Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-01-10

Nearly two blocks In the heart o.
! Norfolk's business district, including
the Monticello hotel. were destroyed,
| and one man was killed and a score
or more hurt in a series of explosions
and fires recently, which both the po-
lice and naval authorities believe were
/; incendiary.
= Fire in a 2-story apartment house at
Toledo, caused when a lighted candle
| fell from a Christmas tree, trapped
| three sleepers who were burned to
death before firemen could reach
them
The American Red Cross began the
New Year with a membership of more
than 10000, 900. it was announced in
New York at the close of the nation
wide enrolment campaign Every one
of the thirteen national divisions ex-
ceeded the quota set for it by Red
Cross headquarters in Washington.
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The discovery of dynamite in a car
Of coal billed from a southern Indiana
mine to the Rockford City hospital
combined with a furnace explosion
Ogden. resulted in an Investigation by
federal officials and precautions taken
to protect Camp Grant from any pos
sible plot.
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John Randolph Thornton. II years
old, former United States senator from
Louisiana. and member of the United
States Board of Ordnance and Fortifi-
L =. L.
andria, La.
A pouch containing $4,000 sent by
the Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond to a bank in Columbia, S. c.,
disappeared in transit recently and is
believed to have been stolen. Detec-
tives are at work in several cities.
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Within two weeks virtually every
sugar refinery in the country will be
in operation, according to George M.
Rolph, head of the sugar division of
the Food Administration. By the end
of January, he asserted, $4,000 tons
of sugar will have been brought in.
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Southwest.
Every available ranger of the Texas
force has been dispatched to Alpine
and vicinity by Adjutant General Har-
ley, on receipt of reports that Mexi-
cans were planning a raid over the
border near that point.
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Three towns were raided and looted
and a Southern Pacific of Mexico train
held up the other day by bandits oper-
Sonora, according to reports reaching
Nogales, Ariz.
While delivering an address on the
war in the Municipal Auditorium at
Houston. Tex, Colonel Charles Bige-
low, retired manufacturer and widely
known lecturer of New Haven, Conn,
fell to the platform and within five
minutes died. Apoplexy was given as
the cause of his death by physicians
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After pursuing the Mexican bandits
who raided the Brite ranch and store
on Christmas morning for distance
of ten miles into the mountains OF
Mexico, the American cavalry troops
killed eighteen members of the bandit
band, wounded twenty and scattered
the remaining bandits in the noun
tainS south of the line.
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Following an agreement between
striking telephone operators and the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
at Fort Smith, Ark, the young women
have returned to work. The strike
had been in effect since September 10.
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DIR. A. L. Andrews, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, of Fort Worth,
Tex, his wife and son, William, were
killed instantly when motor car in
which they were coming to Fort
Worth crashed into a train at Dali
worth, Tex.
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Foreign.