Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-26
GENERAL NEWS

FRANCIS COFFIN, who wrecked the
Indianapolis, Ind, national bank, sur
rendered himself on the 21st and was
hustled off to prison to serve eight
years, his appeal to the supreme court
proving futile.
THE dairy barn of Daniel Evens, one
mile north of Marine, Ill, was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground.
With it were lost Is tons of hay and
16 cows
STEVE ODoNNELL defeated Frank
Slavin in the fifth round at Maspeth,
L. L, on the 21st- The fight was to
have been for 20 rounds.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET has appealed
to the London Daily News to collect
funds to send the refugee Armenians
to America The Daily News also
printed an appeal on the 21st from Miss
Frances Willard to her sisters in Amer
lea on the same subject
In reply to a letter from Gov. Culber-
son, of Texas, on the financial problem
agitating the United States, Prince
Bismarck, of Germany, stated that if
the people of the United States should
find it compatible with their interests
to take independent action in the di-
rection of bimetallism, such action
would exert a most salutary influence
upon the contamination of an interna-
tional agreement
THE sultan of Turkey has issued a
long reply to the collective note of the
powers He declares that the 1nassa-
ores were provoked by Armenian revo-
lutionists and denies that the rioters
were directed by government agents.
and also asserts that the Armenians
assumed Mussuln1an costumes in order
to perpetrate their crimes
LII 1ol he,
of others badly injured on the 18th in
a wreck on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton, near Connersville, Ind. A pay
train was following a freight The
crew took the engine of the freight
and started back and the wild engine
met the pay car 1t was down grade
and impossible to stop The two en-
gines came together with terrible
crash and the pay car was thrown on
its side into the ditch
STAR POINTER at Mystic park, Mas
sachusetts, not only beat two accredited
faster horses, Robert J., 2:o11<.
and Frank Agan. s-o3s<, but paced
the three fastest heats ever made in
competition, the times being 2:O21
.-o35< and 2-o3s<, an average of 2:o3 4.
He also lowered the worlds record for
the fastest heat ever paced, 2:o2I<. as
well as the records for the fastest
quarter and half, :29s< and :59% re-
spectively-
A cARLEGRAM has been sent by dele
gates to the International agricultural
congress at Budapest, Hungary, to
William J. Bryan, wishing him success
in his campaign and indorsing mis- fight
for free silver
JAMES SWIMMER, a full-blood Chero-
kee Indian. and Henry Williams. a col
ored youth of Is, were hanged in the
national jail yard at Tahlequah, l. T.,
on the 18th for murder
WILLIAM f. SHEEHAN, of New York,
has resigned as member of the demo-
cratic national committee
A REPORT from Constantinople said
that 200 persons were killed during the
disa rming of the Albanian guards of
the sultan's palace by five Seraskier
battaliions on the 18TH
REPORTS received at Cuthbert. Ga,
indicated that Lum Warren, the negro
who assaulted and almost murdered
Mrs John Bass, had been lynched, but
whether by burning at the stake or by
the milder methods of shotgun and
moose was not altogether clear The
first report was that the negro had
been burned alive