Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-04-03


Minks, met in an encounter at Lily,
KY, and Minks was fatally wounded
The Chicago Post said: accord
ing to anarchists in Chicago an ex-
tensive movement of a revolution
airy nature has just been set on foot
Systematic agitation is to be begun
May 1, outdoor meetings are to be held
whether or not police permission is OBJ
tainable and just such preparations
and speeches as preceded the Haymar-
ket episode are being made
NEAR Bloomer, Ok, J. P. Cassidy,
while hunting with his little son, shot
at rabbit in thiclxet. The load hit
the boy in the head and he died from
the effects
A HUNDRED masked men destroyed
four tollgates in Carrard county, KY,
the other night and threatened the
gatekeepers with death if they collect
ed any more toll
AN oyster sloop was caught in a
squall near Pensacola, Fla, and sank,
drowning John Constantine, his wife
and five children and his wife's sister.
LEE PoN, grand recorder of the
Chinese freemasons in America, was
buried at st. Louis on the 2sth. His
obsequies provided entertainment for
5000 people and scared more horses
A CALL has been issued for national
good citizens convention, to be held at
Nashville, Tenn, on Nav 1890, to dis
cuss matters relating to the many evils
of the day, such crimes. Sabbath
dissertation, intemperance, dishonesty.
poverty, etc. The signers of the call
are from every state in the union.
Mrs. MARGARET PRESTON, the we'll
known writer of southern war poetry,
died at Baltimore, Md, on the 2Sth.
A FIRE occurred at Portsmouth, Va,
on the 2Sth, making so families home
less and causing 500, 900 damage.
The northern Colorado coal opera
tors combine has been dissolved and
the price of coal has dropped from S4
to IS. so per ton.
ALDACE F. WALKER, chairman of the
executive board of the A, L. & S. F.
company, said on the 27th that he did
not look for any immediate rate wars
in consequence of the recent decision
of the United States supreme court in
which traffic associations of railroads
were held to be contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust law.
THE steamer Olive, which arrived at
New York on the 2Sth, brought Lilo
Italians, the largest number of immi-
grants bought to that port by any one
steamer this season.
OFFICERS at Perry, Ok, have arrested
over a dozen boys between the ages of
~ and II years on the charge of whole
sale thefts. Most of the band are
from Chicago, Kansas City and St.
Louis. They have been operating on
the line of the Santa Fe railroad.
The time of all of the employees of
the car, bridge and building depart
mentS of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad at Denison, Tex, has been
shortened to three days of nine hours
per week.
AT the bicycle tournament at San
Francisco Allen Jones won a quarter
mile dash in 81 3-5 seconds, the fastest
record for indoor riding. j. E. Wing
won the fifth heat of the five-mile club
race in 11:O5, taking IL seconds from
the previous worlds record. In the
mile race Brecker covered the distance
in 2:05, reducing the worlds indoor
record by three seconds.
THE Iowa house on the Goth passed
the senate medical practice act with
out change, driving out osteopaths,
faith healers, massage doctors and all
others protesting to heal unless they
pass examination, the same as physi-
clans.
In the Canadian parliament two bills
have been introduced to prohibit the
Importation of alien labor into Canada
under contract or agreement. Both
| bills are drafted on the lines of the
| alien labor law of the United States,
and are intended as retaliatory legis-
| lation against citizens of the United
States.
THE Order of Equity, operating in Is
| states, made deed of assignment at
| Indianapolis, Ind, the 25th. Its
| lapseS and matured certificates amount
| ed to more than its new business last
year.
The Colorado senate on the 25th
| passed the bill for the abolition of cap
ital punishment 1t recently passed
| the house.
| WHILE the British cruiser Theseus
was practicing outside the harbor OF
Malta with torpedoes one exploded as
| it was being thrown to the ships
launch, injuring so men, two probably
| fatally.
| OSCAR ERICKSON was crushed to death
/ On the 25th in the basement of the old
post Office at Chicago by the falling OF