Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT JeHerSOnVllle, Ind, on the 1St
Mrs. Bennett poisoned her two chill
dren, aged and 10 years, and then
committed suicide. She had been care
full to dress her children and herself in
spotless linen for burial.
IN Harris county, Ga, Henry Thomas,
a 11-year-old negro boy, deliberately
murdered 1-year-old baby which had
been left with him to take care of for
a time.
HARRY A. HARMON leaped from the
top of the Fort Dearborn Spice Co.'S
building at Chicago recently into the
river. distance of 10 feet, on wager
of $50 between two other men. He
turned back somersault and landed
feet first in the water. He soon reap
peared and selling line thrown him
was pulled ashore.
THE house Of Trotter Holiday,
prominent rancher of Gridley, Cal,
was burned early on the morning of
the 1st and Holiday and Mary Turtle,
his niece, persisted in the flames.
THE international penitentiary con-
gress was opened at Paris on the goth
by the minister of the interior with a
brilliant ceremony. President Faure,
Ribot, minister of finance, and other
ministers and diplomats and 700 dele
gates were present, representing
twenty-five different countries, includ-
ing America and England.
A LEHIGH Valley freight train ran
over three men on the track on Green's
bridge, near Phillipsburg, n. J. The
men were intoxicated. Their bodies
were badly mangled.
AN Internal machine was sent from
Fuertstenwald to Berlin, addressed to
the chief of police. The nature of the
parcel was discovered by a leakage of
benzine before any harm was done.
THE oarsmen of Yale defeated the
men from Harvard for the thirteenth
time at New London, Conn, on the
2sth. Harvard was beaten by thirty
five seconds, or nearly ten lengths.
The distance was 4 miles, on the
Thames, down stream. The official
time was: Yale, 1890: Harvard, 22:O5.
A MISSOURI Kansas & Texas freight
train was badly wrecked near Nc
Alester, I. t., on the Goth, eight or nine
cars, including one car of stock, were
derailed, and the cars smashed.
THE reorganization committee of the
whisky trust applied for an Illinois
charter on the 2Sth to operate seventeen
plants of the old Distilling & Cattle
Feeding Go. The capital stock was
fixed at S35, 900, 600. Chicago was given
as the location.
BOTH the north and south bound
stages running between Klamath Falls
and Ager, Ore, were stopped near
Topsy grade by a lone highwayman,
who took the registered matter in the
mail pouches and relieved one pas
senger of small amount of cash.
! SAN FRANCISCO was visited by Sc
we're fire on the 27th, acres of ground
being burned over and 100 families
made homeless. The fire started in a
box factory and the flames spread rapid
Il ly. A number of wool warehouses and
wineries were destroyed. One woman
was burned to death while attempting
to save her belongings and a number
of horses were burned in their stables
Probably So, 900, 600 loss was inflicted
with little or no insurance.
DUBUQUE, Ia, had a premature
Fourth of July celebration with pyro
technic effects on the 25th. A farmer
entered the Golden Rule department
SGOTG 10 guy a udI LOT HIS VIE dnC
dropped ashes from his pipe into 9
ST. 600 display of fireworks Every
thing went, including plate glass win
dows, sky rockets and the last remnant
of the stock. There was series o,
terrific explosions. which brought the
towns population. to the scene, and il
the midst of the excitement the farmer
disappeared.
: MICHAEL McDoNoUGH, the Kentor
: wife murderer. was hanged at Colum
bus, O., on the 9th. The execution
was sickening one. The rope cut
5 deep into the neck when the body
dropped, severing the trachea anC
jugular vein. McDonough exhibited
the utmost Indifference to his fate W
! to the time he went on the scaffold
On the scaffold, however, he becam,
: very nervous and his knees were
trembling very noticeably when tn
trap was sprung.