Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-20

Gov. BRADLEY, of Kentucky, has re- |
fused a respite IN the case of Alonzo |
Walling, convicted of completely in the |!
murder of Pearl Bryan, and he will be |
hanged with Scott jackson, the other !
convicted murderer, on the GOTH
THE main building of the county
poor farm at Chester, Ill, was burned
to the ground The fire was caused by
a defective f1ue. None of the inmates
were injured.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, said
that the towboat Hawk was recently
capsized by the wind on the Ohio river
near Jacks run and IL men were thrown
into the water and had to swim for
their lives The pilot was unable to
get out of the pilot house aud was
drowned like rat in trap.
GERTRUDE FAUST and Lille ShaHer,
belonging to leading families in Akron,
O., were arrested in Cleveland for shop
| lifting. A wagon load of stolen goods
| was foundin Miss Faust's home
| On all the islands near Memphis,
| Tenn, and in the lowlands of Arkan-
sas there was much suffering reported
| on the 18th among the people and
| great loss of stock and property
| through the high water of the Missls-
sippi river.
IN the vicinity of Morrison and Leila,
| Ok, a terrific hai1storm occurred on
| the night of the 18th. Poultry were
killed, window-glass broken out and
| farmers said many wheat fields were
! ruined
| UNEMPLOYED men and women met at
| Chicago on the 14th and adopted reso-
| buttons against paying rent, except at
| the option of the tenant, Endorsed the
| repeal of the laws for the collection of
debt and formed the Unemployed
| Workers league. Speeches were made
on the subject of finding work for the
unemployed and the potato patch plan
| of the Salvation army was disapproved.
| ''SoLLY" SMITH, the clever little boxer
from Los Angeles, Cal, gained the de-
! cision over Oscar Gardner, the Omaha
| Kid" after 90 rounds of good fighting
| at the Broadway Athletic club at New
| York.
WALTER S. BURNHAM, grand treas
ured of the Knights of Honor, died at
his home in Dorchester, Mass, of
| typhoid pneumonia. He had been grand
treasurer for 10 years.
THREE men lost their lives in a fire
at the Chicago hotel at Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 18th.
| w. E. COLERICK, a young lawyer, was
found dead and his affianced, Miss Mae
Hall, was found unconscious in a room
of the young woman's house at Fort
Wayne, Ind. They were soon to have
| been married.
| SEVEN Young men of Edmond Ia,
have been arrested for taking r. S.
Ferguson from Jail and riding him on a
rail. beating him and then leaving him
half dead in barn all night, whereby
his arms and feet were SO badly frozen
that ampu tation was necessary. Fergu-
son had been jailed for being drunk.
WORD was received from Toronto,
Ont, on the 18th that Miss Eva Bal
lington-Booth, commander of the Sal
walton army forces in Canada, was dan
| gerously i'll and that her recovery was
very doubtful.
FIRE broke out in John A. Tolman's
wholesale grocery house at Chicago on
the 18th and did damage to the amount
of $500, 900. Chase & Sanborn's spice
house also suffered. Both firms We're
) | fully insured.
CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT the Chicago
Records correspondent in Havana. de-
clared on the 18th that Gen. Weyler
, had received positive orders from Mad
, rid to end the Cuban war at once, even
going to the extent Of selling the island
: to the insurgents to accomplish that
object.
A MASS meeting was held at New
=, York on the 18th for the purpose of in
dorsing the arbitration treaty between
| this country and Great Britain but the
|
Judge Lynn made speech denouncine
. Great Britain for her policy in support
. of Turkey and against the Cretans and
: | Armenians. The resolutions favorine
! | ratification were put to the meeting by
: President Seth Lowe and, although
only one-third voted in favor of them,
: | they We're declared carried. Pande
monium reigned at the meeting.
By the falling of a section of the ole
4 L r L - 4 e.
:. | $50 wOrkmen were killed.
DESTRUCTIVE cyclone a mile il
width struck Ralston, 1. T., and grea
+ | damage was done. Nearly every hous.
in the town and in the path of the cy
, clone was either blown down o.
:, wrecked Many persons We're injured
q but no lives We're lost.
! DEsIDERIo SANDovAL returned unex
pectedly to his home at Coyote, N. NJ.
r early the other morning and found hi
. wife and man named Martinez occu
!, plying the same room. Sandoval imme