The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-11-01

motive. Several lives were reported
lost and bridges over the river were
burned like paper. Over 1000 acres
had been burned over on the eSth and
the fire was reported still spreading.
Farmers for 10 miles around Koutz
were forming parties to protect their
could be made.
ANOTHER terrible massacre of Armen-
ians was reported near Baiburt, a mum.
Der of men and women being burned
alive and others horribly mutilated by
Mussulmans and Lazes. About $50 were
said to have been killed.
THE University of Virginia had fire
on the 9th which destroyed the lecture
rooms and geological laboratory of
great value. The loss was estimated
at not less than $500, 600
A Rock ISLAND passenger train
crashed into an outgoing freight train
on the Cotton Belt railroad near Fort
Worth, Tex, recently and the Rock
Island engine went over an embank-
ment, while thirteen ears were totally
demolished.
A THREATENING letter was found in
the palace addressed to the sultan re-
Gently at Constantinople. An inquiry
incriminated fourteen members of the
imperial household. All of them were
executed.
A MOB of $50 men attempted to break
into the Jail at Tiffin, O., for the pur-
pose of lynching Leander Martin, who
had shot August Schultz, the city mar
shall, few days before, but a volley
from the Winchesters of Sheriff Van
Ness party made them retreat after
two of their number had been killed.
The friends of the men killed vowed
vengeance, but the sheriff telegraphed
to Gov. Mckinley for troops and three
companies of militia were sent to the
scene.
AN explosion in the mills of the Pa.
cific Coast Lumber Co., at Fair Haven.
WASH, destroyed much property and
killed three men outright.
NOTORIOUS Dick Pine, member of
the Ryan gang of outlaws, was killed
by federal officers near Cushing, Ok.
AT the session of the national confer
ence of the Unitarian church at WASH
ington on the cath a resolution was
passed protesting against the outrages
committed by the Turks on the Ar
menians. The annual election of Off
GERS resulted in the reelection of
United States Senator Hoar, of Massa-
.husetts, as president; Rev. w. D
Moorehouse, of New York, as general
secretary, and William Howell Reed,
of Boston, as treasurer.
FRANCIS j. KIECKHOEFER, chief in the
bureau of accounts in the state depart
ment at Washington, has been found
short in his accounts and Secretary
Olney has compelled him to resign.
The chief booklkeeper has also resigned.
BAMBERGER, BLOOM s. Co., the larg-
est dry goods firm in Louisville. KY,
has failed, with liza bilities of 81, 200, 900,
and assets about equal
HARVARD university defeated Cor
nell at Camb bridge, Mass, on the Goth
in the football game by score stand
ing 25 to o.
ALARGE fire ragged in Augusta, Ga. on
the 25th. the loss being over $1OO, OOO
THE London Standard has further
"details from its Constantinople CORE.
spondent regarding the execution of
the fifty young Turks who were ar
rested on a charge of excuses during
the recent Armenian riots. The fifty
culprits, after trial, were conveyed
by night on board a Turkish man-of-
war, whose boats took them in the
swiftest current and dropped them
overheard.
Cincinnati, was swept by fire on the
a3d. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, So 200. >
THE board of health has lifted the
quarantine and Honolulu is once more
clean port. No cases of cholera had
been reported for over two weeks
THE failures for the week ended Oc
tober 25 Dun's report) were 231 in the
United States, against 231 last year,
and 3S in Canada, against So last year.
MANY thousand bushels of corn and
many tons of hay and fields of kaffir
corn were destroyed by prairie fires
near Perry, Ok. A number of farm
houses were also consumed. Two In
dian children were reported burned to
a crisp, and many people had narrow
escapes. Hundreds of whites and In
dams turned out to fight the fire.
A WRECK occurred on the Pennsyl-
vania road, near Newport. Pa. in
which two persons were killed and sew
eral badly injured. The locomotive
and several postal cars were destroyed
and large amount of mail matter
was burned.
FAMINE prevails in the Smolensk and
Paskow districts of Russia, owing to
the failure of the crops. The minister
of the interior recently set apart $780,.
600 rubles for the relief of the inhab-
itants of these districts, but the ragged
and hungry peasants were said to be
crowding about the railway stations
inquiring what had become of the
money.
PRESIDENTS day at the Atlanta ex
position on the esd was said to have
been success. President Cleveland
after reviewing the troops made an ap
propriate speech and then held an in
formal reception. The courtesies to
the presidential party wound up at
night with a reception at the Capital
City club.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities in the United States for
the week ended October 25 showed
an average increase as compared with
the corresponding week last year of
25.7; in New York the increase was
"a. 8: outside New York the increase
was 1914
AT Livingston, Ala, three small
children of Granville Lancaster, q
farmer, were roasted to death recent