Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-04-17


the Refrigerator & Wooden Gutter Co.
at St Louis was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Estimated loss, $50, 600; par
tally insured. Two fremen and a boy
were badly injured by falling walls
IN conformity with law passed by
the Indiana legislature making the
| southern penitentiary at Jacksonville
into a reformatory and making the
Michigan City prison the penitentiary
for the state, about 800 men were taken
from Michigan City to Jeffersonville
and 356 men We're transferred from the
latter place to the former.
The grand duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin committed suicide by throw
ing himself from the parapet of a
bridge near the house he was stopping
at in Cannes, France. 1t was thought
he was delirious from illness when he
committed the act.
RECENT adviceS received from Ichang,
China, stated that owing to the failure
of the main crop in that section hun
dreds of natives are dying of starva-
ton. Owing to the difficulty of trans
porting rice in the famine districts,
only those living along the waterways
were being aided.
WHILE the family of John Atchison,
of Arapahoe, l. T., was burning trash
in the garden the wind blew the fire
burned to death.
AN unknown woman, evidently in
sane, threw her two little children in
to the river from the ferryboat at ST.
Louis. and then plunged in after them.
L he children were rescued but the
woman was drowned.
AT the finish of the six-day 12-hour-
a-day womans bicycle race at Detroit,
Mich, the score stood: Title Anderson,
264 miles IA laps, first; Helen Baldwin,
264 miles IA laps, second; Dottie Farms
| worth, 264 miles IA laps, third.
A NoRTHBoUND Florida special on the
South railway collided with a south
bound passenger train at Harrisburg,
n. c., the 18th and three persons
were killed and six wounded. The two
express cars were shattered and the
postal of the passenger caught fire.
THE mayor of Fargo, n. D., on the 9th
telegraphed to Secretary of War Alger
that the water there was subsiding fast
and that the people were in no need of
| assistance.
THE safe of the Fairfield O1l.) Lum-
Der Co. was blown open early the other
| morning and about SS5 in cash and the
same amount of county and town or
ders were secured. Bloodhounds We're
brought from Seymour, Ind. and an
| effort was made to track the burglars.
THE battleship Iowa earned on the
7th for her builders, William Cramp &
Son, of Philadelphia, 5000, 900 by MAX
| ing II knots an hour over the regular
| government course off the Massachu-
sets coast in the four hours speed trial
required under the con tract. The Iowa
proved herself to be the most formid-
able battleship afoat
| A MAN and his wife named Gage
| were found dead in bed at Chicago on
| the nth. Gage was a mechanic. An
| empty bottle labeled laudanum was
| found on the floor near the bed. Gage
| had previously announced his and his
wife's intention of committing suicide.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A DOUBLE hanging occurred at Jer-
sey City, n. j., on the 18th. John
Mackin, Jr., was hanged at 1O:OS a. m.
| for killing his wife and her mother
and Paul GEM was hanged at 11:1O a.
m. for numbering Clara Arnim because
| she refused to marry him.
| AT the Allegheny Heating Co.'S plant
at Pittsburgh, Pa, James Charles,
night Waterman, and John Steele, a
friend who spent the night with him,
| We're found dead. 1t was supposed
that they were asphyXiated by an ex-
| plosion of natural gas, as their faces
| and hands We're burned.
LAWRENCE BRYAN, an inmate OF the
| a1mshouse at Knoxville, Ill, was gored
to death by angry bull on the aims
house premises the other day. His
| mangled remains were found in the
| yard.
JAMES CIRCUIT, 16 years old, living at
St. Louis, jumped off of freight train in
the Illinois Central yards and had both
his feet cut off.
GEORGE w. GUNTER, Is years old, shot
his 15-year-old sweetheart, Alberta
Stanford, in a jealous rage at Hot
Springs, Ark. The girl died instantly.
THE New York assembly on the 18th
| passed the Greater New York charter
bill over Mayor Strong's veto by a vote
of LOG to 81.
Two extra fast freight trains on the
Southern Pacific railway collided near
Langtry, Tex, on the 18th. The fire
man was killed and one or two others
injured.
i AT Omaha, Neb., on the 18th piling,
bags of sand, stone, etc, were being
fed to the Missouri river in an effort to