Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-16

near savannah, ia, on the 11th and
one child was killed and 40 other per-
sons were more or less injured
Two sealing vessels were thought to
have been lost in the straits of Belle
isle Their crews aggregated 40 men,
FIRE at Jersey City on the 18th de-
stroyed the Lehigh Valley Co.'S hay
sheds and 40 or so cars loaded with hay.
Loss, $50, O0o.
FIGHT over a widow occurred in
Calhoun county, Fla, in a room and
three men were killed and one wound
ed.
NORTHEASTERN Missouri, southeast
ern Iowa and western Illinois were
suffering from a drought which had
reached critical period on the 10th.
Wheat was heading out short, blue
grass was ripening and grass generally
was taking on the yellow hue of sum
mec. There was a shortage of stock
water, and farmers who were late in
breaking could not pillow for corn.
THE Vulcan iron works at San Fran
cisco were destroyed by fire on the
10th The loss was estimated at $780,
600, with S3I, 900 insurance.
THE steamer Monowai has brought
news to San Francisco of the whole
sale massacre of traders and mission
aries by natives of the islands of Man
sacre was followed by acts of canni-
balism- Many missions have been
abandoned as the result OF the atroci-
ties of the natives
MICHAEL WELSH, Dan Morrison, Mary
Berry, and Maggie Calder went out in
boat on the lake at Chicago and Mr.,
Welsh and Miss Berry were drowned
and the other two were only saved
after an exciting struggle in the water.
The overturning of the boat was due
TO the hilarity of Welsh, who persisted
i'm rocking the craft in fun.
NEAR Eastman's Mills, Ala, Redden
H Williams, a prominent white farm
err. was lynched by a mob of 40 masked
white men for making an assault on
his 16-year-old daughter. The man
was being taken back to Jail by an of
fcer, after a preliminary hearing,
when the mob took the prisoner from
him and hanged him to tree.
L'ANsE, Mich, has been practically
wiped out by fire, the LAnse Humber
Co.'S mill and nearly all the business
houses in the place being burned. Two
hundred persons were made homeless.
The total loss is placed at $3.50, 600;
small insurance. The mill had been
idle for several days owing toa strike.
At Nunising, Alger county, the entire
flames in an effort to save the town,
and forest fires were raging in several
other counties
No CARS were run at Milwaukee on
the 10th and there was no rioting. The
strikers, nearly 1000 in number, pa
raded the streets in the morning. The
strike was believed to be practically
over, the company having all the men
it required to operate its cars and re-
fusing to treatNwith the strikers in any
way.
A SEVERE storm passed over Clark, s.
D.. recently. j. HI. Lindland's house,
10 miles south, was taken up by the
wind and carried a distance of SO feet
and destroyed There were ten per-
sons in the house, and Mrs Lindland
was killed, while other members of
the family were more less injured
Upwards of two inches of rain fell IN
three hours
FAILURES for-the week ended the sth
were, according to Dun's Review, 23S
in the United States, against 227 last
year, and "a i'm Canada, against "a last
year.
WALTER MAYN. employed oE the new
Santa Fee bridge at Guthrie, Ok. g,
stepped off the bridge backwards, fall
ing 20 feet and sustaining fatal in
juries