Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-04-24

Rudd, who ate a hearty meal on
Thanksgiving day and had been I'M
able to swallow since. The examina-
ton revealed that wooden toothpick
had lodged in his throat. The man
had wasted away from 30 pounds un-
til he was little more than a skeleton
at his death
Mrs CoRNELIA RAISING, a midwife,
and Christopher O'Brien were charged
by Ellen English at ST. Louis with
making away with the latter's child.
The midwife confessed that she had
buried the child, as it was dead when
she received it, in the back yard, and
then, fearing exposure, she dug it up
and burned it. The mother claimed
that the child was not dead The
prosecuting attorney decided to have
warrants issued against Mrs. KassinG
and OBrien.
A. COINS chestnut colt Buckvidere
won the Tennessee Derby at Memphis
on the 10Th. Typhoon II. finished sec
ond and Algol third.
THE annual egg rolling took place in
TIC white house grounds at Washing
ton on the 10th. Fully 5000 children
enjoyed the fun.
THE mill dam at Pinckney, Mich,
broke on the 10th and carried away
eight bridges and many buildings
along the stream.
THE Brooklyn Eagle published an
interview with Lieut.. Peary on the
18th, in which the arctic explorer said
that the $50, 900 needed for the new
polar expedition was all raised and a
trip would be made this summer to ar
range all the necessary details.
MAIL advices from Honolulu stated
that japanese soldiers have been pour
ing into Hawaii in disguise imni-
I'D hot In
was schening to secure control of the
islands.
b. FRANK BUTTS, of Kansas City, Mo-,
who assisted Rev. J. B. Culpepper, the
evangelist, in religious meeting at
| Sherman, Tex, was ordered to leave
| that town by delegation of citizens,
| because he made some remarks reflect
| ing on the virtue of southern women.
THE plague of buffalo gnats was re-
| ported spreading throughout the lower
| coast counties in Texas and it was
estimated that the pests had caused the
| death of over 1000 horses and other
farm animals in the counties east of
| Rockport-
| CAPT. DANIEL. HAYNES, formerly
claim agent of the ST. Louis South
western railway, was convicted at Pine
| Bluffs, Ark, of embezzling $40, 900 of
the company's money.
DAN CREEDoN has signed articles at
| New York to box kid" Mccoy 20 to 40
rounds for the middleweight cham
| pionship of the world at 1913 pounds
weight
The body of Gen. Grant was trans
ferred from the temporary tomb and
put into its final resting place within
the huge granite sarcophagus in the
| mauSoleum at Riverside cemetery, N.
| Y, on the 18th.
FOLLOWING the news of the incursion
| by the Greeks on Turkish territory,
the council of ministers at Constants
| nop1e declared that war had broken
out and recalled the assembly, gave his
| passports to the Greek minister and
| ordered the Turkish military command
| err to take the offensive. On the 18th
half a dozen battles ragged between the
Greeks and Turks and it was said that
the Greeks got the worst of the Skin
miSheS.
By the explosion of imperfect
blast in the Monarch mine near Mad
isonville, Ky, two men, named Robert
Charlton and Theodore Stone, lost
their lives.
JOHN RANDALL, a tramp, was rur
down on the c., b. & Q. tracks at Rock
Island, ILL.,, and had both legs cut off
He died from the injuries at the hos
pita1.
HARRISON DAWSON, a big colored min
lister. has astonished his brethren a
Mayfield, KY, by deserving his wife
!. and IL children. He eloped with
buxom colored sister.
THE recent report of the viceroy O.
India on the famine situation showed
, that 1858, 900 persons were employed
on the relief works, against 5, 141, So
persons so employed a month previous
: The condition of the people in thu
affected districts was pronounced to b,
: from fair to good
WHILE tapping blast at the Repub
, lican iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa.
: the other morning, the molten meta
} boiled over into pit of water causin,
an explosion. Five men were badl.
l burned, two of whom will probably die
An explosion of gasoline set fire t.
? the Bradley block at Cleveland, O., an,
: the occupants were panic-stricken
Three men were badly burned.
, WILLIAM KAUFMANN, of Wright coun
ty, Ia, was attacked by hiccoughs tn
: other day. He was a man of stron