Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-26


the sugar trust would like to buy Cuba
from the Spaniards on the same plan
as the Hudson Bay company which
England had. Col John J. McCook
was the man credited with the idea
NEARLY 100 moneyed men scattered
over Illinois have been made defend
ants by the receiver of the Capital ma
tiona1 bank at Lincoln, Neb., in order
to compel them to pay back dividends
which have been unearned.
JUDGE BoTKIN. department conn
mander of the Grand Army of the Re
public of Kansas, has sent invitations
to the department commanders of Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska and
Colorado, asking them to attend the
annual reunion of the Grand Army of
Kansas at Leavenworth, October IL
to 16.
In regard to the revival of the peri
odical rumor of Queen Victoria's inten-
ton to abdicate in favor of the prince
of Wales. the Westminster Gazette
says: When the rumor was circulated
months ago we were informed on the
highest authority that it was I'M
founded"
TEHUANTEPEC, Mex, which con-
tanned about IL, 900 inhabitants, was
completely destroyed by an earth
quake recently, SO far as buildings are
concerned, not one remaining stand
ing. The people are living in tents
and in the open air on the outskirts of
the place. The earthquake shocks
still continue to be felt at frequent
intervals and the people are terrified.
LEWIS HENDERSON arrived at Shelby
vile, Ind, the other day from Cincin-
natl to visit Miss Minnie Sampson, his
fancee, and she was at the depot to
meet him. Henderson jumped from
the train before it stopped and he was
thrown under the wheels. His head
was severed before the eyes of the
young lady whose husband he would
have become on July 4.
WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, a Scboolboy of
Evergreen, L. l., has been arrested for
antonly setting fire to Josephine Mil
Ter, causing her death.
BY fire at the home of Joseph Me-
lenslSie near Buffalo, n. Y, his five
children were SO badly burned that
one has died and the others were not
expected to live.
THE window glass factory at Orestes,
Ind, was burned on the night of the
Goth. Loss, 100000 Four hundred
men were made idle.
A STATE convention of Kentucky
farmers is called to meet at Lexington
on July to perfect combination so
as to hold the wheat crop until higher
prices can be got for that cereal If
the movement is successful a national
convention will be called to form ma
tiona1 farmers trust.
THE creamery proprietors, butter
dealers and dairy farmers of the big
butter producing states are being
| formed into an organization to work
for legislation that will prevent the
| coloring of butterine.
THE library building of the state
university at Iowa City, Ia, was struck
| by lightning on the 10th and destroyed
| by fire. Loss, 500, 600; no insurance.
| Many of the books cannot be replaced.
A fireman was caught in the building
under falling roof and burned to
| death.
A GLUCOSE trust has been formed. a
| Chicago dispatch stated, that included
every big company in the United States
except two.
| JOHN G. FENNASSY has been promoted
to the railway mail superin tendency
at st. Louis.
| ENGRAvER BARBER, of the Philadel-
| phia mint, has just made a model of
the bust of Mr.. Mckinley for the pres
| identia1 medal series.
THREE section hands who had quit
the employ of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg & Gulf railroad and were on
| UnelT way 10 1eAdTkdnd, Ark. 10 draw
| their pay, went to sleep on the track
near Winthrop, Ark, and were run
over by a freight train. One was
ground to pieces and the others were
not expected to live.
ACCORDING to Detroit, Mich, dis
patch the National Association OF
Burial Case Manufacturers has col
| lapsed, after 20 years existence.
REV DR. LORENZO D. MCCABE. for sc
| years a professor in the Wesleyan uni
versity and author and theologian
of note in the Methodist church, died
at Delaware, o., on the 18th in his S1st
year.
VIOLENT windstorms passed over a
wide district in Nebraska on the 18th.
At Monroe hardly chimney was left
in the place and many roofs were taken
off.
STEVE ODoNNELL, the Australian
heavywei ght, knocked out Alex Greg
gains, of San Francisco, in the eighth
round at San Francisco on the 18th.
! THE 122d anniversary of the battle o.
Bunker Hill was observed at Boston or