Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-13

A MAN, supposed to be c. E. Cole, as
saulted and attempted to rob D. c. Nc
Gloin in his saloon at Chicago on the
Sth- After seriously wounding Nc
Gloin, the would-be thief escaped, fol-
lowed by some officers and crowd.
After firing into the mob that pursued
him and seriously wounding three citi-
Zens he was run down and killed by
Officer Rosenthal.
THE Redding and Alturas stage was
robbed on the sth, miles above Nor
ley's station, Cal The highwayman
took the Wells-Fargo box and regis
tered mail. The robber was believed
to be the veteran stage robber Brady.
AT Cincinnati $50 members of the
Horseshoers' union struck on the Sth.
Their demand for S1.5O increase of
wages per week, shorter hours and
recognition of the union was refused
and caused the strike.
FIVE persons were seriously hurt
and several other passengers slightly
injured by an electric street car jump
ing the track at Chicago on the sth.
THE business portion of Manchester,
N. Y. was wiped out by fire early on
the 8th. The estimated loss is $50, Goo
with insurance of about S45, 600.
A WHOLESALE Jail delivery occurred
at Hendersonville, n. c., recently.
Bloodhounds were put on the track of
the prisoners.
JUDGE CLARK, of Waco, has submit
ted an opinion as to the legality of the
proposed Corbett- Fitzsimmons glove
contest. He said there was no law
upon the statute book of Texas pro-
hibiting pugilistic encounters, and that
upon payment of the license fee pre-
scribed for such exhibition there was
no lawful power in the state to inter-
fere with the exhibition. Judge Clark
gave the matter at issue careful study
and patient research, and his opinion
was most sweeping.
The little town of Calamus, Ia, was
the scene of a shocking double tragedy
on the 18th. Robert Brown fatally shot
his wife and then killed himself Jeal-
ousy was the cause of the crime. The
couple had been married only two
months.
BY the explosion of a gasoline stove
on the 18th, at Chicago, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gunnwald were burned to death and
their residence burned to the ground.
Mrs. w. G. Bartel also died at ST.
Lul1e's hospital, while her 9-months-
old boy and her sister, Miss Ella King,
were so terribly burned that they may
not recover. The three were victims
of gasoline explosion on the 9th
SCOTIA, Cal, was visited by disas.
trious fire on the eth. The property
loss was estimated at 100000.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended July showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of IA. Q; in New
York the increase was 1862; outside
New York, 1876
A TERRIBLE riot occurred at picnic
at Siberia, Ind, on the 4th in which
1000 men and women participated.
Three men We're killed outright and
ffty-four persons wounded, many of
whom were women. The dangerously
wounded were taken to a Catholic
church and twenty were expected to
die. The occasion was a German
Catholic picnic and an interruption by
anti-Catholics, loaded with bad whisky,
was the cause of the trouble.
A NUMBER Of men were drinking in a
beer garden at Bernadotte, Ill, on the
5th, when fight was started about a
woman. Knives, revolvers, stones and
all kinds of deadly weapons were at
once brought into use. A desperate
battle took place in which 100 men
took part, and the result is that three
of them were fatally wounded and
several others were carried off the
ground suffering from various kinds OF
wounds.