Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-16


the 18th, about 500 being present
The race war in the Alton, Ill,
schools broke out afresh on the 18th,
the colored children with rush at
one white school overpowered the
janitor, struck the lady principal and
took their seats The police were
summoned and elected them. Serious
trouble seemed imminent.
HERNANDo DESoTo MONEY has been
appointed United States senator for
Mississippi by Gov. McLaurin to fill
Senator George.
THERE were 396 divorce suits on the
docket on the 18th for this term of the
circuit court at Kansas City, Mo.
THE National Horseshoers' Protec-
tive association convened at ST. Louis
on the 18th, 141 cities east of the Mis-
sissippi river and % west being repre-
sented-
PRIVATE CHARLES HAMMOND, charged
with being absent without leave,
was tied by the feet by order of
Capt. Leonard A. Loveing and dragged
500 yards by four members of the guard
at Chicago the other day. The captain
followed behind and prodded the
almost insensible soldier with his
sword, drawing blood at every thrust.
The enlisted men who witnessed the
barbarity were in a state bordering on
utiny.
THE new management of the Hotel
Majestic at New York has announced
that no Jews would be received as
guests.
GENERAL MANAGER DICKINSON, of the
Union Pacific railroad, on his return
to Omaha, Neb., from New York, said
that the reorganization committee
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Fl. Clark would be president.
FOUR cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Galveston. Tex, on the night
of the 10th. At New Orleans 81 new
cases were reported and five deaths
At Edwards, Miss, nine cases and one
death was the record. At Mobile,
Ala, seven new cases and two deaths
took place.
A LARGE water main burst in New
York on the 10th and wrought great
havoc with property around Madison
avenue and Forty-Eighth street
Scarcely building escaped injury by
reason of the volume of water which
poured into the streets, cellars and
easements
GOLD has been discovered in the
bluffs along the river front at Warsaw,
Ill. A geologist made the find, and
out several nuggets
THE Creek council has convened at
Okmulgee, l. T., to consider the treaty
signed by the Dawes and Creek COM
missions.
CAPT. GEN. WEYLER will return to
Spain at once, telegram from Madrid
on the 10th said, and Gen. Castellanos
will take charge of affairs in Cuba I'M
til Capt. Gen. Blanco, Weyler's sue
cessor, arrived.
A sEvEN-FooT vein of exceedingly
rich gold ore has been struck in the
Red River mine at Acton, Cal. The
vein is sprinkled thicl1ly with free
gold. The report said that there APP
peared to be tens of thousands of tons
of the richest ore ever struck in that
part of the state.
THE plant of the Zimmerman Pack
ing company at Portland. Ore, was
burned the other day. Besides the de-
struction of the meat in the building
some sheep were also cremated. Loss,
$50, 900.
THE result of four-handed duel
fought on a country road few miles
from Moultrie, Ga, was the death of
Henry Neismith, the wounding of his
son Nathan and an upheaval in a usu-
ally peaceful community, which sent
nOD Oh deUeThlneQ men ana DlOOO-
hounds after those who did the shoot
ing, Henry Harris and his son Robert.
1t was believed that they were both
wounded.
NEAR Sandy Springs, Nd, William
Timmons shot and killed William Hin
ton, his father-in-law, inflicted a
wound which will prove fatal to his
wife and also shot the wife of John
Hinton, his wife's brother, causing a
serious but not necessarily fatal
wound. The shooting was the result
of quarrel between Timmons and his
wife.
THE application for hearing of the
Kansas City stock yards case was
argued on the nth before Judge San
born, of the United States circuit court
at St. Paul, Mimi, and the lawyers
finally agreed upon stipulation for
hearing about October Is before Judges
Foster and Thayer and the motion for
a hearing before Judge Sanborn was
withdrawn.
NEAR St Anne, Man, Mrs Breanin,
a half-breed woman, and her six chill
dren, together with neighbor, per-
iShed in a prairie fire