Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-02

plant at Newsome Bros coal mine at
Kingston. Ill. was destroyed by fire.
SIX hundred Sac and Fox. Pawnee
| and Usage Indians recently held
grand ghost and medicine dance on
the Pawnee reservation in the Indian
territory. A large part of them
stripped to the skin and painted them
selves in the most gorgeous style
ENGINEER PATRICK MCNULrY was
doing some work under his engine at
Gladstone, Mimi, when a freight
struck and moved it and the wheels
cut off his head.
RAYMOND BUsHRoD, a negro, assault
ed 14-year-old Maggie Roberts at
HawesviIle. KY, and was captured.
The officers tried to do all they could
to protect the culprit, but a mob
formed, got the negro and swung him
up in the court square at five o'clock in
the afternoon of the Goth in the pres
ence of 800 people, 200 of whom were
women. Cheers rent the air when the
dangling form of the victim went up.
Both the Tuskahoma and union
party claim a majority in the council
from the recent election in the Choc-
taw nation and the union party are
not at all backward in charging the
other party with fraud and, unless the
federal government shall intervene
and send troops to Tuskahoma at the
converting of the council October f. an
armed conflict may be expected.
ROBERT J. paced mile in 2:OS1S at
Lancaster, Pa, on the 25th, lowering
the record of 2:11H made by Hal Pointer
in 1895.
ALTON, I. T., was almost wiped out
by fire on the Gath. All the business
houses were destroyed, the Frisco de-
pot and Is cars of wheat. The loss
will II haf
600.
A DISPATCH from Bombay on the gath
stated that the bubonic plague was
again active and wide area was af-
fected, owing to the withdrawal of
the medical officers for service with the
troops in the rebellion on the frontier.
Noah JOHNSON, aged %, waylaid Miss
Tacy Mang, aged 16, while she was on
her way to school at Gas City, Ind,
and blew her brains out. They were
lovers and had quarreled the previous
evening.
THE Madrid Correspondence de Es-
pana asserts that proceedings are on
between the United States and Spain
for friendly settlement of affairs in
Cuba
LIEUr.-CoI. GEORGE M. RANDALL,
Eighth infantry, U. 8. A., with 25 men,
left Portland. Ore, the 23d on
special train over the Northern Pacific
to go to St. Michaels, Alaska.
The Pei-Po river in China recently
burst its banks through freshet and
100, 900 people were rendered destitute.
The John Gund Brewing Co.'s plant
at Lacrosse, Wis, was destroyed by
fire the Esd. Over II, 900 barrels of
beer, 5000 bushels of barley and sew
eral car loads of malt were consumed.
The loss exceeded $500, 900.
THE strike on all the school build
ings of Chicago has ended, the board
adopting the report of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labor
clause in all building contracts
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A FIRE at Williamsfield, Ill, de-
stroyed two blocks of stores in the
business district. Loss estimated at
$35, 900.
THE Dawes and Creek commissions
at Muskogee, /. T., concluded a treaty
whereby the Creek Indians agree to
allotment and change in the form of
their government
SIXTEEN persons were killed and sew
eral in jured by the explosion of a boiler
in sugar factory in Hungary.
THE six-year-old daughter of Perry
E. Timberman at Bridgeton, Ind,
struck a match in the barn loft, set
tluS AEc ~ bHc lidy. ne HdlhSS SpTedO
SO rapidly that she was unable to es-
cape and was burned to death. as were
also two horses.
DISASTROUS field and forest fire re-
Gently ragged near jefferson, Ind,
and did untold damage.
A TRUST among the retail grocers of
Des Moines, Ia, was said to be in pro-
cess of formation. The plan is to buy
30 or 80 of the best concerns in the city
by syndicate and then kill the rest
by a ruinous cut in prices
INFORMATION was received at the
general land office in Washington that
the survey of the Blackfeet Indian
reservation in Montana was completed.
The reservation is now ready to be
thrown open to settlement as soon as
the reports can be prepared and APP
proved by the interior department.
The lands will be subject to entry
under the mining laws
NEARLY all cities in eastern, central
and southern Texas have declared shot