Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-01

CAPT. OTTO ]. PAUL, formerly Of the
Ohio national guard, was said to be
organizing a company at Dayton, O.,
to go to Greece
FOUR young people were out skiH
riding on the river at Parks Mills, near
Cumberland Falls, KY, and got into
the current and were swept over the
dam and drowned.
AN appeal has been sent to Clara
Barton to come to the rescue of starv-
ing pacificos in Cuba, whose condition
is daily growing more heartrend1ng.
Children are dying in the streets of
Matanzas and babies have been found
dead in the arms of exhausted mothers.
Whole villages of living skeletons in
bark huts are praying for death to re-
lease them from their suffering.
THREE boys, while fishing near Web
ster City, Ia, gathered some wild pars-
nips and ate them AS a result two
were reported dead and the other at
deaths door.
AS result of the warning of the
vigilance committee not colored man
is left at the town of Davis, /. L.
SERIES of c1oudbursts and heavy
wind occurred in and around Eufaula,
I. T., on the night of the Gath. Farm
houses, fences and crops were washed
away and considerable damage done.
A SEVERE earthquake was felt at
Cairo, Ill, at ten o'clock on the night
of the 25th, lasting about 20 seconds.
No particular damage was done.
The Greek warships bombarded San
tie Quaranta on the c4th and destroyed
great quantities of Turkish stores and
munitions of war. The Greek army
under Prince Constantine was defeated
at Matt and forced to abandon Tyrna-
vos and Larissa and remove the head
quarters to Pharalos.
On Beaver creek, about 80 miles from
Pikeville, KY, the home of Tom Oar
ben, a logging man, was. burned and
his wife and four children persisted.
Tom Darben was absent in Virginia
THE grand jury at Cincinnati re-
turned an Indictment against George
Hobson, county clerk, for embezzle-
ment of SIS, 900 and misconduct in office.
WHILE Milton Bradbury, living near
CARRIER, Ok, was fighting a prairie fire
on his farm his fve-year-old son was
caught in it and was burned to death.
FIVE thousand people saw Jimmy
Barry and Jimmy Anthony, bantam
weights, fight 20 rounds before the Ma
tional Athletic club at San Francisco
on the 23d. The fight was for s., 600
purse, 75 per cent. to the winner, at
rs pounds Barry had the best of it
all through and after the 20th round
he was declared the bantam champion
of the world.
AT Wi1liamston IA miles east of Ian
sing, Mich, Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged
80 years, murdered her aged mother
in-law with an AK. She severed the
head from the body and then poured
oil on the 1ifeless body and set it on
fire.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report
there were GIG business failures
| throughout the United States for the
week ended the esd, against $40 in the
corresponding week last year.
Two convicts in San Quentin (CaI)
prison, W. R. Kelley and Frank Wheel
oclz, fought with jute knives on the ed
ley was killed and Wheeloclk was re-
ported dying.
LITTLE hope is entertained by west
ern railway managers that the United
States senate will pass the Foraker
pooling bill. They admit the senti-
ment of the people in the west is de-
cidedly hostile to a legalization of
railroad pools and most of the sena-
tors of the western states, therefore,
will refuse to vote for Foraker,s bill.
THE extensive barn of w. c. Law
renee, located dC LeX1nR Ton, Inu-. was
consumed by fire. Five hundred bush
els of grain and many farming imple-
ments were burned and IL head of
horses persisted
A DESPERATE attempt by political
fanatic was made on the ed to assaS-
sinate King Humbert with a knife,
but the man was seized by the guards
before he had done any harm. The
king was on his way to the races.
NANCY MCKINLEY, mother of the
president, celebrated her SSth birth
| day anniversary at her home at Canton,
o., on the 22d. She was in excellent
health. barring slight attacks of rheu-
matism.
OVER 1 200 Greeks, at mass meeting
| at Chicago the other night, resolved
| to do all they could to aid their native
| country in the war with Turkey.
| Amid great enthusiasm, 400 of them
| signed the muster rolls. and promised
| to be ready to start for New York with
| in few hours. From all sources came
help to pay the passage of the volun-
teerS-
A WRECK occurred nine miles north
0f Eyerpreen Ala to n naSSanrer