Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-08-28

queen of Spain to release Senorita
Cisneros- In addition, personal mes
sages have been eabled by many prom
inent American men and women to the
queen, calling attention to the facts
in the case and the injustice of the
girls detention in Gu ban prison.
THREE men were instantly killed and
eight injured by the explosion of
boiler at the brick yard of w. r. Holli-
day at Cairo, Ill, on the 23d. All the
killed and injured were negroes, ex-
cept one.
A THROUGH freight on the Wabash
railroad from Chicago to St Louis was
ditched by a broken car wheel, and 13
cars loaded with furniture, farming
implements. ice and provisions of all
kinds were scattered all over the track
about six miles north of Lii tchfield, Ill
The loss to the Wabash will be about
$e5, OOO
A WOMAN, believed to be Mrs. Flora
Anderson, threw herself into the lake
from the promenade deck of the
steamer City of Cleveland while going
from Cleveland. O., to Detroit. Mich
It was said she had quarreled with a
man on the Cleveland dock.
G. III. STEEL, ex-sheriff, and Sam
Young, deputy sheriff, of Leslie coun-
ty, were both killed in a combat at
peration with pistols and both fell
dead in the fifth round. They quar-
relied over politics.
THE workers on fine coats, to the
number of 500, struck at New York
on the ed for an increase in wages
The strike closed 100 shops.
Two thousand cloakmakers at New
York went on strike for an increase
of wages.
THERE was a report at Chelsea, 1. T.,
on the 22d that the Keetoowa society,
organization among the Cherokee
full-bloods. had threatened violence to
the members of the Cherokee commits
sion should they enter into an agree
ment with the Dawes commission look
ing to the destruction of the tribal
government
THREE young men from Chicago, who
had been camping on the banks of the
Canadian river, hired small boat at
La Sale, n. Y, and started to cross to
the Canadian shore, when their boat
upset and they were carried over the
falls and drowned.
A NEGRO at Lovett, Ga, shot at his
wife because she went to town against
his orders, missed her and dangerously
wounded another negro woman, and
then shot man who tried to stop him
pursuit, captured the culprit and he
was tried and afterwards shot
AUSTRIA, Russia and Germany have
accepted the proposal of Spain to adopt
international measures against an
archy and estab 1ish a penal colony for
the life detention of dangerous anarch-
lists. France has not replied to the
Spanish note and it was expected that
the United States. Great Britain and
Switzerland would refuse to cooperate.
STAR POINTER, the king of PAGERS,
defeated Joe Patchen at Chicago on
the 21st in three straight heats. Time:
2:O2, 2:0419 and 2:04.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred at
Lima, O., on the Goth between heav-
| ily-loaded excursion train and a
| freight, badly injuring a large num-
Der of passengers.
AERoNAUT ALLERD fell 300 feet from
| his balloon at Electric park, Chicago,
{ on the Goth, every bone in his body be-
! ing broken. He became entangled in
! a guy-rope and was dragged from his
| parachute.
/ PORTER PARKS, aged IS years. com
mitted suicide at Quincy, Ill. His
m other said he was naughty, and to
punish him she sent him to his bed
room shortly before noon. Soon after
y
and found his brothers body hanging
! to the closet door. Life was extinct
when the Mortified mother reached the
! scene and took down the body.
JAMES JEFFREYs, of Camden, Tenn.
and Ross Guffin, of Kansas City, Mo-,
have been appointed commissioners to
allot lands in severalty to the Indians
of the Uncom paghre reservation in
| q tab.
SoLLY SMITH, of Los Angeles, Cal.
knocked out Johnny Griffin, of Bos
| ton, in the seventh round at San Fran
cisco.
ALBERT VOTERS, under sentence to be
hanged at Fayetteville, w. Va, on the
gath, broke Jail just before daylight or
the 10th. A posse went after him.
The Pittsburg & Gulf railway viii
have its own rails into Port Arthur
| Tex. by September TO-
FIRE destroyed the Gerry Lumber
Co.'S yard at Eagle River, Wis, with
10000, 900 feet of lumber. Loss, SI5O,
OOO
The middle-of-the-road populist:
held a state convention at Des Moines