Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12

Gaudaur, of Canada, and James STAINS
bury, of Australia, was rowed over the
four mi1e-course from Putney to Mort
lake in England on the 7th and was
won by Gaudaur.
F. L. BROWN, a jewe1er of Hubbard,
O., was fatally shot by tripping over
the string of a trap that he had ar
ranged in his store for burglars.
MANY persons in the congregation
took offense at Rev. Thomas Dixon's
red-hot denunciation of Bryan and his
supporters at New York on the 9Th and
gave vent to their disapproval by
catcalls and noisy demonstrations and
the outlook became so threatening at
one time that it was feared it would be
necessary to call for the police.
Mr.. BRYAN reviewed the Labor day
parade at Chicago and then spoke to
about 60. 600 people at Sharpshooters'
park.
SENATOR TELLER, of Colorado, de-
livered his first speech of the campaign
at Morrison, Ill, on the 9TH.
| HENRY b. PAYNE, ex-United States
senator, suffered a stroke of paralysis
at Cleveland, o., and little hope was
entertained of his recovery. He is
nearly 80 years old.
THE bicycle racers which left San
| Francisco on August 25 at IL o'clock
arrived dL Tile JOuTAdl oluCc Ill NC"
| York at 2:39:14 Is seconds on the nth
| Time crossing, ID days, 3 hours, 90 min
utes, Is seconds. Actual time, ID
DAYS, % minutes, 4 Is seconds.
| NELSON ETTER, negro outlaw, was
! shot at Norman, Ok. on the nth by
deputy marshals. Etter was a native
| of the Chickasaw nation and was
| wanted for a dozen different crimes.
LABOR day was observed in all cities
| throughout the United States as a
holiday and given up to parades and
speeches and picnics in the parks
| a LONDON dispatch said that the re-
| cent Irish national convention at Dub
lin, as means of promoting unity in
the Irish parliamentary party, was the
| biggest failure record and only
| served to widen the breaches existing
among the various factions. Even the
liberal newspapers, which for years
| have had the cause of Ireland at heart,
| admitted this.
| SALVADOR ROMERO and Rena Garcia
We're found dead in lodging house at
San Francisco clasped in each others
arms. The woman was the wife of
Ben Garcia, of Roadway City, Cal. Both
had been shot through the heart and
both left letters expressing their love
| for each other.
| YoRE's opera house at Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, caught fire on the night of
| the 5th and firemen from St. Joseph
| were called on for assistance, and
while they were hosting ladders, the
| upper walls fell over them and IL
| were buried under the debris. Five
were killed instantly and the six
others fingered a few hours in dread
full agony.
| ARTHUR HAYNE was hanged at At
lanta, Ga, on the 4th for killing his
friend, Will Spinks, in a fight last
| March while both were drunk.
GEORGE L. WHEELER, white, and Silas
Lee and Hickman Freeman, colored,
| convicted for crimes in the Indian ter
ritory, were hanged at Paris, Tex, on
the 4th. At the request of Wheeler he
was hanged alone.
| MYSTERIOUS BILLY SMITH and Jim
RYAN of Australia, fought at Astoria,
O., on the 4th. 1t was billed as a ten
round go, but the fight was given to
Ryan in the seventh because of Smith S
foul fighting.
| JESSE GRANT, of San Diego, Cal, son
of Gen. q. S. Grant, has Joined the
populist party.
THE Oklahoma supreme court has
handed down an opinion which makes
Charles F. Beach, a prominent and
wealthy New York man, and a we'll
| known l1nclnnaGl woman
and will. by its Interpretation of the
divorce law, create CONSERVATION
among the thousands from all parts Oh
the United States who have secured
Oklahoma divorces. The ground fo1
reversal on error was that the man was
never a resident in good faith of the
territory of the county in which the
divorce was granted.
THE Daughters of Veterans at St
Paul, Mimi, elected Miss Alice In
gram, of Chicago, president Miss
Gladys Foster, of Hiawatha, Kan, wa:
elected one of the trustees.
AT a conference between Senator
: Butler, Thomas E. Watson and Other
popu1ist leaders at Atlanta, Ga, it wa:
decided that Watson should speal
1 twice in Kansas, twice in Nebraska
and twice in Colorado and that Viii
? liam J. Bryan and Thomas E. Watson
1 should be notified of their nomina tioI
by letter some time before Septembe
Is
= FIVE persons We're burned to dealt
: in fire in the Commercial hotel a
: Vankleck Hill, Ont, on the I'd.
EDWARD LEE SIMoNs, a 19-year-olt
: inmate of the house of refuge at Balti
e more, Nd, on the I'd shot and MORTAL,
t wounded one of the keepers of the in
e stitution, took the keys from his pros
n trate victim, opened the gate and es
# capped.
S NEARLY 10000 veterans paraded a
the G. A. R. encampment at St Paul
n | Mimi. on the Cd Mrs John Toral