Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-13

homa City, Ok, on the Sth of hiccoughs,
having had them necessarily for ID
days. Though every known remedy
was applied it was impossible to stop
them, and they reduced the mans
weight from 200 pounds to less than
100.
The annual convention of the Texas
Live Stock association met at San An
tonic, Tex, on the sth. Fully 5000
stockmen were in attendance reso-
luton giving the Chicago stock yards
80 days in which to abolish the 81 per
car terminal charges under a threat to
patronize Kansas City and other mar
kets was adopted.
A BOILER exploded at an oil well on
the Staples farm at Gallery Junction,
Pa. and John Dunlap, an oil driller,
was killed and another man injured.
The engine-house, derrick and ma
chinery were all demolished.
THREE negroes were recently taken
to Sturgis, KY, in dying condition
from the effects of being beaten and
shot by whitecaps at Rock Springs
The negroes had been warned to leave
the country, but refused.
THE cattlemen2 of northern Mexico
are urging their government to place a
prohibitory duty on American live
hogs and packing-house products in
retaliation for the proposed increase
in the United States duty on Mexican
cattle.
JOHN P. WALKER, chief clerk in the
auditors office of the Air Line railroad
at Louisville, KY, had both legs cut
off below the knees at the Air Line
depot in Evansville, Ind He had come
down to visit his family, and in his
haste to leave the train jumped while
it was in lotion and fell under it.
A RUMoR was circulating at Constan-
tinople on the Sth that the German
ironclad Kaiserin Augusta, after hav-
ing fired blank shot signal to
the Greek ironclad Hydra to discon-
tinue her course, received full broad
side from the Hydra
THE democratic office holders in Mis-
souri, and Kansas will be permitted to
serve until their commissions expire,
except in cases where charges fully
sustained are filed. This was told a
presidential caller on the Sth by the
president himself.
LAURENCE HUTTON has presented to
the university at Princeton, n. J., his
unique and valuable collection of
death masks of notable men and it has
been placed in Princeton's new library.
The elaborate arrangements for keep
ing order at Carson, New, during the
big prize fight have been made public.
Billy Pinkerton, the noted detective,
is to have sole charge of the police, and
100 of his men will be brought from
various sections of the country.
AT Guadalajara, Mex, funeral serv-
ices were recently held over the re-
mains of Jesus Campreche, who claimed,
and backed up his claim with indis-
putable proof, that he was 1874 years of
age.
EvARIsTo LoNGARIo and Mauriceio
Reyes, stock men, fought a duel with
pistols near Victoria, Mex, and Lon
carlo was killed. The trouble grew
out of rivalry over young woman.
A SEVERE wind and rainstorm oc-
Cured on the night of the 4th in the
central states and floods were reported
from almost every station from Kan
sas City on the west to Pittsburgh, Pa.
on the east. At Cairo, Ill, several
FAINT was killed. Throughout Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri and Ohio railroads
suffered greatly from washouts and
many bridges were destroyed
A NEGRO was arrested at Elgin. Tex,
for burglary and, while explaining in
the store how it was done, he was shot
to death by three masked men.
FIRE started in the freight office of
the Elgin. Joliet & Eastern railroad at
Joliet, Ill, and the entire structure
was burned to the ground. The fire
started by the explosion of lamp.
The greatest loss was of valuable rec
ords, filed away for years for the in
formation of the general office depart
ment.
THE two-year-o1d daughter of Charles
U1lery, at South Bend, Ind, swallowed
a pearl collar button and was choled
to death.
ALBERT ANKERs, of Morton, Ill,
while running a power saw, fell
against the revolving saw and one arm
was cut off and three ribs severed, the
saw penetrating the intestines.
A W. DUNN, late assessor and col
lector for the city of Goliad, Tex, com
mitted suicide because he was found
short few hundred dollars in his &C
counts.
THE California supreme court has af-
firmed the decision of the lower court
in the case of Theodore Durrant. found