Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02

the head with an iron billet, knocking
him down. Edwards then jumped to
his feet and struck Stoll blow with
his fst under the left eye, killing him
instantly.
AT Rosedale, Va, Mr.. Outer and his
SON quarreled about money matters
| and the father shot his son through
the breast, and the son as he fell shot
his father through the heart Both
are dead
The boiler of a saw mill in Greene,
O., exploded on the eth, wrecking the
mill and fatally injuring two men and
seriously injuring two Others
CARL FEIGENBAUM was electrocuted
at Sing Sing, N. Y, on the 9th for tho
murder of Johanna Hoffman, his land
lady Feigen baum went to the death
| chair asserting that he was innocent.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has com
mended to the Encouragement the
dismissal of the suit against the Bur
lington & Missouri River Railroad Co.,
| to recover about so, 900 acres of land in
Kansas and Nebraska, enormously
patented to the road. upon which 2,ooo
homesteaders have settled, the settlers
having acquired a bona fde title to
the lands
THREE hundred employees at the
yards of the Chicago Ship Building Co
STRUCK on the SICn against Inc III IIO-
ductiou of child labor
AT midnight on the Goth a mob OF
armed men entered the Jail at McMinn-
vile, Tenn, dragged the jailer from
! his bed and forced him to give up the
keys Willis and Victor Hills were
then taken from the Jail, carried on
horseback five miles from Meanwhile
and hanged. The Hills boys were
guilty of murder and the work of the
mob was the result of a feeling that
the courts were slow in disposing of
the men.
THE greater part of Cripple Creek,
Col, the famous mining town, was
burned on the 25th. ALI the theaters,
dance halls and sporting resorts were
destroyed, together with the post Of
fee, the First national bank, the Mid
land railroad depot and trestles, the
Times newspaper Office and many
stores An angry woman in a dance
hall threw a lamp at her lover and
started the fire. The loss was roughly
estimated at over $1,000, oOO
JESSIE LINDLEY and Bette Black
ford, prisoners in the county Jail at
Oklahoma City, Ok, committed suicide
by taking large quantities of cocaine.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND having failed
to sign the agricultural appropriation
Dill on CHe S0GH IL DcCdmC d Id"
out his signature
SIMON HAssELBACH, aged 70, and his
son William engaged in a drunken
quarrel at Union City, Pa, on the Gath
when the son seized an ak to kill his
father and the old man drew his re-
volver and shot his son and then sent
| a bullet through his own temple Both
will die.
Mr. BARNEY CULLEN and his wife
were burned to death IN their home
near Chester, N Y, on the Goth.
JOHN LOVE, of Milton, W. Va, arose
from his bed and fred two shots at his
| wife, killing her instantly. He then
entered his father-in-law's bedroom
and fred two shots at him, fatally
| wounding him. He wound up by
| firing a bullet in to his own brain.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD sailed for
England on the 23d to attend the an
| nua1 convention of the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance union,
| of which she is the president Before
sailing she issued an appeal in behalf
| of the prosecuted and suffering people
| of Armenia, urging that the w. c. t.
| q. of the United States raise $50, 600 to
aid in the relief work which is being
carried on through Miss Clara Barton.
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