Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-05

Mich, early ON the morning of the
30th. Robert Van Ostrand and Joe
Lang, fremen, were burned to death
and the stewardess was missing and
it was believed she was dead The loss
on the steamer was $40, 900; the insur
ance on her had expired.
WILLIAM STEINwAY, the noted piano
manufacturer, died at his home in
New York of typhoid fever on the
3Oth.
SAM HENDERsoN's house and his five
children were burned at Conway, Ark,
on the 3Oth. When the fire was dis
covered it was too late to effect res
cue.
THREE girls, going home from school
at Lyons, Mich, in their buggy, were
struck by a train and two were instant
ly killed and one dangerously injured
AT Altus. Greer county, Ok, Claude
Kimb ball and William Dallas, young
business men. quarreled over a small
account Dallas drew a knife and
KIM ball shot him dead
REV. NJ. b. HILL was stricken with
paralysis while delivering a sermon at
the Southern Methodist church at
Bentonville, Ark, on the 29th-
PRESIDENT PATTERSON, of the Prince
ton university, has denied the report
that President Cleveland was to be-
come dean of the Princeton law
school.
THE national council of administra-
ton of the G: A. R, with Commander
in-Chief L. S. Clarkson in the chair,
met at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 3oth and
it was decided to have the encampment
in Buffalo the last week in August,
beginning August %.
The First national bank of Tyler,
Tex, failed on the SOth.
do Ind IN
in honor of the visit of the viceroy of
India, has had a terrible outcome in
the killing of 90 persons and the inju
ing of many others by a panic which
occurred in the course of the fete-
A TRAMP was released from lumber
car at Plainfield, n. j., on the 2Sth who
had been standing up for seven days
without food or water. The man was
| unconscious, but will recover. The car
was locked at Ottawa, Can.
AT ball of militia regiment at
! Newark, n. J.. Spanish flag was torn
down and the Cuban banner raised in
its place. The incident has been re-
ported to the Spanish embassy.
! SALES of No. red wheat for May
| delivery were made on the Toledo, O.. ,
| produce exchange on the 2Sth at 81 per
bushel amid loud cheering.
| The Indians of Red River and Eagle
| counties, Choctaw nation, L T., who
were playing a game of baseball, quar-
| relied and used the butt end of their
bats on one another, 20 or so being in
| jured. Two have died and several
more were in a serious condition.
p. j. KELLEY. jeweler at San Jose,
Cal, and his wife were fatally
| wounded and one of his children got a
bullet in her arm, caused by Kelley
| attempt to murder his family through
| jealousy.
Tom SHARPE, the town marshal Oh
| Sadieville, KY, got drunk on Thanks.
giving night and went to a dance and,
because there were not enough women
present to suit him, demanded his
money back. On being refused by the
proprietor, Sharpe shot him through
| the head.
NUMBER of drunken Polanders at
Duryea, Pa, who were celebrating
Thanksgiving, got into a fight and be-
gan shooting at one another. Three
men were fatally wounded.
A CoNsrANTINoPLE dispatch to the
London Daily News on the 27th said
that fresh massacre with 500 victims
was rumored to have occurred neal
Diarbel<ir.
FAILURES for the week ended the
9th Dun's report) were 500 in the
|
and 3S in Canada. against At last year.
AT Athens, Greece, terrible storms
and floods have occurred and many
persons have been drowned.
A DISPATCH from Breslau said that 81
persons were killed in a colliery eXplo
sion at Zengorze,, Russian Poland.
SMITHS planning mill and lumber
yard at Washington was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000
| As the result of some of the football
games played on the Goth by the uni
versities of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa anC
Nebraska, the pennant of the Western
Intercollegiate league, EN- bracing tn,
!, states named goes to Iowa The pen
nant reverts to the team agains
which the fewest points have beef
scored. Iowa's games this season re
suited: With Missouri, IL to o; will
Kansas. 6 to o; with Nebraska, to Q
j, Kansas will finish second.
CAPT.-GEN. WEYLER, has issued or
ders to the farmers in the provinces o
Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas t.
carry their corn to the garriSonet
towns and sell it to the commanders o
= the Spanish columns, who will use i
for military purposes After Decem
, Der 90 all corn found stored on tn
farms or elsewhere without the knowl
= edge and consent of the military com
manders will be considered contra
band of war.
]. w. BURNEY was shot and killed b,
his 17-year-old son at Stratton, Net
: Burney, who threatened the life of tn
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