Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-05


that Premier Rali and his colleagues
in the Grecian cabinet were implicated
in a plot to overthrow the dynasty in
Greece.
FIVE young people were killed and q
number of others injured at Valley
Springs, L. l., by the tally-ho in which
they were out for an excursion being
struck by a train at crossing.
DIVINE HEALER SCHRAEDEn was
stoned out of Clayton, a suburb of St
Louis, by a crowd of men and boys.
PRESIDENT WooDMANsEE has issued a
call for the annual convention of the
National Republican league at Detroit,
Mich, for July 13.
THE bicycle road race from Linden
valid, near Hamilton, to Chester park,
near Cincinnati, distance of Is miles,
was won by c. B. Farnsworth, of Avon
dale, o., in 1921.
THE four-year-old baby of Mrs. Barr,
of Abbott, Tex, tumbled into a tank
of water and the mother and aunt of
the child tried to save it, but all three
were drowned.
The Yale university team won the
two-mile boat race with the Wisconsin
university team on Lake Sa1tonstall in
about three lengths and being ten Sec
onds ahead. Time, 1854.
NERBARD Goss, lately assistant clerk
of the Sherman house, Chicago, left
that place the other evening without a
cent for tour around the world by
the way of Australia. He is to be back
within one year.
THE plant of the Utica Packing Co.
in Deerield. n. Y, was burned the
other day. Loss, 100000.
PIETRo ACCIRITo, the anarchist who
attempted to stab King Humbert at
Rome, has been sentenced to the gal
leys for life.
The pope has just completed Latin
poem of so stanzas, pointing out the
duties of frugality and the evil of
g1uttony.
FIRE recently destroyed the William
III. Bunge vinegar factory at Chicago,
one of the largest in the west. Loss
$175, 600.
WILLIAM T. POWERS and John Latti-
more, both colored, were hanged in the
jail at Chicago on the 2sth.
The Atlantic express, eastbound, on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, col
Ided with a freight train near Grand
Junction, Col. on the 2sth and the en-
gineer and fireman We're killed and
several passengers INJURED.
ALL the journeymen bakers of Fort
Wayne, Ind. struck recently for an in
crease of wages and the use of the
label.
The secretary of the treasury spoke
at the dinner given to the commercial
clubs of St. Louis, Chicago and Boston
by the commercial club of Cincinnati
on the 2sth- The subject of the dis
course was the tariff and the public
finances and the secretary said upon
the settlement of these two questions
guished, but the future was bright.
AN engine and five cars on the Penn
sylvania railroad were derailed at
Philadelphia the other night, causing
the death of the engineer and fireman.
NEAR Tecumseh, Ok, John Stibbins
accidentally shot and killed his two
year-old niece Stibbins had started
out of his dug-out with his gun and
the hammer hit against a bed post.
The gun was discharged and six shots
took effect.
THERE was a desperate shooting af-
fray at the little town of Oakman, Ala,
on the 27th. Charles Williams, a ma
chinist, while intoxicated, became
boisterous in Appling Bros store and
was ordered out. He then drew his
revolver and began shooting, in which
the other side joined in. Isaac Appling
and Williams We're killed and Andrew
Richards, Montgomery Appling and
William Duncan were probably fatally
wounded.
A HEAD-END collision between a
freight and a passenger train at Ameri-
can Falls, 25 miles west of Pocatel,o,
Ida, caused the death so far as known
of nine men and the serious injury of
eight Others Two of the latter will
die.
REPRESENTATIVE of independent
telephone companies throughout the
central and western states met in Chi
cago recently for the purpose of effect
ing national organization of all the
independent telephone companies in
the United States to combat the Bell
Telephone Co. and to protect the small
er exchanges against any action that
might be taken in the courts by the
Bell company in reference to the recent
Berliner decision by the Omitted States
supreme court
JOHN Z. JOHNSON, late president and
cashier of the State national bank of
Logansport, Ind, who pleaded guilty
to embezzling over 5000, 200 of the
banks funds, was sentenced to ten