The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

HA> hAASAs WOLucu anu Uurct
children were burned to death in fire
at the West Street hotel at Seattle
WASH, on the 27th. All were so badly
burned that recognition was almost
impossible. The fire was caused by
the explosion of a lamp.
The John Street Methodist church
of New York, celebrated its 125th an
niversary on the 2sth. 1t was an event
of considerable interest to the millions
of Methodists in America, for on the
spot where this rather shabby church
stands was erected the first Methodist
meeting house in America.
FIRE in the Southern railway freight
house at Asheville, N. c., destroyed
the buildings, together with four
loaded cars and four shanty cars. ALI
freight in the building and every rec.
ord was totally destroyed. The loss
was estimated at $50, 900; insured.
A FIRE completely Quilted the Myers
block, a five-story building, corner
Broadway and Leonard street, N. Y.
Tho loss was estimated at $3.50, OOC. The
building was occupied on three floors
by restaurant keepers.
THE agricultural department at
Washington will thoroughly investi,
gate the cases of alleged Texas fever
on which the German government has
seen fit to prohibit the importation OF
American cattle and fresh beef.
UNITED STATES TREASURER MORGAN
has given out for publication a circular
just issued by him of special interest to
banks on the subject of the issue and
redemption of the currency.
A LAW clerk in the interior depart
ment at Washington was stricken with
smallpox on the Goth and when the
clerks came back from their noon lunch
a state of panic prevailed. DIR. Wood
ward, the health officer, made an
urgent appeal to Secretary Smith to
close the entire interior department in
the interest of public health, and an
order was issued closing every bureau
until the Goth.
THE Farmers and Mechanics bank
at Malvern. Ia, was visited by bur.
glars recently and $1,000 in cash was
stolen. Nitro-glycerine was used in
opening the vault, but the thieves did
not thoroughly understand it's use and
SAAN "oo PloSClCdiAy Olo"h "
pieces and the money and other con.
tents sent crashing into the street
The explosion aroused the whole neigh.
borhood.
DUN's review of trade for the week
ended the Goth said political excite
ment in many states caused slacken.
ing of some kinds of business, but in
dications were more favorable than a
week ago. The prices of farm products
had not improved much, although corn
was higher, without any very clear
reason. Wheat was lower. The cot
ton receipts indicated that the cror
will probably be the largest ever pro-
duced. The demand for wool was not
large.
SAM Rock, an Italian laborer at the
White stone quarry near Bowling
Green, KY, shot his wife and 7-year.
old daughter. The wife is dead and
the child cannot live. Rock was jailed
WASHINGTON was having a smallpox
scare on the 25th and it was estimated
that over 5000 people were vaccinated
on that day. An order has been issued
by the interior department closing all
the rooms in which the persons affiict-
ed with smallpox worked, and all per.
sons engaged in the rooms have been
given leave of absence and orders to
stay away from the department..
DURING the conservation of church
at Trokh, Russia, a lamp was upset,
which caused cry of fire to be raised
and a panic followed. During the rush
for the doors two women and three
children were trampled to death and
twenty-seven people seriously injured.
In collision between two freight
trains on the Kosloff Waronesch rail-
road in Russia. twenty-five cars were
demolished and ten trainmen killed.
A RECENT dispatch from Yokohama,
Japan, said that 5000 houses had been
destroyed by succession of Earthquake
shocks and, as far as known, 26O lives
had been lost and q large number OF
people injured.
CHIEF HAzEN, of the secret service at
Washington, has received from Roches-
ter, n. Y, a new counterfeit IS treas
ury note, with the Thomas head. The
bill was a very poorly executed etched
plate. The features of Thomas were
blurred and the lettering and lathe
work very poor. The panel containing
tho treasury number of the bill had
parallel lines in the counterfeit, aud in
the genuine they are oblique.