Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03


river between st. Louis and Memphis,
Tenn, and forty lives lost by drown
ing. arrived at her destination at 6
O'Clock on the r4orning of the Goth.
She was delayed by great number of
way landings and every body was safe.
AT New York Referee Jacobs. in his
| report on the suit for divorce brought
by Mrs. Corbett against her husband,
James j. Corbett, the pugilist, finds
Mrs. Corbett entitled to a divorce, and
| recommends that the agreement en-
tered into by her and her husband at
the time of their separation, by which
he agreed to pay her 500 week for
life, be continued
A New YORK Herald special from
| Chicago on the goth said that Jacob
Schaefer had not only broken his right
arm, but had splintered it, and physi-
clans thought that he would never be
| able to handle billiard cue again.
THE suit to test divorces granted by
the probate judges of Oklahoma was
decided by the supreme court at Guth-
RE adversely to the judges and divorces,
the court denying the right of probate
judges to grant divorces and declaring
all such null and void, and any SD bse-
quent marriage of the parties illegal.
Hundreds of eastern people who have
secured Oklahoma divorces from pro-
bate courts will be com PEELED to have
their cases retired in the district courts
JUST after midnight of the 27th the
executive board of the Brotherhood of
Tailors, at New York, ordered a strike
The effect will be that 1000 coat tai
lors of New York, Brooklyn and
Brownsville will quit their machines
and refuse to work any more until the
1000 contractors employing them sign
the new agreement
CHARLES ENLow, aged 20, was dead
and Charles Duffin, aged IS, was dying
from the effects of fight at Marietta,
Ind, on the 26th. It was the result of
jealousy and the object of their love
was a married woman. Duffin was
brought to his parents and, though in
dying condition, was compelled to
furnish bond for 81, OC0 to appear upon
the third day Of the Septem Der term of
the circuit court.
A TRAIN bearing 400 Japanese sol
diers returning from the war pitched
into the sea recently. A gale was pre-
vailing at the time and the heavy
breakers Struck the train while on the
track, cutting it in two. Eleven cars
went into the sea and the mum Der
killed was said to be 40 The accident
happened between Hiroshima and
Kobe.
A SPECIAL. from Croton, Ia, on the
25th, told of an alarming diphtheria
epidemic there. All the children in
some families had died. Quarantine
had been established.
THE international geogra phical con-
gress was formally opened in London
on the Goth by the duke of York.
Among the Americans in attendance is
Gen. A. w. Greeley.
THE work of the post office inspect
ors who have been sporting" the let
ter carriers in the free delivery offices
throughout the country, continues to
bear fruit. Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Jones has sent orders to the post
masters at indianapolis, Toledo and
Syracuse, n. Y, to suspend or dis
charge number of their carriers on
charges of loafng and intemperance.
A TRACTION engine broke through a
bridge across Salt creek, 10 miles from
GAINESVILLE, O., on the Goth. Frank
Dickerson was instantly killed and
William Bowser fatally injured.
PHILIP n. NICHOLAS paid the extreme
penalty of the law for murder at Rich
mond, Va, on the 25th. He had
drowned two men.
THE rumor that Chief of the Secret
Service Hazen would be removed from
Office has been denied in Washington.