Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-24
WA-KEENEY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER

A large crowd was in attendance at the
Hanlon, Lee and Courtney, Conley boat
race at Albany, N. Y. The race was won
by Hanlon and Lee by three lengths. Time
4Sm, 15s.
While workingmen were making an ex-
cavatiOn under brick wall on Main St.
Louisville, KY, at noon, the wall gave way
and fell in, severely injuring five of those
employed.
The works of the Lafayette sugar refinery
eight miles S uth of Lafayette, were struck
by lightning the other night and burned
to the ground. Loss $4,000; Insurance
$4,000.
A Baltimore and Ohio express tram
struck a rock near Ohio Pyle Falls, Penn
sylvania, the locomotive, two baggage cars,
aud the smoking car plunged into the river.
Several persons were injured, none fatally.
Posters have been appearing lately in
some of the Pacific coast towns where diff
culties with the Chinese exist warning fire.
men not to respond to the lalms of fire
from the Chinese quarters.
Another high tide swept over R getaway,
N. Y, beach, doing great damage. A por
ton of the iron pier was carried away. A
large quantity of wreckage was washed up,
and it is believed Tat q vessel had been
wrecked.
The FIST of the series of games between
the Chicago and champion club of the ma
tional league and the st. Louis champion
club of the American association for the
of the world was played this
afternoon, It resulted in q tie in innings
A terrible auick.spreading fire broke out
in q prick cote &c at No. S6Vernon
Park place. Chicago. six persons were
burned to death. The family consisted OF
five persona and servant girl, and all but
two met most horrible death.
Cinnamon to tho number of five hundred
or more, in small parties, have within the
past month passed through Pitts burg in
search of peaceful locations on the Allan.
tic coast. having grown weary of proscrip-
ton and violence in California.
Several persous connected with the Stand.
ard Oil company have been indicted by
the Buffalo grand jury for conspiracy, the
Buffalo Lubricating company alleging tina,
the defendants conspired to burn and blow
up their works.
The shortage in the accounts of the SOD
and assistant of Postma ster Wells, of Re.
nova, Pennsylvania, will reach IS ,0O0
His favorite method of swirdling was to
take cash from ignola1t foreigners fol
money orders and give them registered let.
ter receipts.
VIM. 8. Warner, who secured most of the
funds of the bankrupt firm OF Grant &
Ward, surrendered himself to United
States Commissioner Shields recently, say.
ing he understood there IVES q warrant is
sued against him.
A one-armed man giving the nams Of
lie welry store at Louisville, about midnight
and waited for policeman, to whom he
said that he desired home in the peniten.
tiary for few years, having suffered sufi'
GENTLY from hunger.
Col. John Hilton, assistant adjutant gen.
ersl, hes ass umed charge of the appoint
m snt commits on and peIs onal branch 0
the afjutant generals Office, war depart
ment, relieving Gen. Chauncer Nc Reeve
who will take the station at San Fran
CISCO.
Mrs. Hannah Ramley, of Dodgeville
Wiz, Was found guilty of aiding her youth.
full son in the murder of her husband, Con.
rad Rsmley, and was sentenced yesterday
to imprisonment for life, one day in each
year to be spent in solitary confinement
Her son, who is already serving life sen.
ten &C, was the witness in the case.
There is practically no street cal strike
in st. Louis, as all the roads are running
now with full force. Only one line is now
under police protection, the Green line on
- b ar rvs6 oy naf~ I'm
dred in number, are in executive session,
and to ali questions asked what they will
do or expect, they simply answer, wait
and see."
The illicit distillers of franklin county,
Georgia, have begun war upon law abid.
ing citizens whom they suspect of having
Informed upon them. A young man who
testified for the government in several cases
has been assassinated, and many persons
b ave been ordered to leave the county OF
take the consequences.
At McKeeeport, Pa, Thos. 3igham, while
drunk, punished his wife for refusing him
money for more liquor by knocking her
babe from her arms, beating her to the
floor, and dancing on her PROSTATE body
until life was nearly extinct The woman
will die and the child is dangerously in
ured. Bigham has not been arrested.
A dispatch received at military head
quarters from Fort Robinson says that no
race has been found of the Sioux Indians
recently reported to he committing depre-
1ations along the northern frontier of Ne
oraeka and Wyoming. Troops from Fort
Niobrayra arealso securing the co1ntry, bat
no report has yet been received from
hem.
Joseph Riggs. who, with party of
friends, was bunting in the Rockies, was
killed in an ell counter with grizzly bear
last week. He shot the bear before he was
killed himself. After Riggs had discharg-
ed his lest cartridge, the wounded bear
rushed at him and death struggle ers1ed.
Drawing his long knife, Riggs stabbed the
bear in the heart, but not until he himself
had been dis mbowled. His body was
ound by his companions several hours
sfter the fatal struggle.
The secretary of the interior is dissatisfied
With the meg greness of the reports hereto
lore furnisheI by the government directors
If the Pacific railroads, and intends to
make . change in this reepsct TIE stat
1tes authorizes the secretary to prescribe
he character and frequency of
,heee repoyts: an order will be