The Butler weekly times., 1895-11-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A. S. Trude's building on Randolph
street, Chicago, was damaged by fro
to the amount of $4,000.
Many robberies of money, valuables
and live strock are reported from the
vicinity of South McAlester, l. T.
Mrs. }. NJ Tressler. a leading MILL.
ner of Fort Scott, Kan, has failed with
liabilities aggregating nearly $4,000.
Col w. c. 7. breckenridge will make 4
the race for congress next year in his q
old district-the Seventh Kentucky. 4
The Holster house at Galena, Kan,
was completely wrecked by prema-
ture explosion of a box of powder and
caps
The y. p. S. c. +. of Kansas will
have a paper, to be called the Kansas
Endeavorer, which will be issued
monthly from Topeka.
Lewis Lamora, Burling ton rail-
road brakeman, fell from a slippery
freight car at East Leavenwor tn, Mo-.
and was ground to pieces.
w. &. Bird. state labor commissioner
of Kansas, has begun suit for divorce
from his wife in the Wyandotte county |
district court. He alleges cruelty.
Mrs Helen Britt. of Kansas City,
Kan, was arrested for unnaturally1
beating her 1O-year-old son. The com1
plaint was made by the boys father.
Receipts of cattle at the Kansas CitJf
stock yards are falling off, fact atA
tributed to the cheapness of corn and
the desire of feeders to hold until bett
ter prices. q
Prof Z. Il. Hand was acquitted AZ
Perry, Ok, of the murder of George r.
Rohr, formerly mayor of Arkansas
City. The killing occurred near Kils
dare in dispute over n claim.
At Macarthur, O.. C. II. Rogers was
tarred and feathered and ridden on q
rail then told to leave the country.
He was charged with speaking disre.3
spectfully of a young lady school,
teacher.
At Shamokin, Pa, an attempt was
| made to poison a Polish Catholic priest
by putting Paris green in the wine YES,
| sci which the priest was in the habit oiI
| drinking from, but the plot was dei
| tected.
The millinery establishment of A. Fl.
| Fuchs at St Louis was DESTROYED BY
| fire on the 25th. The heavy snow-
| storm delayed the engines and allowed
the fire to get good start The loss
was estimated at Sis, 900; partly in
| sured. ID
| The United States supreme court
| holds that it has no jurisdiction over
| the 'habitual criminal act of Mis-
souri, This leaves the act constitus
tional and settles dispute which has.
been waging since the passage of the
law by the legislature.
| John Hale and another negro were
quarreling in front of Mr.. Jones' resi-
dence at Nashville, Tenn, and Jones
| came out and demonstrated with them,
| when Hale drew revolver and shot
Jones dead Officers soon after went
On the trail of the murderer, blood
hounds being put on his track.
boat was found adrift on Red
river. near Arthur City, L r., contain
ing four bodies, all unknown, but pa
pers were found which indicated that
one Of the men was F. G. Carody.
They had evidently been dead several
days, and circumstances pointed to
robbery as the motive for the murder.
The mixed evening train on the Kan.
sas Central broke in two near Easton,
about miles from Leavenworth, and
Wnen the front part stopped the de.
tached passenger coach crashed into a
naIi and express car. Two women
; had narrow escape. Conductor
James Lake was injured by jumping.
James T. Gennett. who served in
company A, Fourteenth Kansas cav
J airy, during the war. shot at Superin.
tendent Bedwell, of the North Topeka
insane asylum, where he has been con-
fined for some time Bedwell escaped
injury. In Gennett's pocket was found
list Of men whom he proposed 70
kill