Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-04-25

Chicago cOuncilmen are Of the opinion
that disappointed Republican partisans an
giving the city q very bad name. Resolu
tons on the subject were offered.
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A mad dog at Cairo, ILL.,, bit two boy,
and several dogs.
BENZ. M. Pratt, a Cincinnati lawyer COM
mitted suicide.
Aaron Jones, q negro, was lynched al
New Roads, La.
Fire at Sullivan, Ind, destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
Thos. Killian was fatally shot in saloon
row at Avondale, o.
Mapp & Co.'S stove works, Norfolk, Va.
were destroyed by fire.
8. NJ. Chapman's residence at Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, was destroyed by fire..
The Excelsior Knitting mills. at Bethle-
men, Pa, were destroyed by fire.
A number of business houses at Lees
Summit, No., were destroyed by fire.
Another murder, this time double one,
is reported in fancy county, Missouri.
The body of q female colored child was
found floating in pond at Quincy, LII.
The Miami Savings bank at Miami, No.,
was entered by burglars and robbed OF S.
600.
Thes. Samon was hanged at Laconia N.
H., for the murder of three persons in
1883.
The baby carriage factory of Wagner &
Bsntly at Cincinnati was damaged $40, 600
by fire.
Three Mexican horse thieves were killed
in q fight with rangers near Eagle Pass,
Texas.
Several business houses were destroyed
by fire at Aullville, Mo. Loss probably
$4,000.
James @. Anderson, principal of the pub
lie school at Norborne, Mo-, committed sui
eide.
Smith Dixon, IS years of age, was arrest
ed at Chatham, ILL.,, charged with beastly
crime.
. Deputy Sheriff Buck of Taylor county,
Texas, was killed by desperadoes in Jones
county.
The Stillman, the finest hotel in Cleve-
land, Ohio, was badly damaged by fire. No
lives lost.
Wives of two police constables publicly
horsewhipped the editor of the Independent
Advertiser at Nyac, N. Y.
VIM. Kett;a and wife, who live near Can
ton, Mo-, were almost suffocated by the gas
in Quincy hotel. They were on their
bridal tour.
Near Paducah, KY, Lucinda Beerdan
killed her newborn babe and disappeared,
and the suppostion is that she has COM
mitted suicide.
A farm hand near Plainville, N. J., muir
dered an old lady for whom he worked, be-
cause she Elected to his making love to her
daughter. He then hanged himself.
A prominent young lady of San Antonio,
from another demoiselle of that city, and
there is local sensation over the matter.
VIM. Phillips was hanged at Fort Smith
Ark, for the murder of VIM. Hill. He de-
clared his innocence to the last, and said
that Rod Hill, son of the murdered man,
committed the deed.
While robbing q store at san Vego, Tex,
. gun was accidentally discharged by one of
twelve Mexican bandits, causing the instant
death of the robber the ball struck. Citizens
pursued the robbers.
Mrs. Henrietta Morgan of Cincinnati in
herits fortune of 100000 by the death
of Baroness De Fannemberg at Gaines.
France April 18th. The Baroness was born
in Cincinnati and is the daughter of Col.
Jas. J. Trother. Mrs. Morgan, who is her
nearest relative, is the mother Of the con.
federate General John II. Morgan.
The Grand jury at Newburg. N. Y, in
dicted Hugh McConn who is blind and over
30 years old, for the murder of his wife aged
70, in February last. The couple had fre
but it is supposed McC Conn knock
ed his wife down and stamped her, so that
she died two days later from her injuries.
The indictment is for murder in the first
degree.
A Chattanooga. Tenn, special says: A
bloody and sensational tragedy occurred at
Oakdale Junction near this city. Pat Cain,
IN engine hostler, and Jim First q noted
became engaged in q little quarrel. First
finally drew his pistol and shot Cain
through the breast. and as the latter was
alling he fired at First, the bullet taking
Eject in his abdomen, causing q fatal
wound.
As porter was lighting the lamps in the
news room of the Buffalo Morning Express
,fice one of the oil tanks above the print |
ers' case took fire, and in short time the |
Dom was in flames. G.. n. Dreneton and |
Cd. Hoffman both photographers in the
building were heavy losers. The O'Nel |
Wagon Company on the first floor and the
oh department of the Express Office on the
ourth floor was all consumed. Four hum |
lred hands were thrown cut of employ
nent.
A special from the City of Mexico April
Z, says hetroops of the Columbian govern
aent finally entered Colon, after it had
zen burned by therebels under the leader
bip of Preston. They captured several
quads Of rebels. During the past ten days
number Of these prisoners have been
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