The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

some Mexican cattle thieves, who had
stolen a steer, to Twohigs station, on
the I. & G. N, 80 miles north of Laredo,
Tex. and in the fight the ranchman.
two Mexicans and a child were killed
and woman wounded.
AN electric car was stopped by five
masked men at Chicago soon after g
o'clock on the night of the 18th and the
conductor and passengers robbed of
their money and valuables.
PROF. J.. l.. DYCHE. of the Kansas
university. in an article in the New
York Herald of the 9th on the recent
polar EXPEDITION, asserted that Peary,
when only a few miles from the farth
est north. was obliged to turn back
for want of pemmican and alcohol, and
could he only have found the caches
containing those necessities perhaps
the pole might have been reached.
A CHICAGO paper on the 18th stated
that that city was to have an attack of
"Kaffir fever" the disease which has
made England and the continent crazy
for speculation in South African mines,
and that before December L Kaffir
stocks would in all pro ba bility be listed
in Chicago.
THE northbound Frisco passenger
train was held up at CASTOR, 1. r., on
The night of the 9th by six men, who
tut the express car loose from the
train and ran it up the track. They
tailed to open the through safe and
,ply got s. cents from the local safe.
The passengers were not molested.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred
n the Dorence mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the nth and five men were
Drought to the surface badly burned,
;wo fatally. Eight other men were
Missing and the officials thought there
was no hope of saving them alive, the
:escuing party making such slow
progress on account of the gas.
WHILE a great crowd of people was
assembled on the 9th to witness the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
st. Mary's cathedral, at Lorraine, O.,
temporary floor, on which many of
the people were standing, suddenly
gave way, precipitating many men.
women and children into the basement.
One was killed outright, eleven fatally
injured and between thirty and forty
others were badly hurt. The contract
ors were said to be responsible for the
accident, poor timbers being used for
supporting the platform.
AT Dayton. O., Rev. DIR. Lawrence
dropped dead in the pulpit while con-
Quoting services.
AT Myrtle, small town n few miles
from Toronto, Ont. bold robbery was
committed in the Canadian Pacific rail-
way station. An unknown robber sand
bagged the night operator, rendering
him insensible. The safe was then
blown open and So. 800 of the Dominion
Express Co.'S funds stolen. The op-
orator was SO badly injured that he
was unable to give a coherent account
of the affair.
ANDREW CAIN and William Crosse,
coon hunters of Montpelier. Ind, mad
vertently built fire over some nitro
glycerine that had been buried in the
ground. An explosion followed blow
ing both men to atoms.
REPORTS received from different parts
of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey on the 4th indicated that the coun-
try was suffering from a drought of
large proportions In some places
there was almost a famine on account
VI IdCh VI WdtcT. lie 1dTtueTS were
complaining of the lateness of the crops
and in numerous instances were con-
PEELED to carry water a distance of .
miles for cattle. But little rain ha
fallen since July I.
In some portions of Colorado inch es
of snow fell on the 4th. Dispatches
from Salida and Buena Vista said that
considerable damage had been done in
orchards, the damp snow breaking
many branches off the trees.
AT Jersey City, N. j.. John Czech,
otherwise known as Fish John, was
executed in the county Jail on the Cd
for the murder of his wife on June 3.
Jealousy was the motive of his crime.
HENRY j. Mccoy, general secretary
of the Y. NJ. e. A, of San Francisco,
who was cited for contempt for telling
Juror Truman that if he did not hang
Durrant, the suspected murderer of
Blanche Lamont, the people would
hang him, was fined $3.50, with the
alternative of five days in the county
Jail.
NEAL SMITH, a negro convict, who
recently assaulted young white
woman at Cole City, Ga, after beating
her into insensibility, was taken from
the prison guards by mob from Ten
nessee and Alabama and shot to death
Great excitement existed but no fur
Their trouble was expected.