone,
Md. About three dozen men and wom-
en- had congregated at the place and
partook freely of whisky.
w. d. BYNUM, chairman; John P.
Frenzel, treasurer, and c. ". Holman,
standard democratic committee, form
ally opened their headquarters at Chi
cago on the 25th. As soon as Chair
man Bynum gets business we'll in
hand he will call meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee and energetic cam
paigning in the interests of Palmer
and Buckner will then be commenced.
The American record was broken by
four men in the 24-hour bicycle race
at Chicago on the 25th. The score at
the finish was: Gimm, 4s6 miles 1, us
yards; Waller, 4s2 miles 96S yards;
Schinner, 462 miles 567 yards; Miller
459 miles 233 yards, and Myers, 427
miles ss7 yards 1t was seen early in
the day that the American record was
certain to be wiped out, and it ap-
peared to be equally certain that the
worlds record of $40 miles ], 493 yards,
made by Rivierre, would not be touched.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, Peter Kamm killed
his wife with Ratchet and then cut
his own throat. They had been sep
arated for several months.
THE oil mills at Ennis, Tex, were
recently blown up with some explosive,
supposed to have been dynamite.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $40, 600.
PENNSYLVANIA sent two delegations
to Canton, O., to visit Maj. Mckinley
on the cath, one being from Westmore-
land county, representing the mining
industry, and the other from Oil City,
representing the oil producing indus
try. The marching of As young wom-
en-, representing the As states, each car
rying a basket of roses, was a unique
feature of the occasion.
YALE students broke up a meeting at
New Haven, Conn.,, William J. Bryan
being obliged to quit speaking in con-
sequence of their yells.
ADvICEs stated that few days ago
party of 81 Spanish troops started from
Havana to Ca1abraza, eight miles dis
tant, and five men Afterwards returned
and said that their companions had
been killed by the insurgents Troops
were sent to the scene and the state
ment was verified. The captain-gen-
eral had given orders not to publish a
word about the tragedy.
A BIG meeting of combined labor in
terests was held at the Clermont rink
in Brooklyn on the 23d. Resolutions
were adopted commencing the Chicago
convention and declaring that the
present struggle was battle of the
people against the oligarchy of wealth.
founded on special privileges. William
j. Bryan made a short speech for
cheaper money.
JAMES R WADDILL, of Missouri, was
elected president of the National In
surance Commissioners association, in
session at Philadelphia.
vile, Col. on the esd. The United
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