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


field. of Roodhouse. Ill. was burned to
death through playing with matches
Mrs MoLLIE GAINES went to the
house of Mrs Robert Gresham. a
widow, at Clermont, Fla. and found
her husband there The wife then
sprang at the woman's throat with
razor and, after a desperate conflict.
the widow had her jugular vein severed
and the wife was rendered unconscious
by having her skull fractured
The steamer Bertha was sunk off
Southwold, Eng, by colliding with
the steamer Claveler and six of her
crew were drowned, the remainder be-
| ing rescued
UNKNOWN persons poisoned the wells
! on the places of Henry Weaver and his
son at Weaverstown, Pa, and one
child has died and another was very
| sick through drinking the water.
WITH the disbanding on the night OF
| the 18th of Parson Davies Wicklow
| POSTWAR company John L. Sullivan
| bids farewell to the stage About i've
nights out of six during the past
| six months the ex-champion of the
| world has been much under the in
| fuence of liquor that his three-round
bout with Paddy Ryan has been little
| more than a farce What he Will
now do for living he does not him
| Financially as well as physically, he is
dead broke"
| AT ten o'clock the night of the
14th 300 striking quarrymen marched
out of the village of Bergea. near
Cleveland. O., bound for North Am
herst The strikers were accompanied
by ten wagons loaded with provisions
and other supplies, and it was their
| purpose to lay siege to the North Ann
| barsf and nd,1ce the men
there to quit A large force of deputy
sheriffs has been sworn in for duty at
| North Amherst
The Tavlorville, Ill, coal mining
| works were destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 18th and IS men were
entombed. After hours of suffocatiou,
all but three were rescued alive. The
fire, which was caused by an explosion
of gasoline, spread rapidly through the
mine, cutting off the men at work in
the lower levels Twenty mules also
: persisted The loss by fire will be SIS,
} 600, fully insured
THOMAS WHITE, after brief quarre
at ChilIicothe, O., with Miss Edith Nc
: Kelvey, his sweetheart. shot her fatally
, and then killed himself
: THE failures for the week ended
June II (Dun's reporD were 246 in thu
| United States, against PAL last year
! and 81 in Canada. against "a last year
FREE ADVICE won the handicap rae
! and 81, 500 at St Louis on the 18th ant
/ clipped half second off the world
| record held by Libertine.
: IT was reported on the 12th that tn
= Turks had pillaged and burned p
4 hamlets in the interior of the islan'
q, of Crete.
a ONE hundred and eighty cans of dy
: Mantle exploded about mile beloS
Lilly Pa, with frightful results On
s man was killed and six others fatal.
1 injured. The men were getting read
: to make a blast when the explosion oc
S Cured The steam shovel which stoo'
on the track was hurled 200 feet away
a AS soon as it was known that Hal
:, ward had defeated Princeton at base
d ball there was a roar that shook ever
window at Cambridge, Mass, and fire
a works and horns made the night hide
S, GUS The police finally arrested thre
IS students when the rest, numberin
about 5000, attempted to rescue then
st but the police managed to get thei
lie prisoners to the station house For a
a hour the 5000 mad students SURROUND
e ed the place, clamoring for the releas
n of their comrades and refused to di
II perse until they had been released o
r. bail, when they carried them off O
their shoulders