Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

| MISCELLANEOUS.
INTELLIGENCE was received at Shang-
hal on the Sd that the French Catholic
and English and American missionary
property at Ching Too, capital of the
province of Sc Chuen, Western China,
was destroyed by rioters. The mis-
sionaries were reported to be safe.
ANTON BEN and Louis Budinich have
reached Chicago, after making a tramp
of 11,O0O miles from BuenoS Ayres.
They were met by 500 fellow-country-
men in Chicago with band and ban
ners and marched to the city hall.
They are going to write book describ-
ing their journey.
THE woods about Ormsby, Pa, were
on fire on the Sd and number of oil
rigs were destroyed, aSwell as millions
of feet of standing lumber. Coon Run,
small settlement, had been COM
pletely wiped out by fire, people hav-
ing to flee for their lives. At Kane,
the forest fires had done an immense
amount of damage Everything be-
tween Iron Run and Russell City had
been burned.
GEORGE w. BROWN died at Gales
burg, Ill, recently, aged 70 years. He
invented the corn planter in 1873.
JAMES BEGGs, a laborer, went to the
White river at Colum bus, Ind, recent
ly to drown some kittens. He was
wading into the stream, when his legs
cramped and he fell and was drowned.
The kittens came back home.
AT Boston on the Sd Lesley Pierce,
Of Philadelphia, won in twenty rounds
from Stanton Abbott, of England.
THE prostrations by heat over the
country were exceedingly numerous
on the Sd. In New York ten people
were carried off the streets dead and
eleven more were in a precarious con-
dition. At Philadelphia there were
seven deaths and fifty prostrations
At Chicago eighteen people were over
come by the heat, three of them dying
! Only one prostration was reported at
st. Louis and that not serious At
Baltimore, Md, there were four fatal
cases.
IN pugilistic and sporting circles it
was regarded as certain that the Cor
-Fitzsimmon fight would take
place in Dallas, Tex. The fight will
take place during the state fair, which
begins October Is and ends October 81.
amphitheater with seating capacity
of 10000 will probably be erected for
the occasion outside Of the fair
grounds.
AN entire family of seven were taken
into custody at Cleveland, o., on the
Sd charged with insanity. The family
consists of Henry Buchwold, his wife,
two grown daughters and three small
children. All of the members of the
family are strong believers in the
Spiritualistic faith and have been
locked in their home for over a week
holding wildly insane spiritualistic
seances. One of the daughters is la
boring under the hallucination that
she is spirit and another member of
the family that the spirit must die.
The arrival of the sheriff's officers pre-
vented them from carrying out their
ideas.
MINISTER RANSOM has been allowed
to return from the City of Mexico tc
his home in North Carolina on sixty
days leave on account of bad health.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL, the well
known friend to women, died at Lon
don recently, aged 60 She had la
bored earnestly during her life in
opening avenues of employment to
women who were forced to work for g
living.
THE boiler of the Ecuadorean gun
boat, Sucre, exploded recently, killing
the commander and fourteen men and
injuring seventeen more, thirteen ia
tally. At the time of the accident she
was carrying troops to Machala to at
; tack the rebels.
THOMAS 6. LAwLER, of Illinois, com
mander-in-chief of the 6. A. R., has is
sued a general order to G. A. r. posts
advising veterans who are interested in
the Georgia colonization scheme to see
that they secure clear titles before in
vesting their money. The Indiana de
partment was spreading the order
without comment.
Mrs. TDIBERLAKE, a young widow
who lives with her father near Barlow
Fla. was recently assaulted. -Four
negroes suspected of a knowledge OF
the crime were arrested and at night
they were taken from their guards BY
a mob and three of them put to death
while the fourth was almost beaten to
death and ordered to leave the country