Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-20
MIsCELLANEOUS.

A CRANK Ocmduoed SosOO| u oCoFkO
Wyckoff, president of the bank of New
Amsterdam n. Y, and because it was
not handed to him the president was
shot twice in the abdomen. The as
sailant whose name was believed to
be Clarence Clark, then shot himself.
Both were unconscious in the hospital
CHARLES HMDEBRANDT, the we'll
known sport of johannesburg, Sou tn
Africa, has arrived at New York to try
and make a match between Corbett
and Fitzsimmons- He is ready to put
up $40, 600 Should he fail to make
match between the above mentioned
pugilists he will try and get up
| fight between Corbett and Denver Ed
Smith.
THE railway brotherhood of engi-
| neers, firemen, trainmen and tele-
| graph operators. which recently moved
| their headquarters to Peoria, Ill,
| asked the repu blican committee on
resolutions at ST. Louis for an arbitra-
ton plank in the platform
THE reported bursting of the banks
of Congress lake, near Canton, O., and
the destruction of two villages, recent
ly telegraphed over the country, was
| without foundation.
SHERMAN WESTON while stealing a
ride from stanton to Edwardsville.
Ill, on freight train, jumped off ard
was horribly mangled.
ST. VINCENT's sanitarium at Santa
Fe, \. NJ. was burned recently. Loss,
$1,000 900. 1t was crowded, but no lives
were lost.
MONROE JACKSON and J. w. Vest
quarreled at Hartzelle, Ala. and the
former drew knife and the latter a
pistol. Jackson was shot through the
body three times and Vest was cut in
, several places Both men finally fell
to the ground and died soon after
ward.
JERRY MCKNEw, a hotel proprietor
at Washington and his wife tried tc
commit suicide by taking laudanum
The husband may possibly recover.
; RUFUS BARLEY. a saddler o.
Weightsburg, KY, severed the mair
artery of his arm while in bed and ble6
S to death Disappointment in love wa.
the cause
THE four-story warehouse of tn,
White Mills Distil1ing Co. at Louis
Vile, Ky. was destroyed by fire re
: Gently and 6, 600 barrels of whisky wer
consumed Loss S125, Oo0
THE stone bridges of Cristina an
Concha and the aqueduct of Fernand
Septimo, upon which Havana was de
3 pendent for its water supply, wer
blown up bv agents of the insurgents
4
u in Havana and altogether the city wa
in a deplorable condition A council
= of Spanish generals had decided to sus
pend operations against the insur
- gents owing to the rains Gen. Go
= mez's insurgent force of 5000 wa
Z, said to have been defeated by Castal
- lano's troops
SARAH ANN ANGELL., who alleges sh
- is the widow of the late Jay Gould. ha
4 - l.
IA dover right in the Gould estate
SHEP PALMER. negro, was execute
= in the city Jail at jackson, Miss, o
,t the 18th for the brutal murder in D.
b. cember last of Charley Corden an
l. wife. newly married colored coupl
in BLACKWELL Ok, was recently grea
it " excited because members of til
1t Baptist church would not allow til
ne United States flag to be unfurled il
is side the church during a G. a R. r
ne union. The G. A. R. post passed res
or lutions denouncing the church tru
- tees, and all the church people ha'
of come back with hot retort
nv THE attorney-genera1 of Visions
e has brought suit to have the franchis
revoked and receiver appointed
wind up the affairs of the Nations
IN Manufacturing Co.. of hartford, as
IT is creating. he alleges, a lumber tru
of extending over Wisconsin, Minnesot
as Iowa, Missouri, Illinois. Ohio and Ka
be sas-
Sc BILL WEST, the notorious Indian te
lis ritory murderer who escaped from js
n at Topeka, Kan. while under senten
es of death. was killed at Illinois, o.
Sc while resisting arrest
CHI A DISPATCH from Bombay stat
es that the British warship Bonaventur
ng while making passage from Colomb
On Ceylon. to Pondicherry. capital of &
Id French settlement in India. lost
imen by suns.rolke