The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-09-14

|, A0 CoStOOunQ 1relRnC Train cOll1Qe(
with westbcund work train on
curve about 3 miles from Lock Haven
Pa, On the eth. Two men were kille,
ana eight more or less injured.
HE annual report of the comptrollel
OF the currency was made public on tn.
10th.
FIVE hundred cloalsmakers belong
ing TO the United Order Of Carmen
Cutters Of America quit work a
Newark. Y. j., on the 10th ant
twenty-five shops have been compelled
to close. The men asserted that they
We're compelled to work eighteen hour.
a day and the strike was to secure 6
reduction to ten hours. They intended
to fight against the sweating system
also, but the first effort will be directed
to securing reduction in the hours Of
work.
The deputy sheriffs on duty at Chi
cago during the late railroad strike
have presented to the county board a
claim for SO day. They claim the law
says their pay shall be 81 per day OF
eight hours, and as they were constant
" under the orders of the sheriff they
practically worked twenty-four hours
day.
THE supreme lodge, Knights OF
Pythias, at Washington on the sth
| adopted the new code of statutes. A
plan to raise funds for the Pythiar
university at Gallatin, Tenn, was
agreed to, and under it subscription
of 25 cents will be requested from each
knight. The new code of rules makes
the supreme lodge and the uniform
rank independent of each other.
MORA, Mimi, was reported destroyed
BY forest fires.
DR.. w. A. CONKLING, one Of the prin-
cipal physicians of Cassopolis, Mich,
was enticed from his home to his office.
AS he did not come home man was
sent to the Office and found everything
in confusion, the furniture overturned
and broken and evidences of fearful
struggle. Stone lake, near by, has
been dragged A brother says the
doctor is leading witness in murder
case in the eastern part of Michigan
and ascribes his disappearance to that
fact.
A FISHING fleet near Finland was at
sea when terrible gale sprang up.
Some of them reached harbors of
safety: others lost their bearings and
ran to some rocky islands where the
waves soon pounded the boats to pieces.
Some of the fishermen got on the
islands and were exposed to the gale
for three days without food before
being taken off. Fifteen were drowned.
THE Larkspur Inn, a magnificent
summer hotel near San Rafael, Cal,
was destroyed on the 9Th by fire that
had its origin in the kitchen on the
third floor. The hotel cost SIS, O0O and
was insured for $4,000. The loss on
contents is estimated at $40, 900, partly
covered by insurance.
THE much-mooted German question
was decided by the supreme lodge,
Knights of Pythias, at Washington on
the 9th by a decisive vote of SO to 70
against permitting the use of the ritual
in other than the English language.
Sitting in committee of the whole the
lodge has approved the unanimous re-
port of the committee recommending
that saloonheepers, bartenders and
professional gamblers be declared in
eligible to membership, but not affect
IiiOoC VIII have U@eCOIue
members. The question has not been
acted upon by the supreme lodge proper
JACK EvERHARr, champion light
weight of England, has authorized the
issuance of a challenge to fight Jack
McAuliffe at 1873 pounds for S2,7OO
side and the lightweight championship
of America. If McAuliffe refuses to
meet him, Everhart says the challenge
will apply to Horace Leeds, of Phila-
delphia, or any 133-pound man in the
world.
The whole plot of the lynching of
the six alleged negro incendiaries near
Millington, Tenn, on the night of
August 81 has been laid bare and every
man implicated, it was reported, would
soon be in Jail. Robert McGarver, son
of the sheriff of Shelby county, told
the whole story to the grand jury.
In the supreme lodge of the knights
of Pythias at Washington on the 18th
was started to erect a mon
ument to Maj. Rathbone, the founder
of the order, who is buried at Utica, N.
Y. Washington lodges will endeavor
to raise fund to purchase the hall
which was the birthplace Of the fra
ternity.
ADDITIONAL DISpaTCHEq.