Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

Mont, was burned including all the
machinery and 600 barrels of beer.
Loss, $50, 900, insurance, sl7, 500.
Ar Summerville, w. Va, three men
were killed and two others terribly in
jured by a boiler explosion. The acci-
dent occurred at the sawmill of Francis
Wiley. The cause of the explosion
was unknown,
By gasoline explosion at Peoria,
Ill.,, Ms. James Vaughan and her
three-year old child were fatally
burned and the house set on fire.
THE annual financial statement of
Canada for the year ended June 80,
1896, was made public on the 23d- 1t
showed a deficit for the year of $685.,
4i5, and an increase in the public debt
of s., 53s, 331- The net public debt now
aggregates S25s, s2s, ,3O4.
THE steamer Z. P. Leathers, belong
ing to the Interstate Transpor tation
Co, sank two miles above Natchez,
Miss, with a big load. In sinking she
settled up to her boiler deck and it
was thought she could be saved. The
boat was valued at $40, coo and was in
sured for S26, 900. No lives were lost,
but most of the passengers lost their
belongings.
THE Catholic schools of Ottumwa,
Ia, have been closed on account of
diphtheria, and indications were that
the public schools would have to be
closed, as the disease showed no signs
of abatement.
DAN CREEDoN, of Australia, and
Henry Baker, of Chicago, fought a 90
round bout at Maspeth, L. l., on the
23d- The referee decided in favor of
Creedon.
A DROUGHT has occurred in the north
ern part of South Australia, as a re-
suit of which the harvest is a total
| failure and numbers of farmers are
destitute.
THE town of Kuroff, in Russian
Poland, was almost totally destroyed
by fire and 1900 persons made home
| less.
Ton COOPER, of Detroit, Mich,
smashed a bicy Gle record at Memphis,
| Tenn, on the 22d. He lowered the
worlds unpaced quarter mile record
one-ffth of second, making it in
&c 20 seconds.
AT a fire at Brooklyn on the 22d in a
factory situated on Seventh street, in
which was stored large quantity of
paints, oils and other inf1ammable ma
terials. one fireman was burned to
death, several others were injured and
property destroyed to the value of
$3.50, 900.
JOHN GLENN, miner, was caught be-
meath fall of rock in the mines near
South McAlester, l. T., on the 22d. His
back and neck were broken, causing
death instantly.
THE principal event at the sesqri-
centennial of the university at Prince
ton, N. J., on the 22d was an address
] by President Cleveland on the duties
4 and possibilities that college men
owe to the cause of good government
GEORGE FRAZIER and wife, colored,
were crossing the railroad track near
| Lexington, KY. when a train struck
| their vehicle. The horse was cut in
two and Frazier and his wife killed.
| A NEGRO who had killed a white man
was hanged by a posse near Sunny
side, Miss, recently. The negroes aft
erwards challenged the whites to a
| fight and number left Sunnyside for
the scene and there was every prospect
of riot taking place.
| IT was alleged at New York that
| there was a gigantic deal in wheat, the
crop being cornered by a western syn
dicate representing $50. 600. 900 of cap
| ital, and that those interested had al
ready made fortunes on the rise in the
| price of the cereal.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of Lancaster, N Y, was burned on the
| 21St