The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-05-26

kec. was shot and killed by cX-Deputy
United States Marshal CreekmoOr.
| CHARLES II. JONES, editor of the st.
Louis Republic, has resigned his Office
to Charles w. Knapp, president and
publisher, though still retaining his in
tercst in the paper.
TBS Oakland, Cal, ferryboat Bay
City ran down rowboat containing
five persons and all were drowned.
A DAN restraining the water of Lakes
Ida and Milton, in Minnesota, broke
and large area of land was flooded
with the escaping water.
NINE young men have been arrested
for distributing boycotting circulars
against the firm of Diel & Bro, gents
! furnishings. st. Louis.
JAMES f. MURDOCH, the well known
tragedian and teacher of elocution,
died at Cincinnati on the 18th. He was
s3 years of age.
J. A. r. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City, Mo-,
captured the Missouri state trophy as
the champion wing shot in the state
birds.
| JUDGE RIcKs, at Cleveland, o.. ap-
pointed a receiver for the Clover Leaf
| the Toledo, Kansas City & St. Louis
| railway.
THERE is great excitement in Normal,
Ill, over the failure of the Exchange
bank of that city, and the president has
been arrested for receiving deposits
after he knew the bank was insolvent.
| WALTER WILLIAMS, of Columbia, Mo-,
was honored by election as president
of the National Editorial association at
Chicago.
IN the great fire at Saginaw, Mich,
nearly 300 houses were burned.
| TERRIBLE forest fires were raging in
the vicinity of Lake City and Cadillac,
Mich, and a number of lives were lost.
| AT a meeting of trades and labor men
of Chicago President Lfneman boldly
advised workingmen to break down the
fences of the worlds fair if it should be
decided not to open it on Sunday.
WHILE an immense throng of women
were waiting at the doors of the Wash
ington hall, in the worlds fair grounds,
the entrance gave way and many were
precipitatcd to the ground below, a dis
tance of twelve feet. Several were bad
ly injured. but none fatally.
CHARLES ToNEY, aged Il, met hor-
rible death at Kokomo, Ind. .. He was
employed at the strawboard works and
while in the pit feeding the. large hot
close-meeting cylinders, he was dragged
entirely through between the rollers,
crushing him to pulp.
FLOODS of serious nature are re-
ported in Montana. They were caused
by the swelling of mountain streams to
an unusual height.
| w. Il. STRONG, of Fort Atkinson, Wis,
and D. y. Smith, of Whitewater, Wis,
students in the Wisconsin university,
were drowned by the capsizing of their
sail boat on Lake Mendoza, Wis. A.
Z. Coe, of Barron, Wis, held to the
boat four hours and was rescued.
DUNKARDs have been in session at
Muncie, Ind.
A MAssILEON. O., special says:
George Lankford, young saloon
keeper. shot his wife and then shot
himself, both dying instantly. Jealousy
is supposed to have prompted the deed.
Three months ago Landlords mother
was killed by Nicholas Haas, her hus-
band, who also killed himself.
JOHN NJ. BERKEY & Co., a leading
real estate firm of Denver, Col, has
failed on account of the stringency OF
the money market.
The Swiss exhibit at the worlds fail
is closed, because the commissioner in
charge became offended over the arrest
of one of his employees bv the United
States authorities.
| THE worlds press congress, the sec
ond of the great series at the worlds
fair, opened on the 22d
RIVERS in Washington and Oregon
were very high, and floods of a seriou.
nature were threatened.
The big plant of the United State:
Glass Co., at. Tiffin. o.. was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire.
| FRANK PRESTON was drowned in the
Canadian river at Purcell, /. r., while
in bathing.
MEASLES are reported to be epidemic
in several towns in Indiana.
Mrs. GOLDTHwAITE, of Leadville
Col. claims to be the author of the play
alabama" and has sued Gus Thomas.
AT Lincoln, Neb., June 90, will meet
a convention of men interested in build
ing trunk line from the Dakotas tC
the gulf.
THE new American Railway union
being organized by Eugene Debs. viii
be divided into twelve districts. The
plans will be perfected in Chicago
June 20.
In the police court at Spokane, Wash.
prisoner, asked to plead to a charge
drew a revolver and shot himself
BY new deal the government save
81, 900 year in rent at Omaha.
THE sOrrrH.
The graves of confederate dead wer'
decorated with imposing ceremonies a
Little Rock, Ark, on the 10th.
The Vanderbilt system of railroad
has succeeded in getting into Louis
J vile, Ky.
DIR. G. A.. NELSON, formerly a promi
nent physician of Terrell, Tex, ha
been sent to an insane asylum as tn
result of the use of whisky and NOR
phfne
The financial furry struck Bruins
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