Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-25

More tnaa forty coAl mines IN Cen
tral and Southern Illinois, represents
ing between twelve thousand and fiE-
teen thousand miners, have been shut
down and the coal mining industry Of
the state faces practical paralysis.
operators at Springfield state, as a
result of the spreading strike of
miners who demand immediate wage
increases
Three trainmen were killed and a
fourth injured when an engine on a
Santa Fe freight train exploded at Or
sa blockhouse, twenty-eight miles
from Denver. Several cars were de-
rallied and the track torn up badly.
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The position of DIR. Carl Eggert, as
sistant professor of German at the
University of Michigan, has been de-
clared vacant by the board of regents
at the conclusion of an Investigation
into charges that he had made unpa-
triotic utterances. The charges were
made by students.
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With an estimated majority of 3d.
900 to $4,000 Iowa has voted to pro-
hibit the manufacture and sale of
liquor in this state by constitutional
amendment The state has been dry
by statutory provision for two years
The amendment becomes effective i'm
mediately.
The Chicago American won the
worlds series baseball championship,
defeating the New York Nationals, 4
to 2, in the sixth and deciding game
of the 1917 diamond classic. For the
first time in almost a decade the THU
lar banner will flutter in the Middle
West metropolis next spring
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Frederick Roe Soaring, former
wealthy Philadelphia contractor, and
Elizabeth Rendell, his former stenog-
rapher, have left New Orleans for
Philadelphia in custody of a detective
to answer charges of conspiracy to de-
fraud life insurance companies.
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Southwest
Following an investigation of the
s75O,000 fire, which destroyed more
than one-eighth of the pens of the
Kansas City Stock Yards Company re-
Gently, resulting in the loss of ap-
proximately 10000 cattle and at least
$500 hogs, Fire Warden J. E. Marvin
announced that he believes the blaze
was the work of an incendiary. A
probe of the blaze was started even
before the flames were under control
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The strike of 10000 miners in the
Missouri-Kansas-Ok and Ar
kansas coal fields has been called off,
pending efforts of the federal coal adj
ministration to mediate the difference
between the miners and mine opera
tors.
A walkout of more than 10000
miners employed in the Missouri, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Arkansas coal
fields were ordered by representatives
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea at a conference in Kansas City
1t is estimated that the strike will
shut down at least 225 mines. =.
A new vaudeville theater for Kan
sas City, with a seating capacity of
three thousand, playing at popular
prices-ten, twenty and thirty cents
was announced recently by Martin
Beck, managing director of the Or
T.
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After being almost cut in two by
huge knife that tore loose from a
planning machine at Fort Smith, Ark,
Charles Thompson walked to a switch
board, cut off the power that operated
the machine, returned and lay down.
Physicians say he will die.
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A protest against the sending of H.
900 negroes of the draft army to Camp
Funston and the transfer of 1890
white soldiers of the national army
now in the environments to other
camps in the United States was made
recently by officials of Junction City
in a telegram to Secretary of War
Baker.
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FOREIGN.
An American negro, John H. Aldred
of Newport News, five Filipinos and