Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-11
CASUALTIES.


Jan. lat Albany. N. Y. IL !I burning
| hotel. Near Waverly. Wis, IN burning
Jan. BIN Deception bay, Wash, is by
4 Ss.lndering of schooner
Jan. 15-At Butte, Mont, over 60 by ex-
Jan. Sat Rusk. Tex, by boiler ex-
/ ploSion.
Jan. 22-Near sturgis, KY. s by explosion
Jan. 23-On Lake Michigan, steamer
Chicora given up for lost; 26 were on board.
Jan: zS@Nea a New LONDON Conn., Is In
Feb. TAT Milwaukee. near intake
Feb. 1O-At Point of WOODS, N. Y, of a
| schooner's crew.. In the Chesapeake, 20
during blizzard. ..At Gloucester, Mass,
Feb. 12-on New Jersey coast. so by col
| Hsion of Sc boomers.
Feb. Sat Pottsville, Pa. by gas exo
plosion in mine....At Sherry. Ca. 10
Feb. 21-Near New Orleans frozen.
Feb. 27-At Cerriiios. N. NJ. % miners by
Mar. 2O~At Red Canyon. wyo.. 81 in mine
Apr. Shear Tacoma, Wash, % by ex-
! piosion in Blue Canyon coal mine;
May s-Tn Sioux county, Ia, 81 in cyclone
George II SOUTH %fs0 Ac to Mass
in powder mill explosion
May lion Lake Mich, IL during gale....
Near west Bingham. Pa. by boiler ex-
plosion.
May 2s-In Devils river country, Tex,
Jun. s-In New York, IL: in Philadelphia,
z; in Pittsburgh, 5; in Baltimore, 4; in Chi
ford, Neb.,. in railway accident.
Jun: Near Douglas, Wyo:, drowned.
Jun. PAT Arensville, Ill. from eating
Jul. AT Chicago. 10 in Independence
Jul. SAT Baxter Springs, Kan, in
cyclone. Near Memphis. at island No.
7O Jul Sat Detroit. Mich, in fire. ). AT
Penn Yam. y. Y.,'5 drowned in Lake Kenka.
JUL 19-On Santa Cruz island, Cal, sloop
Restless ENSpSrted iHUst Is sfsfsg
Jul s1sNear socorro. N M. in cloud
Aug. 4or New Jersey shore drowned
Aug. lat Grant Station. N. M. II in
Aug. Sat New York. by collapsing of
Aug. f6-Near Mehaffy, Pa, by prema-
Aug: 1S-At ocean City. Mo, Z by eapsiz-
piosion in Gunry hotel. ~
Aug. 20-At Braddock, Pa, by exp1os-
ion. AT Buffalo, by laundering Of yacht
AT Occur d. Alene, Wash, on burning
ing Schooner Walter Earle reported lost;
Aug. 27SAt wapakoneta, O., men fatal
ly injured as result of strike on water
works trenches
Aug. 29-At Central City, Col. Il in flood
Sep. AT Springfield. Ill, by falling
tower. AT Providence. r. l., by asphyx-
Sep. Sat Earnest, Pa, in fire.
Sep. AT Specht's Ferry. Ia. s. dyna-
mite discharge.
collision. AT Louisville, KY, by caisson
Sep. 12-Near Houshton. Mich. 30 in
Sep. 2s-Near Leadvi1le. Col. by ex-
plosion at Belgian mine.
Sep. 30-Near Independence, Mo-, by pre-
mature blast explosion.
Nov. Sat New York, in fire:
explosion in Journal building. AT New
Nov. 1e-At Cleveland, O., IS by electric
motor going through open draw.
Nov. Pat Chicago, 5 in fire.
Nov. 29-Near Carmel. N. Y, IA miners by
Dec. Sat Rosenborough, Ark, II negroes
from strychnine poisoning.
Marquette, Mich, tug Pearl B. Campbell
lost with crew Of men. AT Rutherford,
i Dec et: 13IAt La Toilette, Tenn. by prema-
ture powder and dynamite explosion.
Near Greenville, O., at a Dayton & Union
Dec. 14-At Big Stone Gap, Va. 5 by
Dec. 1sNAt New York, 9 by explosion on
steamship st. Paul
Dec. 19-Near Raleigh, N. c., 43 by fire.
damp explosion in coal mine.
Dec a-Near Monroe, Mo, 6 drowned
during freshet. Near Dayton, Tenn, "a
miners by explosion of fre-damp.
THE MORE STARTLING CRIMES.
Jan. 8-State Treasurer w. w. Taylor, OF
South Dakota, missing; accounts short
Jan. 14-John Harris and wife killed their
baby and themselves to avoid starvation
Jan. iS.samuel Hotelling. OF. Rolling
Green. MINI. killed his wife and her par
en Mar f4se man by ked n riot by
(white) dock laborers in New Orleans; was
result of race war. Nine Italians killed
by American miners in the WalSenburg
Apr. 12-Four men killed in. railway
laborers' riot at Sloan Springs, Ark.
brother-in-law, Joe Wilmington, then killed
sejpar. Of GleveIand Iiled Carl Richter.
wounded Albert Richter,a brother,and two
o OF then Was sd kied his bfe
Maggie -Koender. then himself; jealousy.
| DR.. J. F. Simmons at Houston, Tex, then
| himself
Apr. aT-George Jacob schweinfurth, al
| legged Christ, found guilty of adultery, at
! Rockford, Ill, and confined in county jail.
| Apr. 30-Fulton Gordon killed his wife and
lucky. in baWdy son house K in Louis vi Zen
James Young killed his wife at Hoosier-,
Ie then T pbntt to Brazil Bra n 1d and ked
| (brothers) and Beauregard Townsend and
his son killed in pitched battle at Newbern.
| May 6-James Herbert, of New York,
| killed his wife, then drowned himself;
| jealousy. :. In discussion over textbooks
/ in schoolhouse near Como Col, BENJAMIN
Radcliffe killed Samuel f. Taylor, L. +. Nc
Curdy and George D. Wyatt. all members
of school board.
Jun. sc. D. Moore, postmaster at
Heavy. KY. and Upton Steern, assistant
Jun. 15-Frank Williams, Of Francis.
Kan, attempted to kin his wife. Miss Alice
| Smith and William Smith. then killed hts
two children and self
Jun. 1S-While insane Mrs. Sanford ellis
poisoned her three children and self, near
! Shellsburg, Ia.
JUL 1-,At Jacksonville. Ind, Mrs. Nancy
Bennett poisoned her two children and self.
Jul 4-AuguStus Fields. of Meadowville.
| No. killed wife. child and self.
| Jul. 2S-Three whites and six Indians
killed in fight at Jacxson's Hole, Wyo....
| Four killed in quarrel at a social party at
| Union Ridge, W. Va.
| Jul. Z-Henry Bradshaw killed his wife,
daughter and self near Paris, Tex.
| Aug. 4-Forty negroes wounded in battle
| between whites and blacks at Spring