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

THE well known Weber Piano Co.
made application for areceiver at New
1 York on the Sd. Du I'll trade was given
as the cause of the failure.
\ fHHE Central Lum Der Co. began bust
ness at Port Townsend, Wash, with a
capital of $40, 600. OO0 Its membership
1 includes every timber million the west
| ern coast
The Wire Nail Manufacturers asso-
citation, at Pittsburgh, Pa, has adj
| dressed circular letter to the jobbing
| trade, giving notice OF another ad-
vance in prices of IS cents per hundred
weight. This will change the base
rate from So. q to 50. 40 per hundred
weight, which is the highestprice asked
for wire nails in many years.
Two large iron compressed air tanks
for furnishing power to drills ex-
ploded at Lawrence, Mass, on the Sd.
The engineer and fireman were killed
and the shock was felt for ten miles
around doing much damage to- window
| glass
The big seven-story building of
Charles H. Hazeltine, 1416 and 14iS
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and the
adjoining Gve-story structure of the
Baptist Publication society and the
American Baptist Historical society
were destroyed by fire on the ID. The
Hotel Lafayette was also damaged
The loss was estimated at fully S2,OGo,-
600. Many valuable paintings were
destroyed, the loss on them being esti-
mated at between $500, 600 and $500, O00
| The Baptist Historical society lost TO-
600 volumes.
i he XVoh hoe II
near Decatur, ILL.,, resulted in the
death of Engineer Rose and Conductor
| Wheeler.
THE Reading (Pa.) collieries have
been shut down for an indefinite period,
throwing $4,000 persons out of work.
MARTIN LYNN, his wife, two infant
| children and his sister were poisoned
| at Rochester, N. Y. Miss Lynn was
dead, two others cannot recover and
the children were reported out of dan
! ger. The case was very mysterious.
A DISPATCH from Eagle Pass, Tex,
stated that $50 boilermakers and ma
chinists of the Mexican international
Railway Co. were out on a stlike. They
demanded % per cent increase in
wages and the reinstatement of sew
eral men.
| A MEMPHIS, Tenn, dispatch on the
| I'd stated that the unprecedent rain in
the lower Mississippi valley during the
past ten days had caused the streams
to overflow and the low lands in Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Mississippi were
one vast sea of water. Bridges had
been washed away on several of the
railroads and traffic was seriously de-
layed.
THE First Unitarian church at Meet
inghouse hill, Boston, was burned on
the Sd through an overheated furnace.
Two tiremen were badly, injured by
falling timbers.
PRIVATE advices received at New
York recently said that the Maher-
Fitzsimmons fight would take place on
a strip of land in dispute between New
| Mexico and Texas, known as mo Mans
Land" The Southern Pacific had put
| in tracks for the accommodation of
| Pullman cars, and it was said that Pull
man cars would be at FL Paso from
| over 100 cities.
LORD SALISBURY, at a banquet in
| London on the 31st, made an address
and said he upheld the Monroe doc
trine as President Monroe understood
| it. He also asserted that religious
communities labored under mistake
when they supposed that England had
| bound herself in honor to succor the
| Armenians. The Berlin treaty only
bou nd the signatory powers to watch
over certain reforms promulgated by
the sultan, nothing more.
A TERRIFIC tornado, accompanied by
food, occurred on the 31st in north
Queensland, attended with great de-
struction of life and property. Many
vessels were missing as a result of the
storm. The rainfall during the storm
amounted to % inches and it was esti-
mated that the damage to property
would amount to G5OO, 900. A large
number of persons were drowned.
The Osages, conceded to be the
wealthiest tribe of Indians on earth
per capita, passed bill through their
council asking for a separation from
Oklahoma and to be annexed to the
Indian territory.
THE failures for the week ended jan
uary 81 (Dun's report) were 4O4 in the
United States, against S54 last year,
and 20 in Canada, against "a last year.
THE Mexican secretary of the inte-
rior has wired the state government of
chihuahua that the Maher-Fitzsim-
mons prize fight must not be allowed
at Juarez and troops. will be sent there
to prevent the fight.
FIVE persons were killed and nearly
) a score injured by the explosion of the
large 5O-inch cylinder boiler at the
works of the Hollidaysburg Iron &
Nail Co. at Hollidaysburg, Pa. on the
3Oth. Some of those hurt may die.
l = Al. Al.
, of the works 800 feet in the air, and
came sailing down like a spent rocket,
, crushing through the roof in another
department of the works.
HARVEY PAGE, wife and two young
sons, aged respectively three years and
three months, were burned to death in
their home in Marengo township,
Mich, on the Goth. Page and family