Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
/ JoE LEWIS, a negro, attempted to as
SAINT Mrs. Prence, a farmers wife, near
| Pen City, Ala, but she managed to
1 beat him off. Friends of Mrs. Prence
/ started after the negro and caught
1 him. The cculprit was given fair
I trial, &n which ne owned up to what
! he had done. The constab BILE then
started tofAsheville with the prisoner,
/ but was soon overtaken by a crowd of
masked men who lvnched the culprit.
FRAfGK TIMads,. a farmer of Dunkirk,
n. Y, was gored to death and his son
/ had his leg broken by an enraged bull.
! The hired man then put an end to the
animarslife by hitting him on the head
with an ak.
! IT has been learned that regular
! system for the shipping of bodies stolen
| from the cemeteries about Washington
existed.
| AT the Z. a. Wy, convention at Balti
more, Md, on the 10th, the good roads
meeting was addressed by Consul Isaac
Potter, OF New York, who illustrated
his remarks with the aid of stereopti-
con views.
The boiler in the .Annes hop mill at
Patrick McConnen was killed, Hugh
McClaren will probably die and three
or four others were badly injured.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
10th stated that bishops of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in this country
have sent petitions to the archbishop
of Canterbury and through the various
ministers of foreign affairs to the car,
Al
perors of Germany and Austria declar-
ing that a crusade, supported by Chris
tians the world over, would be war
ranted against the Turks, and pleading
that the great Church of England,
through it's episcopate, take decisive
action to stop the Armenian massacres.
NEARLY all the Protestant churches
and Jewish congregations of Buffalo,
n. Y, united on the night Of the 9th
in protest against the TErkish atroci-
ties on the Christians and called on
congress and the executive ito take i'm
mediate action to restrain the Turks.
THE schooner John w. Foster, with
a cargo of lumb Der, was burned 100 miles
west of Cedar Keys, Fla The, captain
and crew of seven men left the vessel
in an open yawl and were afterwards
capsized. They managed to get on the
bottom of the boat, where they re-
manned for So hours before being
picked up.
PETER I. ATKINS took Maud Kelley
out driving on the night of the 9th.
They crossed Waikiki river near Mid
| dleton, N. Y, and in the darkness At
kins drove off the road into flooded
meadow. A man went to their assist
ance with lantern, but could not sue
cor them and the two succumbed to
the intense cold and sank beneath the
food after an hours suffering.
FIRE started from an unknown cause
and burned an unoccupied cottage at
Brooklyn to the ground On the 9Th.
Later in the day while a crowd was
| viewing the ruins the chimney fell
without warning and instantly killed
two children and seriously injured a
man.
FIRE Derrick ZUERsT, living near Cush-
ing, Ok, who has been beating his wife
and children brutality of late, was
dragged from his bed by a dozen
masked men, tied to tree and given
100 lashes on his bare back. He was
then informed that if he kept up his
| brutality he would be hanged next
| time.
=, SIX workmen lost their lives and
nine others were barely rescued from
I the icy water of the. Pequeboc river,
near Bristol. Conn, on the 9th. They
were pulling an old bridge down when
| it suddenly collapsed and they were
! precipitated into the river and the
| broken mass of timbers fell on them.
! Mr.. AND MRS. SHAUNNEssY and two
children were asphy xiated on their
fara near Carbonate, Pa, through
the gas escaping from kitchen stove.
AT church in Clifton Prairie, Tex,
the Williams boys met the Walker
boys on the 9th and there was a fight
between them, pistols being freely
| used. One of the Walkers was killed
| outright and several on both sides
| were seriously wounded It was the
| climax of a feud of long standing.
CARL DABLKE and Herman Dahlze,
brothers. fought frightful duel with
knives at Chicago. There had been
| family gathering for the christening
of a babe, when the brothers quarreled
and Carl buried his knife in Herman's
head, entering at the left eye, and the
| unfortunate man fell to the ground IN
! agony. Carl then made his escape.