Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-05-09
of registered letters and stamps by breaking
into the pOstofice at GlenwOOd, No.

of registered letters and stamps by breaking
into the postoffice at Glenwood, No.
| The rescuipg party recovered the dead
bodies of eleven mel killed by the snow
slide on Homestake mountain in Colorado.
Zed strathan, Chicago & Alton brake
man, deliberately threw himself on the
track at Pearle, ILL.,, and was killed. Love
affair.
Two young Germans near Carlinville,
ILL.,. went coon hunting. Frank Trunk
took Jos. Deitz tor the coon and shot him
fatally.
tie twenty -four business houses and four
en- residences were burned at CAbery, Ill.
Total loss $1CO, 200. The fire is believed to
have been OF incendiary origin.
Robert G. Hall, a young man in New
York City, while clerking for G. F. Hast
! ings, embezzl $12, 900, and is now in jail
He comes from q good family.
The postmaster general has forbidden the
delivery Of registered letters and money Or
ders to F. Ridd & Co., Dubuque, lows, on
| the evidence that they were conducting a
fraudulent business through the mails.
) Samuel G. Abbott and Julian A. Penni-
man are under arrest charged with having
attempted to burn the Hoffman house in
Boston. The first fire was started July 25,
1883, and at intervals since then four other
fires have been started in most mysterious
manner.
Harry Smith, aged % years, and Hattie
N. Null, aged 80, were found dead in bed in
second story room in Philadelphia.
Smith had shot the woman three time
through the head, and then took poisOns
The cause of the murder and suicide has
not been learned.
Francesca Caruso, of Chicago, states that
his brother, whose body was shipped to
Pittsburgh in q trunk, left his house. No.
rs Tilden avenue, at 8 o'clock last Thurs
day evening, with over $500 in his posses
sion. Withln,two and a half hours his
corpse was delivered at the railway station.
A dispatch from Butler, Ga, May LIST,
says that last night the Rev. Jesse Cook, be-
coming enraged at his wife,. knocked her
down with an axe and then putting his foot
on her throat he dealt her three blows with
the axe knocking out her brains. Both are
colored. A posse of armed men are in pur
suit of him.
German Hess, with his wife and child,
living three miles from Concordis, Ohio,
some time during the night, took an ak
and severed the head of his child from its
body. He then beat his wife on the head
until life was extinct. The room bore
bloody evidence of dreadful struggle
After the bloody deed Hess hung himself
to a rafter, and when found all the bodies
were stiff.
An express train on the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago railroad. was stopped at
Smithville Hill, Ind, by one man, and the
robber after shooting the baggageman and
express messenger took what money there
was in the car, pulled the bell chord and as
the train Stacked up left the train and
robber got about So 600. In jumping from
he car he dropped $500 but did not stop to
pick it up.
Another man has been found dead in
trunk. The bsggage-master at the Union
depot at Pittsburgh received a trunk which
contents gave out suspicious odor, and al
ter counseling with the officials of his road,
broke the trunk open and found therein
the body of a man, securely bound and in
an advanced stage of decomposition. The
face was badly discolored and blotted, and
the stencil was SO great that it kept at
safe distance the large crowd which quickly
gathered. The trunk was Q common
wooden one, and evidently had not been
used before. 1t arrived from Chicago, but
no clew as to who checked it could be ascer-
tanned. No record of baggage is kept. The
body, in order to get into the trunk. had
been bent almost double. Around the
back, arms and legs was hemp cord about
one-eighth of an inch in thickness. which
had been drawn 80 tight that it had cut
deep into the flesh. There was no mark of
violence, and 50 far as could be ascertained
from an outward examination the stomach
was in . normal condition. The body wee
that of laboriDg man probably 30 years of
age, short heavy build, with q smooth
face.