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


+. C. KRAFTs and George Dixon at
San Francisco lowered the worlds
five-mile tandem road record by nearly
two minutes, placing the figures at
1922 As.
The National league bas eball season
closed on the 9th, the games sched-
uled for the day at Chicago being pre-
vented by rain. Baltimore, for tho
third successive time, wins the pen
nant: Cleveland is second and will play
the champions in the Temple Cup Sc
ries- Cincinnati has to be content with
third place, while Boston beats Chica-
go by a nose in the race for fourth
place.
On the Philadelphia & Reading road,
near Milton, Pa, an empty engine and
tender collided with a heavily laden
coal train, throwing IL cars off the
track and burying Engineer Mitchell,
of the former, beneath the ruins Fire
man Kelly, of the same engine, jumped
off. but was SO badly injured that he
died.
THOMAS GoRMAN and Mat Carney
were cremated in a log hut near Lar
sing, Ia 1t was supposed they quar-
relied and overturned the lamp
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, of the
Worlds W. c. 7. u, has sent out an
appeal to the local unions in the Unit
ed States to organize meetings to pro-
test against the Armenian masacres
and also to raise money for the suffer-
ers and send it to Mrs Helen NJ Barker
at Chicago.
GEORGE DIXON, of Boston, and
Tommy White, of Chicago. fought 20
rounds to a draw on. the 25th in the
broadway Athletic club, at New York.
Preceding this fight Danny Mcbride,
of New York, and Johnny German, of
Long Island City, fought ten rounds.
and the referee gave Mcbride the de-
cision.
DUN's review of trade gives the num-
Der of failures for the week ended the
25th in the United States as SIS,
against 216 last year, and in Canada
80, against so last year.
THOMAS WILLARD, aged so, started
across the Ohio river from Wheeling,
w. Va, in boat with his son and two
girls, aged I6 and IA, and when in the
middle of the river he rocked the boat
to frighten the girls and it capsized.
The man and one of the girls were
drowned.
A CONSTRUCTION train of 12 dump
cars on the Butler & Pittsburgh rail.
road went over an SO-foot embankment
near Butler, Pa, owing to the failure
of the brakes to work. One man was
killed and number were injured
A FREE fight occurred during a po-
1tica1 demonstration at Elwood, Ind,
on the 25th in which Joseph Martin,
Samuel Salvin and Hosea Templeton
were probably fatally stabbed and a
number of others were hurt
REV. STANIsLAUs KAMIsKI, of Buffalo,
N. Y, was selected for bishop of the
Polish Roman Catholic church of
America by the convention at New
York.
H. Blenders, of Carlyle, H., was
elected grand commander of the Select
knights of America at the conclave at
Peoria, Ill, on the cath
AT the 24-hour bicycle race at the
Coliseum At Chicago on the oath C. w.
Miller did so miles in the remarkable
time of 1:54:25 SIS the previous record
being 2:11:6 As.
the following officers on the Gath at
Rockford, Ill: President, Gen. w. S. Rose
Grams; corresponding secretary, Gen
H. v. Boy ton; treasurer, Gen. Fuller
ton; historian, C. 6. Mifia- Columbus,
O., was selected as the next meeting
place.
Two men committed a daring rob
berry at the Union Foundry Co.'s office
in Chicago on the e5th- The treasurer
of the company was engaged in illing
the employees envelopes with their pay
when the robbers held him up. The
president. superintendent and two
clerks were in the room at the time
The robbers got 81 600.