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

Steel Co.. of Chicago. went into effect
on the 1st Over 1000 men were bene.
flied.
THE big Rex mine az Leadville, Col !,
has been drowned out and there was
reported $50 feet of water in the shaft.
The owners had spent large sum of
money in pumping plant and were
drawing out 100000 gallons of water
an hour when the flow commenced to
increase and drove the workmen up
level by level from the bottom, 365
feet. A very rich ore body was just
being entered when the mine flooded.
The race between the yachts AiIsa
and the Britannia on the 1st took place
at Rothesay, Scotland. the Britannia
being the winner. Time, Britannia,
4:04:4S; Ailsa, 4:07:04- The Valkyrie
Ill did not enter the race.
DIR. ROBERT w. BUCHANAN, the New
York wife murderer, was electricized
at Sing Sing on the 1st. In about
thirty seconds Buchanan was strapped.
Then the current was turned on and in
forty seconds he was pronounced dead.
The voltage of l, TAO was kept on for
four seconds and then reduced to forty
volts, which was kept on for thirty
seconds more. It was the quickest
and most successful electricision ever
known at the prison.
CLAY PUGH was legally hanged at
Butte, Mont, on the 1st for the muir
der of a conductor who put him off a
train.
THE international cricket match be-
tween American and Canadian colleges
was begun at Philadelphia on the 1st.
On the stone docks on Kelly's isl
and, near Sandusky, O., connected by
railway with the big stone carries,
fifteen loaded cars were being drawn
up the steep incline, when the engineer
lost control of his engine and the en-
tire train backed into the lake and
sank beneath the waters. The trestle
is about 40 feet above the dock and the
train hands in jumping were seriously
injured.
In fire at Worcester, Mass, on
the Both. two fremen were killed and
many injured.
A LARGE proportion of the liquor
| dealers in the upper forty-nine coun-
ties of Iowa retired from business on
the goth. It was said that the falling
off of business had been such that il
| would not be profitable to renew the
government license and pay the sec
ond installment of the mulct tax.
AT Richmond, Va, Miss Minnie
Wilkinson shot herself through the
heart in an anteroom of the Second
Presbyterian church while services
were being held on the 3Oth.s Sheshad
been suffering from melancholia.
A GASOLINE stQye exploded ia the
home of Christopher Brown, 1341 Well
ington avenue, Chicago, causing the
death of Miss Agnes Brown and the
fatal injury to her mother, Mrs. Mary
| Brown, and her brother, Arthur
Brown.
FIRE on the both in the fve-story
building at the southwest corner of
| Franklin and Madison streets at Chi
cago caused a loss of between 5000, 00t
and $500, 900, the wholesale firm of A.
L. Putnam & Co.. boots and shoes; c.
j. Cosgrove, boots and shoes, and the
American College of Dental Surgery
being burned out.
| THE convention Of the Railway Yard
| masters association of the United
| States and Canada convened at Denver
| Col, disbanded the old organization
and formed new one under the name
of the National Yardmasters' associa
ton.
Both the north and south bound
stages running between Klamath Fall.
and Ager, Ore, were stopped neal
Topsy grade by lone highwayman
who took the registered matter in thu
mail pouches and relieved one pas
| senoer of a small amount of cash,