Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

AS a result of a desperate fight at
jefferson, Ia, on the 9th two, men are
dead, two men desperately wounded
and young woman seriously hurt.
The trouble started over an old feud.
Neighbors attracted to the scene put
an end to the battle.
AT Sewell, w. Va, Stewart Props,
Layton Jacobs and George Higgins,
railroad men, were drowned while
crossing New river in a boat
The treasury department has re-
ceived> 23+75O Columbian worlds exposi-
ton bronze medals to be awarded to
exhibitors. The distribution of them
rests with the worlds fair commission.
Mrs. EDMUND TUCKER was choked to
death by burglar at her home in
Yonkers, N. Y, on the night of the
9th. Her little boy was also found to
be suffering from a severe cut across
the face
THE Weihe business block, at Con
:nellsville, Pa, was burned. Several
families who lived in the block had
marrow escapes from the flames. Loss,
between $40, 900 and $50, 600; partly in
ssured.
DAN STUART has added another event
ito his fistic carnival by offering purse
of $1,000 for the Smith Burns fight.
Billy Smith is a portege of Jimmy Car
roll and Peter Burns is Peter Makers
trainer. The fight will be doubled up
on the bantam fight, the last day of
the carnival.
THE chess tournament was ended at
ST. Petersburg on the 27th. Laskar
took the first; Steinitz, the second;
Pillshury, third, and Tschigorin the
fourth prize. The total score was:
Emanuel Lasker won liz, lost 611s
Ell. N. Pillsbury won s, lost 10; w.
Steinitz won 81, lost s1l;M. TscL igorin
won T. lost II.
AN explosion occurred in a colliery
at Taylorstown, Wales, on the 27th.
The shafts were shattered and the
whole town was shaken by the ire
mendoas conclusion. Fifty-fonr min
ers were below when the explosion &C.
Cured. Some reached the surface, but
90 dead bodies were taken out and
more men were reported missing.
In dispute at a masquerade bail at
hotel In Sacramento, Cal, one of the
jewellers discharged his revolver and a
bullet struck Hugo Klaas, a boarder,
fast, infiicting wound from which he
soon died. Klaas was to have been
married on the goth to Miss Nav I'm
derwood, Of Kansas City. who was said
to be en- route to Sacramento and igno-
rant of her lovers tragic fate.
An entire family of four was drowned
in the Prairie Dog fork of the Red river
in Randall county, Tex. Joseph Wick
er and his wife and two children at
tempted to ford the stream in COW
cred wagon. The waters swept the
wagon and team down. The father
attempted to swim ashore with one
child on his back, but he sank and both
he and the child were drowned. The
mother and second child remained in
the wagon and were also drowned.
A LATE London dispatch said that
the outlook there in regard to the
speedy settlement of the dispute be-
tween Great Britain and Venezuela
was now looked upon as being much
more hopeful and nobody anticipated
any further serious trouble in connec-
ton with the dispute.
THE new American line eamship
St Paul went ashore at Long Branch.
n. j., on the 25th during dense fog.
All Of the 700 passengers were landed
1t was expected that the vessel would
be floated in few days.
PATRICK MCMAHON hacked the heads
of his uncle and aunt with an ak at
New York on the Goth. Their injuries
may be fatal. He tried TO justify his
deed by charging that they had
poisoned his mother and separated him
from his father.
As the result of charges preferred
aga inst him United States Marshal
Nix. of Oklahoma, has been removed
and Patrick T. Nagle, lawyer of
Kingasl,er, has been appointed in his
place.