Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-09
GENERAL NEWS.

TWENTY-FIVE OF the wealthleSt
Dunkard families in Anderson, Ind,
have closed n deal for so acres each in
North Dakota. They will give one
teSth of all they make to the church.
THE London Standard had a dis
patch from Madrid which said that the
Spanish government had declined the
popes mediation in GU ban affairs on
the ground that an accep lance would
be tantamount to recognizing Amer
ica's right to interfere.
Mrs. T. X SAILOR. of Sturgeon Bay,
Wis, held her two children under
water until life was extinct and then
drowned herself
NEAR San Antonio, Tex, Juan Rod
riyuez and his horse were struck by n
thunderbolt and every bone in their
bodies was broken
THE will of the late Baron Hirsch,
the Je wish philanthropist, has been
opened at Bruenn. He leaves IS, Co.,,
900 for charities in Moravia-
TWENTY EIGHT women were recently
asphyXiated at Castle Welda, near
Carlshafen, Prussia. The night was
cold and they built fire in a stove in
the room in which they slept and in
the morning they were found dead
The unfortunate women had just ar
rived from Holland.
J AN explosion of a gasoline engine de-
molished the five-story building, 40
and 432 Walnut street, Cincinnati, at
eight o'clock on the night of the 4th-
Six bodies were recovered from the de-
bris and it was feared that there were
more killed. About Is persons were
more or less severely injured. There
was intense excitement, all the horses
breaking away aud much damage to
glass being done in the vicinity. As
the night passed women, whose hus-
bands had not reached home. went
down to the scene of the explosion and
added their laments TO the confusion.
THE National Electrical exposition
was opened at New York on the night
of the 4th by Gov. Morton, who pressed
a golden key that discharged cannon
in San Francisco, New Orleans, St
Paul, Augusta, Me-, and London, Eng.
simultaneously the electric lights
around the different exhibits blazed
out in different colors and created a
sight like a scene from fairyland
THE eight-months-old child of J.
Tom Peters was burned to death at
Lexington, Ala. by its clothing becom-
ing ignited while lying alone in front
of the fireplace
AT Newark, N. J., 1900 carpenters
struck the 4th for an advance in
on Saturday. If the carpenters did
not win within week all other trades
were to strike in sympathy.
EDWIN PLANT, of Clayton, Mass
shot and instantly killed his wife Ada,
and then fred a bullet into the breast
of his two-weeks-old child, killing it.
Plant fled to the swamp near Karka-
pot river, which was surrounded by a
posse After a lively exchange of shots
with his pursuers, Plant killed himself
ABOUT 1000 men stopped work and
demanded salary at the shipyard of
the Newport News (Va-) Ship Building
and Dry Dock Co. on the 4th- This
action on the part of the employees was
brought about by the new time svs-
tenn. called the clock system. The men
claimed that much time was lost in the
morning and at dinner hour on ac-
count of having to wait in turn to reg
lister.
IT was rumored in London that the
recent assassination of the shah of
Persia had been brought about bv the
Vaccinations of his eldest SON, Mas
soud Mirzia-
RECENT passengers from China re-
ported the black plague still prevalent
in Hong Kong and Canton
A MAN who gave the name of John
Lewis and who said he was an iron
molder was arrested at San Francisco
on the 1stwhile attempting to strangle
an abandoned woman in an alley The
police believe Lewis NAV have
strangled the other fallen women
who recently were murdered in that
city.