Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-31

Herminie, Pa, one of them arose and
picked up an old ak in the room and
proceeded to use it upon the heads of
his two companions, fracturing their
skulls and probably fatally injuring
them
Miss GERTRUDE JOHNSON, of Fair
banks, Ind, died in great agony few
hours after pricking a face pimple with
pin
JAMES O'DoNNEIL, who lives the life
of recluse, shot into crowd of small
boys who were playing ball near his
home at Chicago and two of them were
badly wounded As soon as the shoot
ing became known, an angry mob of
neighbors came near lynching him
The large paper mill of the Badger
Paper Co. at Kaukauna, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth. The loss
was S275, 600, with an insurance of $780,
900.
THE people of Randolph and Law
renee counties, Ark, are terribly
wrought up over outrages committed
by whitecaps. The other night they
took a lone widow from her home and
whipped her to death. A man and
wife were also said to have been tied
to tree and whipped because they re-
fused to send their daughter to pub
lie school Newton Gray, respected
farmer, was carried off by them and
nothing has been heard from him
since.
THE New York Post ON the gath said
that local holders of western mort
cages reported unusually good collec-
tions in Missouri, Kansas and NebraS-
ka, and that the farmers in those
states were paying up back interest
and reducing their debts materially.
BRITISH capitalists were said to be
opposing the proposition of the United
States bimetallic commissioners for
conference on the ground that English
finances were satisfactory and that the
British government could not be ex-
pected to assist other governments in
distress.
THOMAS RUSSELL, clerk in the Wa
bash railway freight office at Kansas
City, Mo-, while coasting home on his
bicycle on the evening of the oath coll
lided with the shaft of a milk wagon
and died ten minutes afterwards
AN excursion train was wrecked near
Marietta, o., on the 25th by trestle
giving way and about Is persons were
badly in jured.
A BOAT containing As employees of
the Hamburg engine works capsized
in the river Elbe on the 23d. Six per-
sons were drowned.
ANEGRo named Jim Grey was lynched
near Goldville, S. c., for assaulting a
little girl.
In the state L. A. w. race at Grand
Rapids, Mich, for a purse of $1,000
Bald was first, Kiser second and Cooper
third.
A CONVICT in the Michigan City PEN
itentiary has made written confess
sion in which he states that Mrs. Him
shaw was shot by a man named Van
Tassel at Belleville, Ind. Should the
confession prove true, Rev. w. Hin
shaw, the woman's husband, who was
sentenced to life Imprisonment for the
crime, will get his liberty.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THE recess appointment of Hon. L.
" Powderly as commissioner-gener
of immigration has been signed by the
president
HENRY SCHLAACK, a white man of
Elgin, Ill, is afflicted with Addison's
disease, and is gradually turning black
The disease is pronounced incurable.
THE Alaska papers calling in
double-leaded editorials upon the gold
hunters, who are rushing helter-skel-
ter from all parts of the country for
the klondyke, to bring sufficient sup
ply of food to nourish them for six
months. or else come prepared to face
starvation and death from the intense
cold or scurvy, which is worse than
death.
PAsUELLE DADARIo was hanged in
the county Jail at Philadelphia on the
27th for the brutal murder of Nodes
tino MOTTO, a three-year-old child.
IT was reported on the 27th that the
Dominion government has decided to
place a royalty on all gold mined in
the Yukon district.
The London St. James Gazette. COM
menting upon Japan's protest to the
United States upon the Hawaiian mat
ter, says that it is equivalent to warn
ing the United States that they must
give up their views as to Hawaii or
prepare for war, but Americans do not
seem to think that it does.
CoLoRED Odd Fellows held ice
cream festival in a church at Ridge
Springs, S. c., the other night While
the frolic was at its height Alex Quat-
tlebaum and Tom Graham began firing
their revolvers and two men, brothers,
We're killed, and panic ensued, dur
ing which the murderers escaped.
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