Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-12


destroyed crops of all kinds north of
Rogers, Tex, on the 18th. At Granger
Bryan Farris' home was blown to
pieces and the members of his family
were more or less seriously injured
At Waelder Wayne Miller was struck
by lightning and killed. At Holland
two churches We're wrecked and sew
eral houses damaged
The annual conference of the Amer
lean Baptist church, otherwise known
the Dunkards, began at Frederick,
Nd. on the 18th, bringing together no
less than 4, 600 persons from points out
side of Maryland
IT was rumored in San Francisco
that Prof. Dyche, of the Kansas uni
versity, will head polar expedition to
be fitted out on the Pacific coast this
summer.
THE officers of the steamer Hupeb,
which arrived at Vancouver, B. c., on
the nth from the Orient, stated that
when in the Philippine islands on their
last trip it was learned that the Span
ish government had captured 25 Roman
Catholic priests, supposed to be in SYM
pathy with the rebels, and had roasted
them.
a DISPATCH from Athens on the nth
said that the Turks were committing
serious excuses in Epirus and the viii
lagos around Larissa, assaulting wom-
en-, defiling churches and pillaging.
MANY of the strikers at Jones &
Laughlin's iron works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, resumed work on the nth and it
was thought all the old men would
soon go back
Two members of the French chamber
of deputies, NJ. Thomson and NJ. Mir
man, fought duel the other day grow
ing out of an article written by Mir
man attacking Thomson. Mirman was
slightly wounded.
AN earthquake shock was expert
enced at DEBORAH, Ia, soon after day
light on the 9th.
THERE was great excitement at vi
emma over the news that Emperor
Francis Joseph had had an apoplectic
fit, caused by nervousness at the recent
riots in the national legislature.
1.-THE democratic party will not force
national issues in the various state
campaigns, and, while reputation of
the Chicago platform will not be al
lowed, it will not be brought forward
as an issue paramount to anything
else" That is the statement of Ma
tiona1 Committeeman Frank Campbell,
of Bath, n. Y.
JOHN NICHOLAS and Ida Sultan got
married on the night of the 5th at
rived home a gang of hoodlums had
collected to charivari them and Frank
Burt fired a gun and it burst and killed
the bride.
SOCIETY women of Rockford, Ill, took
charge of and ran the street cars of
that city on the 5th the occasion being
the second annual trolley day of the
Woman's Union Aid society, Rockford's
greatest charitable organization. Not
an accident occurred to mar the festiv
tiles, and the aid society's receipts will
not be far from 81, 900.
DAVID WILSON, colored, was hanged
at MorriStown, N j., for chopping his
wife to death with an ak.
THE New York chamber of commerce
has adopted a resolution recognizing
''the Importance of an early enactment
of a proper pooling bill, SO that rail
roads may exercise the right which all
other corporations and citizens enjoy
to make contracts with each other"
JAMES LEWIS, co1ored was hanged in
the Jail yard at Fairfax, Va, on the 4th
for an assault on a white woman.
COLUMBUS c. RUSSELL, a young farmer
near Harrisburg, Ill, has been arrest
ed on the charge of putting poison in
the coffee, whereby his moth er-in-law
lost her life and his wife, from whom
he was separated, was made deathly
sick.
THE United States troops at Fort
Sheridan, Ill, were reported as being
in state of revolt They marched out
of their mess tents and refused to par
take of the beef hearts and 1ivers,
] which they say is the bill of fare 365
days in the year.
Tom CLARK. a negro ex-convict, shot
and killed at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
night of the 4th Mrs Elizabeth Hatch,
mortally wounded her daughter, Eliza
beth Williamson, and slightly wound
ed another woman. The Williamson
girl had refused to live with Clark any
j longer and had gone home to her
mother. All the parties were colored.
A MOB attempted to break into the
Jail at Urbana, o.. on the night of the
Sd and lynch click Mitchell, the ne
! gro who had assaulted Mrs. Eliza
| Gaumer, white woman. The negro
/ short time before had been taken to
| the courthouse and sentenced to 90
years Imprisonment for the crime.
For two hours the militia fought off
the angry rnoh and finally the froOnS