Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-07-12

the cage OF the Whirlpool rapids re-
Gently. Ten persons are known to
be dead and more than twenty were
injured.
Southwest
At least fifteen negroes were shot
and killed by mobs in East st. Louis,
Ill, as they fled from their burning
homes which had been set on fire by
white mobs. How many negroes per-
ished in the burning houses is I'M
known and will not be ascertained I'M
til the ruins are searched. Military
rule was proclaimed and 800 white
men were arrested and locked up at
police headquarters.
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Mining operations in the Clifton Mo-
renci Metcalf mining district in Ari-
IONA closed when more than five thou
sand miners, mechanics and laborers
quit work. The tieup of the mines
was said to be complete.
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Standing on top of a 55,0O0-barre1
steel tank of oil, three miles north of
Tulsa, Ok, G. w. Van Horn. a manu-
facturer of Tulsa, and Miss Ollie Barn
hart, a member of a prominent fam
lily. were married the other night.
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Ninety-two per cent of the copper
miners employed at Miami and In
spiration, Ariz., have quit work in re-
Spouse to a strike call, according to
a statement issued at Globe, Ariz., by
leaders of the Metal Mine Workers
Industrial Union
Four men, including Superinten-
dent J. B. Jeandell, were killed and ten
injured as the result of an explosion
which wrecked two buildings of the
E. l. DUPONT de Nemours Powder Com
pany at Augusta, Col.
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The Mileage Gasoline Company of
Oklahoma, H. Applenan and associ-
ates, has sold its five casinghead gas
plants TO Bertrand r. Clarke and asso-
ciates for one million dollars. The
plants are located at Red Fork, Bald
Hill, Mohawk and two at Bartlett.
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Lightning striking a cased-in oil
and gas well in the Bald Hill Field,
fourteen miles from Okmulgee, Ok,
embossed a flow of minerals at the rate
of three hundred barrels of oil and 80
million feet of gas daily, which was
ignited Immediately.
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Foreign.
German authorities have broken the
record strike at the shipyards in Stet-
tin. They threatened to muster the
strikers as soldiers and subject them
to punishment as mutineers.
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ed by French officers and crew, has
been blown up in the Mediterranean.
Twenty-nine men, including all the Of
ficers, were lost, an official report
from Paris says. y
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General Chang Hsun has informed
President Ii Yuma Hung that he must
retire. because the Manchu Emperor
Hsuan Tung has been restored to the
throne. Hsuan Tung has issued a
mandate announcing bis succession to
the throne of China.
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The Greek government has broken
diplomatic relations with Germany,
Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria and Tur-
key. Though war has not yet been
declared. the Greek government con-
siders that a state of war exists since
it's advent to power.
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Major General Pershing, the Amer
lean commander, has left the hotel in
which he has been staying since his
arrival in Paris to make his home in
a fine old residence in the Rue De
varenne. so as to be near his head
quarters.
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At the suggestion of the United
States government negotiations are
now in progress for further consolida-
ton of interests in America and Eng
land. Dr. Christopher Addison, minis
ter of munitions, said recently
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Sixteen children. only two OF whom
were over years of age. the victims
of the last German air raid on Lon
don. were given a public funeral the
other afternoon and their bodies were
laid in a common grave in an East
End cemetery over which a monu-
ment viii be placed.