Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18


at West Bingham, Pa, on the 18th
Five were dead and two of the three
! others have since died. A belt broke
and while.it was being repaired nobody
paid any attention to the boiler, which
was making steam at prodigious
rate It burst and the mill was entire
/ ly demolished. Parts of the boiler
were thrown hundreds of feet. The
victims were horribly mangled, having
their heads crushed to jelly and be-
/ ing recognizable only by their cloth.
! ing.
| A BIG fire occurred in the yards Oh
the Dwight Lumbe Co.. which occupy
about two blocks square, at Detroit,
Mich. The loss was estimated at $780,,
Gao.
THE British steamers Esmera1da and
Martina collided off Armor Light on
the coast of France and the Martina
sank. Eleven of her crew are missing.
By the burning of the residence of
Thaddeus Brown. a farmer residing 4
mile from the village of Bryan o., his
wife perished in the flames and his
5-year-old son was fatally burned.
THE dormitory of the state normal
school, at Slippery Rock, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire recently. There were
$50 boys sleeping there when it was
discovered The fire escapes were not
adequate to admit of the escape of all
and many jumped into blankets. All
the students have, however, been ac-
counted for. The fire started in the
engine room. The loss is about $685.
600; partly insured.
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dent Seelye, of Amherst college. &C.
Cured at his home in Amherst, Mass,
of palsy. He had been i'll over year
THERE was a grand parade of all
troops gathered in Memphis, Tenn, on
the 18th. The parade was witnessed
by 5O,O 600 people. In line following the
regular troops was a uniformed COM
pany of ex-confederate veterans
trapped as they were in days of the
confederacy, but bearing aloft the
United States flag.
THREE men entered the gam bling
house of Powers & O'Brien at Chicago
the other night and with drawn re-
volvers held up the players. Eight
men were in the room playing poker.
All the players were made to hold up
their hands while the robbers went
through their pockets. One of the rob-
bers was afterwards caught.
THE ferry boat, Capitola Butt, run
ming between Sioux City, Ia, and the
Nebraska shore, caught fire from de-
fective fue in mid stream and burned
to the waters edge. The crew sue
ceeded in reaching the Nebraska shore.
The loss was about $4,000, partially
covered by insurance.
A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted on
the sidewalk at Philadelphia on the
10th by August Topper. He shot Clara
Herhold twice and then sent bullet
into his right temple. killing himself
almost instantly. The girl was re-
moved to a hospital where she died
half an hour later. Topper was des-
perately in love with the Herhold girl,
who was servant in his family, but
his advances were coldly received as
he was a married man.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipa1 cities in the United States for the
week ended May 10 showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of $50; in New
York the increase was SO. 5; outside New
York, 1916.
THE failures for the week ended
May 10 (Dun's report) were 227 in
the United States, against 2O6 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against ~ last
year.
THOMAS JORDAN and Peter Augusta
were legally hanged at Canon City,
Col, on the evening of the 18th.