Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

GEoRsE E GARD, chief Of the South
ern Pacific railway detective service.
has given publicity, according to .
San Francisco paper of the 9th. TO a
plot to hold up the Wander bilt-Depew
special train, now on the Pacific coast,
and abduct Cornelius Vanderbilt at
some point in the San Joaquin valley.
The railroad officials had pat armed
guards on the train and were going to
keep them on until the Vanderbilt
party had passed the Sierras.
THE boiler IN Watson Bros hoop
and stave mills At Ridgetows, Ont, ex-
ploded on the eta, wrecking the build
ing and causing the death CT two men
at least and the injury of several others
THE New York World said on the 9th
that cash Offer of g, O00;0OO had been
made by banking house representing
foreign syndicate for the privilege of
RAINING boats on the Erie canal by
electric traction, and that the deal was
potent for good or evil to the freigh t
shippers of both east and west
THREE Italian guests at a hotel at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were found dead in
their room shortly after noon on the
9Th. They had been suffocated by gas
GROVER z. STATES. a three-year-old
boy. was kicked by horse on the head
and killed at Marshall. Ok.
SISTER PATRICIA, of the St Francis
academy, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was
fatally burned by the explosion of
some turpentine and sweet oil She
was oiling the floor. and the mixture
becoming hardened she placed the YES
sci containing the fluid on a range
when it exploded and the flames en-
'veloped her.
IT was charged that nearly every
resident of the town of Lucas. Ia, was
guilty of Bookkeeping whisky.
NEAR McLeansboro, ILL.,, Ben Boeh-
mer, well to do farmer, cut his wife's
throat and hanged his six-year-old son
to a rafter in his stable. He after
wards covered the bodies with fodder
to hide his crime. and made his escape
+ to the woods. Boehmer and his wife
had been having trouble over religious
differences, he being a non-believer in
Catholicism. while she was a frm
Catholic. The murderer was after
wards captured near Carmi, Ill A
good deal of excitement existed in the
neigh borhood and lynching was freely
talked Of
AT the Clark street dime museum at
Chicago on the 5th a fire broke out and
at least 1000 persons were panic
stricken and made wild rush for the
doors. There was also wild confusion
among the freaks, but no one was
particularly hurt.
A NOVEL measure, aimed at high
theater hats, was enacted into law
by the Ohio legislature on the I'd 1t
provides that any manager permitting
any person to wear a high hat or other
headgear in theater obstructing the
view. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be fined $40
WILLIAM KEMPER and John Lipkie
engaged in friendly contest for box
ing supremacy in saloon at Otis, Ind,
recently. After few passes Kemper
struck Kipkie in the abdomen. The
injured man fell unconscious and re-
NAMED so until he expired.
A TERRIFIC explosion of gas took
place in the No. shaft of the Lehigh
& Wilkesbarre Co., at Sugar Notch,
Pa, killing one person, fatally injur-
ing another, and wounding five NOR e.
FL. II. HOLMES the convicted MUIR
derer of Philadelphia. has made a con-
fession in which he tells how and why
he put to death no less than 20 men,
women and children. He writes as
calmly and remorselessly as he MUIR
dered, neglecting no detail. 1t was
well known that Holmes put IL per-
sons out of the world.
AT Lloyd, Wis, Charles Eastland
and William Keith were instantly
killed by the explosion of boiler.