Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-28

Salt Manufacturing Co. at Natronia.
Pa, on the night of the 21st, caused a
loss estimated at 81, 600, 600. The build
ings destroyed covered nearly four
acres of ground. The fire started by
the blowing out of a furnace, the hot
metal igniting with some waste near
the mouth. Sixteen furnaces and SO
tanks were ruined.
A MOB took William Murphy from the
Jail at Huntsville, Tenn, on the night
of the 2lst and strung him to a tree.
He was in Jail awaiting trial for the
murder of Bill Nowlan, a miner, three
weeks ago. About 80 mountaineers.
with handkerchiefs over their faces did
the lynching.
NUMBER OF young women in Wash
ington have organized the Equal Stand
ard Purity club to establish code of
morals equally binding on both men
and WON en-. Every young man whose
private life is found to be impure viii
be blacklisted.
DARLINGTON BOOTH announced the
first batch of appointments on the 21st
at New York for the ''Volun teers,'' the
name of his new organization, and
posts will be formed in the states as
rapidly as possible.
THE Madrid Heraldo said that "Spain
could never officially recognize a
United States commission of inquiry
into Cuban affairs War between
Spain and America would be prefer
able.'
JULIA BIRD, an old squaw, her daugh-
ter, Charlotte Bird; an infant daughter
of Charlotte, and c. Biquette, an In
dian from the Bad River reservation,
were burned to death in house on the
outskirts of Bayfield,, Wis, recently.
FIRE totally destroyed the compressor
mills of the Poorman mines at Burke,
Ida, causing 5000, 900 loss.
AT Nashville, Tenn, Al Ewing and
Archie Clark broke all tandem bicycle
records, going half mile in 1:O3@.
IN Henderson county, Tenn, 49,
year-old boy named Benson, filed with
exploits of dime novel heroes, started
off to go to Texas, but his father
caught him at a neigh boring town and
took him back home. This incensed
the boy and he put rough on rats in
the coffee and it was thought that the
father and mother and physician,
who had been called in and drank
some of the coffee, would die.
JOHN HoBEINGER, railway employee
at Milwaukee, on the night of the Goth
shot and killed his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Katie Miller, and fatally wounded his
young wife. The tragedy was caused
by Mrs. Hobeinger beginning suit for
divorce. Hobeinger was followed to
his room, few blocks distance from
the scene of the murder, by crowd,
but stood his pursuers off with a re-
volver until the police arrived, when
he surrendered.
A DOG on the farm of Mr.. Delamater,
just north of Norwalk, O., paved up a
package buried under a corn shock. It
contained over 81, 600 worth of postage
stamps, two revolvers and kit of
burglars tools. Officers laid in wait at
night when two men appeared and one
of the officers opened fire and shot one
of the supposed burglars through the
neck. The second man escaped. 1t
was thought the stamps were stolen
from the Wellington post office.
THE London Standard understands
that the British government does not
propose, as a result of the resolution
passed by parliament the other day
calling attention to the evil effects of
the fall in the price of silver, to take
any steps in the direction of an inter
national bimetallic conference, but
that it is willing to consider the open
ing of the Indian mint to the free coin
age of silver if the countries of the
Latin union are disposed to reopen
their minis in the same way.