The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-09-20

one of the tenants was burned to death
md three tisemen injured
ARRANGEMENTS for a combine of all
the window glass manufacturers in
the western district were perfected at
Chicago on the 10th and the price of
window glass was boosted So or Q per
cent Hereafter the entire product of
the seventy glass concerns in the dis
trict will pass through the hands OF
but two sales agents, one at Pittsburgh
and another in Indiana.
THE steamer Ionia, plying between
Edinburg and London caught fire
when in the river Thames, near Graves
end, and five women and one child,
passengers, and the stewardess were
burned to death and a number of
others badly injured. The saloon pas
sengers were in the widest state of
excitement, some of them having
rushed on deck almost naked, and
were not pacified until the flames were
put out.
A FREIGHT train was blown from the.
track at Madison Junction, Wis, re-
Gently, during a storm and four men
were seriously injured.
A VEHICLE containing six persons,
supposed to be Joseph Callahan, of
Rustburg, Va. two women. a girl of
about Is and two small children, was
crossing the tracks of the Southern
railway at Lawyers station, near
Lynchburg, Va, on the 10th, when it
was struck by the engine of a passen-
ger train. Five of the occupants of
the vehicle were killed outright and
the young girl was SO severely injured
that she died shortly afterward
AT Gloversville, n. Y, on the morn
ing of the 18th the mercury registered
30 degrees and ice formed.
The little town of Braggs, I. T., was
the scene of a tragedy in which Eli
Baldridge. prominent young Chero-
kee. was instantly killed by Jim Swim
mer, a young Indian. Bad blood had
existed between the men for some time.
The two men met at a restaurant and
after a few words were passed Swim
mer. without any warning, pulled his
gun and fired two shots, killing Bald
ridge instantly.
The fourth national irrigation con-
gress opened at Albuquerque, N. NJ,
on the 10th, being. the largest and most
influential body of the kind which has
yet assem- bled in the west. Large dele
cations were present from Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Okla
homa.
JOHN HALL and wife, daughter
Maude, Is years of age, their son John,
and DIR. Gillian, of Guthrie, Ok, have
been drowned in fording the Arkansas
river 10 miles northeast of Guthrie.
THE g. A. R. encampment at Louis
Vile, KY, closed on the 18th after
veterans should be favored by civil
service boards without regard to age;
favoring military drill in public
schools; asking congress'to defray the
expenses of Memorial day services;
deprecating niggardliness in pensions;
favoring the erection of monument
at Washington to commemorate the
loyal women who acted as nurses, and
recommending to congress the equal
ization of widows pensions SO that all
should receive at least $12 month.
The failures for the week ended
the 18th (Dun's report) were IS. in
the United States. against 2l9 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against A last
year.
The question having been raised
whether the New York Baseball club,
which now holds the Temple cup,
should defend it against this seasons
champions, President Young submitted
the matter to the league clubs for
their decision and it was decided that
the Temple cup series should be played
by the clubs holding first and second
place at the close of the season.
TIE secretary of the treasury sent a
telegram to the collector of customs
at Ogdensburg, N. Y, directing him
not to admit any of the 200 Chinese
recently landed at Vancouver en- route
to the Atlanta exposition. There was
a belief that this was an attempt to de-
fraud the government and secure the
admission of large number of Chinese
who were not actors.
SECRETARY OLNEY has written q let.
ter demanding that Spain protect
American missionaries in the Caroline
islands. J
THE Jacob Weller pickle and vinegar
! works at Cincinnati have been de:
stroyed by fire. Loss, $195, 900.
DURING the parade of the state fire.
mems convention at Hartford, Conn. !
the horse ridden by John C. Wasser1
bach, one of Gen. Harbison's aides,I
backed into the great steam propeller
Jumbo, traction engine used to draw
heavy loads on streets. Both the man
end horse were crushed under its
wheels and killed.
A CIRCULAR address was sent out on
the 10th from Baltimore, Md, to g.
poo, 600 Methodists urging them to CO.
! operate in the movement to admit lay
inen to mem bership in the annual con-
ference of the church. The address
was sent throughout the world, wher-
ever Methodism prevailed.
WHILE loo, 900 people were watching
the fireworks along the river front at
Louisville, KY, on the 10th, a portion
of the grand stand, on which was seat
ed at least 10, 900 people, gave way and
| many were more or less severely in
jured. No fatalities were reported.
IN consequence of complaints re-
ceived by the post Office department at
Washington orders have been issued
forbidding postmasters to go within
the delivery of other offices for the
purpose of soliciting the execution of
| pension vouchers and thereby increas-
| ing the fees of their offices. A post
master must execute vouchers only for
those within the delivery of his Office.
FRoG DAVIS, the murderer of Sheriff
Musgrove, of Cowee district, was