Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31


company, was probably fatally injured at
Troy, N. Y, Wills leaning out of car
winGo Y, his head striking an iron pillar.
Mrs. Conway and her daughter, Of Kan
sas City, were murdered in their own house
one afternoon recently. Nothing wss
missing. The murder remains mystery.
Canon Farrar speaks in glowing terms of
his reception in this country and pays q
high tribute to our &c ucationaI institutions
which he says are superior to those of Eng
land.
Tom Muldoon, q 14-year old boy, rob-
bed his Mother of over $1,000, at Youngs-
town, O., aud went to sleep in q wOoCshed,
where he was captured and the money re-
covered.
A sewer excavation twenty feet deep
caved in at South Bend, Ind, recently.
Two men were drowned and tive made
their appearance through the man-holes
q block away.
An explosion on The etreet car tracks at
st. Louis, tore out all the front part of the
foCr of the car and shattered some of the
windows. Three ladies and one gentle
man were passengers. None were injured.
Walter Chadwick, well-known citizen
of Newport, r. l., disappeared some days
ago. His body was found near the wharf,
heavily weighted with bricks, and around
hin head and chin was tied strong cord.
A Scotch woman in the last stages of con-
sumption, giving the name of Elite Little
field, hanged herself to q chandelier in
Boston hotel. She crossed the Atlantic
last week, and was in search of brother
in Chicago.
The city of Evansville, Indiana, has failed
to pay the interest coupons on So, 0OO, 600 of
water bonds. The holder Of the securities
is an eastern life insurance company,
which is privileged to take possession OF
the water works at its pleasure.
While B. 8. Shaw. prominent rea, e.
tate dealer, of San Francisco, was at dinner
in restaurant with Mrs. lmes G. Brown,
of Heraldsburg, Cal, the husband of the
latter walked in, drew q revolver, and
fred two bullets into him.
Cinnamon to the number of five hundred
or more, in small pr rites, have within the
past month passed through Pittsburg in
search of peaceful locations on the Allan
tic coast. having grown weary Of proscrip-
ton and violence in California.
The shortage in the accounts of the son
and assistant of Postmaster Wells, of Re-
nova, Pennsylvania, will reach SIS, 600.
His favOrite method of swindlipg was to
take cash from ignorant foreigners for
money orders and give them registered let
ter receipts.
O. P. McIains, member of the legisla-
ture of New Mexico, has commenced
fight aJ Washington against the fraudulent
survey made under the Maxwell grant, in
the hope of op sning to settlement large
portion of the territory.
Mrs. Fennell, of TrumbulI, Connecticut,
was last sprir & bitten by dog. On the
street in Bridgeport the ether night, she
was attacked by hydrophobia with such
violence that it required five policemen to
remove her to the station-house. One of
the officers received severe bite on the
arm.
Photographs have been secured of the
retina of the eyes of Mrs. Conway and
daughter murdered at Kansas City the 9TH
er day, in the hope t at the murderer's inn
age may appear upon them. 1t is q we'll
known fact that instances are on record of
thedetection of criminals in this manner.
The illicit distillers of franklin county,
Georgia, have begun war upon law abid
informed upon them. A young man who
testified for the government in several cases
has been sssassinated, and many persons
b ave been ordered to leave the county or
take the consequences.
Charles sundstrom. of saltwater, Mimi,
is declared by seve al local physicians to
one of his legs roted # and since at various
times all of his fingers, one thumb, and
the big toe on bis remaining leg. Consid-
cradle excitement has been caused among
the citizens, as it il feared the disease is
contagious.
White men attacked the section house at
Oidtown. Rock Springs, Wyoming. Terri
tory, three miles from the coal mining
town of the same name. The house was
occupied by thirty Cinnamon, employed
as section mtn. The mob yelled out and
shouted, f red volley of revolver shots in
to the air and bombarded the house with
clubs and stones and smashed every win.
dow.
The argument in the Injunction case be-
fore Judge B1ckwaltey, of Cincinnati, re-
latiDg to tie issuance of certificates to the
democratic candidates for teDstorin Ham,
iIton county continued throu shout the day.
The court took the matter under advise
ment, snd may not announce q decision
until next week, when substantially the
same On sstions will come up before the cir
cult court.
At Ssibertsville, small village in PENN
IylvDnis, four trsmps entered small house
some distance pack from the road, in which
lived two bachelor brothers, John and VIM.
Kester. eyed respectively fifty and fifty.
four years and demanded q large sum of
which was known to be secreted In the
house. Kester refused to reveal were the
money wss, and the trsmps bound them
hand and f OF and beat their brains ont
With heavy clubs. After committing the
murder, they He'd, and have not yet been
J Junction City Union: Our Catholic
neis hbors have made the preliminary
for an immense fair ct
Chapman about the holidays, for the