The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-07


stantinople. Mr.. Terrell. has demanded
an indemnity of 500. 600 for the burn
ing and pillaging of the American mis-
sions at Marash and Kharput He also
asked for the immediate granting of
6rmans for rebuilding them.
WALTER WnLoUGHBY was instantly
killed and two other boys badly hurt
by trolley car at Pittsburgh. Pa.
The boys were stealing a ride behind q
| butchers wagon and the trolley car
struck it while it was crossing tho
track.
A HORRIBLE murder has come to light
near Wewoka, Ok. Two Frenchmen,
aged 60 and 65 years, were found dead
in their home on farm The theory
was that robbers hanged the men and
took their wealth.
NEAR Lawrenceburg, Ind, freight
train was derailed by broken wheel
and 80 cars crashed into the bridge
and the bridge and cars went down
toge Their. Five tramps were fatally
injured. The damage done amounted
| to $4,000
In secluded place about 80 yards
from the road near Fort Thompson,
| KY, some woskmen discovered the
body of young woman. She had
been beheaded and the head was miss
| ing. There were evidences of fiercc
struggle having taken place.
THE Iowa senate has passed an anti
| cigarette bill which amounts to al1.oss
prohibition.
REPORTS from over so points in DIFF
ferent parts of Texas on the I'd showed
the heaviest rains known in that state
at this season for years Streams were
| reported out of their banks and much
| damage was apprehended.
A CONFERENCE of representatives
from all the principal universities and
| colleges in the eastern states took
place at Columbia College, New York,
on the LIST to secure a uniform method
of entrance and examinations.
A MEMORIAL has been sent to Presi-
dent Cleveland by the bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the
United States begging most earnestly
| for action to be taken in regard to the
| massacre of Christians in Armenia.
FRANK THOMPSON and Willis Sanders
met on the street at johnson City, Ill,
and began shooting at one another
Both were MORALLY wounded. Sanders
suspected Thompson of intimacy with
his wife.
THOMAS COMBS, a fratricide and con-
vict of Perry county, KY, went home
drunk and Drained his wife with n
club. A lynching party was reported
as being after the culprit
A MOB of 80 Infatuated men at Glen.
| ko
George Tic, who was alleged to have
caused his wifes death by inhuman
treatment They refrained. however,
from lynching him on his promise that
he would leave the county. Tic had
been arrested, but was released after
his wife died, she being the only prose-
cutting witness.
DR. WILLIAM 81. FURNEss, Harvard's
oldest alumnus and the oldest Unitarian
minister in the United States, has died
at his home in Philadelphia, aged 81
years
A MEXICAN named Aureliano Cas-
tello was shot to death and his clothes
saturated with coal oil and burned on
the Medina river, near San Antonio,
Tex. Hugh Stanfield and Watson Stan.
field have been arrested charged with
the murder. The Mexican had been
working for the Stanfields and several
lays ago assaulted their sister, q 16-
year-old girl of unsound mind.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended January 81 for the follow
ing cities were: New York. S491, 9O9, IL;
Chicago. $40, 752, ITO; St. Louis, s24, $780,
us; Kansas City. 50, All. OO7; St Joseph.
81, 4O5. SIP; Topeka, $780,. 1913; Wichita,
s426, DOS; Omaha, 81. $40. $50.
A NEW YORK paper stated on the 3lst
chat the sleeping and dining car priv
.leges on the Santa Fe railway had
peen virtually awarded to the Pullman
company.
THOMAS DIVER. aged 76, wealthy
nan. was assassinated at Houston,
Tex, by unknown parties, the motive
being robbery. His body was found
horribly mutilated in an underground
:istern.
AT the meeting on the 29th of the
grand lodge Tennessee masons at
Nashville strong appeal to all masons
throughout the world to lend their aid
in preserving peace and averting war
was adopted.
AN explosion of gas was caused GU
the 3Oth in the Pettibone shaft at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by laborer crossing
the danger line with his lamp lighted.
A portion of the working caught fire
and large force of men was put to
work fighting the flames. Shortly
efterward second explosion occurred
and five of the fire fighters were seri-
ously injured.
BURGLARS entered Giesing's hard.
| ware store at Calmar Ia and one Of
them was shot dead by the proprietor'a
son.
AT Providence, R L, a fire in Nara
ganset park burned IA valuable race
horses.
AT Newport News. Va, on the sOth
the gun boat Helena was christened by
Miss Agnes Steel, daughter of the
mayor of Helena, Mont, q distin.
guished party being present. Half an
hour before the Helena was launched
the third largest steamer ever built in
this country was christened the Grand
Duchess by Miss Nellie Eldridge, of
Boston. Both the launches went of
successfully.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused
in Christian Endeavor circles on the
3Oth by the news that Bishop Arnett,
of Ohio, had been refused admittauce
to three of Boston's leading hotels ON
account of his color
BETWEEN 1000 and 5000 persons at
tended the boxing exhibition at New
York on the 3Oth between George