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


navy, asks for an increase of men.
THE men who robbed the Pacific Ex
press Co., in The Dalles, Ore, of S140,
600 have been apprehended and all but
500 recovered. One OF the robber;
confessed.
THE secretary of state has made q
protest to the German government IN
regard to the injustice to the United
States of the order prohibiting the inn
portation of American cattle and fresh
meat into Germany.
THE wholesale millinery establish,
ment of ]. j. Porter & Co., Pittsburgh,
Pa, was destroyed by fire on the GOTH
Loss, about $3.50, 900. The fire caused
stampede in the theater next door.
A DISPATCH from Parkersburg, W.
Va, of the Goth said that the long
drought had caused great distress
among farmers and lumbermen along
the Little Kanawha.
A WAGON containing party returning
from dance near Lebanon, Ind, was
struck by Big Four train and five OF
the merrymakers were killed.
A STREET fight at York, Ala, result
ed in the wounding of two prominent
citizens, one fatally, and the killing OF
the chief of police, J. W. Thompson.
IT has been determined that NO
troops can be used to suppress the law
less bands in the Indian territory un-
less called upon by the courts to assist
the United States marshals. The re-
quest for troops would then come
through the department of justice.
CAPT. CHARLES Book, commanding a
squad of twenty Indian police, has
captured near Wagner. 1. T., Joe
johnson, Nose Price, Dick Reynolds,
Jim Bates and Lon Perry, five members
of the Cook gang. The officers sur
prised the outlaws in camp and had
them covered with Winchesters before
the robbers could get their guns and
the capture was made without shot
icing fired.
THE steam barge F. Wilson, bound
from Cleveland to Milwaukee with
coal, sprung leak when about miles
off Thunder Bay island and filled and
sank. The crew was saved.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, on the 2sth
was shaken by an explosion of five tons
of dynamite stored on the summit of a
hill m4e from town. 1t was pre-
sumed that a rifle bullet fired by a
hunter lodged in some powder that
was in storage and the person lost his
life. The glass in every farmhouse for
miles around was broken.
IN view of the crusade for cheaper
bread inaugurated in a number of
cities, the agricultural department has
given out a bulletin on the cost of
bread from the forthcoming report of
Prof. Atwater.
A DISPATCH from London of the Goth
soil have been placed to the credit of
the japanese forces. The first was
merely skirmish, the Chinese fleeing
from their earthworks to batteries
lower down the river Yalu. throwing
away their arms in their fight. The
second encounter was sharp and rather
bloody, the Chinese finally retiring in
disorder.
A DISPATCH from Ironwood, Mich,
said that what may prove to be the
worst accident in the history of the
Menominee range occurred at the Pc
wabic mine on the 25th. One man was
known to have been killed and eleven
others were entombed and their fate
would not be known for eighteen
hours, as it would take that length of
time for force of men to clear away
the rubbish. The accident was caused
by a sandstone Gaping which over
hung the roof coming away with suffi-
Gent force to crush the timber with
out any warning.
THE war department has issued a
general order fixing the annual allot-
ment per soldier for ammunition for
target practice at Sc for cavalry and
so for infantry. The empty shells
will be reshipped for reloading. These
changes were made necessary by the
new smokeless powder and small cali
Der rifle.
AN earthquake was felt throughout
the Argentine republic on the 27th.
Many churches, theaters and private
houses were destroyed. Twenty per-
sons were known to have persisted.
The inhabitants were In a state of
panic, fearing repetition of the
shocks.