Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-11

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the Twin City handicap at 1 u miles |
He ran the distance in 2:O5 2-5-
WESTERN passenger rates are rapidly |
becoming demoralized. While freight |
business is the heaviest on record The |
passenger business on nearly all west |
ern roads has shown little no i'm
provement
DURING a big fire at 123 North Water
street, Philadelphia. 20 fremen were
Frustrated by the dense smoke. All
recovered.
NEAR Friends Mission, Va, Henry
Wall. white. brutally assaulted and
murdered Sadie Cook, a young girl.
He was captured while at a spring
washing the blood from his clothing
and angry mob lynched him in
broad daylight
THE annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers
gathered at San Francisco on the 9th.
In Labor day address at Philadel-
phia Ex-Gov. A1tgeld advocated gov
eminent and municipal ownership of
all corporations and a radical reform
of the federal judiciary.
ROBERT MEYER, aged IT, of ST. Louis,
shot and killed his drunken father
who, in a fit of passion, had tried to
kill him.
THE failure of the potato. hay and
corn crops in Ireland has resulted in a
most gloomy outlook for the winter.
J. FL. BoBo. suspected of driving his
frail young daughter to commit sui
eide, was drummed out of Roswell,
Ga, by irate citizens
In a speech at Denison Ia, William
]. Bryan ridiculed the monetary COM
mission appointed by President Nc
Kiuley and said other nations would
do nothing for silver until scared
into it.
ALFRED PACKER, who was convicted
of killing five companions who We're
lost in the mountains with him in 1874,
and eating their flesh, and sentenced
to 40 years in the Colorado state prison,
has applied for a pardon.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has sent to the
American Baptist Missionary union and
the American Baptist Home Mission
arv society. at Boston, his check for the
balance of the $3.50, 600 promised by
him on condition that the two socie ties
would raise 1926, 900.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party went
| to Columbus. O., on the Sd as guests of
/ the Ohio state board of agriculture.
| After a luncheon the president went
to the fair grounds. where he addressed
| the school children from many parts of
! the state, all of whom had been invited
| by card.
On the Sd the national executive
/ board of the United Mine Workers
| agreed to recommend to the Strikin G
| miners a proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for straight price of
! 65 cents ton. to continue in force
| until the end of the year, and a circu-
| lar has been issued to that effect, call
| ing for delegate conven ton of all
| miners who have suspended work to
u. n @
/ This proposition, it was thought, will
| end the coal strike.
SHERIFF BAGLEY, with the regular
police force and eight sworn deputies,
! made a raid on the tramps and over
400 were driven out of Arco1a, Ill.
They had caused much annoyance in
plundering gardens and fields of eat
ables-
THE Madison elevator at Madison,
Ill, was destroyed by fire the other
night entailing a loss of about 800. 900.
ROBERT HENRY, colored, was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla, on the I'd, for the
murder of his wife in February, 1896.
THE New York vestibule train on
the Delaware, LacSawanna e Western
railroad, which left Syracuse, n. Y,
at nine o'clock on the morning of the
I'd, jumped the track at Blodgett's
Mills and plunged through the station
buildings The locomotive, baggage
car and two coaches went entirely
through the structure. Mrs. J. Ii. Nc
Quillan, of Philadelphia, was killed
and II other passengers were more Oh
less injured The accident was caused
by a broken rail.
SETH Low has been nomina ted fol-
mayor of Greater New York by the
Citizens union.
A GUTHRIE, Ok, dispatch on the Isl
said that the Otoe and Missouri tribes
of Indians had had the Sac and Fo1
tribe for their guests for a week pas
and had just closed grand green corr
dance, which had been in progress siz
days and nights. During the progress.
of the dance number of braves wen
through the tribal divorce ceremony
and divorced themselves of their sur
plus wives in order to comply with the
territorial law, which prohibits then
from having more than one wife
THE long senatorial con
test at Winfield, Ia, in which Kopp, OF
Henry county, and Palmer, of Wash
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