Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-06
ODD EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
Some Queer and Freakish Happenings
of the Past Twelve Months.

Some Queer and Freakish Happenings
of the Past Twelve Months.
Miss Frances Petit OF Galway, N.
Y, got judgment at Albany for $4,000
for the 1,236 kisses given her in four
teen years by the village blacksmith.
L. Oliphant Dodge. owner of a fiat
building in Omaha, was granted writ
Of Injunction restraining Mrs. E.
Berge, a tenant from talking to other
occupants of the flats.
With a courts judgment against her
in the possession of $1O.S0O, Mrs. Nan
ME S. Bryan of ST. Louis, by putting
the money under her clothing, held it
against all corners.
William H. Pugsley caused the ar
rest of his wife at Mount Vernon N.
Y, on the ground of cruelty in forcing
him to sleep in a chicken coop.
Persons believing in the value of
horse meat for food gave a banquet
in Berlin, at which 600 guests Toasted.
The bite of a mosquito was charged
to be the cause of the death of Carl
Stromquist of Chicago.
c. w. Leadbeater, the London The
osophist, after a visit 20 the Chicago
stockyards, declared tnat, instead of
smoke darkening the city, it is the
ghost life of the millions o. animals
slaughtered every year in the abba
toirs.
Prof. G. Stanley Hall of Clark uni
versity, Boston, not only proposed a
tax upon bachelors, but declared that
coeducation was a bar to matrimony.
A bill was introduced in the Mime
sofa legislature making it unlawful for
any person to kiss another unless he
be able to produce a clean bill of
health.
AS a consequence of the famine
times, Stockholm legislators proposed
tax upon all persons weighing more
than 125 pounds.
Mrs. W. T. Richardson, a boarding
house keeper in Detroit, was refused
coal by the clerk in a coal office, and,
getting her change ready, and draw
ing a revolver, she held him up for a
receipted bill for ton of anthracite at
$3.50.
Seventy German poets in Berlin en-
tered into a union, refusing to accept
less than ten cents a line for their
rhymes.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor killed her hus-
band at Monticello. N. Y, cut his body
In pieces with a knife, burnt it in the
stove, and fed the ashes to the chick
ems.
Hairpins from the heads of women
passengers in a Columbus CO.. trolley
car saved carload of belated people
a long walk in the snow after a fuse
| had burned out.
Henry Bliss of Chicago was arrested
| and locked up because, in inviting
Miss Ida Lee to accompany him to the
| theater, he used revolver to per
| suade her.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles dollar, which
| he had deposited in Boston house
| in 1860, losing the book and forgetting
the name of the bank, was aound in
! the Five Cent Savings bank.
A cowboy named Wilson discovered
two men floating on cake of ice
| down the Republican river, in Nebras
ka. and, riding close to the shore, cast
his Iariat over first one and then the
| other of the men, drawing them ashore
| to safety.
| The Berlin Nueste Nachrichten an
| nounced the existence of great corn
| ed beef mine in the Yellowstone park
| the deposits having been caused by
| the ingulfing of great droves of cattle
during the triocene period, the natura
salts of the territory contributing to
its preservation.
Don Cameron ST. John, returned sol
| der from the Philippines, fell heir tc
| S1ou,O0 from his grandmother be
| cause of his clever verses on the army
| life in the south seas
i In the divorce suit of Ruthven W
Pike against his wife, the court re
1 fused the invitation Oh the wife's coun
sci to allow the jury to feel Mrs. Pixies
| muscles in disproving that she ever
threw ladders and cordwood at hel
| better half.
Arthur Van Meter, prominent mer
| chant of Salt Lake City, suffered from
dropsy, and, after a fast of forty days
| in which he took nothing but water
he found himself cured.
Mrs. James NJ Strong of Chicago
! put $500 in bills in an openwork stock
| ing and she hasn't found it yet.
New York society opposed to stree
| fiirtations issued small buttons which
| when worn by young women, were tt
| hold them immune from the attention.
| of the masher.
Through a mistake on the part O
Cook county officials Mrs. Hett,
Green's tax of s11O5 on a piece o
Cook county land was paid by neigh
| Dor, and under the technicalities O
| the law Hetty won when the neighbol
! attempted to recover the amount
z C. Jones, a banker of New York
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