Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-04-10

yer, Col, on the 18th and 10th of June.
The exhibitions will consist of refined
gold and gold ores and general min
ing display. Miners organizations are
invited to cooperate in the exhibit
and movement. Each county in the
mining states is asked to hold mass
convention not later than May 80, and
elect delegates to the gathering.
FRED ACoCK, an ex-soldier in the
regular army, will start from Topeka,
Kan, June Is to carry Old Glory
around the world. He will go to
Europe first and return by the way of
the Pacific
THE Globe savings bank at Chicago
suspended on the 5th.
HENRY LEE was shot and killed by
Bob Cheatham over a game of marbles
at Rockport, Ind. Both are colored-
ORRINGToN LUNT, founder of Evans
ton, Ill, and one of the founders of
the Northwestern university, died at
Evanston on the 5th- He located in
Chicago in 1870
A DISPATCH from Muskogee, I. T.,
on the 5th said that Jim Cook, one of
the members of the notorious Cook
gang, who escaped from the Cherokee
national prison last December, had
been recaptured and placed behind the
bars.
structed Gen. Weyler to introduce in
Cuba the reforms which the cabinet
recently agreed to for the island. The
Madrid EpOca, a Semi-official organ,
stated on the 5th that negotiations for
the restoration of peace in Cuba We're
in progress with every prospect of sue
cess.
THREE men were asphyXiated by car
bonic acid gas while cleaning beer
tunnel at Doves brewery in Montreal,
Can.
A sIX-RoUND bout took place at Phila-
delphia on the 9Th between Owen Zeig-
Ter and Charles McKeever. No deci-
sion was rendered, but Zeig1er ap-
peared to be the best man.
ANOTHER disastrous break in the
Mississippi levee occurred at Fowler
lake, near Tunica, Miss, which will
inundate, the dispatch said, the coun-
ties of Cohoma, LAHORE, Quitman and
Tal1ahatchie and lay waste the newly
planted corn crops. The levee near
Helena, Ark, had also broken, for
which the people had made such des-
peratc fight to save.
THE forest fires in the mountains
near Bellefont, Pa, were spreading at
an alarming rate on the 4th and many
thousands of acres of valuable timber
land were going up in smoke.
A FIRE in George T. Cites carpet
store in Cincinnati did damage to the
| amount of over $500, 600.
THE steamer Fuerst Bismarck
| brought nearly 1000 Italian immi-
grants to New York on the 4th.
THE Jim river in South Dakota had
| overfowed its banks on the 4th and a
steamer was sent from Yankton to res
cue the sufferers. Thousands of acres
- 10, c.
| feet of water
JOHANNES BRAHMS, the well-knovn
musical composer, died at Vienna re-
! Gently, aged 81.
A FAREWELL banquet to ex-Ambassa-
dor Bayard is to be given at London
| on May Z. when a gold loving cup,
| worth s., 500, will be presented to him
| by the American colony in London and
| elsewhere in Great Britain.
WILLARD SPENCER, a farmer living in
| Chautauqua county, n. Y, fatally as
| saulted a stepdaughter and young
| lady who was visiting her, set fire to
his barn and burned Is head of stock
and then cut his own throat.
THE steamer r. t. Cole, loaded with
merchandise, sank near GAINESVILLE,
| Tenn, the other day. Three roust-
| abouts We're drowned and one man was
| reported missing. The boat was a
| total loss.
| THE Texas house passed the senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to buy the
San Jacinto battlefield and improve it
for a state park. 1t was understood
the governor would approve the bill.
NEARLY S12, 900 had been raised in
ST. Louis up to the I'd to aid the food
sufferres in the south.
! AT Kansas City, Mo-, the other night
/ DIR. jefferson d. Goddard shot and
| killed Frank ]. jackson, a laundry
man. There was bad blood between
| the two men, Jackson being Jealous of
| Goddard on account of the latter's
| many visits to Mrs. Jackson. DIR. God
dard ran drug store for Mrs. Jackson
! and his visits We're said to be on bust
| ness. Jackson was fond of morphine
| and whisky and did not live with his
/ wife, but managed her laundry on a
| salary.
| FIVE hundred employees of clothing
| manufacturers in St. Louis struck on the
I'd. Last fall the price paid for making a
| coat was reduced from 65 to so cents.
IT was nrOmiSed that the old rate