Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-07

er occupying the companyS houses to
vacate the property Immediately or
their goods will be thrown into the
street An attempt will be made to
ope rate the mines by union men.
Excitement was running high
THE Pioneer Fire-Proof Construction
Co.'S plant at Ottawa, Ill, the largest
of its kind in the world, was partially
destroyed by an incendiary fire, entail
ing loss of 500, 1000.
CALL has been. issued by Rev. b.
H. Becker, of Dayton, O.; W. R. Covert,
of St Louis. and other prominent
anti-spiritualists for national meet
ing of anti-spiritualist associations in
Anderson, Ind, on September 1 to or
game national association
AT Carlisle. Ind Mr.. and Mrs Grant
Hammond and DIR. and Mrs Abner
Morris were drowned in the Wabash
river. 1t was believed one of the
women was seized with cramps and
rescue her.
TWELVE mill opera tives while cross
ing bridge at Thiemandorf, Germany,
were swept off by sudden rise of the
river and all were drowned.
NEAR Alva, Ok, with an original
preparation, Sheriff MoGrath so sue
cessfully treated cattle infected with
Texas fever that the ticks were all
killed and the quarantine raised.
THE American bishops at the confer
ence in London on the 31st rejected
the proposition of the British bishops
to make the primate of all England the
head of the Anglican church and all
its offshoots throughout the world.
HUGH GERAH, of Union Hill, N. J.,
left that place on the 31st for the In
Of fol ri f<,
kill Day, the man who murdered his
brother, James Gerah, at Chickasah a
few days ago.
THE general strike of the Pants
Makers union went into effect on the
1st in the $50 shops in the Grea ter New
York district There were nearly 1000
operators out and 5000 finishers We're
made idle in consequence
A MOB of toughs attacked Policeman
Devine in Harlem, N. Y, on the 31st
and attempted to take prisoner away
from him when he fired and instantly
killed one of his assailants-
CARDINAL JACoBINI, of Rome, is said
to have written to all Catholic bishops
in the world, proposing extraordinary
religious services to mark the close of
the 10th century.
For 40 days Lena Collinsworth, liv-
ing in Claiborne county, Tenn. has
tasted. She is starving herself to death
under vow. She quarreled with her
husband, they separated and she made
vow that she would fast until he
came back to her. Nothing has passed
her lips but water.
HARRY LISTER, son of the purchasing
agent for the Monon, was murdered
near Washing ton, Ind, the other night
by being pushed from a train, it was
Mo. Williams was jailed. An engineer
seen the murder.
LEE DAVIDSON was arrested at Ozark,
Ark, for throwing his wife's baby into
hog pen where it was devoured by
the swine.
BEN VAUGHAN, young engineer,
was jailed for promiscuously shooting
at Sunday school picnic near Perry,
Ok. He fired about 30 shots and an
old soldier, who was conducting the
picnic, and several little children were
wounded, though not fatally.
MAXINIo MARTINEZ was hanged in
the Wilson county Jail at Floresville.
Tex, for numbering Jesus GARLIC and
wife and Juanita Acosta
MYRIADs of young grasshoppers have
made their appearance in the Bonito
district of Lincoln county, n. NJ, and
are doing much damage to growing
| vegetation This locality is the chief
breeding district for the hoppers that
| eventually find their way to Kansas
and Nebraska the following season,
and old-timers are predicting that next
year will witness a hopper visitation
| in the region west of the Missouri.
In a stock brokerage office at Waco,
Tex, B. F. Kivett and w. w. Kivett,
| brothers, We're shot and killed by Will
liam Lamden. Bad feeling had existed
| between them, but the killing was said
to be justifiable-
! A CORRESPONDENT in Rio de Janeiro
| photographed that authentic informa-
ton had reached that city to the effect
| that more than 5000 soldiers had been
killed in big battle near the city of
| Canudos- The fanatics numberin q
more than 1O, 900 men, all well armed,
attacked the government troops.
| Whole brigades of the soldiers were
swept down and destroyed
| JAMES HENRY, a bachelor, aged 1O4,
and Miss Emily Boynton, aged 81, both
colored, We're married at Knoxville,