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# WESTERN.
At Kansas City thieves robbed Mr. and Mrs. William D. Bassett, who are on their honeymoon trip, of valuable wedding pres-ents.
At St. Johns smugglers have brought in enormous quantities of rum. One schooner owner in twelve months got 4,200 gallons of rum.
A negro named Bob Marshall was tarred and feathered at Greeley, Colo., for having insulted Gov. McIntyre at the Potato Day celebration.
There were eight fatal casualties at Milwaukee Friday. The worst of the accidents was at No. 828 7th avenue, where three men were asphyxiated in a well.
The satchel containing $120,000 securities of the defunct Fort Scott Bank, lost by Bank Examiner Breidenthal, of Kansas, was found in a railroad car at Denver.
Five women who had been attending a Dunkard meeting at Ottawa, Kan., were thrown from a carriage by runaway horses. All were seriously and one fatally injured.
By the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Paris, Texas, George Johnson, the colored engineer, was torn to fragments. Two farmers standing near were fatally hurt.
A brutal murder occurred in Grant County, South Dakota. Frank Kaatsitz, a German, went home about 4 p. m., in an intoxicated condition, and quarreled with his wife and kicked her to death.
Peculiar meteorological conditions prevailed in the Northwest Friday. In North Dakota the first snow of the season fell, and in South Dakota and Minnesota high winds and sand and dust blizzards prevailed.
Dan E. Young, an old citizen and prominent politician of Folsom, N. M., was murdered in Oak Canon. He had been shot from behind and was badly bruised on the head. It is thought the whitecaps, some of whom he had exposed, are connected with the murder.
Lem Gammon, postmaster and general storekeeper, at Ramah, Colo., was bound and gagged by four masked men, who robbed the store and postoffice of $200 in cash, a quantity of stamps and other valuables. The sheriff and posse are trying to track the robbers with blodhounds.
Meredith Mahan and Francis M. Chilton, of Eminence, Shannon County, Mo., were found in their room at the Ridgeway Hotel, St. Louis, the former dead and the latter unconscious and dying from suffocation by gas. The men were well-known stock raisers. It is supposed to be a case of blowing out the gas.
Developments in the case of Defaulting Cashier J. R. Colean, of the Fort Scott, Kan., State Bank, shows his shortage to be $50,000 instead of $23,000, as at first supposed. Vice President Stewart says that Colean literally gutted the reserve fund, realizing on $20,000 of the best securities held by St. Louis, New York and Kansas City banks.
San Francisco has had bloomer balls, bloomer marriages and now a bloomer restaurant has been opened in the very business center of the city. The restaurant is called the "Bloomer Cafe" and has been a success from the start. Four shapely girls, attired in neat fitting bloomers, attend to the wants of the customers and have proved such an attraction that more girls will have to be employed to take care of the increasing trade.
At Ceylon, Ind., the pay car on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad was wrecked Friday and three men killed and several badly injured. A gang of bridge workers had pushed their car on a switch to let the pay car pass, but neglected to close the switch and the train, running fifty miles an hour, dashed into them. The pay car and engine were wrecked. Physicians from Decatur and a wreck train went to the scene. Two of the dead men have large families.
Fire broke out in the main hoisting slope of the Oregon Improvement Company's mine, at Franklin, Wash., causing the death of John H. Glover, S. W. Smalley, John Adams and James Stafford. The accident was caused by August Johnson, who dropped his lamp, setting fire to a gas feeder. Instead of throwing a shovelful of dirt to put it out, he ran down the slope to get the pit foreman. While he was bringing help the timbers caught fire. Finding that the flames could not be extinguished, the four men named volunteered to go down and close a door between the main and auxiliary slopes. It is supposed they never reached the bottom alive, but the bodies have not been recovered.
The sawmill of E. W. Backus & Co., at Minneapolis, Minn., was destroyed by fire Friday evening. The loss will be $125,000 and 400 men are thrown out of employment. The mill shut down at 6 o'clock, but had considerable lumber to saw and as a general thing has been running night and day. There was considerable lumber around the mill, but it was all saved in spite of a fierce wind. The mill con-
