Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03

ARTHUR ]. KING, executive head o,
the firm of r. G. Dun & Co., of New
York, died at Bloomfield, N. j., on the
2sth, aged 20 years.
| An EN- banEment of earth caved in on
| Fifth avenue, New York, killing one
man and injuring two others who were
digging a trench
A FERRY boat while crossing the river
Tyne, near Shields. Eng, sank and
seven persons were drowned.
FRED BARNARD, the artist of Black
| and White, was burned to death in BED
in London 1t was supposed that the
bed clothing caught fire while he wa.
smoking.
The big textile factories at Man.
chester, N H., Waltham. Mass, Troy
N. Y, Hollidaysburg, Pa, and Ames
bury, Mass. started up on the 2Sth
| after an enforced idleness of several
months, and more than 10, 900 idle men
were given employment.
AT the West Wisconsin Methods,
conference the vote in favor of admit.
ting women to the general assemb lies
was Sc to 6.
THE telegraph operators and train
dispatchers on the Canadian Pacific
railroad struck on the 2Sth.
In Mingo coNnty, w. Va, Doc Estep
shot and killed John Roberts and King
Roberts then killed Doc Estep. Cause,
political dispute.
AT the national circuit meet of the
L. A. w. at Trenton, N. J., on the 2sth
John s. johnson, paced by two quads
and a triplet, made a mile in 1:47 fiat,
beating the previous record of 1:4Ss5
Jimmy Michael, paced by two quads
and a triplet. also covered five miles in
n.E1 A = 1, E..
any track.
at Trent, Austria, with delegates pres
ent from all European countries and a
group of French Canadians, the prince
bishop of Trent presiding. The object
of the congress was Ito make known
to all the immeasurabl eness of the
moral and material evil the church and
society have suffered through freema-
sonry and to seek an antidote"
Tom WATSON. populist candidate for
vice president, has telegraphed to the
New York World review of the po-
itical situation, in which he said that
Chairman Jones would make the blum
der of his life if he listened to the fu-
sion leaders and believes full popu-
SewaIl on the ticket.
THOMAS KIDD. aged IA, was murdered
at Dalton, O., on the 27th by his play
mate, Carl McIlhaney, aged seven.
The boys quarreled.
A DELEGATION of glassworlSers from
Marion, Ind, visited Maj. Mckinley at
Canton, O., on the 25th before break
fast. Then delegation from Craw-
ford, Pa, which included students
from Allegheny college, arrived, fol-
lowed by a delegation of farmers from
Wyandotte county, O., and another
delegation of citizens of Tiffin and
Seneca county, O. The last delegation
presented the major with portrait of
Gen. w. FL. Gibson, sent by his widow
PETITIONS asking United States Sena-
tor Wolcott, of Colorado, to resign
were being circulated throughout Col
orado.
NEAR Tickwa station, La, John
johnson. a colored farm hand, about
midnight killed Mr.. and Mrs. John
Cotton and Mervin Stevens, aged II,
and seriously wounded Misses Agnes
and Lizzie Miller Searching parties
were after him to lynch him.
The paymaster of the Longda1e Iron
Co was riding on engine on the
Short Line railway near Charleston,
w. Va, on the 27th with Sc, 500 to paw
employees, when he was held up by a
robber anu the money secured. Shots
were exchanged and the paymaster was
killed, the robber escaping. A posse
went after the robber and lynching
was expected.