Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-07

AT China Springs, Tex. julien Evans
and Henry Wilson, farmers, who had
long nursed feud, fought with Win
chesters. both receiving wounds result
ing in death.
PRUTTT TURNER, colored. was hanged
at Van Buren,, Ark, on the 2sth. He
declared his innocence on the scaffold,
read chapter from the Bible, sang
two hymns and offered prayer.
MELVILLE KENNEDY, colored, was
lynched by a mob at Windsor, S. c.,
for assaulting woman and a mob was
securing the country for his accom-
plice to serve him in the same manner.
TIE clearing house returns for the
week ended February % for the follow
ing cities were: New York. 1881, 1884,
z52; Chicago, So, 317, 594; St Louis $19,-
rs, 8s1; Kansas City, SO, 3O4. $50; St Jo-
seph, 81, O6O, o22; Topeka, S414, 36S; Wich-
ita, 1854. 1913; Omaha, So, $50, 400.
THE failures for the week ended Feb
ruary % (Dun's report were 278 in the
United States, against $50 last year,
and So in Canada, against IS last year.
A BOILER at the establishment of w.
FL. Overholt exploded on the 2Stn at
Frankfort, w. Va, destroying the
house and machinery and killing five
men and injuring six others.
UNLESS ten-hour day at 20 cents an
hour is conceded by employers it is
predicted that the street railway en-
ployes in Philadelphia, Chicago, New
York. Boston, Worcester, Milwaukee
| and Detroit will in few days inaugu-
rate gigantic strike.
FLORENCE, S. c., was visited by a de-
structive fire on the 9th, which de-
stroyed 500, 900 worth of property.
DANIEL WINTERS, who was appointed
president of the National Window
Glass Workers assocsation when Presi-
dent Burns was deposed, and Hudson
Campbell, another officer, were run out
of jeanette, Pa by crowd of 1000
angry followers of Burns.
NATIONAL COMMANDER WALKER, who
attended the session of the Grand
Del, on the 9th expressed him
self as being emphatically against
the proposed parade of the blue
and the gray at New York on the
Fourth of July. He said that he would
not for a minute favor any suggestion
that would offer to place union and
confederate soldiers side by side in
parade wearing their uniforms, even
though they both marched under the
flag of the United States.
On the night of the Goth mob of sew
eral thousand persons battered down
the Jail doors at Wichita Falls, Tex,
and got possession of the two prisoners
who robbed the bank and killed the
cashier in that city the previous day.
An improvised scaffold was erected and
both robbers were strung up. THE
Kid the first one hanged, said that
his name was Younger Lewis and his
parents resided at Neosho, Mo. He
died cursing and jeering. The other
robber had to be given whisky before
he was hanged.
THERE was q fall of snow in San
Francisco on the I'd, the first in ten
years. The fall was quite heavy while
| it continued, but melted as fast as it
fell
AN official Of the Pacific Steamship
Co. at Seattle, Wash, recently made
| the statement that bodies of human
| beings were Systematically snatched
| from the cemeteries of that city and
sent as surgery subjects and for scien-
! tific purposes to medical colleges in
San Francisco on the vessels of the
company. The bodies were enclosed
| in rough wooden boxes and labeled
| merchandise.
THE Baltimore & Ohio railway, one
of the oldest and most extensive trans
| portation systems in the United States,
and until recently one of the most
profitab BILE, has gone into the hands of
receivers.