Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-11

disbarred A K Hartman. a pension
attorney of ST. Louis. from practicing
before the interior department He
was charged with receiving illegal fees
and filing false afidavits in pension
cases
JUDGE HELM at Cincinnati, over
ruled the motion for new trial in the
case of Alonzo Walling. convicted of
the murder of Pearl Bryan. and SEN
fenced him to death August z
The 18th annual convention of the
National Association of Naval Veter-
ans was called to order at New York
on the 9th, Rear Adm. Samuel Altman,
presiding.
THE Arkansas national party, in con-
vention at Little Rock. resolved to
support Bentley, of Nebraska, for pres
ident. J. w. Miller, of Arkadelphia,
was nominated for governor. A plat
form was adopted favoring prohibition
and demanding the free coinage of
silver at sixteen to one.
A GENERAL panic prevailed recently
at Larnica, in the island of Cyprus, on
account of earthquake shocks and the
inhabitants have deserted the town
and were reported living in tents
THE steamer Samuel N. Hodge, of
Buffalo. bound from Cleveland to
Prescott with 600 tons of wire, caught
fire on Lake Ontario on the 5th. The
steamer ST. Joseph sighted the burn
ing steamer and for over an hour kept
two streams playing upon the burning
craft, but to no purpose, and to avoid
being burned to death those on board
the Hodge jumped into the lake. All
were picked up by the ST. Joseph's
crew.
MRS. ROBERT YOUNG, residing with
L E ~ III
ILL.,, locked herself and her ten-year-old
daughter in a bedroom and, after
satura ting the bed with kerosene, ig-
nited it, burning herself and daughter
to death. The house was entirely con-
sumed. The husband, who occupied
another apartment, succeeded in get
ting their other five children out of the
building alive. Mrs. Young was be-
lieved to have been temporarily insane.
SIDNEY RANDOLPH, a negro, charged
with the murder of little Sadie Buxton
at Gaithersburg, Md, was lynched by
a mob who oTercame the sheriff and
forced him to surrender the keys of
the Jail. The negro protested his in
nocence to the last. Afterwards a
rumor arrived at Gaithersburg that
the co1ored people were organizing
and threatened to lynch the father of
the murdered Sadie Buxton and the
deputy sheriff got 200 men under arms
to guard Buxton from harm.
THE canal boat Kirk was burned at
her wharf at Lockport, N. Y, on the
Sd. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
The fire was caused by the explosion
of a tank of gasoline on board.
THE strike at the Brown Hosting
Co.'s works at Cleveland, O., on the I'd
assumed a serious aspect While ESQ
police were guarding 500 workmen
along the streets they had to use their
clubs on the strikers who followed.
Albert Saunders, an employee of the
works, was knocked off his wheel by a
brick and drew his revolver and shot
striker, who died soon after. The
police hurried Saunders into an office.
but the mob wanted to lynch him and
the mayor had to order soldiers the
scene before Saunders could be taken
to the station.
The heat was intense in Chicago on
the Sd and a number of prostrations,
some fatal, were reported
The latest cholera news from Cairo,
Egypt, stated that 4, 4i9 cases were re-
ported for June and 5, sos deaths.
WHILE an oat bin was being emptied
in an elevator at Fort Dodge, Ia, Ida
Bollinger, aged IL, slipped in, was
sucked under and was found smoth-
cred.