Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-29
THE Chicago Times-Herald said on

to be taken in Chicago.
An explosion occurred at Armour &
Co. pepsin factory at Chicago on the
cath and the blaze which followed con-
Sumed the building and con tents. Loss,
SIS, 900.
FOUR workmen were enpu1fed in
quicksand while digging a trench for
water mains at Fort Wayne. Ind, and
three We're taken out dead and the
other fatally injured.
WHILE George Allen, George Warren
and Willie Warren were crossing the
Grande river at Fruita, Col, in tenn
porary ferryboat, the cable broke and
all three We're drowned.
HIRAM WARREN and wife We're killed
and James Warren badly injured by
being struck by a Union Pacific train
near Kersey, Col. They We're crossing
the track in wagon.
ONE thousand miners at the Milford,
Fraser & Lehigh coal camps near
Boone, Ia, struck on the gath because
of an attempt to give them 65 cents a
ton for mine run coal instead of 80
cents for screened coal, as has been the
rule.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Times on the oath said that the in ten
tions of the sultan were greatly dis
trusted at Athens, and it was believed
that he was avoiding negotiations for
peace through the powers because he
wanted Edhem Pasha to march to
Athens.
IT was said the governor of Nebraska
would call special session of the leg
islature and pass a maximum freight
law that will not embody the defects
of the old law, which it was reported
the supreme court at Washington
would announce to be unconstitut ional.
A A L.
was buried under IS feet of sand and
clay in a cut being dug for railway
at Newcastle, Pa He was taken out
dead Another man was terribly
crushed about the shoulders and hips.
IN an election riot at Bosnyaczi, Aus
tria, the troops killed ID and wounded
80 persons.
Two persons were killed and three
seriously injured in a fire in building
at 149 West Twenty-Third street, New
York, occupied for both business and
dwelling purposes, panic selling the
inmates
Mons LEE, an aeronaut employed with
a show which was exhibiting at Nc
Keesport, Pa, fell from his balloon,
the wind being too strong, and was
fatally injured.
THE four sons of George Bearden, a
farmer in Caldwell county, KY. and
Carrie Woods We're bitten by mad
dog and were said to be in a serious
condition. The dog died soon after
biting them.
A CLoUDBURsT at some point near
Asotin, Wash, sent a wall of water
down the valley. Stock was drowned.
houses wrecked, bridges washed out
and orchards ruined. So far as re-
ported no lives were lost.
THERE was said to be considerable
excitement in Havana over Washing
ton matters. The publica ton of the
consular reports has also worried
them, and a great many maledictions
have been uttered against the United
States officers and Gen. Lee The
Spanish officials have placed a guard
of troops around the American con-
sulate.
BY the bursting of still in McGar-
rity's distillery at Hazelton, Pa, the
proprietor and laborer were scalded
to death and Mrs. Mccarthy was bad
ly burned in trying to save her hus-
band
BENITo LOPEZ, 20 years, paralyzed
and feeble, was hanged in the state
prison at Folsom, Cal, on the 21st for
the murder of George Washburn. a
neighbor, with whom he quarreled
over their water supply and shot.
Gov. BLACK, of New York. refused
to sign the graduated inheritance tax
bill passed at the recent session of the
legislature on the ground that the
proposed law would bear unequally
upon the taxpayers.
f. ;. FLEISCHER, a prominent man in
Pittsburgh, Pa. was robbed of all
his valuables and then deliberately
thrown over bridge. He was found
living a short time after the occur
renee. but died on his way to the po-
lice station. No clew to the murder
erS
THE Southern hotel at Meridian.
Miss, was damaged $50, 600 by fire on
the GOTH The hotel was well filed
with guests and a panic ensued, but SO
far as known no lives were lost The
tire was miserably managed by the vol
unteer firemen.
THE Oklahoma quarantine board has
invited the quarantine boards of Kan
saS and Texas to attend meeting to
be held early in June at Oklahoma
City for the purpose of reaching an in
terState quarantine agreement nv