Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-24

FL. J. SCHnLINe, q wholesale feed
merchant of Kansas City. arrived at
Tacoma, Wash. on the 18th, complet-
ing journey of 2 900 miles from Kan
sas City on wheel He started on
June so.
THE steamer Livingstone collided
with and sunk the propeller Grand
Traverse below the Colchester light on
Lake Erie on the 10Th. The sunken
vessel was valued at SIS, 900 and was
we'll insured.
c. Fl. SMITH, at San Jose, Cal, took
81 2-5 seconds off the worlds five-mile
bicycle road record, setting the new
mark at 1920
RICHARD HAYES and his sister, who
resided on a farm near St. Mary's,
Ont, were instantly killed by train
while driving over a crossing near their
place.
MARION KENNARD, of Wise county,
w. Va, went home drunk after his
family had retired He awakened his
wife, quarreled with her and then al
most severed her head from her body
with a corn knife. He afterwards
killed his boy and tried to kill his
daughter, but she escaped. After
sleeping off his drunken fit he told his
neigh bors that a tramp had murdered
his wife aud child.
L. w. YEoMANs' drug store at Belle
vile, Ont was burned on the 10th and
the proprietor persisted in the flames.
CHAIRMAN JONES, of the democratic
national committee, has issued an APP
peal that on Saturday, October 81, the
national colors be displayed by all citi-
zenS at their places of business and
their homes
FIVE men called Lord r T. Brooke
to his door at his ranch near Ton kawa,
Ok, at three O'Clock on the L.orning
of the 18th and ordered him to hold up
his hands, and he began firing at the
band, killing two and wounding two
Others A posse started afterwards on
the trail of the gang. Robbery was
the motive as the gang thought there
was large sum in the house
A LARGE steam gin near Selma, Ala,
with six bales of lint cotton and LOCO
bushels of cotton seed was destroyed
by fire.
A NEGRO dance near Scullyvilie, Ark,
on the 18th broke up in a row. Two ne
gro men were killed.
A RIOT was caused at PortSmou tn, o. :,
on the 18th by the Sunday Observance
league attempting to break up a ball
game. Constables who tried to serve
warrants were chased off the grounds
by bowling mob of specta tors and
narrowly escaped alive The police
finally dispersed the crowd. Over $50
arrests will be made on the charge of
rioting.
DIR. ALFRED Holt, of Hayes, Miss,
shot and instantly killed DIR. p. S.
Rhett, of Jonesville. La, in the ro-
tunda of hotel at Natchez. Miss, on
the 18th. The killing was the result of
an old grudge.
TIE largest fire that has occurred in
Los Angeles, Cal. N years started in
the Fowler paper box factory, and be-
fore it was subdued over 500, 900 worth
of property had been consumed. Sew
era1 of the firemen were painfully in
jured by falling tim bers. The cause
of the fire was not known.
THE hardware store of George B.
Churchill 81 Co., at Galesburg, I'LL, was
recently broken into and revolvers,
razors, cartridges and other articles
stolen. Five boys. whose ages ranged
from IL to 16 years. were arrested and
confessed and all the stolen property
was recovered.
NELSON MORRIS, of Chicago; John
and Barringer Brown, of Crown Point,
Ind, and several other large stock
raisers along the Kankakee river have
suffered heavy losses recently by valu-
able horses dying with an unknown
disease. As soon as the disease attacks
them their blood turns to water and
they soon die.