Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-18

SHERIFF NOAH McGILL. of Tishomiu-
go county. L T., recently found three
white men hanging to a tree near
Reagan post Office The crime was a
mystery. but 1t was believed that they
were horse thieves and were captured
and swung up on the spot by Texans.
The Roman Catholic Church of the
Visitation, at Brooklyn, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $780,
600.
THE session of the Christian Endeav.
orers at Washington on the 18th was
mainly devoted to foreign missions, ad.
dresses being made by number OF
foreign delegates, India, China, Africa.
Asia, England and the countries OF
continental Europe being represented.
the chief interest being especially CEN
tered in the Armenian demonstration
in tent Washington.
The scul1ing race for the champion
ship of the world and two side prizes
amounting to 81, 700 was rowed over
the Thames course from Putnev to
Mortlake on the 18th by Charles Hard
ing. of London, and James Stanbury,
of Victoria, Australia, and was won by
the latter
The National tube works at McKees-
port, Pa, resumed on the 18th The
mills had been shut down for about six
weeks, throwing s, 1000 men out of work.
A TRAIN on the Lehigh Valley road
ran into a cow near Hazleton, Pa. and
the engine and three cars were top
pied over. killing the engineer and Sc
riously injuring the fireman and over
a score of passengers
A CROWDED excursion train moving
out of Logan, Ia, on the Northwest
ern railroad, was struck by a freight
train The two engines crashed to-
gether and freight and passenger
coaches were piled on top of one an
other. Twentv-eight persons were
killed outright and 81 injured, many
of them proba bly, fatally. The acct
dent was caused by the engineer of
the excursion train disobeying his or
ders.
ALTHOUGH the Sabbath on the 18th
was not one of rest for the large army
of Christian Endeavorers who are in
Washington, there was no demonstra-
tions of secular nature, but meetings
were held from sunrise until a late
hour in the evening. About so of the
pulpits of the city were filed by the
visiting clergymen at the IL o'clock
services
WoRKMEN lately engaged in repair
ing the st. Joseph Valley railroad,
near Niles, Mich, and putting it in
running order, much against the wish
of owners of property through which
it runs, the latter, heavily armed,
drove the workmen away. and began
tearing up the rails and leveling the
roadbed. Several miles of roadbe
were destroyed.
THE steamship Doric arrived at San
Francisco on the 18th from Yokohama
bringing estimates of the loss of life
from the great tidal wave in Japan
which reached as high as $4,000, and
this number is believed to be far be-
low the mark. The tidal wave was 80
feet in height and swept inland dis
tance of 21s miles along 200 miles of
coast Thousands of acres of land un-
der cultivation were devastated, and
the inha bitants of the flooded districts
are suffering from famine
GREAT CONSERVATION has been caused
the traffic officials of the prin-
cipa1 western roads by receiving sum-
mons to appear before the interstate
commerce commission at Chicago on
August and make answer under
oath whether they. have directly or in
given undue preferences or
by paying rebates or MAX
ing other unlawful concessions to
shippers on business from Kansas City,
Atchison, St Joseph,
Omaha, St Paul and Minneapolis, and
all points east thereof.