The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS.


in the post office building. The post
master and his family got out and gave
the alarm, but the flames spread to
the adjoining buildings. Arswalt &
Princes shoe store, Meyers dry goods
store and Hatch's drug store were de.
stroyed. The total loss was 500, 900.
A German family, consisting of man
and wife and one child, were unac.
counted for.
The academy of music at Parkers.
burg, w. Va, one of the finest blocks
in that city, was destroyed by fire on
the 9th. The loss was estimated at
S35, 900, with insurance of only S12, 900.
The fire was caused by some one smok-
ing among the inflammable material
on the stage.
AT Chicago on the sth fire in the
notion house of II. Wolf & Co. caused
a loss of $780, 600; fully insured. John
Dore, hook and ladder man, was
severely burned. He was completely
covered with burning embers-
/ TERRIFIC gales prevailed throughout
Italy on the 9th and a large number
of wrecks were reported on the sea.
in which the loss of life was great.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Chill
ton, Wis, on the night of the 9th, the
business poI ton being entirely de-
stroyed.
GRANT H1BBs fatally shot his wife
and committed suicide at Dexter, Ia.
When neighbors entered the house
Mrs. Gibbs was holding her husbands
head in her lap and year-old
baby on the arm, the baby playing in
the blood that flowed from his fathers
wounds. Hibbs had been released
from the Mount Pleasant Insane
asylum as cured five weeks ago.
AT the session of the National Live
Stock exchange at Chicago on the
9th, Mr.. Frank Cooper, of Kansas City,
reported that the committee had
framed an ideal chattel mortgage law
which it hoped could be placed on the
| statute books of the various states
when the next legislatures assent led
It was decided that memorials be ad-
dressed to congress recommending that
national political conventions be held
sixty days before elections aud asking
congress to endeavor to raise emb bar
goes on American live stock and meat
products as now in force in foreign
countries and to repeal the special
tax on olemargarine.
A FIRE broke out on the 9th in a
warehouse at South and Water streets,
New York, occupied by E. F. briggs,
and others. On the fourth floor fully
e75, 900 worth of firecrackers were
stored. These exploded and made the
work of the firemen dangerous. On
the top floor a large quantity of pow
der was also stored The firemen man.
aged to Gu. hole through the root
and put out the fire. The loss on the
building and its contents was esti.
mated at $3.50. 900. much of which was
caused by water.
THE New York Evening World said
that q trust, comprising almost every
carpet tack factory in the country
had been organized, and the price Of
tacks advanced to almost double the
former rates
NAL w. s. ANDREWS, ex-street clean
ing commissioner of New York. wa.
formally expelled from the Loya
Legion for conduct unbecomin.s a gen
| tleman.
THE magazine of the Humes Torped,
Co, 3 miles south of Butler, Pa, wa
blown up on the 4th by the explosion
of 1000 pounds of nitro-glycerine
George Boston and ]. Black, who were
in the magazine, were blown to atoms
while only shreds and splinters re
manned of their horse and wagon
Buildings in Butler were shaken ant
much glass was shattered Nothin,
Whatever remained Of the magaxin'
building.