Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17

years Eight children, 81 graudchil-
dren and over 200 great grandchildren
survive her.
EIGHT persons were injured by the
detailing of an electric car on the
Madison street.-The at Chicago recently.
Some of them may not survive their
wounds
FRANKLIN 81. WHITNEY died on tho
18th at Atlantic, Ia He had lived in
Cass county 40 years and founded the
city of Atlantic.
SOME one recently poisoned 30 jack
rabbits at the state fair grounds at
Dallas. Tex. They were located there
to run races as a fair attraction
AGENT WISDOM, of the five civilized
tribes in the Indian territory, began
the payment to the Shawnees and Del
awares on the 18th of the Cherokee
strip money, each member of the tribe
receiving $685..
A CALL has been issued for a meeting
of the National Educational associa-
ton to be held at Milwaukee during
the first week in July, 1897.
BUFoRD OvERToN was hanged at Har-
Ian, KY, on the 18th for the murder
on June 81, 1895, of Gustave and Julia
Loeb, Jewish pedd1ers A great crowd
from all the surrounding country gath
cred to see the hanging.
A Boston dispatch on the 18th stated
that Helen Kellar, the blind and deaf
girl, had passed the Harvard examina-
ton with credit and will enter the Har-
ward annex at a younger age than most
freshmen.
A HURRICANE swept along the At
lantic coast on the 18th and did much
damage. At Coney Island, N. Y, the
beach was swept clean and bathing
houses and board walks were carried
out to sea-
AT the final day of the Christian Al
lance convention in Carnegie hall,
New York on the 18th the su bscrip-
tiOns secured for missionary work
amounted to S11O, ZOO.
A DOUBLE execution took place on
| the 18th at Wewolsa, capital of the
| Seminole nation, Charles Hadworth
| and Henry Welsh, half breed Indians
being shot to death by four Indian po-
lice, standing 20 feet distant Both
murderers fell back into their coffins
| dead. Two days before full-blood
Indian was legally shot for murder
committed six months ago.
REPORTS stated that 100 women are
engaged in selling whisky to the Usage,
Otoe, Ponca and Creek Indians on the
border of Oklahoma and that it was
dangerous for deputy marshal to ap-
pear in that country alone. A party
of deputies brought to Guthrie, Ok. +,
on the 10th a dozen whisky sellers,
mostly Indians
FORTY special train loads of people
visited Maj. Mckinley at Canton. O.,
on the 10th. They came from Iowa,
New York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania.
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.
c. T. COLE, cashier of the National
1 no, ~ Tn no.
rested by the United States marshal on
a charge of embezzlement. The deficit
is about $4,000.
| MOST REV. EDWARD WHITE BENSON,
D. D., archbishop of Canterbury and
primate of all England, was stricken
with apoplexy while attending church
on the 18th and died almost immedi-
ately.
]. D. SA1R one of the men who
robbed the bank of Sherburne. MIMI,
and shot the cashier and bystander,
was surrounded in a farmhouse by a
posse, when he jumped through a win
dow and fatally shot Marshal Gallon
and got into a cornfield. Then seeing
that there was no chance of escape the
robber shot his own brains out AL
most the entire amount of money
stolen was found on the dead man.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
| 1HE (hlckaSaW ana ChOctaw leg1S-
latures have enacted law that no
person shall go to the nation and kill
game and carry it out of the bound
aries The law goes into effect at once.
MISS MABEL TAYLOR was driving
across the railroad track near Jackson
vile, Ill, in a buggy when she was
run down by train and killed.
MRS. MARTHA WoMACH, an old set
tier of Marshall, Tex, stepped on a
parlor match and was burned SO badly
that she died soon after.
The two-year-old son of Dan O. Brien,
of Brazil, Ind, WIS fatally burned
by the explosion of a coal oil lamp
with which he was playing.
SEVERAL persons were more or less
injured by a street car at Burlington,
Ia. getting beyond the control of the
motorman on a steep grade
PARTLY opened switch on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad at
Preston, Ia, caused the derailing of %
freight cars AID the wrecking of sew
era1 stores close by.
THE lower house of the reichsrath
has passed a resolution in favor of the
Austro- Hungarian government making
an overture to the powers for the for
nation of an international court of ar
bitration-
THE last day of the Christian ALI
ance convention at New York developed
into a thanksgiving meeting for the
generous response to the appeal for
missionary funds, the sum of S135, DOC
being collected
FRED Moss, farmer, was killed by