The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-11-22

hours. Blakeslee followed the Santa
railway from Chicago to Los Angeles.
and claimed to have travelled 600 miles
further than Duxbury did
A COMET was recently discovered by
Mr.. Perrine at the Lick observatory,
in California, in the constellation
Virgo.
OVER 400 employees of the ]. B. & ].
NJ. Cornell iron works at New York
went on strike on the 18th and also
500 men employed by Milliken Bros
Some men were also called out in
Brooklyn, making total of 1000 men
belonging to the two firms on a strike.
1t was stated that from 10, 900 to 90, 600
men were also likely to be called out
in sympathy. The wage scale was the
cause of the trouble
PETER w. BREENE, president of tho
defunct Leadville CoL) Savings ana
Deposit bank, was reported missing.
He had borrowed $40, 200 from the
bank
THERE has been trouble for some
time between the white and negro
laborers at Moss Bluff. a tie camp on
the Ocklawaha river, about 80 miles
from Ocala, Fla, and on the 10th
whites surrounded the cabins in which
the negroes were sleeping and poured
in volley after volley from Winches-
tiers. The negroes fed in terror. It
was reported that three were killed
and several wounded by the fusillade.
The whites resented the importation
of the negroes by the contractors and
threatened to drive them away.
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factory at Meridian, Miss. A large
quantity of lumber was also con.
suned. About the time the above fire
seemed under control, fire broke out in
the Citizens compress and warehouse,
which, together with a large quantity
of cotton, was entirely destroyed.
Losses factory, 500, 900; ms ur.
ance, S32, 900; compress warehouse and
cotton, $4,000. fully insured. Two
hundred and fifty men were thrown
out of employment as a consequence
of the destruction of the sash and
blind factory.
JAMES Go1NGs. who hacked Miss Liz.
zie Jones at Frederick, Md, on the
10th, with a razor, after she had given
him something to eat when he begged
for it, was taken from Jail by mob of
300 men on the 18th and hanged to a
tree in field mile from the city.
The mob battered down the doors of
the Jail to get at the man.
AN electric car at Cleveland, O.,
plunged over the draw into the river
1O1 feet below on the night of the 10th.
All those in the car who did not jump
were drowned. The car struck the
peared from sight. Fifteen dead
bodies have been recovered and four
were still thought to be missing. For
some reason the signal that the draw
was open was not needed. The scenes
about the river while the work of res.
cue was being prosecuted were pathetic
in the extreme.
A NATIONAL organization of agricul
tural newspaper men was organized
at Chicago on the 18th. It was named
the Agricultural Press league, and the
officers for the coming year are: M. j.
Lawrence, president; ]. w. Wilson,
vice president; j. B. Conner, treasurer.
The next meeting of the league will be
held in Chicago next March.
A WINE merchant at Paris, France,
named Domergue, suddenly went in.
sane and shot his wife and mother and
then began shooting at passersby from
his window, killing three persons and
wounding a number of others. After
using up all his ammunition he barri.
caded himself in his house, but was
finally arrested by the gendarmes.
IT was recently reported that TWEEN
ty-five immigrants on their way to Cal.
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full condition on the Colorado desert.
They had abandoned their WORKOUT
horses and their food was almost ex
hausted. A Southern Pacific train
stopped and gave them barrel o;
water.
A RIOT took place in a camp of char
coal burners south of Durango, Mex.
resulting in the killing of ten men and
the wounding of several others. The
camp had a population of about loo
people and all took part in the riot.
which grew out of a factional difficulty
that had been waged for some time.
JACK MULvANE and j. B. Martin,
living about 20 miles northwest OF
Perry, Ok, began a fight over a tract
of land. when their wives joined in.
Mulvane was badly cut by Martin and
Mulvane's wife dealt many hard blows
to Martin and wife with hoe. It was
thought Mrs Martin and Mulvane
could not live.
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended November Is showed an av.
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year Of AS;
in New York the increase was l6 9;
| outside New York the increase was
Ills.
EDITH CROW, a 3-year-old daughter OF
Gus Crow, living at Sherman, Tenn.
met a horrible death recently. The
child attempted to put out a bonfire
burning in her fathers back yard,
when her clothes took fire and her
flesh was literally roasted to the bone.
| BILLY MURPHY, the Australian, and
Jack Dougherty, Philadelphia pugi
list, recently fought a ten round mill
at Lexington, KY. The referee gave
the fight to Murphy.
| A STEAM launch belonging to the
British cruiser Edgar was reported te
have been lost in japanese waters and
forty-eight men who were on board OF
her were drowned.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES WILSON issued
a general fraud order on the 14th in.
Guiding all the alleged lottery compa-
MES, both in the United States and
elsewhere, and directing all postmas
tiers of the country to mark mail sent
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