Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-13

FIFTEEN masked men recently tool
Silas Rouse out of his house neal
Slaughterville, KY, and administered
severe castiGation- They then gave
him a coat of tar and feathers and
warned him to leave the neighbor-
hood Rouse was accused of cruelty
to his family.
DURING the Corpus Christi process
sion at Barcelona, Spain, on the 7th a
bomb was thrown into the crowd and
eight persons were killed and so INJURED
The perpetrator of the deed was un.
known.
LETTER received at Key West, Fla
said that in the recent attack made by
the insurgents on the trocha four com
panies of women took part and they
fought like furies, hacking the Span
iards with machetes- Gen. Maceo tried
to stop the slaughter, but the women
were aroused and would not obey his
command Nearly every one of them
had suffered grievous wrongs from the
Spanish troops and they took the op-
portunity for revenge.
BLAST exploded prematurely at the
Horton cement works at Benniwater,
N. Y, and three men were killed and
another one badly wounded.
lake. Chicago. on the sth, leading her
two children by the hands She and
her two-year-oldg girl were drowned, but
the nine-year-old boy managed to save
himself The woman was supposed to
be insane.
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
on the Sth stated that President Cleve-
land thought it was absolutely essen
tial that the cause of sound money
should triumph, and that if the demo-
Gratis declared for free silver and the
republicans for a gold standard he
would vote the repu blican ticket
HOWARD & MCDERMorT's leather
factory at New York was burned re-
Gently. Loss, $50, 900.
SIR WALTER won the Brooklyn
handicap on the 4th, 10000 people
witnessing the race. Clifford was only
a nose behind.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent a mes
sage to the house on the 9th vetoing
the general deficiency bill, his principal
objection being to the French spolia-
ton claims and to the item appropriate
ing STA, AS rs extra to Charles P.
Chouteau for constructing the iron.
clad steam battery Elijah.
SEVERE storms prevailed throughout
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, South Dakota and Michigan
on the 18th, with heavy rain, and in
several sections with cvclonic mani
festations Three hailstorms passed
over Chicago and in one suburb a
downpour of small fish and turtles oc-
Cured.
SECRETARY OLNEY has written a
letter to the Spanish government
about the unsatisfactory condition of
affairs in Cuba, and suggesting that it
cannot be expected, in view of the in
terest and public eminent here, that
this country will refrain from inter-
ference If the war is not brought to a
speedy close. The letter was friendly
in tone
A DISPATCH from the island of NADIA
gascar stated that Fahavalos had
burned the town of Antirabe and had
blockaded a house in which some Nor
wegian missionaries were barricaded,
but the French resident, with a de-
tachment of Hovas, had raised the
blockade and during the fight zoo
Fahavalos were killed
THE bodies of Steve Samaritan and
his grown up son and daughter, Ar
menians, were found murdered near
an irrigating ditch five miles from
Fresno, Cal, all having been shot in
their backs
THE president has signed the filed
cheese bill, the fertilization bill and
the bill granting right of way through
the Grand canyon forest reservation.