Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-30


JOSEPH HAcEKEcK. of south Chicago.
sent his son with ten cents to- buy a
pail of beer The boy lost the money
under the sidewalk. where it was
found by one of Vonzel Disclaimers
children Hacereck insisted on the re-
turn of the coin and a tight ensued,
during which Eisenhamer shot Hac-
creek three times through the head
A TERRIBLE cyclone struck the viii
lage of lakewood, Mich, on the 25th
and wiped it off tie face of the earth
Just west of the village the fields were
strewn with the dead and dying 1t
was believed the number of dead and
wounded would reach 100.
NEAR Rockford. Ill, four persons were
killed and a number of others seriously
injured through a cyclone which swept
that section the 24th- At Monroe
three We're killed and six others seri-
ously injured At Monroe and ElGin
deaths were also reported Much dam
age to property in the path of the
storm was done
DESTRUCTIVE tornado visited Iowa
at midnight of the oath doing much
damage and killing number of people
and injuring a great many Others In
Jasper ten persons were killed, in Polk
county nine; at North McGregor, IL
were reported dead and at Durango
FIVE Six towns were partially de-
stroyed, namely, Bondurant, Valera.
Mingo. Ankeny. Polk City and Slater.
FIRE at Dallas, Tex, destroyed six
business houses, causing loss of $780,
600
A CAR on the Agate avenue line at
Denver, Col, got out of the control of
the motorman about midnight on the
oath and jumped the track at curve
when going down hill at high speed
and turned over. There were "A pas
sengers on the car, dozen of whom
were more or less badly Injured
FRANCIS j. KIEcKHoFER. late chief of
the bureau of accounts and disbursing
officer of the state department at Wash
fngton, has been arrested on the charge
of embezzlement The shortage in his
accounts was stated to approximate
Sl31, 600.
By the explosion of a gasoline stove
on Townsend street at Chicago on the
cath family of six persons was almost
exterminated. The dead are Otto
Malm, carpenter. and bis three chill
dren; another child will probably die;
Mrs Malm was badly burned, but will
recover. Mrs Malm had arisen to pre-
pare breakfast and lighted a gasoline
stove, when the reservoir exploded,
throwing the burning fluid about the
rooms and the sleeping members of
the family were shut in by flames and
burned almost to a crisp.
THE Methodist general conference at
Cleveland, O., made the following cleo
tions on the 22d: DIR. Buckley. editor
of the New York Christian Advocate
DIR. Moore, editor of the Western Chris
| tian Advocate at Cincinnati; DR.. Ed
wards, editor of the Northwestern
Christian Advocate at Chicago; DIR.
Jesse Bowman Young, editor of the
Central Christian Advocate at St Louis
DIR. Hurlbut was reelected secretary
of the Sunday School and Tract soci-
ETY. and DIR. Payne of the board of edu-
cation.
A BILL was introduced il congress
| on the 22d by Mr.. Kirkpatrick to grant
rights of way over the public domain
| in Kansas and the Indian territory for
| a pipe line for the transportation of
oil, crude and refined The bill grants
| for the purpose only strip of land so
| feet wide
ALvA E SHEPARD, jeweler, muir
dered his cousin. Mrs L. E Aweny,
and then cut his own throat at San
Francisco. The woman was add icted
| to the use of morphine and 1T is be-
| lieved from a note left by Sheppard
| that he considered il his duty to kill
her, religious ardor having impaired
his mind.