Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-17


Oklahoma's wheat and many towns
can hardly get enough cars to remove
the crop. 1t was estimated the crop
yield will not fall less than 80, 900, 900
bushels.
An Indian named Tiger Cat eloped
with the wife of chief at Fort Lau-
derdale, Fla. were followed by the
whole tribe and caught They were
afterwards sentenced to be fed to ALI
gators and the sentence was carried
out
A DISPATCH from Denmark on the 18th
said that an express from Belsingor
ran into passenger train and wrecked
eight carriages, killing 40 persons and
injuring 60 others, most of the victims
being of the artisan class.
A NEW religious sect has sprung up
at Papillion, Neb., called the Figgites,
after Mrs Figg, the founder. They
claim that when stranger enters the
presence of Figg they know whether
God or the devil is inside the stranger
The members do not offer physical vio-
lence to those they think have the
devil, but they assume a threatening at
titude in order to drive the devil away.
JOHN KELLY. aged II, and Frank
Murphy, aged Is, were swimming at
Webster City, Ia, recently when Kelly
went down. In attempting to drag
him from the water Murphy was pulled
under and both lost their lives.
AERoNAUr MCEwEN made balloon
ascension at Benton Harbor, Mich, on
the 10th and when 500 feet in the air
his balloon collapsed, his parachute
failed to work and he came down on a
house top. He was probably fatally
injured.
THE swell jockey club at Paris has
III Ill a1 cd har
law, Comte de Castellane. There were
2SS votes cast against him. Two would
have been enough.
CHARLES III. SPRINGER, a commercial
traveller, was killed at Dallas, Tex, by
James A. Wright, a contractor. who
alleged that Springer had alienated
the affections of Mrs. Wright.
On unlocking his combined meat shop
and grocery the other morning Gustav
Stab. of Tomkinsvil1e, L. l., saw a
man packing articles. At Staib's APP
proach the thief stepped into large
refrigerator. Stab locked him in and
notified the police. 1t was hot day,
and after the man had been in small
cell for an hour he asked to be put back
in the ice box.
JOSEPH WEIssHAUER was arrested the
other day at New York charged with
bringing home food, cooking and eat
ing it himself and leaving his wife and
two-year-old child to starve.
PHILLIP TAsHLEY, a Dane convicted
by the United States court of killing
John Sanders, a United States soldier,
at Huachita, year ago, was hanged
at Tucson, Ariz-, on the 9th. He made
jocular remarks, danced a jig and then
said, Let 'er go, Gallagher"
THERE We're five deaths and 20 or
Citys on the 9th. In St. Louis the
death list reached ten; Chicago re-
ported 16 deaths and ten cases critical.
Six died from the heat at Cincinnati;
three at Lafayette, Ind; seven at New
York; two at Indianapolis, Ind, be-
sides three more cases of prostration
considered fatal Fatal cases were
also reported from other cities
SOME time ago Atticus Thompson, u
negro, attempted to outrage a white
woman at Forest, Miss, but was frus-
trated in his designs. He eluded ar
rest until the 9th, when he was cap
tured by a mob of unknown men and
shot to death
THE bodies of man and woman, ap-
parently dying, lying side by side on
a raft of logs moored to the shore near
the village of California, was found a
few miles above Cincinnati. Near the
| raft the dead body of an infant was
| taken from the water. The man and
woman We're alive but unable to speak.
| Both their wrists were cut and bleed
/ ing and other wounds indicated an at
tempt at suicide
AT Cincinnati on the sth there were
| two fatal cases of sunstrol1e and Louis
vile, KY, reported one death and
| many prostrations. Nine children
died suddenly at New York through
| the heat. Two deaths also occurred Al
Indianapolis.
! AT Darlington, Ok, the seat of the
! agency of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians, over 200 red men and vvomer
! were reported in secret council ano
| people near them fear trouble. Or
July 1 law was passed by the late
Legislature prohibiting polygamy
among the Indians and an outbreak
may occur over the enforcement of the
| new law.
FRED ROYAL, the professional high
! diver, dived from a car on the Ferri.
wheel at Chicago the other night aftel
it had reached a height of 125 feet