Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-04-07

The death list from the storm which
swept New Albany recently remained
at thirty-four, the names of two per-
sons previously reported from .unoffi-
cia1 sources as dead being eliminated,
and the names of two others who died
in ST. Edwards hospital being added.
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The American Committee for Rus
sian Relief has sent a cable message
to Foreign Minister Miliukoff of Rus
STA, announcing it was anxious to give
any assistance required for the. relief
of distress in Russia and asking for
instructions by cable.
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Kurt Ernichs and Paul ZelI, said to
have been traced from San Francisco
to Chicago in connection with an in
vestment of war plots. have been ar
rested in Chicago at the union depot
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David Foley, AZ years old; Vincent
Foley, his son. 10. and Harry. 3. were
burned to death and Mrs Foley and
another son badly burned by fire in an
apartment in New York the other day.
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The American liner ST. Louis, the
first American ship to sail for a Brit
ish port with guns aboard, has arrived
safely at her destination.
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Between twenty-five and fifty per-
sons were killed and probably one
hundred or more were injured by a
storm which swept over New Albany
late today, demolishing scores of resi-
dences and several Industrial plants.
Twenty-Five bodies are known to have
been recovered and it is expected this
number will be materially increased.
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Four children were burned to death
recently in fire which destroyed the
farm home of William Hartstein,
near Merrill, Saginaw county, Mich.
The victims were trapped in a bed
room on the second floor.
President wilson has taken steps to
place the Nation on a war footing. By
executive order he directed that the
navy be recruited without delay to the
authorized war strength of $1,000
enlisted men. Taken in connection
with emergency naval construction al
ready ordered this means that the
President has exercised the full limit
of his legal powers as commander-in-
chief to prepare the navy for war.
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Southwest.
A report that General Murguia's
troops had been paid with money fur
nished by Germans on the border was
denied by CarranZa officials, and it
was officially stated that the troops
were paid in Mexican gold sent from
Mexico City.
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Two escaped members of the in
termed crews of two German auxiliary
cruisers at the Philadelphia navy
yard have crossed the Rio Grande two
miles below Brownsville and are now
in Matamoros, Mexico, opposite there,
according to information received at
military headquarters.
The strike Of 500 Union machinists'
helpers and apprentices at the ST.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
shops at Little Rock, was called off
after having lasted seven hours. 1t
developed that the calling of the strike
was mistake.
Manuel Chao, a former Villa gen.
eral, was taken into custody at Ell
Paso by the police and held for investi-
cation in connection with reports that
recruiting for Villa had been carried
on there.
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An oil painting of Kaiser Wilhelm,
valued at 500, was slashed in the
first anti-German demonstration re-
ported to the police at st. Louis. Fa-
natics also wrecked the rooms of a
German singing society
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Four regiments of United States
regulars have been ordered trans
ferred from FL Paso to other points.
1t was said that the troops will be
used for service at civilian military
training camps" The Thirteenth
Cavalry and Seventh Infantry were
ordered to Central Department camps.
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Foreign.
Four thousand German soldiers
have crossed the line into Holland
seeking food according to frontier re-