Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-04

former were playing baseball on some
vacant ground and the latter tried to
get possession of it, missiles being
thrown and revolvers fred off. Rev.
Father Joseph Shields, of St Mat
thew's church, stepped in between the
combatants and drove the blacks back
at the point of a revolver, just the
police appeared in response to a riot
call Several persons were hurt
PIPE CHIEF, a Pawnee Indian, aged
go, has brought suit at Pawnee. Ok,
for divorce from his wife, Wallasha,
aged 20, charging her with neglecting
his wigwam to run around with GER
tain young braves of the tribe
A CATTLE train on the Clover Leaf
road took fire from a hot box at Rus
siaville, Ind, and before the flames
could be eXtinguished several : cars
were burned and number of Texas
steers en- route from Kansas City to
Buffalo persisted in the flames. The
remainder were turned loose in the
streets of the village, creating panic
among the inhabitants
FOURTEEN labor organizations, in
Guiding Debs' social democracy, sup
plemented by the populists of Kansas,
were represented at the labor confer
ence at st. Louis on the 3oth- Many
policies were proposed. but nothing
committee on resolutions not having
reported upon a plan for action.
AN unknown man was shot on the
Skaguay trail in Alaska by a commit
tee of vigilantes and his bones are now
rotting beneath pile of rocks near
the pass He had stolen a sack of flour.
TWELVE hundred trousers makers
struck at Philadelphia on the 3Oth for
higher pay.
ELLIOTT, the Kansas City crack shot,
won the Dupont trophy at Eau Claire.
Wis, on the 2Sth, beating Charles
Budd. The score 90 to "a. The
shooting of Elliott was nearly record
breaker, as he killed 80 birds out of 100
and his lost bird, the seventh, fell dead
out of bounds, making 90 straight after
losing his seventh.
AT Readville, Mass. the Chicago
pacing stallion, Star Pointer, on the
2Sth went full mile in the phenome-
nal time of 1894, thus necessitating
the setting of new limit to the speed
of light harness horses. The people
who witnessed the performance went
| wild over it.
| AT the national encampment of the
G. A. R. at Buffalo, n. Y, on the Goth,
j. P. S. Goblin, of Lebanon, Pa, was
| elected commander-in-chi and Gin
cinnati was chosen as the place for the
next meeting.
THE strike of the progressive tailors
at New York has been declared off, the
| increase of 25 per cent. in wages de-
manded having been conceded by the
employers.
while driving across the railroad track
at Seatonville, Ill, were struck by pas
senger train and both instantly killed.
FIREBUGs burned a large barn and
all its contents belonging to Van Ad-
ans, a well-to-do farmer living near
Princeton, Ind. They also attempted
to burn the Adams house.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THREE of the most notorious crimi-
nails in the west managed to escape
from the ST. Louis Jail on the evening
of the 3Oth. They were ''Sllippy'
Rowan, charged with murder; Buck
O'Maly, horse and buggy thief, and
Sport Hefferman, daylight crook
Two children named Alice Winston
and Harry Arnold, while playing with
matches in an outbuilding at Fort
Wingate, n. NJ, set fire to a can of oil,
causing an explosion. Alice was burned
to an unrecognizable mass and Harry
was so severely burned that he will
probably die.
JACOB PENNER and Cornelius Rich
arts have been jailed at Cloud Chief
Ok, on a charge of arson, having, it is
alleged, burned out settlers whose
claims they were contesting.
REPORT came from the Indian ter
ritory, near Spavinaw creek, that three
men entered the house of a woman
there, robbed and then murdered her
but before they could get away {
neighbor appeared and killed all three
of the robbers.
SECRETARY GAGE and Attorney-Gen
era1 McKenna have issued joint cir
cular to collectors and customs officer.
and United States attorneys and mar
ShalS relative to the enforcement O.
the Chinese exclusion laws. The issu
ance of the circular is due to the fac
that there have been complaints tina
Chinese were being Struggled into the
| United States.
ROBERT WILSON and u. R. Hall, stock
men living in the western part of Gus
ter county, Ok, quarreled over thu
, boundaries of their ranges. The liz
was passed and both drew weapons
| and fred Wilson was instantly killed