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

FIRE at Farley, Ia, 25 miles from
Dubuque. early on the morning of the
25th. threatened to wipe out a great
portion of the town Half a dozen
business houses and the opera house
were destroyed. Fire companies from
neighboring towns were summoned.
THE ice gorge in the Maumee river
about eight miles above Toledo, O.,
broke and in running out carried away
two spans of the new bridge in course
of construction. Loss, estimated at
$50. 600.
GEORGE w. RAxTER, aged 80, killed
his wife, Celia. with a hammer and
then cut his own throat with a razor.
The double tragedy occurred at Mime
.apolis, Mimi. and was caused by jeal-
ousy.
A LARGE barn belonging to Bat Sell
was destroyed by fire at Vinita, I T.
Six valuable horses were burned, two
! having been covered with oil A man
and woman were suspected of the
crime and will be arrested.
A SPECIAL from Washington on the
9th SAID that experts had found a
larger deficiency than expected in the
accounts of Librarian Spofford The
deficiency SO far reported, it was said,
will aggregate SCI, 900, with the IL
vestigatiOn yet in progress.
A MOB at Sullivan, Ind, on the Goth,
endeavored to lynch Grant After bury,
arrested on charge of assaulting his
sister-in-law. The door of the jail was
broken down and an entrance forced,
but the sheriff confronted the mob and
threatened to kill the first man who
went upstairs toward the cell room.
The mob halted and finally withdrew,
but threatened to return within "a
hours.
SHERIFF. CHILDERs went to the house
of a man named Hurst at Powhattan,
Ark, to ascertain the cause of some
trouble at a populist meeting when
Hurst ran at the sheriff with a knife
Charles, the sheriff's son, rushed to his
fathers assistance and shot Hurst in
the stomach. Tom Hurst, seeing that
his father was shot, attempted to kill
Childers, but was fatally shot
KATE NJ. NEnLTs wife of Peter Mel
lis, owner of the Avenue house at
Girard, Pa, and Edgar Gardner, bar
tender at the same hotel, her para
mour, were arrested, charged with the
attempted murder of Nellis. 1t was
alleged that for months Mrs. Nellis
and Gardner had been slowly poison
ing Nellis to death by putting tartar
emetic in his coffee.
A HEAD4END collision occurred be-
tween a passenger train and freight
on the Bald Knob branch of the Iron
Mountain near Fair Oaks, Ark. Both
engines were demolished and several
persons were more or less injured.
A WAGON load of 12O quarts of nitro
glycerine exploded at st. Mary's, O.,
recently, killing the driver. Samu Ell
Enge1s, and two horses. The shock
was distinctly felt at Lima and other
points equally distant In st. Mary's
thousands of dollars of damage was
done by broken windows and other
wise.
Mr.. JOHN MCCUIL.oUGH, of Winni-
peg, Man, won the ten-mile sl1ating
race at the st. Paul, Mimi, carnival,
beating the worlds record of 34:4s As.
Mccullough made 1T in 1905
AN excursion train going south over
the Shenandoah valley branch of the
Norfolk & Western railroad was
wrecked near Riverton, Va, and a
Pullman car porter was killed and the
engineer and fireman injured. None
of the passengers were hurt. The en-
CINE struck rock which derailed it
and three cars were wrecked and after
wards caught fire and were consumed
Ed iKIRsEBoM, comRty treasurer of
Plymouth county, Ia, was reported
missing. A hurried examination of
his books indicated a shortage of $SlQr-
600