Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22

ing Oe1eat on the 18th and nave Occu-
pied Domokos, being now in full pos
session of Thessaly. There was in
tense excitement at Athens on receipt
of the news, and plot was said to
have been discovered there to murder
King George and many arrests have
been made.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, aged 12, fell from
wagon as he was trying to set the
brake and broke his neck at Guthrie,
Ok, and his father. who came along in
another wagon, found him lying in the
road dead.
THE Missouri river has been cutting
banks badly between Bismarck and
Omaha, south of Sioux City, Ia, many
farms being entirely lost Near Sloan
the river has been washing away a
cemetery and collins have been tun-
bling into the river at the rate of four
or five day and indications were that
the cemetery would soon be entirely
swept away.
In a fight over the cutting off of a
horses tail at Big Valley schoolhouse,
near Goldthwaite. Tex. Tom Weathers
was fatally shot; John Patton was
and Curtis was shot in the leg.
THE little son of John Huffman, 1iv-
ing near Chandler, Ok, was killed by
lightning. He and his stepmother
We're in the yard feeding chickens
when the lightning struck two trees
close by, tearing them to pieces. The
boy was instantly killed and the wom-
an knocked senseless,- but not fatally
in INJURED.
JAMES HENNEssY was instantly killed
by the explosion of stick of dynamite
in a sewer excavation at Kansas City.
Mo-, on the 18th and Pat Tull, another
la r-eceivaH fatal
THE New York Press says that bill
will soon be submitted to con gresS for
the establishment of credit company
under federal supervision, on the plan
of the Credit Foncier of France, but
with greater powers. The company, as
planned, is to have a capital of $780,
600, 900, with the privilege of doing
business of $4,000, coo. 900. Many of the
leading financial men in the United
States are connected with the project
SENAToR-ELECT MALLORY, of Florida,
dictated his views the other night at
Pensacola and said that he stood
squarely on the Chicago platform and
was in favor of the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of sixteen to one. He
was also in favor of giving the
prene court another chance to test the
income tax.
AHvoTE, the Piute Indian who re-
cen tly murdered no fewer than ten
white men, is dead. He met his fate
at the hands of members of his own
tribe, who were compelled by the
miners in EldOrado canyon. Ariz.. to
trail the murderer to death. the penal
ty for their failure to do so being fixed
at the humiliation of every Piute the
miners could reach.
MACEDONIA FRAUsTo, 17-vear-old
boy, who was in love with Anita Mojas,
daughter of a ranchman at Monclova,
Mex, but whose suit was opposed by
the girls family, on his way to the
girls home shot dead the manager of
the ranch and a brother of the girl
Soon after he shot dead another broth
err and a man and then eloped with the
girl.
THREE negroes, who had been con-
fined in the jail at Rosebud, Tex, on a
charge of attempting to assault white
girl, We're taken from the officers of
the law, who were taking the negroes
to another place for safety, and hanged
to a tree by mob of !, 900 masked men.
A PITTSBURGH, Pa, dispatch of the
14th stated that manufacturers of wire
nails, wire and rods We're about to
form a grand combination to control
the market for all three products.
The policy outlined will only include
product If the new com bination is a
go, it will practically drive out all
competition in the manufacture of
wire nails.
THEODORE DURRANT, under death
sentence for the Emanuel Baptist
church murders, through his attorneys,
asked Gov. Budd on the 18th to pardon
him on the ground that the real muir
derer of Blanche Lamont had at last
confessed his crime John Rosenb berg,
a convict in San Quentin prison, has
made a sworn confession that he killed
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco at
the instigation of a stranger and in
consideration of the payment of S7OO
for his work.
THE new tipple or ore dump at the
mines at Pinckney, Tenn, 60 feet high,
fell and killed ten white men and bows
outright and seriously wounded sew
eral Others The dump was a new one
and had been tested.
AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order of
United Workmen has exonerated SUI
preme Master Workman Tate from
charges of malfeasance in office, pre-