Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

A RASCHMAN named Shaw trailed
some Mexican cattle thieves, who had
stolen steer, to Twohigs station, on
the [. & 6. N, so miles north of Laredo,
Tex. and in the fight the ranchman,
two Mexicans and a child were killed
and a woman wounded.
An electric car was stopped by five
masked men at Chicago soon after s
o'clock on the night of the nth and the
conductor and passengers robbed of
their money and valuables.
PROF. L. L. DYCHE. of the Kansas
university, in an article in the New
York Herald of the 9Th on the recent
polar EXPEDITION, asserted that Peary,
when only few miles from the farth-
est north. was obliged to turn back
for want of pemmiean and alcohol. and
could he only have found the caches
containing those necessities perhaps
the pole might have been reached.
A CHICAGO paper on the 18th stated
that that city was to have an attack of
''Kaffir fever the disease which has
made England and the continent crazy
for speculation in South African mines,
and that before Decem Der 1 Kafir
stocks would in all pro ba bility be listed
in Chicago
THE northbound Frisco passenger
train was held up at CASTOR, /. T., on
the night of the 9th by six mer, who
cut the express car loose from the
train and ran it up the track. They
failed to OPEN the through safe and
only got s. cents from the local safe.
The passengers were not molested.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred
in the Dorence mine at Wilkes barre,
Pa, on the 18th and FIVE men were
brought to the surface badly burned.
two fatally. Eight other men were
missing and the officials thought there
was no hope of saving them alive, the
rescuing party making such slow
progress on account of the gas.
WHILE a great crowd of people was
assem- bled on the 9Th to witness the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
St. Mary's cathedral, at Lorraine, o.,
a temporary floor, on which many of
the people were standing, suddenly
gave way, precipitating many men.
women and children into the basement.
One was killed outright, eleven fatally
injured and between thirty and forty
others were badly hurt. The contract
ors were said to be responsible for the
accident, poor timbers being used for
supporting the platform.
AT Dayton. O.. Rev. Dr. Lawrence
dropped dead in the pulpit while con-
Quoting services.
AT Myrtle, small town few miles
from Toronto, Ont. bold robbery was
com mitted in the Canadian Pacific rail
Nay station. An unknown robber sand
81,
him insensible The safe was then
blown open and 81, 500 of the Dominion
Express Co.'S funds stolen. The op-
orator was so badly injured that he
was unable to give a coherent account
of the affair.
ANDREW CAIN and William Crosse
coon hunters of Montpelier, Ind, mad
vertentiy built a fire over some nitro
glycerine that had been buried in the
ground. An explosion followed blow
ing both men to atoms
REPORTS received from different parts
of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey on the 4th indicated that the coun-
try was suffering from a drought of
large proportions In some places
there was almost famine on account
of lack of water The farmers were
complaining of the lateness of the crops
and in numerous instances were CON-
PEELED to carry water distance of
miles for cattle. But little rain ha d
fallen since July l.
In some portions of Colorado inches
of snow fell on the 4th Dispatches
from Salida and Buena Vista said that
considerable damage had been done in
orchards. the damp snow breaking
many branches off the trees.
AT Jersey City, \. j., John Czech.
otherwise known as Fish John. was
.xecuted in the county Jail on the Sd
COR the murder of his wife on June B.
jealousy was the motive of his crime