Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-01-27

An examination of Harry X Thawss
mental condition will be made before
he is permitted to leave the hospital
where he is recovering from self-in-
flicted wounds, according to DR.. Ell
wood Kirby, his physician in Phila-
delphia- Doctor Kirby said the wounds
on Thaw's wrist and neck are healing
rapidly, but that he would be kept in
the hospital until the mental exam
ination is completed.
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Three men were asphyxiated
in fire which destroyed a grocery
store and apartment building on the
East Side at Detroit recently. A score
of others were forced out of their
apartments.
Attorneys for the Thaw family have
begun their fight in defense of Harry
X Thaw, indicted for kidnapping and
assault in New York State Protests
were entered by Henry Scott, Phila-
delphia, against extradition of Thaw,
and Oliver Brewer, without hearing.
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One man has been arrested and
two others, it is expected, will be
taken into custody following an inves-
tigation into the recent explosion at
the DUPONT company's plant at Has
ken, N. J., according to a statement
made by Chief of Police Miller of
Pompton Lakes, N. J.
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A motive is lacking for the placing
of the bomb which wrecked the St.
Louis Roman Catholic church on the
south side in Chicago. Six persons,
living in adjoining houses, were slight
ly injured and five hundred windows
in the neighborhood were shattered.
Anarchist plots to assassnate Gov.
Hiram w. johnson, United States SEN
ator-elect from California, we're re-
vealed in letters seized in the office
of Alexander Berkman several weeks
ago. District Attorney Edward Cunha
told Judge Franklin A. Griffin in the
Mooney murder trial at San Francisco.
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Admiral George Dewey has been alb
sent from his desk at the navy depart
ment for several days on account of
illness, although his physicians say
the indisposition is. not serious. The
admiral is in his eightieth year.
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Southwest.
A terrific explosion of an oxy-
acetylene tank in the Meyer Jewelry
Company's plant on the fifth floor of
the Boley building, Kansas City, cost
the life of one man, probably fatally
injured another and severely hurt
scores of other persons. The jewelry
plant was partly wrecked and the EST
mated loss amounts to many thou
lnds of dollars.
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Shot removed from the vertebrae,
and shot holes and powder burns on
the back of his coat and cap, substan-
tiate the theory that Clyde D, Armour
of Sioux City, Ia, whose body was dis
covered near Glorieta, N. M. was shot
in the back a dellikn. dshrldu rmfiet
in the back and killed.
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Miss Josephine Holmes, 10 years
old, domestic in the home of E. W.
Barker, president of the Farmers Ma
tional Bank at Burlington. Kan, shot
and killed Clarence NJ. Wood, % years
old, Mrs. Barker's son, and then killed
herself. Wood was county surveyor of
Coffey county and graduate of Baker
University.
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Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston and
party arrived at the punitive expedi-
tons field headquarters in Mexico ro-
Gently. At point five miles north
of Colonia Dublan, General Funston
was met by Gen. Pershing and staff
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A million and a half dollars will
be paid for eighty acres of oil land in
the Sour Lake oil field if the Gulf Pro-
duction Company takes advantage of
an option it holds on the SO-acre county
lease owned by the Tarver Oil Com
pany. The Gulf people paid $4,000
for the option.
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