The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-10-23
MISCELLANEOUS,

IL. d. CCHll1LiNG, WHOLESALE 1eeC
merchant of Kansas City, arrived a.
Tacoma, Wash. on the 18th, complet
ing a journey of 1900 miles from Kan
sas City on a wheel. He started or
June So
FIVE men called Lord r. T. Brooke
to his door at his ranch near Tonkawa
Ok, at three o'clock on the morning
of the 10Th and ordered him to hold up
his hands, and he began firing at the
band, killing two and wounding two
others. A posse started afterwards or
the trail of the gang. ROBBERY wa.
the motive as the gang thought there
was large sum in the house.
THE town of Carney. 16 miles east O.,
Guthrie. Ok, was held up on the night
of the 18th by six masked bandits and
the store of Trader Fouts was ran.
sacked and $500 in money taken. Fouts
and his son were taken mile from
town and bound to a tree. Three
posses started in pursuit of the rob-
bers.
THE Joint Traffic association at Chi.
cago has declared a boycott against
the Clover Leaf because the line
cut rates and gave sleeping car and
chair car privileges to holders of Sec
ond-class tickets.
THE National Oil Co.'S mill at Corsi-
cana, Tex, was recently destroyed bv
fire, together with large quantity of
cotton seed.
OVER 10000 railway employees parad-
ed in Cincinnati on the nth, with pres
idents, vice presidents, general man
ayers and other general officers in line.
The demonstration was in favor of
sound money"
/ THREE masked highwavmen held IN
the stage between Rock Springs, Wyo.
and Hopkins on the evening of the
nth. but got nothing for their trou BILE.
TWENTY-FIVE freight cars, with con-
tents, were destroyed in wreck on
the Big Four railroad, near Yelling
ton, o. The loss will reach SOC, 1000.
NELSON MORRIS, of Chicago; John
and Barringer brown, of Crown Point.
. Ind, and several other large stock
raisers along the Kankahee river have
suffered heavy losses recently by valu-
able horses dying with an unknown
disease. AS soon as the disease attacks
| them their blood turns to water and
they soon die.
The big steamer Australasia was
burned on Lake Michigan and now
lies at the bottom of Whitefish bay. 1t
was valued at 500. 900 and was loaded
with cargo of 1000 tons of coal for
Milwaukee. The vessel and cargo are
counted total loss. The crew were
saved.
PITCHED battle occurred at Hunts
haf eSx
family matters and two on each side
were killed.
SCOTT BENSON, commercial agent of
the Illinois Central Railroad Co. has
sent in his report as to the ravages of
hog cholera along the Central lines in
Iowa. He reports loss of 40 per cent.
OF hogs from Jessup to Fort Dodge.
The disease prevails at Alden, Iowa
Fails, Williams, harrisburg and other
points Farmers are alarmed and are
shipping unfattened hogs to market.
THREE firemen were killed and six
badly injured at fire at the che mical
warehouse of Gilmour & Co., at Mon
treal, Can. The financial loss is $780,
600.
DUN's review of trade gives the num-
Der of failures for the week ended the
10th in the United States as 32s, against
1853 last year, and 40 in Canada, against
46 last year.
ADJr. GEN. RUGGLEs has made his
annual report to the secretary of war.
He stated that there were s,49s enlist.
ments in the army during the past
year and 1,S15 assertions.
d. d. KENNEDY, a banker at Manches
ter, Ia, hanged himself. Bad invest
ments said to be the cause.
HENRY MILNER. a negro, was hanged
By mob in Spalding county, Ga, for
an assault on woman. A pls card
was attached to the dead body bear
ing the words: Thus we defend our
women"
The tug Niagara was run down in
the North river at New York on the
10th by the steamboat Magenta. The
tug sank three minutes after the COLI
sion. The crew jumped into the river
and two We're drowned.
A RAILROAD train on the Saar-Eifel
Line, in Germany, conveying a large
number of recruits, was thrown from
the tracks and so persons killed and
many more injured.