Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-27

Loss, SIS, 900, with but little insurance.
The Presbyterian convention. which
has recently been holding its sittings
at Glasgow, Scotland, has decided to
hold the next convention in Washing
ton in 1899.
SOME men going up the Manasquan
river in a steam launch near Freehold,
N J., made fun of two boys in fiat
bottomed craft and threw potatoes at
them, when one of the boys opened
fire with a seven-shooter and four men
were wounded. one seriously.
CHARLES FELENTE and Louise Cos
tello, sweethearts, were in Van Court
landt park, New York, when a bolt of
lightning struck them, killing Felente
and severely shocking Miss Costello
FOREST fires were reported raging in
all parts of the isthmus of Tehuante-
pee and thou sands of acres of coffee,
cotton and tobacco had been burned
over and many railroad bridges de-
stroyed.
IN Tyler county. w. Va, an electric
doing much damage.
AT Doucette. Tex, the tram engine
boiler of the Nebraska Lum Der Co. ex-
ploded, killing seven men outright and
seriously, if not fatally, injuring three
others The victims were mutilated
beyond recognition.
A BUILDING at the corner of Fifth
street and Mint avenue. San Francisco,
collapsed on the ed. burying % per-
sons in the ruins Five dead bodies
were recovered and II injured rescued.
To add to the horror the debris caught
fire and the engines had to play on it,
thus adding to the peril of those I'M
derneath.
Louis DAVID, after being warned by
a policeman against touching a live
wire at Toledo, o., in a spirit of bravado
took hold and was instantly killed
THE amount of the gold reserve in
the treasury at Washington at the
close of the Goth was S1o4, 124, s26 For
the first time in MANY months there
were no Withdrawals of gold from the
New York su b-treasury on that day.
THE national derby, purse $50, 600,
mile and a half race, was run at ST.
Louis on the Goth. Prince Lief won.
Ben Brush being second and Ben Elder
third. Time, 2:34
BESSIE PUCKETT, the nine-year-old
daughter of a farmer near Hartselle,
Ala, was Kidnapped by Leon Orr, a
negro, and taken to the woods and as
saulted and she will die. The negro
was captured and placed in Jail, but
mob broke into the building, strapped
the negro to a horse and took him to
the scene of his crime, where they
hanged him and riddled his body with
bullets
WALNUT, Ia, was recently visited by
serious fire, which swept through
the principal business block of the
town, totally destroying Is buildings.
damaging as many more and para1yz-
ing the business of the place. Loss
2Sn r.,
the work of firebugs
Two women and man were
drowned in the Muskingum river near
GAINESVILLE, O., the 21st. They at
tempted to cross the river in an old
skif and it capsized.
VALENTINE AKERs shot Jesse Pickett
near Mount Vernon, Ill, for insulting
his wife. Both were farmers.
OFFICERS with bloodhounds were try
ing to strike the trail near Mexia, Tex,
of a negro who had assaulted negro
woman and who had declared his in
tention of assaulting every woman he
met, when they ran across Gaines Ross,
a negro and supposed friend of the
man wanted Ross was ordered to
give up his pistol by Deputy Sheriff
Newman, but showed fight and was
Immediately shot through the heart.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
Two men were killed and three in
jured in rear-end collision on the
Central Vermont railroad near Mont.
pelier, VT
The acting secretary of the interior
has approved and provided for a requi-
sition to the treasury for the payment
of S22, 600 to every state included in
the Morrill, act of 1890 for the endow
ment of agricultural and mechanical
colleges in the United States This is
to apply for the fiscal year 1s96-9..
The Big Sandy towboat Buckeye Boy
was totally destroyed by fire at South
Point, o. The fire was caused by the
of a lantern.
CHIEF JUSTICE MATTsoN and two as
sociate justices recently granted 65 d.
vorces in one day at Providence, R. L
GEORGE RIGoR, of Houston, Tex, re-
Gently drew considerable pension mon
ey. His dead body has been found in
a we'll, where it had been thrown after
being robbed
ROBBERS murdered Milton Rolley, an
aged pensioner of Shelbyville, Ind,
and held his wife over a gas blaze,
from the effects of which she will die.
The robbers were after 5000 of money
Rolley had recently drawn from bank
and they got $50 of it.
UNITED STATES troops and Mexican
troops have Joined together to hunt
the Apache Kid and his hostiles-
AT Sheepshead Bay, New York, the
was won by Henry of Ma
varre by length The Commoner was