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

WO00 springs, OOt.s was III company
with a crowd of young unen in the
SWIMMING pool, they undertook to
outd0 each other in fo0lhardy acts
Finally Simpson undertook to sit on
the nozzle from which the water shoots
with velocity of 120 pounds to the
inch, with the result that the water
practically burst him open. He will
die.
Two hundred and fifty quarts of
nitro-glycerine being taken mp the Lit
tie Kanawha river by employee Jim
Hines exploded Immediately opposite
the largest mill in Parkers bGrg, w. Va.
The men had just quit work, but sew
eral were stunned and badly cut. Man
and boat were annihilated. Several
people were injured by falling ceilings,
glass, runaways, etc. The damage to
property, including mills, churches,
teamboats. etc. will reach SIS, 600.
GENE BUSCH, the Oklahoma farmer
who tasted forty days, claiming God
had told him to, was reported as being
beyond hope of recovery. Baseh was
the founder of a new religious society
called the New Lights.
FIRE broke out in the Fifeshire main
colliery at Edinb urg, Scotland, and
nine men were killed while trying to
quench the flames. In addition several
would-be rescuers of these men were
seriously burned.
LEMEN Bros. circus train, bound for
Negannee to Escanaba, Mich, collided
with north bound ore train on the
31st Both engines and two circus cars
were wrecked. Three horses were
killed and two injured. Five of the
circus employees were injured but none
fatally.
WILL OWENS was legally hanged at
Warner, near Pine Bluff, Ark, for
shooting his wife and then beating
in her skull with hoe.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
! week ended May 81 showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of Is. ?; in New
York the increase was 204; outside
New York. SO.
THE boiler at Deals sawmill, near
townsville, Caldwell county, S. c., ex-
ploded on the 31st, resulting in the in
slant death of Fireman Ed Deal, Fire
man Fender Oxford and Gordon Ok
ford, and fatally injuring Reuben
JONES' who died five hours later.
ATTORNEY THOMAS TYRE fell from a
fifth story window at Lebanon, Ind,
recently and alighted upon his baby in
it's carriage. The little one was killed
instantly and Tyres neck was broken.
He was cleaning a window in his Office
when he lost his balance and fell.
THE coinage at the United States
mint at Philadelphia during the month
of May amounted to So, 251, 1862. 10. The
number of pieces coined was 1914, 335.
as follows: Gold, 46s, 255; silver, GAG,
72O: base, $3.50, $50.
DECORATION day was observed at all
the principal cities in the country in
the usual way, many cities having i'm
| posing parades in the afternoon. At
| Chicago the monuments to the Crock
of Chickamauga" and the confederate
| dead were dedicated. At New York
Gov. Mckinley made an grafton at
Grants tomb. The veterans turned
out in large numbers at the national
capital and held services at Arlington.
Jerry Rusk's monument was dedicated
at Viroqua, Wis. At Salt Lake, Utah,
1000 children joined in the parade and
Iex-Congressman Bartine delivered the
grafton.
THE secretary of the interior has de-
cided to expend $50, 900 put at his dis
posal by congress in the improvement
of the Hot Springs, Ark, reservation,
in work along the main reserva ton,
| and not On the Wilmington reserve, as
has been anticipated.