Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-21


test wells put down east of the Sac
and Fox agency in Indian territory.
SOME children near Greenville, Va,
played with some matches in a barn
and set it on fire. When the barn was
burned down the remains of two chill
dren were found so badly burned that
they had to be handled in shovels-
AT the fourth days session of the W.
c. T. o. at St Louis on the 10th the re-
port of the executive committee to re-
sumo giving W. C. T. O. medals was
adopted. The subcommittee fnan-
cial plan for voluntary contribution
of SO from each union was adopted.
1t was announced that 5000 in cash and
$500 in pledges had been raised the pre-
vious dav for the benefit of Armenians-
Mrs Carso submitted report about
the temple. She had raised Sal, 39S of
the $500. 900 needed to buy trust bonds
and would try to secure the balance
this year.
A PARTY of men went to the jail at
Farmville, Va, and attempted to lynch
Elisha johnson. charged with high
way robbery. The prisoner was badly
wounded
THE supreme court of the United
States adjourned on the 10th for the
Thanksgiving recess. Its next session
will be on the 3Oth.
THE report of Paymaster-General
Stanton, made public on the 10th,
stated that the cost of the United
States army for the last year was $16,-
O74, ASS
CARROLL d. WRIGHT, commissioner
of labor, has transmitted to the secre-
tary of the interior a special report on
the statistics of occupations He says
there were 22,735. Col persons engaged
in inf T11 m a
these 1898, $50 were unemployed dur
ing some part of the year, or, approx
imate1y, 1, 139, 672 persons were unem-
ployed at their occupations during the
entire IL months. representing sol per
cent. of the total number of persons
engaged in gainful occupations
CHARLEY ALLEN, a negro, was shot
to death by a mob near Mckenzie,
Tenn, for assaulting a white girl
IN the Vanderbilt-Tennessee football
game at Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th,
a scrim mage occurred between the
players and a good many bruises were
inflicted. The university of Tennessee
team left the field and the game went
to Vanderbilt.
JAMES b. SPURRIER, printer at
Glenwood Springs, Col shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Miss Nina Cor
nell and slightly wounded James E.
Wilson, her escort, and then sent a
bullet through his own heart Jeal-
ouSy was the cause.
HENRY BLANKINsHIP, the oldest man
in Kentucky, died at his home near
Fairview OF the 18th of a complication
of diseases, aged 100 years He was
the father of Is children, IL of whom
are still living, the eldest being past
so years of age.
THE final examination at London of
Edward J. Ivory, alias Edward Bell,
the saloonkeeper of New York and al
legged Irish dynamiter, was sensation
al, the principal witness against him
being Jones' British spy who had
gained admittance to secret Irish
cieties in America and also possessed
the secrets of the Clan-na-Gael associa-
ton. Ivory was formally committed for
trial.
FIGHT occurred in a saloon in
Leadvi1le, Col, at an early hour on the
18th in which five men were stabbed,
and one at least will die. Fifteen or
20 men were engaged in the affair,
which was an outcome of the miners
strike, the strikers calling some Aus
trian miners scabs.
AT Lyman, n. H, Herbert r. Ash,
well to do farmer, shot his wife and
then hanged himself.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
MRS AGNES BURCH was instantly
killed and David Martin severely in
jured by being struck by an engine