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


The mother of the girl witnessed the
tragedy.
AT the meeting of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor at New York on the
9TH the reports of the president, secre-
tary and treasurer were read and re-
ferred and John Swinton and Rev.
Father Ducey made speeches, the
priest being very emphatic in his re-
marks against certain capitalists who.
ne said, ''lived in luxury and piled up
| fortunes with the blood money of the
| poor" There was a mass meeting at
night at Cooper union, when President
John Mcbride spoke on trades unions.
THE British steamer Principal caught
fire in the forehold when about 40
miles north of Cape Wrath, on the
northwestern extremity of Scotland,
struck a rock and went down with
twenty-seven of her crew, only one be-
ing saved. He was taken from the
water after clinging to wreckage for
eighteen hours A passenger was also
drowned.
The tug Pearl Campbell was re-
ported lost off Huron isle, in Lake Su.
perior, and all her crew drowned,
nun boring seven men.
The socialists on the sth arranged
for demonstrations against the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, which began
its national meeting at New York on
the 9th. The socialist delegates to the
convention will demand the abandon
ment Of the trade union movement, an
end to strikes and boycotts and the in
dorsement of the socialist labor party
Tha Eola 81 Tah o,.
discuss, among other things, the car
rying out of movement for general
eight-hour law on May l, 1896.
THREE men were killed and two
more were injured in railroad wreck
on the New York & New Haven rail-
way in Harlem. The engine and it's
tender were proceeding with the usual
speed, when without any warning, it
left the track and went Dumping along
over the ties. The conductor and the
fireman leaped for their lives at the
moment the engine toppled over and
the others of the crew were crushed
beneath the weight of the boiler.
THE dynamite packing house of the
Ottawa Ont Powder Co. blew up and
John Reynolds. of Thoms Falls, N. j.,
an employee, was fatally injured by
flying splinters.
AT Colgate, 1. T.. three masked me n
recently entered the cooperative store,
forced the clerks to lie on the floor,
face downward, and made the manager
open the safe. The outlaws secured
about $500 and escaped.
THE National Live Stock association,
in session at Chicago. elected William
H. Thompson president and chose Fort
Worth, Tex, as the place for the next
meeting.
THE town of Mariestad, Denmark,
has been almost wiped out of exist
ence by fire. Three-fourths of the in.
habitants were made homeless.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL HARMON, in his
annual report. shows that the number
of criminal cases pending in the fed
eral courts July l, 1895, was II, 495. He
calls attention to the fact that too
much of the time of the supreme court
is occupied by criminal appeals and
suggests that such appeals be disal
lowed. save in capital cases He also
calls attention to the growing abuse Of
the writ of habeas corpus.
In answer to call signed by Mayo,
Strong, Chauncey M. Depew, Martin
T. Mcmahon, Andrew Dickinson,
Charles A. Dana, John j. Garrett and
other we'll known New Workers met
on the 5th and organized for a reunion
and parade of the veterans of the civil
war in the streets of New York July 4,
1896
NEAR Watonga, Ok, recently, Judge
W. X. Hill, who had bought lot Of
hay at sheriff's sale, was attacked by
F. 81. Lookabaugh, the former owner,
and fatally injured with pitchfork.
The affair was the outcome of law.
suit over an account for So worth Of
molasses, which had been in court for
several years.
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended December 6 showed an av-
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 10;
in New York the increase was OF;
outside New York the increase was
40.
The Krebs, L T., miners who recent
~ struck resumed work on the 5th, but
called a general convention of miners
at South McAlester, 1. T., on De-
cember 9, at which time they will
ChuCdNOI " COIpS4 IAS luluC uOIuSTS
to pay the advance asked. The mine
owners claim that on account of the
present condition of the market they
cannot accede to their demand.
AN explosion occurred at the maya
zines of the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo
Co., rs miles south of Toledo, o. Two
magazines exploded, causing two
| shocks No one was killed. The
shocks were plainly felt in Toledo and
all surrounding towns.
The Greenville hotel, located miles
cast of Hortonville, Wis, burned to
the ground on the 5th and William
Reuter-, an employee of the hotel, was
suffocated and taken from the burning
building dead. Several guests escaped
death by jumping from the second
floor windows, clad only in their night
robes.
Ice dealers in Chicago have about
perfected a trust to control prices.
THE Chaffee block, the largest bust.
ness structure in Allegan, Mich,
burned at an early hour ON the 5th.
Loss, 500, 900: partially insured. Sew.
eral persons had narrow escapes, but
no one was seriously hurt.
ALL the passenger lines of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
will be consolidated under one head
on January l, and P. S. ,Eustis will be
made general passenger traffic man.
ager.