Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-15


on the morning of the 10th entered the
home of Father Joseph Flache, the
Catholic priest at Dyer, Ind, and
struck the cook on the head, inflicting
dangerous wounds. The priest at
tempted to shoot, but his revolver
failed to work, and he was roughly
handled The house was ransacked-
THREE children, Eduardo, Gabriel
and Manuel Padi11a were recently
burned to death at Fairbank- Ariz-
The parents had gone to a dance near
by, locking the door on the sleeping
children. 1t is believed lighted lamp
exploded.
HENRY SMITH, member of the Mary
land Century Cycling club, finished
24-hour road race against time on the
10th at Baltimore, Md, during which
he established a new set of American
road records. At the end of IL hours
he covered ITO miles and when he quit
at the end of the "a hours he had
reeled off 314 miles. The figures have
been submitted to the Century Cycling
Club of America for ratification
WHILE boating on the lake at Chi
cago Matthew Roche and his little
nephew, Harry Flynn, attempted to
exchange seats and the boat capsized
and the boy was drowned. Albert
Mattarl, who was in the crowd at the
waters edge, suddenly pitched for
ward dead. owing to excitement in
watching the drowning boys strug-
giles
FIRE destroyed the post office, hotel,
telephone office and several other
buildings in the little village of Marsh
land, Wis.
A SENSATIONAL shooting affray, in
which a woman shot and seriously
| wounded four men, occurred at Lowell,
Ark on the 9th. The shooting was
| done by Mrs Duerling and was the re-
suit of religious excitement, caused by
| a series of holiness meetings" in the
neighborhood. The men wanted to
run the women holding the meetings
out of the county.
| AN order of the district court to open
| a street in Auburn, Neb., was appealed
| and the mayor ordered the town mar
shall and street commissioner to remove
the wire fences inclosing the street
| and the property owners had the three
| city officers arrested for destroying
private property. The officers refused
to give bond and said they would re-
| main in jail until the court convened
| in June.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, Ill, and IS cars ditched.
Most of them were broken into kind
ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
| The whisky escaped and filed the gull
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
| all got intoxicated.
| AT the second day of the national
! funniest at st. Louis on the nth the
i forenoon was taken up with class com
petition of the t'actives," fully 5000
| turner's being on the field at one time.
In the afternoon mass exercises by the
st. Louis juniors and by ladies' classes
| in swinging clubs took place. In the
| evening speeches and musical num-
| bers We're given at the exposition hall.
A BERLIN dispatch of the nth said
| that the king of Greece had formally
| asked for the mediation of the emperor
| of Russia in the war between Greece
and Turkey.
WITH box con tanning 200 pounds of
dynamite on fire ten feet away from
him, John Thomas, the boy who runs
| the compressed air hosting engine in
the Tamarack mine, near Houghton,
Mich, stuck to his post and saved the
lives of the men at work in the mine
by his bravery. Ten seconds after he
had hoisted the men to the level the
dynamite exploded.
THE first case of prostration from
the heat this season occurred at Chr
cago on the 9Th. Charles Wilson, a
milk wagon driver, fell into the street
unconscious. The weather bureau
Thermometer registered so degrees
during the day. On the streets it was
three to five degrees warmer.
MEMBERs of the Chicago and Milwau-
kee Beer Brewers associations will
combine to fight the proposed increased
tax on beer in the tariff bill
THE south and west grain and trade
congress got through with its business
on the 9th at Kansas City, Mo-, and ad
journed to meet in Tampa, Fla, il
1895. The resolutions demanded equit
able rates of transportation between
, carrier and shipper. the improvement
of the Mississippi river and other water
courses, Endorsed the Nicaragua canal
favored the'Torrey bankruptcy bill, tn,
: promotion of the consumption of oul
food products abroad and aid rendered
to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gul
. railroad.
THE London afternoon papers wer,
bitter at the rejection of the arbitra
ton treaty by the United States sen