Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESI1Ns
Asa Missouri Pacific passenger train,
due at Parsons at 1:55 q. m. from the east
was coming into the yards at that place the
other morning. it collided with train OF
freight cars which had been left on the
"Y," but had run out into the main track.
The engine and tank and mail car and sew
eral freight cars were demolished. The
mail Car literally split the engine tank in
two, forcing the pieces into the cab OF the
engine. The escape from injury of both
engineer and fireman YVES miraculous, as
they both remained on the engine, though
it was almost certain death. No one was
hurt. The name of the engineer wss Geo.
Snow.
A destructive fire broke out at Galveston,
Tex, involving loss of 81 100000. The
burned district embraces ffty-two blocks,
all but seven of which are swept entirely
clean. Five hundred families are home
less ard compelled to seek shelter in the
street. Aid is pourin 6 in from all quarter:
At citizens meeting SIG 500 was subscribed
by the business men, and the city council
voted SIS, 1000 in aid of the needy. Jay
Gould contributes S., coo, and Jas. B. Eads,
the cele brated engineer, telegraphs $1,000
from st. Louis.
In the Baldwin murder trial at Atchison,
st. Joe drug clerk positively identified
w. J. Baldwin, the defendant, as the per-
son to whom he sold chloroform, put up
in bottle exactly like the one found by
the bedside of Mary Baldwin's dead body,
and labeled with label precisely like the
mutilated le bel on the chlorotorm bottle.
Conviction is expected on this testimony.
A cablegram from Sci ia represents thst
shots are daily exchanged on the frontier
by Bulgarian and Servian patrols, and that
the Servians advanced three miles to cap
ture q party of twenty-three Bulgarian
guards. Belgr2 de reports three Servian
regiments bivouacked in deep snow at Is
arib1od.
Henry Mosler, an Amer. can artist, resid-
ing in Paris, has received from II. q. War
ner, OF Rochester, N. Y, an order to paint
two Indian scenes and an American farm
within Ave years, the compensation being
SD, 900. Mr.. Mosler will coon visit the far
west to make the necessary studies.
On the Chicago board of trade thef queeez
in November corn is continued, the price
being forced uD to ~ cents. This is an
advance of Ct cents per bushel in that
option since last Saturday, when it was
first discovered that the market was being
Two cent postage resulted in deficiency
of IS, 756, 345 for the Year ending with June.
Illinois is the only western STATE showing
profit in postal operations, her surplus be-
ing $201 1858. Indiana fell behind $497, 900,
md Iowa $465, 269. Both domestic and in
money-ordars decreased greatly
in volume.
James Young, a convict serving ten
years sentence in the peniteutiary at
ali Al h,,~ hoo tn
the murder Of DR.. Allen, of Sandwich, Ill.
VIVA. Thomas was convicted of the murder,
and has now served six years of q seven
teen year sentence.
Secretary Lamar is engaged in hearing
the petitions OF nine different telephone in
terests for the vacation of the patent grant
ed to Mr.. Bell. 1t is alleged that Meucci
used telephone in 1S49, and never aban-
doned his invention.
REILLY Pyle, who killed United States
Mcdonald, in Pickett coun-
~, Tennessee, and has defed arrest for six.
teen months, has been captured. He re-
fused to surrender, and was shot in the leg,
and his brother and Thomas Kidwell re
wounded.
Members of the Royal riff IS at Limerick
broke out of the barracks recently and
attacked with bayonets many psople re-
siding in the vicinity, in revenge for as
,aults from civilians. The mayor and po-
ice suppressed the riot.
Charles g. Parnell, in acknowledging the
receipt of FL 900 from Treasurer O'Reilly,
It Detroit, writes that t. money will soon
Dc of enormous service in the parliament
airy campaign.
Eight thousand people viewed the re-
Mains of John Mccullough at rhiladel-
,hia, and fully 10000 were unable to gain
admission. The body was inferred at
Monument cemetery.
Woodbridge. thu Omaha street. car driver,
yho shot and killed q ruftian who was at |
to rob his Car, has fed from that |
ity in fear OF his life.
Postmaster-G General Villas action in de |
lining TO pay the subsidy voted by con.
ress to steamship companies for carrying |
he mails, is agitating newspapers il the
asst.
At the last term of the district court at
'arsons, Laoette county, four men were
to the penitentiary for terms
angling from three and half to twenty
ears.
The st. Louis Crematory society, organ
led by 800 business men, has secured q
ermit for q building on Grand avenue.
ear tower park, to cost s14, 900.
The director general of postofices in
apan has adopted the plan used in the
United States. Yokohama has carrier
Tstem and postal savings bank.
Workingmen in Brooklyn while exca-
ating for building unearthed eighteen
uman skulls. Nobody can explain tie
lystery.
The total exchanges at the leading clear.
g houses for the last week were 81, O64.-
So, 600 being an increase of 40 per cent.
ompared with last year.
During q panic caused By the collision
Jerry boat and steamer. on North
yer, New York, John Malloy Jumped over
GARD and was drowned.
Four men who were working on an iron
ridge at Keithburg, H., were killed by
le falling of scaffold.
A negro who assaulted little girl in Prin-
sss, Ann county, Va, was taken from Jail
? mob and hanged.
FOREXGN
William B. Carpenter, F. r g., who
mixed high as Psychologist, died recent
: in London from burns caused by the
psetting of q lamp.