The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-10-18

the 18th said that a passenger train
| was ditched on the Norfolk & Western
railroad and seventy passengers were
all more or less injured. A broken
frog caused the accident
WHILE Simon Hisrich was driving
along the streets of Canal Dover. O.. a
dog jumped at his horse and the
frightened animal plunged in front OF
a street car and was killed and Mr..
Hisrich was thrown under the car and
ground to pieces. The car had to be
lifted to get out his mangled body.
| HOWARD HITE. accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. Joseph Croft. and her three
children, of Roaring Springs, Pa, were
out driving when their horses took
fright at drunken man lying on the
roadside. The animals turned short
about and ran away. All were thrown
violently from the vehicle and Mrs.
Croft was instantly killed, while the
others were seriously hurt
IT was given out authoritatively on
| the 18th that the fight between Cor bett
| and Fitzsimmons would surely take
place at Hot Springs, Ark, on schedule
| time. In order to comply with the
| laws of Arkansas the contest will be
! limited to a number of rounds, the
referee being vested with full power
to stop the contest when, in his opin-
ion, it becomes brutal, the contestants
to box with soft gloves.
OFFICERS who arrived at Paris, Tex,
| recently from the territory bring news
| OF the butchering of an aged negro
woman named Louisiana Fisher, near
Shawneetown, in the eastern part of
the Choctaw nation. A day or two
ago her body was found in the woods.
Her head was cut off and a number of
long. deep gashes were in her body.
Suspicion rests upon some Choctaw S
named Impson, who believed her to be
a witch and lived in constant terror of
her.
A SERIOUS freight wreck occurred at
Waterbury, Conn.,, on the 18th, two
parts of broken train coming to-
gether and ten cars loaded with trot-
ting horses, live stock and other ex-
hibits from the Danbury fair were
crushed and thrown down a 40-foot
embankment. Mazeppa, the famous
champion trick horse, valued at S4O,.
900, was instantly killed, one man was
ly hurt.
Four people were fatally burned
while fighting prairie fire near Winnie
peg. Man. !,
ADvICEs from Guavmas stated the
steamers Diego, Mazatlan and another
small gulf coaster had been lost with
all hands on board. A number of
miners, American and Mexican, took
passage on the steamers. and, if it be
true that the vessels went down, 100
lives have probably been lost.
AT Hyden. Knott county, Ky. at a
political gathering Judge J. w. Parker,
L Clay county republican, attempted to
speak, when ruffians began yelling.
His friends tried to protect him and a
fight followed in which three men
were killed outright and several others
seriously wounded.
HENRY MEYER, a boy II years old, of
Toledo, O., objected to his sister giving
4 birthday party at their home, and in
order to discourage any future at
tempts in the same line, mixed two
ounces of croton oil with the coffee
that was served to the guests. AS re-
suit twelve of the young people who
attended the party were in a serious
condition and fatal results were eX-
pected from some of them. The lad
was arrested.
AT Eaton, O., John Monroe Smith.
aged II. escorted home his sweetheart
Gertrude Lally, and quarreled with
her on the way. Arriving at the house,
he shot and fatally wounded her in the
presence of her mother, and then sur
rendered to the county sheriff.
THE bill providing for the removal
of the intruders from the Cherokee ma
ton passed both houses at South Nc
Alester. l. T., and was signed by the
chief. BY the provisions of the bill 3l5
heads of families will be paid for inn
provements made in the nation. The
amount of land held was estimated to
be 100000 acres, and worth $6S, OO0
The bill ends the struggle that has
waged for the past twenty years be-
tween the Cherokees and the intruders.
A FERRYMAN's yawl boat, in which
six persons were crossing the eastern
branch of the Patapisco river at Balti.
more. Md. on the 18th, was capsized
and four of its occupants were drowned.
HARRY. better known as Butch"
Lyons was executed on the 18th in the
county Jail enclosure at Chicago. He
murdered and robbed a man named
Albert Mason last February.
THE British steamer Napier, bound
from Cronstadt to Rotterdam, was in
collision off the island of Aaland with
the British steamer Livonia of Leith.
The latter vessel sank and fourteen OF
her crew were drowned in spite of the
efforts of the Napier's crew who, how
ever, succeeded in rescuing ten men.
ANTOINE HOFFMAN, the anarchist,
who murdered Police Inspector Baum
garten on June IL, last, was put tc
death at Prague.
Mrs. HARRIET RYAN, aged 65 years,
of Wilton, n. ", was burned to death.
The woman, who had been dem ented
for some time, secured some matches
and set fire to her night cloth ing.
She ran out into the field where she
was found burned almost to a crisp
A DISPATCH stated that La PaZ, the
capital of Lower California, Mex, had
been destroyed by hurricane. The
storm was followed by a tidal wave.
the waters in the bay rising to an un-
precedented height, invading that por-
ton of the city fronting on the bay
and carrying out to sea men. animals
and debris of wrecked buildings as the
| tide subsidized