Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22


meets the Hudson river with Long
Island sound, was formally opened on
the 18th with a great aquatic and land
parade in which the United States
army and navy, state military and
naval corps, the fire department. and
numerous civic bodies were represent
ed. The parade was watched by $4,000
or more people.
ABOUT o'clock on the morning of
the 18th Denison, Ia, and vicinity were
visited by a tornado which did damage
estimated at SIS, 900 to houses, barns
and windmills. One frame country
schoolhouse was blown away. The
farm house Of John Rose was demol-
ished and his wife was killed and other
members of the family were severely
injured
ONE of the most disastrous fires in
the history of Bridgeport, o.. broke
out in the Oglebay block recently, and
the town being without fire apparatus
was compelled to call on the Wheeling
fire department.. The entire block
was Quilted and very little of the con-
tents OF the building was saved.
AT the East Side school at Evanston,
Ill, on the 18th, 200 small children
were badly frightened by the falling
of a section of plaster from the ceiling
of one of the rooms and a panic fol-
lowed in which several were injured.
A HEAD-END collision between two
passenger trains occurred on Charles
ton & Savannah railway at Yemasse,
near Charleston, S. c., on the 10th. The
| engines were telescoped and complete
! ly wrecked. Four unknown colored
tramps, who were stealing rides on the
front trucks, were ground and cut. to
pieces. The passengers were terribly
shaken up and thrown about, but es-
capped serious harm. The wreck oc
| Cured through the negligence of an
operator in giving orders.
AT Rowlington, near Louisville, KY,
Arthur Gourdin, shoemaker, stabbed
| his wife to death and pro bly, fatally
wounded, Thomas Murphy. The MUIR
derer was jealous of his wife and sus-
pected that Murphy had wronged him.
The gold fever which recently struck
| Oklahoma territory is being dispelled.
An assay of the dust shows it to be
merely a mica composed of zinc, cop
per and about per cent. gold-not
enough to pay to wash. In spite of
this large numbers are still heading
for the fields greatly excited.
AT Chimacum. small farming cen
| ter miles from Port Townsend, WASH,
5000 pound meteor fell, which burst
with loud noise at the heighth of 100
yards and, after causing a small cyclone
| of several minutes duration, buried
| itself deep in the muddy water of a Ia
coon. creating terror among residents,
| who haliovnd the end Of the world had
| come. Ten hours after the occurrence
the waters of the lagoon were still
bubbling, and were found to be hot
enough to readily cook eggs.
| AN attempt was made to murder the
postmaster at Fishers Switch, north
of Indianapolis, Ind, by sending him
a dynamite Internal machine through
the mails. The machine contained
| enough dynamite to have blown up a
steamboat, but fortunately the post
master failed to observe the caution
on the box to open at given end and
opening at the other end, the fuse was
not ignited. 1t was sent from Cincin-
natl.
SEVENTY people gathered in the
death chamber of a young man at
Rovigno, a seaport town of Austria
The flooring of the chamber collapsed
and all fell into deep cellar, the walls
of the house falling on top of the un-
| fortunate victims. Fourteen of the
mourners were killed and thirty in
jured. The unhappy young woman who
had been the fancee of the deceased
man was found dead in the ruins in a
position close to the coffin.