Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Oberlin, O., Will Worcester,a rail-
road man, attempted to kill his wife
and then commit suicide. He started
at her with ball club, and after beat
ing her until he thought she was dead,
he took his razor and cut his own
throat. He then laid down the razor,
and with his finger dipped in his own
blood, wrote on the wall: "Good-by
pet" Doctors said the chances were
that Worcester would live, though the
chances were against his wife.
JUDGE STUART on the 9th, at South
McAlester, 1. T., decided that the
Choctaw nation had no right
to confscate the property of
United States citizens living in the
Indian territory. The Choctaw
sheriff had confiscated and ordered
sold nearly the whole business portion
of South McAlester, alleging that the
property, though owned by United
States citizens, was rented contrary to
Choctaw law.
THE United States supreme court on
the 9th denied the application of
Eugene v. Debs and the other Chicago
strike leaders for writ of habeas cor
Jail passed upon them by Judge Woods
for interfering with the running of
the mails last summer. The supreme
court decided that the federal govern
ment had jurisdiction over every foot
of soil and every individual in the
United States. So President Debs and
the other officers of the A R. U. will
have to serve their jail sentences.
A COLLISION occurred recently be-
tween sheepmen and cattlemen in
Routt county, Col, in which four men
were badly wounded. It was the
same old trouble of last year The
cattlemen of the country objected to
the sheepmen, who were principally
from Wyoming and Montana, driving
their sheep through the county and
eating up the pasturage.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May "a showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
| spending week last year of 30 s; in New
| York the increase was 40.5; outside
New York, ISIS.
EIGHTY thousand children, repre-
senting 1S6 Sunday schools, or twelve
divisions, paraded in Brooklyn on the
| oath, in honor of the sixty-sixth ami.
versary of the Brooklyn Sunday School
union. The parade was reviewed by
ex-President Harrison, Prince Francis
Joseph, of Battenberg, and others.
| AT Guthrie, Ok, j. P Smith, an al
/ legged preacher, was convicted of steal
| ing meat and remanded to Jail tC
await sentence to the penitentiary
| He feigned sickness and when allowed
the freedom of the Jail corridor made
good his escape.
WILLIAM CoNNELL, who shot Sheriff
! George Durham, of Montgomery coun
ty, Ga, who went to arrest him on
warrant for beating his wife, wa.
hunted by posse and found in ;
| swamp near Dublin, Ga, and riddlec
with bullets.
CHAMPION JAMES J. CoRBETr wa:
mad on the cath at Bob Fitzsimmons
because the latter did not appear a.
| New York to attend the meeting tc
which he had been summoned by
Joseph II. Vendig, representative O
the Florida Athletic club, under whose
auspices the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight
was arranged to take place. When the
| champion found Fitzsimmons did moi
| intend to appear, and that he had not
paid the $1,000 deposit guaranteeing
his appearance in the ring, Corbett
said he would give Fitzsimmons til
the next day to comply with the agree
ment and if the fight was called off ne
| (Corbett) would poke Fitzsimmons
nose at first sight.