Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

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OWING to the long cont inued drought,
a dispatch on the 4th said, the people
of Osceola, Ark, were forced to buy
drinking water, paying five cents q
quart for it. All the wells and springs
in the vicinity had gone dry.
A COW lying on the Choctaw railroad
track near South McAlester, /. T., de-
rallied an engine and IL cars the other
night The engineer and fireman were
killed and the brakeman was badly
hurt.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire broke out
in the Indian territory near Sloan
Springs on the 4th and the flames were
reported as eating everything before
them There was great apprehension
felt for border towns The flames
were destroying hundreds of tons of
prairie hay and it was feared that
many lives had been lost.
FIRE broke out in Austin, Pa, on the
4th and in five hours every building in
the town was burned to the ground
and about 500 people made homeless
The place was practically without a
water supply.
SoLLY SMITH, of Los Angeles, Cal,
was given the decision over George
Dixon, of Boston, in a 20round fight
the other night at San Francisco. The
match was virtually for the champion
ship of the feather-weight class, and
Smith is now at the top
CAPT. FREDERICK CHATARD, the old
est surviving officer of the confederate
navy, died at st. Louis on the 4th,
aged 80 years.
FIRE destroyed the Northern Pacific
railroad depot at Little Falls, Mimi,
the other morning, besides a dozen
loaded freight cars and a number of
small buildings Tramps were sus-
pected as being the cause.
NEAR Schuyler, Neb., on the Sd a
physician was hastily summoned to the
home of Frank Divis, where he found
four of the seven children in the family
and their mother dead, a fifth child in
dying condition and sixth child
very sick. 1t was thought the mother
put strychnine in the coffee.
In freight collision on the Nickel
Plate at Willoughby, O., Engineer
Brown was killed and seven cars load
ed with grain and stock were demol-
ished.
The steamer Rowena Lee struck a
snag near Moons Landing, Tenn. and
sank. The crew and passengers were
saved, but the boats cargo, consisting
of bales of cotton, f1oated down the
river
THE Indianapolis and Columbus play
ers decided not to play out the cup
series in the Western league and the
cup was given to the Hoosiers, as they
had won three out of the five games
played.
A BAND of students from Taylor uni
versity at Waco, Tex, forced W. c.
Brann, editor of Brann's Iconoclast to
go to the college campus, where he
was made to sig n a paper embodying
retraction of the severe criticisms he
had printed on the morals of the insti-
tuition. Brann signed the paper under
duress and was given "a hours to leave
the place. After Brann got to his of
fee and was surrounded by his friends
he repudiated his act and declared he
would not leave Waco. More trou BILE
was feared.
AT the recent convention of the Ne
brasza Woman's Christian Temperance
union at Lincoln Mrs Caroline Wood
ward, the president, urged women of
the Methodist denomination to with
draw from active church work until
the general conference should recog-
nize them as delegates. The idea was
applauded.
THE Rock Island road has offered
reward of $500 each for the capture of
the five men who held up and robbed
its passenger train at Chickasha, /. T.,
recently.
The organization of the American
Mailing Co. has been accomplished, a
New York dispatch said, and the trans
fer to it of over 20 of the largest malt
houses has been practically completed.
Two freight trains collided on the
Chicago Burlington &c Quincy railroad
near Colmar, Ill, and several cars were
badly damaged and one of the locomo-
tives rolled down an embankment. A
fire then broke out and Is cars, loaded
with merchandise, were totally de-
stroyed.
FOREST fires around Huntington,
Ind, were doing great damage on the
1st- The timber and meadows were SO
dry that the fires burned with great
rapidity.
The failures in the United States for
the week ended the 1st were 1914, ac-
cording to Dun's report, against 299 for
the corresponding week last year.
AT Abilene, Tex. Patrick FL. Grady,
prominent blacksmith and iron
merchant, attempted to murder Rev.