Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-30

log wagon.
In fire at Stevens Point, Wis, Mrs.
Zeberowski returned into her house to
get $35 and was burned to death.
sister of the woman also rushed into
the burning house for some clothes
and was frightfully burned.
A RIOT occurred in the mining village
of Brodericks, Pa, on the 25th between
the friends of the proprietors of two
boarding houses One man was killed
and several others suffered wounds
from stones, axes and clubs
Two cattlemen, named A. j. Chap
man and Vernon Wilkinson, quarreled
over a pasture fence near Curtis, Ok,
and exchanged shots, with the result
that Wilkinson was killed and Chap
man wounded. Chapman was arrested
Four men were killed near Weiner,
Ark, the other day by boiler explo-
sion.
THE first annual horse show of the
st. Louis exposition was opened in the
new Coliseum on the 25th.
News of a phenomenal mineral strike
which has set the community wild
with excitement comes from George
town, Col. An ore was encountered
which. it was claimed. averaged as
high as S25, 900 to the ton through a
vein three to four feet wide.
THERE was row in the st. Louis
Jail among negroes the other day and
each was more or less injured. A riot
call was turned in.
WHILE Fred Kelley was making a
murderous attack on Mrs. Sam Gamble
at the Lost Creek mining camp near
Oskaloosa, Ia, the woman's husband
shot and instantly killed Kelley. All
were negroes.
OVER 500 men at the Anderson mines
near South McAlester, l.. T., refused to
go to work on the 25th, alleging that
they had been robbed in their weights.
ANDERSON CLAY shot and killed Jim
Cunningham at a cattle ranch near
Red River, N. M. The tragedy was in
directly the outgrowth of a number of
killings in Colorado and New Mexico.
JAMES STEVENSON, colored, fatally
shot a Cherokee woman named Ruth
Poofit at South McAlester, I. T., be-
cause she refused to marry him.
FIRE started in a livery stable at
Baxter, Ia, the other night and before
it was controlled almost the entire
business portion of the town had been
destroyed.
A TRAIN on the New York Central &
Hudson River railroad was thrown
from the track near Garrison, n. V,
ing the loss of % lives. The retaining
wall along the river had been under
mined by high water and the weight
of the train caused the track to cave
in, plunging the engine and two
coaches over the embankment.
TwENTY-FoUR hours after having
been pronounced dead Mrs. A. L. Han
nah, farmers wife, of Mahomet, Ill,
rose up in her coffin and asked for a
drink of water. She was reported as
now getting well.
The steam schooner Casper was
wrecked near Point Arena, Cal. on the
23d and IS seamen, comprising the
crew, We're drowned, only the captain
and another man being saved.
JOHN SCHLEGEL, charged with the
murder of DR.. Lyman A. Berger at
Kansas City, Mo-, last July, was de-
clared by the jury to be not guilty on
the ground that he was insane at the
time of the murder, but adding that
he had recovered from such insanity.
THE biennial convention of the
Worlds Women's Christian Temper
ance union was formally opened at
Toronto, Ont, on the Esd with Miss
Frances E. Willard presiding. Miss
Willard made an address and Secre
tary Slack made her report, which was
an analysis OF the WORK OF the union
throughout the world. At the meet
ing of the executive board all the old
officers were reelected.
The Yale football team beat the In
dians of the Carlisle school by a score
of "a to 9 at New York on the Esd.
IT has been decided to put Adolph
Luetgert, the Chicago sausage-maker
who was recently tried for making
away with his wife. the jury disagree
ing. on trial for the second time.
THREE tons of powder exploded at
the Niacorari mine near Cumpas, Mex,
and 90 persons were killed, many seri-
ously njured and almost every build
ing in the town destroyed.
A DISPATCH from Wilkesbarre, Pa,
said that conspiracy had been dis
covered to murder Sheriff Martin, who
led the deputies who fired upon and
killed a score of striking miners at
Lattimer in September.
AMONG the closing speeches of the
Liberal Congress of Religions held at
Nashville, Tenn, on the gath was one
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