Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-03

1 MUCH alarm has been occaSioned in
Madrid by the great increase of sick
| ness among the Spanish soldiers in
Cuba Over 20. 900 men have been taken
to the hospital recently, suffering from
| yellow fever or dysentery, and the med
ical staff was reported as being almost
horS de combat
THE Dawes and Creek commissions
met at MusSogee, L. T., on the 2Sth-
1t was understood that the Creeks
were willing to enter into negotiations
looking towards allotments and sys-
tenn of towusites.
A MEETING of the executive officers
of western railroads will be held in
Chicago soon to consider viola
tions of the pass agreement It was
openly stated that all the western
roads had been violating the interstate
commerce law by granting free trans
pOrta ton to influence business
THREE hundred Bannock Indians
were having a ghost dance on the
Camas prairie, near HALEY, Ida, and
settlers were greatly alarmed over
their actions and wanted the govern
ment to recall them
THE joint conference at st. Louis
between the railroad commissions of
Missouri and Illinois, for the purpose
of establishing uniform grain grades
| between the two states, was a failure.
A PITTSBURGH, Pa; dispatch said
that all the union iron mills in AL
legheny county, the tin plate plants
and sheet mills, would close and re-
main closed until the wage scales
were settled
McKENDREE university at Lebanon,
| Ill, has conferred the degree of LII. d.
| upon President Mckinley. 1t was said
| to be part of plan to unite the North
! ern and Southern Methodist churches
under one organization.
| TwENTY-sIx miners were killed by a
fall of rock IN the Labrar mines in VAL
| paraiso. South America.
| SERIOUS losses of cattle We're re-
| ported from the vicinity of Wausa,
Neb., caused by disease resembling
| hydrophobia.
| AN ice war was reported at Perry,
| Ok, on the Goth and the price for the
| article fell from rs cents to 25 cents for
100 pounds, with a likelihood of its go
ing still lower.
| Ex-STATE TREASURER hartley was
convicted of embezzlement and sem
fenced at Omaha, Neb., to 30 years in
the penitentiary and to pay fine of
$500, 900. He has appealed.
| ALL heat records in Georgia were
broken on the 27th and a number of
fatalities throughout the state have
resulted from the hundreds of prostra-
| tions reported. Two deaths occurred
| in Atlanta and more were expected.
| The thermometer registered 1o4 de-
| grees. A dozen bicycle riders near
| Fort Mcpherson were carried into a
| neigh boring drug store unconscious
! JOHN HAMITER, a farmer living 12
miles south of Mena, Ark, received a
! sunstroze while in the harvest field
and died before he could be taken to a
/ shade.
AN agreement has been signed for a
| bicycle race between w. w. Hamilton,
of Denver, Col, and Walter c. Sanger,
of Milwaukee, to be held July 10 and
| II at Denver. There will be three
races for bet of $1,000, the winner of
| two to take all.
CLARK LEWIS was hanged at Fayette-
vile, w. Va, on the 25th for the muir
der of Charles Gibson whose death ap-
peared to be desired by Mrs. Gibson to
enable her to continue her carousals
with Lewis.
The widely-known actor, ''Old Hoss"
| Hoey, has been taken to Bellevue hos
pital at New York, his mental vagaries
having assumed a violent form. 1t was
feared by his physicians that he will
never recover.
in the tea trade in New York have de-
cided to put forth organized efforts to
secure tariff on tea. The New York
men favor duty of ten cents a pound
on all tea imported.
NEAR Bordley, KY, some young chill
dren were playing at ''hide and SEEK
when Laura and Jennie Melton jumped
into old trunk, which shut with a
spring lock. in the cellar of their
house. They could not be found and
when their parents came home a search
was instituted and both children were
found smothered to death.
THE people of Meridian, Miss, were
recently so aroused at some Mormon
elders making a house toulouse can
vass for the purpose of gaining con-
vertS that, when the elders attempted
to hold service, they were told they
must leave town. They left on the
first train.
DURING a heavy storm at Hopkins
vile, KY, on the Gath two earthquake
| shocks were distinctly felt and the
walls of large buildings We're shaken.
THE business failures in the United
tot. g. I, IL IL