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

J. +. SCOTT, owner of the champion
pacing stallion, John R. Gentry,
and Col. John G. Taylor, owner of the
racing champion PAGER, Joe Patchen,
have made match for $25, 600 between
those two celebrities for July "a at the
Freeport, ILL.,, meeting.
EARLY on the 8th, ST Eglen, a we'll
known sporting man of indianapolis,
Ind, engaged in a fight with Chris
Zimmerman, saloonkeeper, and was
killed. Zimmerman was wounded and
another man named Hughes, was in
jured by stray bullet. Zimmerman
was looking after his wife in road
house and killed the wrong man. He
gave himself up.
JOHN, younger son of Congressman
John D. Young, in alteration with his
cousin, Pliny Fassett, cut Fassett's
throat, severing the jugular vein and
causing his death in few minutes at
Owingsville, KY. Young was arrested.
The tragedy caused great excitement,
owing to prominence of the parties
concerned.
A TORNADO swept across the country
near Eatonton, Ga, recently and two
lives were lost and at least twenty per-
sons severely injured, several of them
fatally.
News reached the village of Buzz
yards Bay, Mass, on the 7th thatfa
girl baby had been born at Gray
Gables. The report was verified by
DR.. Bryant, who announced that the
happy event occurred at 4:30 p. M. and
that both mother and the little one
were doing as well as could be ex-
pected. This is the third child to be
born into President CleveIand's family
and all are girls. Ruth is years old
and Esther 2
AT Niles, o., an electric car loaded
with people was struck by freight
train and hurled from the track, in
stantly killing Frank Wilson, mer-
chant, dangerously wounding Mrs. G.
w. Holder, and injuring several others.
CHILDREN playing in a shed in Lorne-
vile, Ont, started a fire on the eth
which burned twenty buildings and
rendered fifty families homeless. Loss,
$50, 1000, with very little insurance.
CHICAGO experienced furious wind
and rainstorm on the 18th and the life
saving crews were kept busily engaged
in saving people clinging to capsized
boats on the lake. Telegraph poles
| and wires were blown down and base
ments flooded, causing considera BILE
damage, and it was feared that several
lives had been lost on the lake.
A SPECIAL to San Francisco morn
| ing paper from Coeur d'Alene, Ida,
said that Capt Paul Webb, the swim
mer, lost his life near there in an at
| tempt to ride down a 800 foot chute
into lake Cnur d'Alene in his barrel.
| The barrel left the chute and struck
the ground. His spinal column was
! broken.
AT Mobile, Ala, Thomas Norville,
colored, was hanged in jail on the 5th,
for the murder of Louis Coleman, col
ored, whom he killed last summer
This was the third legal execution at
Mobile in a year.
AT Boston on the 4th the patriotic
societies paraded and pitched battle
ensued between some of the paraders
and the spectators, in which stones,
sticks and revolvers were used with
| fatal effect. John Wills, a laborer, of
| East Boston, one of the spectators, was
shot and instantly killed; Michael
Boyle had his head split open by a
club. and was reported dying in hos
| pital; a young man named Stewart
had his nose cut off with a saber. and
several others were more or less Sc
verely wounded. A float representing
| the little red schoolhouse" was the
cause of the trouble