Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-02
sway, and the cause of the difficulty can not
be ascertained.

sway, and the cause of the difficulty can moi
be ascertained.
The handsome young bride Of @. A. Ru-
dolph, Ct Baltimore, having fear that she
would become insane, killed herself with
revolver, firing four shots into her breast
Her sister heard the reports and rushed into
the room, when the dying woman requested
her to fire the remaining shots and end bel
misery.
A. G. Strong, Knight Templar residing
on farm near Naperyille, ILL.,, was killed
by Missouri Pacific engine, while attempt,
ing to board an accommodation train o,
Cheltenham.
The knight Templars drill in st. Louis
was held on the fair grounds. It was WIT
messed by 10000 people and is eaid to have
been the grandeet thing Of the kind evel
witnessed. The fambeaux display and il'u.
limitations at night were of unfivalled mag
nifcence.
E1-President Arthur has decided to return
to New York and occupy his house on Lex.
ington avenue this winter. Tho generals
health does not show any improvement
when he left New York.
The strike of the western window glass
workers at Pittsburg, Pa, il settled, and
work will be resumed in every factory west
of the Alleghenies. The basis of the settle
have been closed since last June, with over
1900 men out.
An old man named Peter Post, who was
on his way from Ohio to visit his son at
Silver Lake. went crazy while on the train
on his arrival at Topeka. No reason is
assigned for it as the man has always had a
reasonably sound mind.
The cases of Dejneck and Brada, of Oh
cago, who, it is charged, attempted to han
Police Officer CaAey during the McCormic
riots in May last, were given to the jury
Dejneck, whose defense had been an alibi,
was given one year in the penitentiary. Bra
da was acquitted.
The conductor on the Wichita & Colorado
passenger train was attacked by drunken
brakemen at lit station between
Hutchinson and Wichita and held at bay in
the depot for some thirty minutes until the
authorities took charge Of the offender. He
had club and stood of the whole crowd
for time.
Two Seminole boys from the Indian Ter
ritory were sentenced in the United States
SQUIRT at Wichita, to be hanged on the 9Th of
February next for the rape Of a woman in
the territory last May. This will be the
first judicial execution occurring in the state
of Kansas.
During q severe thunder storm at Waupa
ca, Wis, the electric light wires which run
along main street were 50 heavily charged
with electricity that large balls Of fire were
cen hanging or suspended in the air just
below them. Occasionally ono would ex-
plode and q number of persons in the vicin-
ity received severe shocks.
William e. Gould, the defaulting cashier
of the First National bank, of Portland,
Me-, was arrested to await the action of the
grand jury. A card signed by the president
and directors of the various other banks in
the city was issued, assuring the public that
the banK lie solvent and able to meet all its
liabilities, and that its capital of ,0OO, 600
is practically unimpaired.
The first section of the oil train on the
Allegheny Valley railroad ran into the Sec
trains were demolished. After the accident
the cars took fire and were entirely con-
sumed. The loss will reach $4,000, but no
one was injured. The accident was caused
by the failure to send back flag man.
The Northern Sioux have decided to es-
tablish mail and transportation routes
throughout the frontier region on the COOP
erative principle, the work to be done by
the young men of the nation. As all the Ia
Dor will be performed on foot, young war
riors are now in training for their part in
the enterprise. Each runner is to make
seventy-fve miles per week.
A man supposed to be John L. Dugan was
found dead on the Gulf railroad track eight
miles west of Springfield, Mo-, having been
run over by freight train on which he was
o. nd il bod nsv& ~
valise which was sent by express from Kan
sas City and is in the Office at this place. A
verdict was rendered at the coroner's in
quest in accordance with the facts.
Two unknown men, supposed to be com.
Big Sandy boat at Cincinnati. Ohio. The
gang plank, it appears, was not in its usual
place and the nigh twas dark and rainy, and
the men walked off the wharf into the river
and were drowned about ten minutes apart.
The people aboard the steamer made an
effort to rescus the two men but without
avail.
Two thousand members of the Ancient
Arabic Order of Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, one of the highest orders of Mason
~, are in attendance upon the Knights
Templar conclave. The order is of Arabic
origin, and as the Arabic year ended at II
o cl0ck, the lnltlAt0fy services at that hour
partook of an unusual interest. Two hun
dred candidates, mostly from st. Louis, were
initiated.
The republican state convention met at
Raleigh, N. c., representing ffty-four of
the ninety-six counties in the state. It
nominated full ticket for the supreme and
superior courts, and adopted platform
which endorses the Blair bill and denounces
The democrats for their failure to pass it;
opposes convict labor; endorses q protect
i've tariff, and condemns the democratic
party for broken promises and pledges.
l On the LIST of October nearly 300 mechanics
will be discharged from the Washington
navy yards as result of the recent order of
Secretary Whitney turning over the entire |
zard to the ordinance bureau. Nearly all of |
he heavy plant now in place will be removed |
o other yards, and the buildings vacated |
will be used to accommodate improved ma |
,hinery for the fabrication of heavy or
nance. It is believed the machinery Of the |
equipment will be sent to the Boston navy
ards.
Superintendent Nichols and Fire Boss
Prandlock went into the Marvin shaft and
ound the dead bodies of six of the eight men
Who were imprisoned in the mine by the /
'ave-in that occurred in Scranton, Pa. The
'odies were found in the gangway where the
Missing men were supposed to have gathered
vhen the fall occurred. They we're not
rushed. but Law an If thew had 00na In aIoop |