Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-22


old, shot himself at Fort Worth, Tex,
because his parents told him he was
too young to get married.
A PARTY of men in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Telephone Co. were start
ing out to work in the borough of New
Holland, Pa. and had placed 100 pounds
OF dynamite in a wagon in the yard OF
Miller's hotel when it exploded, killing
three men, fatally inju-ing three 9TH
ers and seriously injuring a score more
The loss to property in the borough
was large.
THE Great Falls IN. W Milling Co.
has shut down mills and for short
time. throwing 1000 hands out of
work.
IN the country near Charlottesville,
Ind, hogs and cattle were re rorted dy-
ing by the hundreds from the poison
Gus bites of flies
THOUGH the gravediggers worked
night and day at New York the supply
of graves could not fill the demand on
the 10th. There also a short age
of hearses and it was necessary to bor-
row Sc from New Jersey and IL from
Philadelphia There were 400 funer-
ais in New York during the day and
200 in Brooklyn, being mostly heat
| victims.
| IN a fit of jealousy Charles Nelson
| shot and killed his wife in their home
| at Chicago on the 18th. After sending
| two bullets into the woman's brea st
| the murderer fired a shot at his three
year-old daughter. inficting a slight
wound. The murderer was arrested.
FIRE Quilted the Woodruff block at
Rockford, Ill, the 10th, causing a
| loss of over 500, ZOO. I. T. Goldman,
who conducted a department store,
al n
| other smaller firms were also losers,
| and many poor families living in the
| second story of the block lost every
| thing they possessed, barely escaping
| with their lives in their night clothes
Two men were shot and killed and
| another mortally wounded at the an
| nual convention of the national party
| in the Cherokee nation. ten miles north
| of Tahlequah, on the 18th. The killed
were Eli Wofford, chief of police of
Tahlequah, and Charley Proctor, a
| deputy sheriff. Leonard Williams.
| sheriff, was wounded fatally.
| A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone swept over
| Perry, county, Ala, recently, leveling
everything in its path. Twelve negroes
and three white people were killed by
| houses falling on them, and ten other
persons were more or less I'M ured-
Twenty-four head of horses and mules
| were crushed to death by falling barns.
The cyclone was followed by a heavy
| rain, creeks and branches being con-
| verified into raging torrents, sweeping
| away cotton, corn and other crops,
| causing heavy losses to planters.
SPREADING rails, caused by the in
| tense heat, wrecked the second section
of the California express on the Den
| yer & Rio Grande railroad near Pueblo,
| Col, on the 18th. The engineer and
| fireman were killed. None of the pas
sengers were hurt, though the train
turned on its side.
| TERRIBLE floods were reported in
India by the overlooking of the river
| Kistna- The damage to property was
| immense and many thousands of per-
| sons were rendered homeless by their
houses being swept away. Two hun
| dred persons were drowned at one
place by the sinking of boat and on
one railroad a breach was made seven
| miles long by the water.
| AT meeting between the executive
committee of the Knights of Labor
| and committee representing the
| glass workers, at Washington, a form
| al separation took place between the
! Knights of Labor and the Window
| Glass Workers association of the
United States. The action was mostly
| due to politics.