The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-09-06


| permitted to be carried. New York
had no parade, but everybody observed
the day as they thought fit At Cleve-
| land, O., there were 10000 men in the
parade. At Boston over 10000 men
participated in the parade At Philadel-
! phia the letter carriers parade includ-
ed 1000 men and Postmaster-General
Wilson reviewed it All the principal
cities of the country observed the day.
FIRE broke out in the four-story fur
niture store of L. P. Peck & Co., at
| San Antonio, Tex, on the Cd and
burned until the entire stock was con-
sumed and the building destroyed.
The loss on furniture was between
$50, 900 and $50. 900, on fixtures SIS, 600,
on building S45.OO3. Some stores ad-
joining suffered small losses.
AN awful accident near Woodlawn
! station, n. Y, occurred on the I'd on
the Sea Beach railroad runaway en-
CINE crashing into an excursion train,
smashing the rear car into kindling
wood and injuring fifty people. some
of whom will die. Four cars were set
on fire and destroyed.
The wholesale clothing store of Shell,
Rosen baum & Steefel was burned at
Rochester, N. Y, on the I'd. The total
loss was estimated at Sis, 600. :,
AN eastbound freight on the Penn
sylvania railroad was wrecked by
broken axle miles west of Hunting
ton, Pa, recently. Twenty cars, loaded
with coal and bridge iron, were entire
ly demolished. A brakeman was
caught under the wreck and instantly
killed.
AT the Mattewan asylum for insane
criminals in New York recently Mrs.
Halliday, an attendant, was nearly
murdered by two crazy women pound
ing and scratching her and pulling her
hair out.
THE family of James Reed, of Lou
don county, Tenn, and number of
others who were attending birthday
party at Reeds house recently were
poisoned soon after eating dinner and
several were reported as likely to die.
The doctors did not know whether the
poisoning was caused from verdigris or
by eating a watermelon that had been
poisoned to catch thieves.
OFFICERS of the A. o. U. w. indig.
Chicago that the order was on the
verge of bankruptcy. The latest sta.
tistics go to show that the order was
never in more prosperous condition.
BAPTIST missionaries report that all
the missionary stations in western
China have recently been looted by
mobs, and 146 missionaries, men wom-
en- and children, have been driven
away, escaping only with their lives.
THROUGH rivalry between two tug
lines at Duluth Mimi, on the 1st a
collision occurred by which the tug
Medinah struck the tug Pathfinder and
sunk her in IA feet of water. All the
hands were saved but the fireman.
The captains of both tugs were after
wards arrested.
LENA DAHL, daughter of a farmer
living near Westfeld, S. D., wanted tc
gain the love of Henry Halseth,
neighbor, and she gave him a love
potion which she got of a medium.
The young man became seriously i'll,
the medium decamped and the girl did
not get the mans love. The potion
contained strychnine.
THE steamers Christopher Colum bus,
the whaleback, and John A. Dix, both
heavily loaded with passengers, collid.
ed at the mouth of the river at IL
o'clock on the night of the 3Oth. A
panic ensued, in which many were
more or less injured. The John A. Dix
| had her sides broken in, and every pas
senger on board was thrown from his
feet.
A SPECIAL from Boston said that
Knights Templars were planning the
establishment of a great national uni
versity for both sexes, to be controlled
by and in the interest of all masons,
with permanent endowment of S5O,-
600. 900. The scheme contemplated the
erection of buildings to accommodate
10000 students.
THE Americas and Sleepy Hollow
mines at Central City, Col, were flood
ed on the Goth and it was feared that
thirteen miners had lost their lives.
THE National Republican league has
issued a proclamation to the party urg-
ing the Importance of pushing the
work of organization.
r. NJ. RoMBERG, prominent livery
man of Decatur. Ind. left that city n
short time ago to visit his old home at
Hamburg, Germany. Word has re-
Gently been received by his family that
he had been taken by the German Off
SAs%'o ohN' SSuC W pIioOh Aux I"CASC
years. The crime with which he was
charged was that of whipping an Off
, c.:l in tire army prior to his coming to
America.
IT has been amour ed that several
Hawaiian politicians and merchants,
who favor the old form of government,
| will wait upon President Cleveland at
the opening of congress to urge the
annexation of the islands.
THE steam yacht Pilgrim, with
twenty-five people aboard. which left
Detroit, Mich. for a trip on Lake St
Clair, was reported missing on the
Goth.
IT was said that the Wyatt gang OF
outlaws in Oklahoma was completely
broken up.
THE commissioner of the general
land Office has decided that booth GER
tificates issued at Arkansas City before
the opening of the Cherokee strip were
good. The case decided was the con.
test of Lon Ohornett, of Carthage, Mo-.
against A. NJ. Waugh, for the claim on
on which Ponca City, Ok, is partly
located.
A NEGRO farm hand in Simpson coun.
ty, KY, who was charged with betray.
ing the 14-year-old daughter of John
Mulligan, was taken from officers by
mob and hanged to a tree.
HEzEKIAH ROBERTS. a young farmer
at Butler, KY, cut his wife's throat on
the Goth, and then cut his own. He
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