The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-31

25th, threatened to wipe out a great
portion of the town. Half a dozen
business houses and the opera house
were destroyed Fire companies from
neighboring towns were summoned.
THE ice gorge in the Maumee river.
about eight miles above Toledo. O.
broke and in running out carried away
two spans of the new bridge in course
of construction. Loss. estimated at
$50. OOC.
GEORGE w. BAXTER, aged 50, killed
his wife, Celia. with q hammer and
then cut his own throat with a razor.
The double tragedy occurred at Mime
apolis, Mimi. and was caused by jeal
ousy.
A LARGE barn belonging to Bat Sell
was destroyed by fire at Vinita, L T.
Six valuable horses were burned, two
having been covered with oil 4 man
and woman were suspected of the
crime and will be arrested.
A SPECIAL from Washington on the
eth said that experts had found q
larger deficiency than expected in the
accounts of Librarian Spofford The
deficiency so far reported, it was said,
will aggregate SCI, 900. with the in.
vestigation yet in progress.
A MOB at Sullivan, Ind, on the Goth,
endeavored to lynch Grant Atterbury,
arrested on a charge of assAultiug his
sister-in-law. The door of the jail was
broken down and an entrance forced,
but the sheriff confronted the mob and
threatened to kill the first man who
went upstairs toward the cell room.
The mob halted and finally withdrew,
but threatened to return within "a
hours
SHERIFF CHILDERs went to the house
of man named Hurst at Powhattan.
Ark, to ascertain the cause of some
trouble at populist meeting when
Hurst ran at the sheriff with knife.
Charles, the sheriff's son, rushed to his
fathers assistance and shot Hurst in
the stomach. Tom Hurst, seeing that
his father was shot, attempted to kill
Childers, but was fatally shot
KATE M. NELLIs, wife of Peter Mel
lis, owner of the Avenue house at
Girard, Pa, and Edgar Gardner, bar
tender at the same hotel, her para
mour, were arrested, charged with the
attempted murder of Nellis. 1t was
alleged that for months Mrs Nellis
and Gardner had been slowly poison
ing Nellis to death by putting tartar
emetic in his coffee.
A HEAD-END collision occurred be-
tween passenger train and freight
on the Bald Knob branch of the Iron
Mountain near Fair Oaks, Ark. Both
engines were demolished and several
persons were more or less injured.
A WAGON load of 12O quarts of nitro
glycerine exploded at st. Mary's, O.,
recently, killing the driver. Samu ell
Engels, and two horses. The shock
was distinctly felt at Lima and other
points equally distant In ST. Mary's
thousands of dollars of damage was
done by broken windows and other
wise.
Mr.. JOHN MCCULLOUGH, of Winni-
peg, Man., won the ten-mile skating
race at the st. Paul, Mimi. carnival,
beating the worlds record of 34:4s As.
Mccullough made it in 33:O5.
AN excursion train going south over
the Shenandoah valley branch of the
Norfolk & Western railroad was
wrecked near Riverton. Va, and q
Pullman car porter was killed and the
engineer and fireman injured. None
VI tho passengers WSEc huI1 L uc GU
CINE struck a rock which derailed it
and three cars were wrecked and after
wards caught fire and were consumed
Ed KIRsEBoM, county treasurer of
Plymouth county, Ia, was reported
missing. A hurried examination of
his books indicated a shortage of S1O,-
600
IT was announced in New York that
auxiliary members of the Salvation
army will make a vigorous protest
against the removal from America of
Commander Ballington Booth. They
will forward their unanimous protest
TO London and if that proves without
| effect, measures will be taken to de-
clare the army in America independent
of English domination.
In the international chess tourna-
ment at St. Petersburg Lasker in
creased his total wins on the 23d to IL,
total which none of the competitors
could reach, and won the, first prize.
Pillsbury, the American, was third in
the race.
IT was reported from Cuba that the
insurgent general, Gomez, was in an
advanced stage of consumption, COM
plicated with fever, and the doctors
had come to the conclusion that he
could only live about two months
longer.
A CoNsrANT1NoPLE dispatch to the
London Chronicle said that letters re-
ceived there from Arabakir reported
that 1900 Armenians were killed in
the recent riot, the slaughter being
mostly done with axes and choppers.
The plant of the Champion Blower
and Forge Co., one of the largest con.
Germs in Lancaster, Pa, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended January "a showed a total
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of g.
The increases were: New York, D.;
Kansas City, 1879; Topeka, Ill; Omaha,
10a The decreases were: st. Louis,
G. /; St Joseph, TT; Wichita, 1873.
THE failures for the week ended jan
uary "a (Dun's reporD were a73 in the
United States, against 36s last year,
and 81 in Canada, against 50 last year.
| THE blanket mill of ]. Dobson & Co
at Schuylkill Falls, Pa, was destroyed
by fire on the Gath. Loss, Ss5, 600; in.
sured.
ACCORDING to a Washington dispatch
President Crespo, Of Venezuela, has
been advised by President Cleveland
| to make an effort to re-esta blish diplo-
matte relations with Great Britain