Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23

tress and society belle, was at the
Bellevue hospital, New York, on the
18TH She was suffering from paral-
ysis and may never entirely recover
the use of her limbs.
A HEAD-END collision of freight
trains occurred near Springdale, Ark,
and two men were killed and five dam
gerously injured The two engines
and Is cars were completely wrecked
and the freight scattered over the place.
REPORTS from Somerville, Ga, ted
that two negroes named Penn and
Hazleton were lynched the other night
by mob, which overpowered the
officers, who were taking the men to
prison on suspicion of arson
AwoMAN and a Cinnamon were killed
by an explosion at the Colma (Cal.)
fuse works the other evening.
''PEDDLER" PALMER, the bantam
weight champion of England, and
Dave Sullivan, of Boston, competed
for the bantam championship of the
world at London on the 18th. The
contest was won by Palmer in 90
rounds.
THE United States monetary COM
missioners in Londen expect to receive
informat ion from the British govern
ment that it is unable to listen to their
proposals for bimetallism and they
will then return to the United States
The commissioners attribute their
failure to the opposition of the bankers
and the London Times and other news
papers.
CoNvICTs in the Pennsylvania peni-
Tertiary at Riverside have been manu-
featuring counterfeit 5O-cent pieces
and the warden has unearthed the
crude implements from which the
queer money was made. The counter
feits are magnificent specimens of the
coiner's art, the milling of the coins,
which is the governments chief pro-
lection of metal money from those
who would initiate it, is said to be per-
feet Sensational developments are
looked for.
PIPE CHIEF, Pawnee Indian chief,
has filed suit at Guthrie, Ok, for di-
vorce from Susie Pipe Chief, alleging
that she consorts with other braves and
neglects his wigwam and papoose.
CHARLES A. DANA, the veteran editor
of the New York Sun. died on the nth
at Glen Cove, l.. l., of cirrhosis of the
liver, aged rs years
ALDERMAN J. A. HABERKoRN was
shot and probably fatally wounded in
a saloon quarrel at Chicago on the 18th.
Two miners were crushed to death
by the falling of the roof of mine at
Crested Butte, Col.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires were raging
around Coudersport, Pa, on the nth,
and 20 logging camps were burned and
the occupants had to flee for their lives
and leave everything behind.
A FIRE occurred in the seven-story
factory at 279 and 2S1 Spring street,
| New York, and before it was con-
trolled loss of $500, 900 occurre d.
ALL the Chinese at Kansas City. Mo-,
were rounded up on the 10th and
taken to the federal building to see
whether they had all been properly
registered by document and photo
graphed under the Chinese labor law
of 1898. Several were held for further
examination, claiming to have lost
| their papers emitting them to be in
this country.
The British cabinet has practically
rejected the overtures of the United
States for a monetary conference in
| the interest of bimetallism. The cabi-
net holds that the gold standard in
| the United Kingdom is unalterable
and that the opening of the Indian
minis is out of the question.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL BOYLE has be-
! gun quo warranto proceed ings in the
| Kansas supreme court nominally to Sc
| cure the forfeiture of the charter of
| Tile hdHSdS Slby oIOCk dTdS v,
alleging that the company was violat-
| ing the state law under which its char
ter was secured by maintaining gen
eral offices in Kansas City, Mo-, but
really to compel the company to re-
move its general offices to Kansas City,
| Kan.
| CHARLES GURDEI., colored. a resident
of Carlyle, Ill, hiccoughed necessarily
for Sc hours and died. He virtually
| coughed himself to death.
THERE is a proposition on foot to di-
vide Alaska and create the territory OF
! Lincoln.
| WHILE a play was being given at
| Robinson's opera house at Cincinnati
on the night of the 18th the plastering
began to fall from the roof, which
caused the people to rush out. In a
| few minutes the whole roof fell in.
| Three persons were killed and about
| 81 injured, some dangerously
A DISPATCH from Denver, Col on the
| 18th said that the first snowstorm OF
the season began shortly before mid