Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12

THE Chickasaw council convened at
Tishomingo, l. IT,, on the 7th- Gov.
Harris and both branches of the legis-
lature were installed. The governor
and legislature are in favor of allot-
ment and the dissolution of tribal ties.
THE convention of the National As
ISOLATION of Democratic clubs, called
to meet at ST. Louis on September 30,
has been postponed until October 2,
and will last through the Sd. This is
done to insure the attendance of
Messrs. Bry an and Sewan, who would
not have been able to be present on
the date first named.
MR. JOSEPH HERMAN. his wife and
seven-year-old daughter, of Pitts
burgh, Pa. were found in their home
| weak from hunger. The woman was
removed to the hospital, where she
died in a few hours. The man was a
| converted jew and could not get work
on account of turning Christian.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt
at four o'clock in the afternoon of the
9th at Red Bud. Ill.
The trial of the first of the two men
charged with the murder of Sheriff
Joseph Rogers at Glencoe, Mimi, re-
suited on the 5th in a verdict of MUIR
der in the second degree, which did
| not please some of the people of the
county and a double lynching bee re-
suited early on the 9Th. The two men
lynched were Darman Musgrove and
| FL. A. Cingmars. The mob broke in to
the Jail, took out the two men and
swung them over the edge of bridge.
j. T. BOYD, deputy postmaster at
Berwyn, I. t., was arrested for rob-
! bing the mails of registered packages
| He was given hearing before United
States Commissioner Wolcott and
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how many packages he had broken
| into.
| The American Social Science associ-
alton, in session at Saratoga Springs,
| n. Y, elected James B. Angel, of Ann
| Arbor, Mich, president.
LEWIS g. TEwKsBURY, a New York
banker, who owns Mascot, 2:04. has
purchased from C. J. Hamlin the cham
| pion PAGER, Robert j., with a record of
2:oI1s. The price was not stated, but
| it was fancy one. Robert ]. will be
| used to drive on the road.
AT the national encampment of the
G. A. R. at ST. Paul, Mimi, on the 4th
Maj. Thaddeus S. Clarl<son, of Omaha,
| Neb.. was elected chief;
! Gen. J. III. Mullen. of Minnesota, senior
vice commander; Charles w. Buckley,
of Alabama, junior vice commander;
| A E. Johnson, of the department of
| the Potomac. surgeon-general, and
Rev. Mark D. Taylor, of Massachusetts,,
chaplain-in-chief.
CHAIRMAN BYNUM, of the executive
committee of the national democratic
party, has appointed the following as
mem bers of the committee: w. b. Hal
deman, of Louisville, Ky; L. C. Kraut-
hoff, of Kansas City, Mo-; f. w. NJ
Cutcheon, of Minnesota, and John c.
Built, of Philadelphia. Mr.. Bynum
has also announced that headquarters
will be located in Chicago with branch
in New York.
THE Northwestern Millers' associa.
| ton, known the flour trust, has
gone to the wall.
THE reported Indian outbreak in
Blaine county, Ok, was said to have
been political trick. Delegate Flynn
was to have held big rally at Walton.
ga, but to make it a failure riders
went through the country warning
settlers of Indian outbreak. In
stead of attending the rally the white
settlers remained at home to defend
their families
THE dead bodies of Lou Wilson, &
farmer; Mrs Wilson, his wife, and {
four-year-o1d son were found on thei1
farm at Neponset, Ill. All had beer
shot through the temple and Wilson
held revolver in his hand. No cause
for the tragedy was known.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
| ISAAC CARYL was shot down by Will
liam Doing, a coachman, at Allendale,
n J., and the murderer then sent a
bullet through his own heart No mo-
tive was known for the crime.
JOHN FRoHL, a bartender in Du-
buque, Ia, saloon. dropped dead while
drawing a glass of beer.
GEORGE j. WHITAKER, the champion
swimmer at Milwaukee, lowered the
worlds record for loo yards from los
3-5 to 1909 fiat.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL HARMON has re
turned from his vacation and resumed
his duties at the department of justice
at Washington.
TwENTY-FoUR anarchists have beer
arrested at Barcelona, Spain, for the
throwing of bomb into crowd o.
people witnessing the recent Corpu:
Christi procession whereby eight per
. sons were killed and 80 injured
MAX GREERsTEIN, l. years old, fel
from the roof of a siX-story tenemen'
, house in New York and struck heae
first upon an iron fence with spikes
killing him.
, IT is said that the disclosures of cor
ruption in connection with The admin
, istra ton of the dispensary law in Soutl
Carolina meant the doom of the system
AN AXLE on a fast freight train on tn,