Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-24


recently destroyed by Chinese mob,
who were melted by the old story of
the missionaries stealing children and
killing them
AT Columbia, La, Carey Townsend
and Elisha Wilmington had a friendly
boxing match for the amusement of
their friends when Wilmington dealt
Townsend heavy blow over the re-
gion of the heart and he dropped to
the ground dead Wilmington was
arrested
The old Cheyenne and Arapahoe
warriors in Oklahoma who have more
than one wife have been assured that
the anti-polygamy law passed by the
last legislature will not be enforced
against those Indians who were mar
ried according to the tribal custom,
but all marriages contracted hereafter
must be strictly in accordance with
the law. This conclusion was reached
at a conference held at Darlington be-
tween the Encouragement and the
chi efs and representative men of each
tribe.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 10Th said that it was believed that
the leaders of the striking coal miners
contemplated calling on the railway
organizations for assistance
THOMAS r. TURLEY, of Memphis, has
been appointed by the governor of
Tennessee to succeed the late 1sham
G. Harris as United States senator
THE steamer Benton, recently taken
to Sioux City, Ia, from St Louis to en-
gage in the upper river traffic, colllded
with the com bination bridge draw and
sank in shallow water.
A NEGRO preacher named Edmondson
who had assisted Anthony Williams.
he yho U
lynched, to escape for a time-was
caught by 400 pursuers at Florence,
Ala, beaten to death with clubs, his
body riddled with bullets and then
hanged.
CHARLES STEVENS, who had been i'm
prisoned in the mammoth mine near
Phoenix, Ariz., since July 4, was res
cued on the evening of the nth. A
shaft had to be drilled through solid
granite and men worked without ceS-
sation. Stevens had been without food
and water all the time
Mrs. NANCY J. KILLEN was nailed in
her house near Breedon, W. Va, and
the house set fire by fiends- She
was burned to death.
FIVE monster farewell rallies on the
18th at Toronto, Ont, closed the great
est convention the Epworth league has
ever had. All five meetings were
marked by great outbursts of religious
fervor.
THE American Baptist Missionary
union and the American Baptist Home
society, with headquarters in New
York. have wiped out their joint
debt of S4S6, 600 by raising over $3.50, 600.
to which John D. Rockefeller is to add
the same sum-
THERE is a freight war on between
the Lone Star and the Mallory lines
and a Galveston special on the 18th
said that the new Lone Star line an
! nounces- that it will carry cotton
! freight free at present from Galveston
| to New York.
! EMANUEL RICH, of the firm of Rich
Bros, millionaire dry goods men of
! Atlanta, Ga, was found dead the
+ 10th with his throat cut from ear to
! ear. He had been a victim of dyspepsia
| and complained that he would sooner
! be dead than live in such misery.
| 1t was reported at Redfeld. S. D.,
/ that many stockmen in the hill coun-
/ try in that section had been compelled
! to move their cattle to new feedin G
| grounds on account of swarms of grass
/ hoppers eating up the grass on the
/ ranges
| WITHIN the next so days Guthrie,
Oklahoma City and Ell Reno, Ok, will
| be connected by long distance tele-
| phone lines. The lines will be extend
| ed within the near future to connect
with the Kansas system, centering in
Wichita.
THERE were PAT business failures
/ throughout the United States reported
| by Bradstreet's comInercia1 agency for
! the week ended the 10th, against 255
| for the corresponding week last year.
1T was stated on reliable authority
that the powers had fixed the indem-
nifty to be paid to Turkey by Greece al
81, 600, 900, and had accepted compro
mise giving Turkey a more liberal line
of frontier.
JIM JEFFRIEs, of California. and Gus
Rubin, of Ohio, fought a 2O-round bout
at San Francisco on the 10th. Both
men are remarkable for their size an6
muscular development Jeffries is {
man about % years old. 615 feet III
| height and is in fine condition at 81:
pounds. Rubin, the Ohio giant, top:
the Californian just one inch anc
weighs in condition 200 pounds The
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