Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-23


recent tornado was reported on the
18th to be ESQ, and the loss of property
in Texas and the Indian TERRITORY was
estimated at 81, 900, 900. 1t was agreed
that there were three distict lorna
does. Dead bodies were being discov-
cred in out of the way places A dead
infant was found at the top of hick-
DRY tree, inpaled on q limb.
THE proposed strike of carpenters at
Buffalo, n. Y. for eight hours was
met by a lockout, those carpenters
favoring the eight-hour day being dis
missed ON the spot by the contractors
A protracted struggle was anticipated
A DISPATCH from Iowa City, Ia, on
the 18th said that a strong movement
was on foot in she state to retire John
S. Clarkson from the position of ma
tional committeeman It was also said
that Senator Allison might withdraw
from the presidential nomination race
before the cenvent ton met and Iowa
would be put in the Mckinley column.
THE Venezuelan government has
agreed TO pay the 1000 demanded by
Great Britain for the arrest of British
policemen OLE the condition that it will
not be considered as affecting the
boundary dispute
FIREBUGs have destroyed thousands
of dollars worth of property at Pres
ton, KY, including ten buildings The
people are in a state OF terror.
AT East Carondelet, Ill, 43 negroes
were admitted to mem bership in the
Baptist church and baptized in the
Mississippi on the 18th
THE men who robbed the State bank,
of Buffalo, Ill, recently have been
captured and have made a full confess
sion. They are Carl Kloppen burg. the
cashier of the bank, and Joseph K1op-
penburg, a drug clerk of this city, sons
of August Kloppen burg, a wealthy cit
izen of Springfield The money was
recovered.
The schooner Mary D. Aver was
sunk in collision with the steamer
OnoSo, in Lake Michigan, off Crosse
Point. and five members of her crew
were drowned.
A terrible cyclone passed over the
northwest corner of Marshall county,
Ky on the 18th At Elva it tore down
the house of Anderson Jones and killed
the entire family, consisting of Jones,
aged so; his wife, aged SIS, his eldest
child, a son II years old, and two girls,
one 10 and the other L.
DURING a terrific electrical storm at
Norfolk. Va, large frame house
situated on a farm near Ocean View
was struck by lightning and burned to
the ground and two of its occupants
persisted in the flames The house
was occupied by about 25 colored per-
sons who were engaged as strawberry
pickers.
ABOUT five o'clock on the afternoon
of the 18th a cyclone swept through
the western part of Sherman, Tex.
Forty people were killed south of the
city in addition to several in the city
and the mum Der OF wounded will reach
over 100. At Howe ten farm houses
were wrecked and eight persons killed
outright. At Gribble Springs four per-
sons were killed and at several other
places fatalities were reported. Many
persons were missing from places in
the path of the cyclone and it was i'm
possible to tell how many had lost
their lives. The destruction of prop
erty was enormous.
WHILE the street rail way com pany in
Milwaukee was operating all its lines
on the 18th and there was little or no
distur bance, the buses were heavily
patronized as against the patronage of
the cars, and there was a general boy
colt The cause of the strikers was
being advocated by every labor union
and business of all kinds suffered with
the railway company
A FIRE inside the penitentiary at Ed
dyville, KY, destroyed the shoe, broom
and spoke factories, involving a loss of
500. 600. Four hundred convicts will
be idle for time.
SMITHToN, Pa, a mining town. was
visited by windstorm and cloudburst
on the 18th. The storm came up with
out the slightest warning and houses
were unroofed, trees uprooted and
small outbuildings demolished. One
hundred miners. who were working in
the mines, were compelled to flee for
their lives
THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
sent letters to all members of the re-
publican national committee Stain 2
that, the nomination of Mckinley at
St Louis being conceded, it was de-
sired to gather preferences for vice
president. The replies published
showed that, with the exception of
three, the members of the national
committee favored Thomas B. Reed
for vice president
Two men were killed at the Elliott
square building at Buffalo, n. Y, on
the i4th. Both We're working at the
bottom of the elevator shaft when
some workmen at the top of the shaft,
ten stories up, dropped a steel jack,
weighing 40 pounds. and an iron bolt
weighing five pounds The jack struck
Purdy on the head. fracturing his
skull, and the bolt fractured Jenlev's
skull
THE most noteworthy feature of the
session of the American Protective as
ISOLATION on the 14th was the innova-
ton made by giving to the public part
of the address of President Traynor.