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

MISCELLANEOUS.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued a
comprehensive order extending the
civil service to practically the en-
tire Indian service.
A DISPATCH from Cairo stated that
the khalifa had proclaimed holy war
against Egypt and had called all der
wishes to enroll under his banner.
A violent shock of earthquake was
felt about eight o'clock on the evening
of the 22d in the vicinity of Machias,
Me. Houses trem bled, dishes ratified
and clocks stopped. People rushed
from their houses in alarm.
The amendment to the interstate
commerce law to compel witnesses to
testify to infraction of the law not
withstanding the constitutional pro-
vision releasing persons from incrim-
mating themselves, providing they are
not prosecuted, was on the 23d declared
by tbs United States supreme court to
be effective and valid
The senate committee on territories
has agreed to report favorably the bill
for the admission of Arizona as state.
j. W. o. PATTON. a physician of
liquor, accidentally shot Charles Rob
inson.
Mrs. Charlotte A. Drayton, nee
Astor, secured a divorce at Trenton,
n. J., on the 23d from her husband, j.
Coleman Drayton.
AT Joliet, ILL.,, the mill of the CONSOLE
dated Steel & Wire Co. was destroyed
by fire, causing loss of $50, O00
THE large hardware manufacturing
concern of Sargent & Co. at New Ha-
ven, Conn. employing some 1900 hands,
has reduced the hours of work IL hours
on account of the slack demand for
goods.
At the new Berwind-White shaft at
Dubois, Pa, IA men were instantly
killed and some were mutilated beyond
recognition by gas explosion.
Fire broke out in the building of the
Thackera company, makers of gas fix
lures, at Philadelphia on the 23d and
nearly half million dollars went up
in smoke.
Gas exploded in the Adrian mine at
Punxsutawney, Pa. and set it on fire.
Eleven men were brought out, with
two dead, and there were an unknown
FULLY 1900 sports witnessed the
fight at Hot Springs, Ark, on the 23d
between Billy O'Donnell, of Memphis,
and George Stout, of Omaha. Both
men received considerable punishment.
At the end of the 18th round the ref
cree declared the bout a draw.
A NEGRO, named Ike Pier, was
lynched by mob near Emporia sta
ton, La, on the Shreveport s. Houston
railway. The victim had insulted two
white ladies the previous day and a
posse searched for him all night until
his hiding place was discovered.
Gov. MORTON, of New York, signed
the Raines' liquor tax bill on the 23d
and it is expected that the new law
will enormously reduce the number of
saloons in the empire state.
THE Merrimac mills at Lowell, Mass
closed down its cotton and print works
on the 23d. The mills employed 1900
operatives and had a weekly pay roll of
$40, OOO The Lowell Manufacturing
Co. will also shut down its carpet mill
and only operate it every other week.
SUvA, the capital of Fiji, was de-
stroyed by hurricane recently. The
loss of the ferry steamer Pearl in the
Brisbane river, by which 81 people lost
their lives, was also reported.
FIFTY thousand people were report
ed suffering in Chicago on the 25d be-
cause of the strike in the clothing
manufacturing trade, and there was
no prospect of any settlement of the
trouble.
THE Cuban insurgents burned 65
houses at Punta Bravo, near Havana,
recently. Several other estates were
also reported as being burned by them
in the province of Pinar del Rio.
WILLIAM CovEY, wife and child were
burned to death in their home near
Montgomery, w. Va Tramps set fire
to the house for the purpose of rob-
berry.
The dead bodies of three boys, aged
Is, Is and IL years, named Boone Smith.
Tom Shiflet and Charles Mcmillan,
were found on the railroad track two
miles south of Brownsboro, Tex, on
the cad. The boys were supposed to
have been killed by train during the
uight. The boys had run away from
home.