Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-15
MsCELLANEoUS.

KANE, Pa, was reported SurrO unded
by fires and points that last weeks
fires did not burn were being burned
over on the 10th. A large force of
men was at work trying to prevent
the flames from spreading to oil and
other valuable property. At Sugar
Run l, 500, 900 feet of logs and I, 900 cords
of bark belonging to one man and g.,
600, 600 feet of logs belonging to an
other had been destroyed, and the peo-
pie of the place barely had time to re-
move their household goods.
EVERY saloon in Des Moines, Ia,
was closed on the 10th by order of
Judge Spurrier, of the district court.
The judge held that the so-called con-
sent statement lacked sufficient sigma
lures to entitle the saloons to open IN
der the mulct law. An appeal will be
taken.
THERE was a fight between union
and non-union workmen at the man
sion being erected for P. D. Armour,
Jr., at Chicago on the 10th. A desper-
ate conflict ragged for fully five min
utes, hammers, wrenches and all sorts
of tools being used on each others
heads, when the foreman waved a
white flag, signed an agreement pre-
sented by the trades council and dis
charged the ten Objectionable men
painters-who repaired to drug store
to have their wounds attended to-
! THE grocery of J. A. Hutchinson, at
| Lowell, Me-, was entered recently by
burglars and $50 900 in cash. stocks,
notes and bonds stolen. The safe was
not blown open, but some one who
knew the com bination opened it and,
after robbing the box, locked it again.
| FORTY persons persisted in the flood
at Kobersdorf, and at least thirty per-
sons were said to be missing. Kobers-
dorf is a Hungarian watering place
and the foods resulting from noun
tain freshets, were so sudden that in
many instances all avenues of escape
were cut off.
GOLD has been reported found in
paying quantities on Doggy creek,
some IA miles southwest of Arapahoe,
Ok. Hundreds of men were on the
ground stalking off claims and min
ing town has been laid out and plated.
The strata of gold was on an average
about z feet below the surface and
very easily gotten out.
Posi- OFFICE INSPECTOR MECHEN, at
Denver, Col, received telegraphic in
formation from Santa Fe, n. NJ, of the
robbery of stage on a lonely road
between Frisco and Luna, near the
Arizona line. It was reported that the
stage was attacked by armed bandits.
The amount of the plumber secured
was not known.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai said it
was almost certain that massacre of
all persons connected with the Eng
lish, French and American missions at
Cheng Tu had occurred. Neither men,
women nor children had been spared.
according to the report. It was ad-
mitted kilograms had been intercepted
by the government, the object being
| to conceal the news of the massacre
Four men were suffocated in the AL
pine tunnel near Pitkin, Col, recently.
An engine had run into the tunnel
with a crew of several men to syphon
out an accumulation of water held in
/ by dirt cave. The ventilation of the
tunnel was poor and the men soon pre-
| pared to leave. AS the engine was
backing out a man was discovered w.
ing across the track and the engineer
TGNcrStu, running 1urUner into the tUn-
mel where all the men were quickly
overcome by suffocation.
TORNADO swept the district of Mo-
tola in the province of Locce, Italy.
Property to the amount of 1000, OOO
lires was damaged.
FIRE which was thought to have
been started by tramps, destroyed
Dewing & Sons extensive planning
mill, sash, door and blind works and
lum Der yard, and seven brick and
frame stores at Kalamazoo, Mich, on
the 9th. The total loss was about
SEQ, 900; insurance, Sis, O0o