Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-02

Flint, which recently left Philadelphia
for Japan with 132, 900 cases of refined
petroleum, had been wrecked in the
recent hurricane which swept the
north Atlantic ocean.
THE barn of Joseph Daters. farmer
near bingham, Ill, conta lining LOCO
bushels of wheat. 700 bushels of oats,
four horses and farming implements
was recently burned.
BAD blood has existed for a long
time between the Poles of two board
ing houses at Girardville, Pa, and on
the 27th it was brought to a climax by
a bloody riot, in which at least nine
men received fatal injuries and possibly
two score others were more or less
seriously wounded. The battle was
the outcome of quarrel over the Ha-
zleton troubles The men fought like
demons, using axes. knives, guns and
other weapons. Some of the rlnglead-
ers were arrested.
A CONVENTION of live stock sanitary
inspectors took place at Fort Worth,
Tex, on the 27th. The dipping expert
ments for destroying the tick which
causes Texas fever was one of the prin-
cipal subjects of discussion. The reso-
buttons committee agreed on a report
requesting the secretary of agriculture
to fix the time for quarantine to go
in to effect as January 1 and the date of
its removal as November 1.
FIRE broke out in vacant store at
Livingston, Mont, on the 27th and
threatened the business portion on
Main street, but the firemen confined
the flames to cigar store and row
of frame buildings. The fire was said
to have been incendiary and the third
attempt in a week to burn the town.
MICHAEL SIMoNDs, a railroad brake
man, shot his sweetheart, Miss Jennie
Long, and dangerously wounded her
at Baltimore, Md, because she APP
peared inclined to repulse him. He
then fed, but the police located him in
the house of a friend and when they
entered he committed suicide by send
ing a bullet through his heart
r. L. SPEAR and two sons, ranchmen
of Preside county. Tex, were drowned
in the Rio Grande. Their skiff cap
sized while crossing the river.
Col. PATRICK MCDONALD, editor and
politician, who is widely known in po-
itical circles in Kentucky, was cow
hided by Mrs Sarah Brady, a dress
maker, at Frankfort. The cowhiding
was the result of an article in Col. Nc
Donald's paper seriously rejecting on
Mrs. Brady.
THE San Pedro mine, in the Corrali-
tos group, in Mexico, caved in, killing
II men who were at work in the mine
at the time.
THE westbound passenger train on
the Northern Pacific railway was held
up near Moorehead, Mimi, on the Goth,
but the robbers failed to secure the
money in the express car, owing to a
blunder in cutting off the cars, SO they
rapidly despoiled the crew of watches
and money and made their escape.
AN attempt to do murder with poison
resulted in the death of three men at a
hay camp six miles south of Dewitt,
Ark, and the fourth victim fingered
on the verge of the grave
AT Cleveland, O., Nils Carlson, the
Swede, reduced the worlds amateur
bicycle record for one mile, unpaced,
standing start, by L a-5 seconds, max
ing it in 2:14s4.
MARTIN Ross, a coal miner, was
Jailed at South McAlester, /. T.,
charged with the murder of his bride
of two weeks.
f. w. VALENTINE, a well-to-do law
yer of Brooklyn, was instantly killed
in a runaway accident in Pomfret, Conn
Henry L. Burt, a prominent druggist
of Putnam, who was with him, was
probably fatally hurt, and the wives
of both men were severely bruised.
lost in a recent hurricane on the Flor
ida coast The crew was saved by an
other vessel
ONE man was fatally burned and six
other persons were injured by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove at Chicago
the other night.
NEAR New Boston, Tex, fire de-
stroyed the home of jefferson Connor,
farmer, and burned his three small
children to death during the absence
of the rest of the family.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred at Van
Buren,, Ark, the other night on the st.
Louis & San Francisco road, when
freight train No. 35 wrecked six cars
of merchandise. The accident was
caused by the train breaking in two.
valuable race horse, owned by J. ID.
Craig, of Paris, Tex, was instantly
killed, and her driver, who was in the
same car, seriously injured.
The citizens of Helena, Ark, who
have become accustomed to getting
their Sunday shaves, drinks and cigars
will be deprived of this privilege for