Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-02

AT HelenwoOd, Tenn, Lewis Penn
berton, saloonkeeper, appeared on
the streets drunk and began firing of
his Winchester rifle. Town Marshal
Hugette attempted to arrest him. when
Pemberton's son tried to shoot the mar
shall and was snot dead by the latter.
Old Penn berton then inflicted flesh
wound on the marshal, but was killed
by the latter.
THE Windsor hotel, four saloons. two
clothing stores, three restaurants, one
grocery store, two livery stables and
two barber shops. composing large
portion of the business section of Potts
dam, n. y. were destroyed by fire.
The damage was estimated at 500, 0oa::
partially insured
GREGoR KREICHBAUM and his aged
wife We're burned to death by fire in
a grocery store under their rooms at
Providence, 2 /.
THREE masked men held up Mrs
Mary Bernhardt in her saloon at Isl
West Twelfth street, Chicago, and took
$3.50 from the cash drawer. There
were two customers in the place at the
time playing dominoes. The robbers
escaped.
WILLIAM WALKER attempted to board
moving train near Pekin, Ill, and
fell under the wheels and was killed.
LANDSLIDE occurred at Ratsmore,
Eng, on the night of the eth and a
1a6orer's house was overwhelmed and
the man, his wife and seven children
were buried.
FORTY families were burned out on
the esth by a fire in an apartment
house on West Fifteenth street, New
York.
A LANDSLIDE destroyed the village
of Santa Ana de Pelago, Italy, demoi-
ishing lis houses and rendering $50
families homeless
The large furniture house of Julius
Lansburg and some adjacent struc-
lures at Washington were destroyed by
fire on the 2sth- Loss, 5000, 900.
DONALD MCLEAN, protector of the
Pacific Short Line. stated at Sioux
City, Ia, that he had absolutely Sc
cured all the capital necessary for the
completion of a railway from Sioux
City to San Francisco. The road will
English capitalists.
Eastport, n Y, on the 2sth. At Kings
ston, N. Y, the thermometer marked
16 degrees below zero.
THE double-decked ferryboat New
Brunswick, owned by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co, was burned to the waters
edge at New York on the 2Sth. The
loss was about S12O, 600
A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp oc-
CURED in the mine of the Maule Coal
Co. at Princeton, Ind, on the 26th and
six miners were killed, one was reported
missing and eight others were rescued
almost lifeless. The scenes around the
mine were most pathetic. wives, moth
ers and children stood weeping bitterly
and with blanched faces, waiting for
the bodies to be brought up.
A PASSENGER train on the Birming-
ham Mineral railroad went through a
bridge 81 miles from Birmingham,
Ala, and 90 people were killed, five
fatally injured and two badly wounded.
The entire wreck then took fire and
most of those killed were burned
beyond recognition The accident was
thought to have been caused by the re-
moval of a rail the bridge. A re-
lief train sent to the scene was run
into by construction train and one
man was crushed to'death and several
others were more or less hurt.
CHRISTIAN CHRISTENSEN has been
convicted of wife murder at Clarke, S.
D., and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
GEORGE WILTON, the marshal of
Stamping Ground, KY, was shot and
fatally wounded by Tom Drummer.
Whisky was the cause.