Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08

stantinople, Mr.. Terrell. has demanded
an indemnity of 500. 600 for the burn
ing and pillaging of the American mis-
sions at Marash and Kharput He alst
asked for the Immediate granting o.
6rmens for building them.
WALTER WLLoUGHBY was instantly
killed and two other boys badly hur
by a trolley car at Pittsburgh, Pa
The boys were stealing a ride behind
butchers wagon and the trolley ca
struck it while it was crossing the
track
A HORRIBLE murder has come to igh
near Wewoka, Ok Two Frenchmen
aged 60 and 65 years. were found deaG
in their home on farm The theor,
was that robbers hanged the men anG
took their wealth.
NEAR Lawrenceburg Ind, freigh
train was derailed by broken vince
and so ears crashed into the bridg,
and the bridge and cars went dowr
toge ther- Five tramps were fatally
injured. The damage done amounted
to $50, Geo
IN secluded place about so yard:
from che road near Fort Thompson
KY, some workmen discovered thu
body of young woman. She had
been beheaded and the head was miss
ing. There were evidences of a fierce
struggle having taken place.
THE Iowa senate has passed an anti
cigarette bill which amounts to almost
prohibition.
REPORTS from over so points in diff
ferent parts of Texas on the I'd showed
the heaviest rains known in that state
at this season for years. Streams were
reported out of their banks and much
damage was apprehended.
CONFERENCE of representative
from all the principal universities and
colleges in the eastern states tool
place at Columbia College, New York
on the Ist to secure uniform method
of entrance and examinations.
A MEMORIAL has been sent to Presi
dent Cleveland by the bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal church of The
United States begging most earnestly
for action to be taken in regard to the
massacre of Christians in Armenia.
FRANK THOMPSON and Willis Sanders
met on the street at Johnson City, Ill.
and began shooting at one another
Both were mortally wounded. Sander.
suspected Thompson of intimacy will
his wife.
THOMAS COMBS, fratricide and con
vict of Perry county, KY, went homo
drunk and Drained his wife with
club. A lynching party was reported
as being after the culprit
A MOB of 80 Infatuated men at Glen
dora, Mich, on the 3Oth hunted fol
George Tic, who was alleged to have
caused his wife's death by inhumar
treatment. They refrained, however
from lynching him on his promise thai
he would leave the county. Tic haC
been arrested, but was released after
his wife died, she being the only prose
cutting witness.
Dr. WILLIAM 81. FURNEss, Harvard:
oldest alumnus and the oldest Unitarian
minister in the United States, has dice
at his home in Philadelphia, aged 81
years.
A MEXICAN named Aureliano Gas
tello was shot to death and his clothes
saturated with coal oil and burned or
the Medina river, near San Antonio
Tex. Hugh Stanfeld and Watson Stan
field have been arrested charged will
the murder. The Mexican had beer
working for the Stanfields and severa
days ago assaulted their sister, 16
year-old girl of unsound mind.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended January 81 for the follow
ing cities were: New York, S491, 900. 10
Chicago. $40, 752, no; st. Louis, S24, $780,
718; Kansas City, SO, All, OO7; St. Joseph
81. 4O5, 512; Topeka, 1857, 1913; Wichita
$4S6, COS; Omaha, 81, BIO, $50.