Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-19


resulted in a plurality for Powers, re-
publican, for governor by about so. 600.
Thomas B. Reed was reelected to con-
gress by over 10000 plurality. The re-
pu blicans polled a tremendous vote.
In many towns more than a third of
the democrats voted the republican
tickle t.
JOHN RUCKER, a farmer, held up,
robbed and murdered by two unknown
negroes near Watonga, Ok Members
of the Anti-Horse Thief association
were reported trailing the murderers,
who will be lynched if caught.
SIX Indians rode into the agency
store, at what is known as Big Jim's
Crossing, on Little river, Oklahoma, on
the 14th and attempted to hold up the
agent The reds were half drunk and
fired over 100 shots. In resisting, Agent
Gillian was wounded A posse turned
out, folio wed the Indians ten miles and
killed the entire six.
THE passenger steamer City of Mac
kinac ,collided with and sank the
schooner William Croths waite Just be-
low the St. Clair canal, near Detroit,
Mich.
THE Spanish government has yielded
to the demands of the United States
for trial by civil court of the Ameri-
the Competitor and were captured.
INDIAN AGENT WooLsEY has paid the
Pawnee Indians SOS, 900, their annuity.
The usual crowd of confidence men
was present with ''skin games" to de-
fraud the red man, a dispatch from
Guthrie, Ok, said.
FRANZ OSCAR loren was hanged in
the Jail yard at Florence, Ariz., on the
18th for train robbery. He was the
first victim under the new law which
makes train robbery a capital offense
in that territory.
THE trades and labor assembly of
Denver, Col. have decided to send a
committee to Mexico to investigate the
conditions of labor in that free silver
country. This was done because it was
alleged by them that the committee
recently sent to Mexico by the Chicago
assembly was under the influence of
the gold standard advocates.
THE national democrats of South
Dakota are certain to vote for Nc
Kinley, all the leaders having cast
their lot with the repu blicans 1t was
announced from reliable populistic
sources that the populists conceded the
defeat of their state ticket and had
decided to devote all their energies to
capturing the legislature
claimed to have information that the
mine owners and silver syndicates of
Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and
Nevada had agreed to contribute 81
500. 600 for the Bryan campaign fund.
Two hundred Chicago manufacturers
and jobbers and over 80, 600 retail mer-
chants outside of Chicago have just
completed the greatest mercantile alli-
ance that the history of the country
has ever known 1t is called the Ma
tional Association of Merchants and
Ira velers- Profit to the retail mer-
chants who buy goods in Chicago is
one of the main objects The interests
of travelling statesmen, too, are in
cluded.
THERE was laundry war on in Chi
cago, it was reported, and dress shirts
were ''done u p' for three cents each.
AN oil tank on freight train ex-
ploded just as the train entered Wei
lingtop, ILL.,, setting fire to and burn
ing 25 ears and the Pate & Lorton ele-
vator. Two tramps, who were stealing
| a ride, were thought to have been
burned.
A DELEGATION of noted Vermonters
visited Mckinley at Canton, O.. on the
18th and Gov.-elect Grout, Senator
Proctor and others made brief ad-
dresses and Mr.. Mckinley suitably re-
sponded. The Lorain county (O) dele
Cation joined some Pennsylvania re-
| pu blicans and they also marched to the
Mckinley residence, 5000 strong, with
| half dozen bands
WHILE going down steep grade on
| the B. & o. railroad near Cum berland,
Md. the brake on a mammoth engine
attached to a freight train refused to
| act and the train rushed down the
| grade and at curve the engine
| jumped the track and 20 cars, loaded
with coal, flour and 1un Der. were
| wrecked and their contents scattered.
| One man. stealing a ride, was killed
REV. CANNING NEWMAN, author OF
| the well-known hymn Lead, Kindly
| Light died at Toronto, Ont, aged n.
AN Indianapolis, Ind, dispatch
stated that Mr.. Bynum was informed
at Chicago that Vice Presidential Nom
| inee Sewau would probably withdraw
from the democratic ticket immediate
ly after the New York convention OF
| September IS.
| WILLIAM KELLER, a resident of Ko
lxomo, Ind, has been taken to the in
sane asylum Insanity was brought
about by study and worry over the
silver and pension questions He inn
| agined that Hoke Smith had ten bush
els of silver hidden in the Potomac
flats that belonged to him as bach
pension.
AT Glens Falls, N. Y, the 1otf