Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-03
TELEGRAPHIC TIDlNGS.
pCA ESTiC.

Two more of the Chicago police, victims Of
the boom thro gers, have been given up.
Ex-President Arthur and family have de-
parted for Connecticut to SO journ a shor,
ime.
William Brown was gored to death by g
bull on the farm of Absalom McVey, neal
Sedalia, Mo.
T. R. Adams, L. Clark and John Wilson
were killed by boiler explosion neal
Atkins, Ark,
Mitchell county has elected delegates to
the democratic state convention, instructed
for Moonlight for governor.
George B. Davis was hanged at Scale, GA.
for the murder of William McClelland. alias
Archie Reeves, last spring.
Frank Wenland, in the state house of cor
rection at Iona, Mich, was fatally shot by a
guard for attempting to escape.
The fourth annual convention of the Ira.
velers' Protective Association of the United
States is in session at Baltimore.
Secretary Whitney says that there is no
truth in the report that he has resigned and
added that he had no such intention.
John P. Prettyman, Milwaukee anarchist
has been convicted. He was sentenced to
imprisonment for one year in the county
Jail.
Theo. Ementh, Jewish rabbi, of st.
Louis has been deposed because he desert
sd buddhism and accepted the Unitarian
faith.
P. T. Barnum, the Gown and only greatest
show on earth" was reported to be lead.
But he at once telegraphed from Bridgeport
that he was alive.
1t is now stated that Secretary Manning
health has improved SO preceptibly rs to
warrant his expectation of resuming his
duties in October.
The postoffice at INT Pleasant, Ia, was
robbed Of 81 600 in stamps and $500 in cur
rency. Three hundred dollars of the money
was the postmaster's private property
The sixth annual meeting of the American
water works association convened at Denver,
large number of delegates from all parts
of the United States being present.
Mrs. Sarah Tyrell, living near Lancaster,
Wis, struck her husband on the head with a
scantling, killing him. He had attacked her
with chair, and the deed was in self-de-
fenee.
The 11-year old girl of Dole, in the de-
partment of Jura, France, who was bitten
by dog on April q, placed under treatment
by M. Pasteur and returned home has, it is
now announced, died of hydrophobia.
Senator Call has introduced bill au-
thorizing the secretary of the treasury to
pay timber agents who served prior to the
war of the rebellion whatever sums may be
standing to their credit on the books Of the
department..
Advice from Baltimore indicates that the
decree of the Catholic council forbidding
fho nf nv
keepers who are members of that church,
will soon be promulgated from every Catho-
lie pulpit in the country.
The senate committee on commerce has
nearly completed the river and harbor bill.
The items in the house bill will be increased
to the aggregate of SOL, 500; net increase
1885,, 775. The total appropriation by the
senate is $1s,O49,975.
Judge Advocate McGarry, a high official
came involved in fight in st. Louis court
room while his case was up, and smuggling
match followed. McGarry was fined $25 for
his conduct by the Judge.
A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says: "In
Annapolis county, where the contest in the
recent election was very close, one or more
of the ballot-bo1es are missing. As the re-
suit, the secessionist candidate, Attorney
General Longley, will be counted H."
The trial of the alleged conspirators in
dicted by the grand jury in the T ecent inves-
tigation of the labor trouble and riots, at
Milwaukee, was begun in the municipal
court. About thirty defendants appeared at
the bar.
Rev. Charles Reilly, d. D., treasurer of
RENTED ei2, 900 to the Hons. Justin Nc
Carthy and Joseph G. Briggs, treasurers of
the parliamentary fund. This makes in all
1900, or 1876, 90, sent by DR.. Reilly since
the Boston convention.
Providence presented a gay appearance
in honor of the 25Oth anniversary of the
settlement OF that city. Nearly all the
buildings, public and private were covered
of the landing of Roger Williams. The
streets we're thronged with visitors. Bust
ness was generally suspended.
A man named Donaldson, living in the |
country near Kemper, Tex, killed his step |
daughters babe, of which he is said to have |
been the father. The mother of the child |
died, and it is thought that Donaldson killed |
the child in order to cover the crime of
which he is accused. A posse has been Or
ganized to go in pursuit of Donaldson, and
if found he will undoubtedly be lynched.
VIM. Ouaries, Edward Hollis, W. L. Buch-
anan and Albert Jaystal, all of whom par
icipated in the late southwestern strike
were found guilty of conspiracy in the
criminal court at Parsons, Kansas, and were |
sentenced to pay 800 fine and costs, and
serve thirty days imprisonment in the coun-
ty Jail. N. J. Drury, council for the defend
ants, fled motion for new trial.
Joseph Villio, an Austrian resident at New
Orleans, La, aged 65. during q fit of in
sanity, cut his wife's throat with razor and
then drew the weapon across his own throat
and left arm. Mrs. Villio died in a few
minutes after the attack, but Villio was
taken to the hospital and is out of danger.
Villio has been an inmate of an asylum for
some time but was released two weeks ago.
At wedding here at midnight last night
Walter Hodgson, with several others, dis
turbed the festivities by prying open with
clothes poles the windows of the house in
which they were being held. John Earl,
with others, tried to stop the disturbance,
when fight occurred, during which Hodg-
son struck Earl on the head with board,
and Earl died of concession of the brain.
Hodgson has fed.
Black diphtheria is invading the towns of
Eoorse, Spring Wells and Royal Oak, near
Detroit, Mich, and is carrying OF a large
number of victims. Children are taken
without warming. Their threats swell and