Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-11-25

| fate of the Americans in Parral, failed
to return after ten days, a refugee from
Chihuahua City reported at Ell Paso.
1t has been thirteen days since these
Americans were heard from.
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Advices received at army depart
ment headquarters in San Antonio,
Tex, tell of the British and German
consuls having left Chihuahua City
| and that the city is surrounded by
Villista forces.
Southwest.
A daring train robbery that began
at Leavenworth, Kan, and continued
until the train reached Kansas City,
Kan, was staged on the Omaha-Kan-
sas City Flyer of the Missouri Pacific
railroad by a lone bandit. After rob-
bling the passengers and crew of the
rear coach and holding them at bay.
the robber leaped from the car as it
reached the Missouri Pacific station
at Kansas City, Kan, and disappeared.
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What is declared to have been the
first sale of spot cotton at twenty
cents a pound to be made in Texas
was effected at Houston, Tex, when
1,4O0 bales sold at-that figure. The
average price per bale was s1O8.
All freight room on British liners
and tramp steamers has been with
drawn from the market at Calves
ton, Tex, as the result, it was said,
of an admiralty order which prac-
tically requisitions all British tom
mage for carrying grain and metals.
The murder of an entire American
family on the Gulf coast near Tam
pico was reported at Brownsville,
Texas, by Mrs. Eva Hanson, a refu
gee from that place. She was unable
to give details of the affair.
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Nearly one hundred persons, includ
ing men, women, children and Car
rama soldiers, were killed November
z in an attack by Zapata followers
on passenger train near Contreras,
| state of Morelos. according to the
City of Mexico newspapers received
at Laredo. Tex.
The Oklahoma coal strike. which
has been on since November l, came
to an end recently when joint con-
ference of miners and operators
agreed on a compromise of the dis
| puted points in the proposed biennial
| contract.
Foreign.
| The British tank steamer Petro-
| ieine. found abandoned at sea and
afire, has been brought to port with
French crew aboard, says a Lloyd's
dispatch The master and twenty-five
! of she Petroleine's crew have been
landed. Eleven were lost
Courier Thomas Smith and the
| other American passengers on board
the Dutch mail steamship Koningin
| Regentes, when that vessel was taken
| by German submarine into Zee
| brugge, were permitted by the Ger
mans to return to Holland.
4 One hundred and twenty persons
have been drowned through the sink
ing of a barge on the vistula, accord
ing to a Central News dispatch from
Amsterdam. The disaster occurred at
Kamiers, near Lublin, in Poland
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! General Sir Sam Hughes has re
4 signed as Canadian minister OF
militia and defense. His resignation
was requested. The break between
General Hughes and Premier Bor.
den. and other members of the Ca,
madam government, resulted from
differences over questions of policy
and details of administration
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The Balkan Express, which runs
between Constautinople and Berlin.
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into party of women section hands
in suburb of Berlin Nineteen WON
en- were killed There was heavy
fog at the time
The forces of General Felix Diaz
nephew of former President Porfiris
Diaz. have captured Tehuantepec Cit
and have invested Salina Cruz Oh
| the Gulf of Mexico side of the isthmu.