The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-10-25

% view the ruins OF the rcceut uES Ia
that city when the pontoon bridge, on
| which those landed from the ferry
went, gave way and about a hundred
were precipitated into the river.
About thirty people were injured.
some with broken legs. Three chill
dren were reported missing and sew
eral spectators said they saw woman
drown.
| THE health department on the 21st de-
clared both diphtheria and typhoid
fever epidemic in Chicago. The de-
partment reported $50 new cases of
diphtheria last week. 40 40 per cent
of which were fatal. The epidemics
are charged to impure water and the
health commissioner has issued warm
ing against drinking unboiled water.
THE hamlet of New Belleville. Ind. i.
has been destroyed by fire. the general
store. post Office and a dozen dwellings
being consumed Loss. about $50. 900.
AT Eakle's mills, near Locust, Md,
Herman Lands shot his wife in fit
of jealousy and then committed sui
| eide.
JOHN HANsBRo, of Bryan, Ok, gave
his two children. 10 and II years of
age, what he thought was sulphur and
molasses, but got lead salts instead of
sulphur. The little girl died afterward.
The boy was sent after a doctor. but
fell in commissions on the way and can
not live.
SECRETARY SMITH has issued instruc-
tions to the Indian division of the in
terror department to prepare a list of
intruders on Indian allotments in Ok
lahoma. This will be forwarded at
once to the war department and troops
will be ordered to eject them. The In
dian police, under the authority of the
agent of the Sac and Fox agency, have
Intellectually endeavored to eject the
intruders, and it is feared a continu-
ance of their efforts will result in
bloodshed.
JOSEPH RAMSEY, Jr, has been ap-
pointed general manager of the Wa
bash railroad, vice Charles Nj. Hayes,
resigned. Mr.. Ramsey will assume the
duties of his position about January 1.
| REPORTS received at the weather bu-
reau at Washington on the Goth indi-
Gates that the present drought was one
of the severest, most prolonged and
general known in the United States
since the bureaus organization. There
were few places which showed an
exception to the general condition, but
in no large section of the country, I'M
less perhaps in the northwest and far
west, did there appear to have been a
heavy rain for the past two months or
more.
AT New Orleans on the 18th all the
buildings fronting on the river be-
l.
Esplanadc avenue were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500 900; partly insured.
THE town of Manchester on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail
way, 40 miles from Cincinnati, was re-
ported almost wiped out by fire on the
18th. 1t has a population of 1900.
COMMANDER DARLINGTON BoorH, of
the Salvation army, has announced
that the big Salvation congress will be
held in Chicago this year. 1t will last
four days, and will be during the lat
ter part of November. Mr.. and Mrs.
Booth will lead the exercises and all
the national staff officers will be pres
emit. The Auditorium has been en-
gagged for the occasion.
| THE official report of the Lake Mo-
honk Indian conference reached the
Indian Office at Washington on the
=; 18th. Among other thing the report
declares the reservation system was an
insuperable obstacle to CIVILIZATION and
should be abolished, the tribal organi-
cation destroyed, and lands allotted in
severalty, the Indians intermingled
with the whites and the Indians treat
ed as other men.
In one of the aristocratic residence
portions of Chicago G. S. Merwin sud-
denly went insane in the middle of the
night of the 10Th and for seventeen
himself in a room and firing out of the
window at everybody passing, Great
ing CONSERVATION in the vicinity.
Finally the police closed all the regis
tiers they could and put sulphur in the
| furnace and he was soon captured.
The mailman had fired altogether 40
shots from his revolver and rifle, but
fortunately no one was injured.
A DYNAMITE blast prematurely ex-
ploded near Sharpsburg, KY, and three
men were killed.
Gov. MCINTYRE, of Colorado, has de-
clared quarantine against Texas,
Wyoming, New Mexico and Oklahoma
AiOLh GhSoC Icy iohS Cou NC eIu-
mitted within the state only on their
being found to be free from contagious
diseases after an inspection. This
proclamation does not apply to sheep
that are to be transported through the
state by rail.
THE Pullman car Columbia, valued
at S135, 900, has left the shops of the
Pullman company at Wilmington, Del.
for Washington, whence it will take
President Cleveland and his party to
the Atlanta exposition. 1t is one of
the finest in existence.
a. C. CHARLTON and Allen Stocker
private bankers at Richland, Ia, have
failed and the institutions condition
was said to be very bad. Charlton was
missing and his partner concluded that
he had skipped.
A DISPATCH from Quincy, Ill, stated
that A. j. Miller, ex-mayor of Canton,
Mo-, and Henry Clay were drowned in
the Mississippi river on the 18th. They
were out sailing when the boat cap
sized.
THE failures for the week ended
October Is Dun's report were 263 in
the United States, against 253 last
year. and 46 in Canada, against 43 last
year.
AT Champaign, ILL.,, the Empire Cord.
| AGE ca - large Irvine mill WAS de.