Western Kansas world., 1885-05-23
wA-KEENEY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, MAY 2s, 1885.

Officers from Ohio arrested at Richmond
lnd., lady who was formerly the wife of {
wealthy citizen of Cleveland, named Cobb
charging her with kidnapping her own son
8 years of age, the heir of large estate
She has married again, and the administra
tor of MIR. Cobb's estate seeks to obtair
possession of the lad. The mother anl
child Were discharg by Judge Kibby, OF
the ground of 1efects in the requisition.
Thepapers On which to base the demand
| for the extradition of Maxwell, the murder
er of Pre.le at the sonthern Hotel st. Louis
Who is now under arrest in Auckland, New
Zealand, were signed by Governor Marina.
duke, and forwarded at once to Washing.
ton. They will name Detective Tr, c., OF
the police force, and Frank r. O'Nel], oi
the St. Louis Post Dispatch, as the States
agent to bring the murderer back.
While starting up the engine at the cot.
ton mil of the Macon, Ga, manufacture e
,mpany, one Of the five boilers exploded,
killing Frank Gibson, engineer, fracturing
the skull of Westley johnson, who died,
and ipjuring three others. The brick en-
CINE mouse was wrecked, but the main
building escaped injury. The damage to
the machinery and engine house is estima-
ted at $4,000. One hundred and fifty per-
sons are thrown out of employment.
A telegram of Texas, says that Gov. Ire
land has received from Ms jor Gorde, Super
lntendent of the State Penitentiarv, infnr-
nation of the mGst daring and successful
outrage ever committed in Texas. Forty
state convicts were employed on Clay's
farm in Brazos county, last evening when
the work was stopped by great mob of
armed men. They surrounded the guards
Id <ho rola of
the latter. The guards refused, " hereupon
a fight ensued, in which the convicts joined
forces with the mob. The conflict was q
terrible one, and resulted in victory for
the attacking party, who disappeared With
the convicts. There is no definite infor-
nation as to whether there were any killed
and wounded, but it is reported that sever
al men were fatally wounded. The outrage
is due to the hue and cry against the en-
plCyment of convict labor outside of the
penitentiary. The Governor has offered
$500 for the conviction of any of the leaders
in the outrage.
George Hurlburt and Michael Quinn
we're killed by an explosion in the Croton
sqaeduct in New York city. For several
hundred feet the aqueduct at the point OF
the accident was an open cut terminating
at each end in tunnel. The cnt had been
finished at the south end, and about 25O
fe+t of the tunnel has been completed,
while the heading had been extended 100
feet further. At about II o'clock of the
morning of the accident fifteen men were
working in the heading, while about ten
we're working in the bench q huRdred feet
nearer the mouth of the tunnel. Without
any warning there occurred the terrific ex-
plosion. Every light in the 'unnel was put
out by the concussion. The men in the
tunnel were momentarily stunned, but
were soon aroused by the cries Of wounded
and dying men corning through the smoke
and darkness. Quickly relighting their
lamps they hurried back to the bench.
Michael Quinn lay dead under pile of
rocks. George Hurlbert had been thrown
ten feet, and his drill, weighing perhaps 300
pounds, lay across his chest. His face, head
and upper part of his body we're much in
iured. He was still alive. Joseph Fesjua
lay bruisd beneath pile of rocks, with his
legs badly injured, and parts OF his flesh
slown away. James Quinn, who was sit
ting almost ever the place of explosion, had
been blown to the top of the heading, but
he came down on his feet on the bench
without any injury whatever. Milton
Smith who was climbing into the heading
was not hurt The rest Of the men were all
lying about under piles of rock or TIMBER,
all more or less seriously hurt. The injur-
ed were removed to the neighboring shan
ties and doctors were soon rendering every
aid in their power.