The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-25

surance, S25, 600
THE National Bank of Illinois al
Chicago, with assets amounting to SIS,
600. 600, has suspended. The causes, as
given by the clearing house committee
were ''unwarrantable and injudicious
loans," through which the capital and
surplus had been imperiled.
AN explosion occurred in a confec.
tionery mandatory at Casino. Italy,
on the 21st which killed seven people.
The failure was announced Of the
Roseland Savings bank at Chicago on
the 2lst The bank did business with
the National Bank of Illinois.
ABOUT 500 masked men broke into
the Jail at Mayield, KY, on the night
of the Goth and hanged Jim Stone, a
negro brute, in the courthouse yard
and then riddled his body with bullets.
A TERRIFIC explosion of gas occurred
in mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the
21st and over 20 miners were imprison-
ed in the earth, but IA were afterwards
rescued and hopes were entertained of
getting the others before the deadly
after-damp claimed them as victims.
The American Federation of Labor
at Cincinnati on the 21st appoint ted
John Fernseth, of the Seamen's Inter-
national union, as committee of one,
with headquarters at Washington, to
look after labor interests in the ma
tons capital After some routine
business the convention then adj
journed sine die.
The Odd Fellows block at Eliza beth
port, N. j., valued at 5000, 900, was de-
stroycd by fire on the 10Th.
A WAGON was struck while crossing
the track of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road at Denison, Ia, and Mr..
Krual, a farmer, was fatally hurt and
his wife was killed.
The Choctaws have signed an agree
ment with the Dawes commission to
take lands in severalty, for the sale of
town lots and for the transfer of crimi-
nal jurisdiction to the federal courts.
Officials at Washington say that the
treaty with the Choctaws is very i'm
portant, as it is the entering wedge
which will dispose of the whole Indian
problem.
! AT the convention at Cincinnati on
the 10Th the headquarters of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor were changed
from Indianapolis to Washington by
vote of 1884 to 73O. 1t was also or
iered that an assessment of one cent
per capita be imposed to secure an
eight-hour law.
Two boilers in the Kent Wooden Co.'S
mills at Providence, r. l., exploded on
the 10th, killing four persons outright
and fatally injuring another.
THE Masonic hall. the largest build
ing in New Brunswick, N. J., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 21st Loss, $780,
BOO.
RY the explosion of a piano lamp at
New York, which set the house on fire,
Aaron Goldsmith, his wife and three
children lost their lives.
Two Proctors, Dink and Arch, father
and son, were taken from the Jail at
Russellville, KY, on the night of the
18th and lynched and Arch's brother,
Bill, was shot to death in his cell.
They were all charged with the MUIR
der of Doc and Aaron Grafton. The
mob came from Adairville and was
composed of about IS men.
The interstate commerce commits
sioners made public their annual re-
port on the 18th. 1t recommends ''that
it be made penal offense for any per-
son to engage in the business of selling
interstate passenger tickets unless he
is an authorized agent of the carrier,
duly constituted such by written ap-
pointment." Free passes are also de-
nounced. A number of technical
amendments to the interstate COM
merce law are also urged.
An ammonia cylinder in the Casino
skating rink and summer theater in
Schenly park at Pittsburgh, Pa, ex.
ploded at 2:15 a. m. on the 18th and the
whole handsome structure was soon in
flames. The losses were placed at
500, 700, with SIS, 900 insurance.
The Missouri congressman have re.
ceived notices from the secretary of
agriculture that their allotments of
seed for this year are ready for their
disposal.
FIVE miners were instantly killed in
the Virginius shaft at Ourav, Col,
on the 18th. They were repairing tim
bers, when the cage fell carrying them
with it to the 1 400 feet level.
TwENTY-EIGHT of the anarchists i'm
plicated in the throwing of bomb in
the religious procession at Barcelona
on June Z, Whereby six persons were
killed and SO others injured, have been
sentenced to death and SO others to
penal servitude.
JAMES SMITH, a mulatto, was hanged
at Upper Marlborough, Md. on the
18th for the murder of Margaret Brown,
a white girl, with whom he claimed to
be in love. He cut the girls throat be-
cause she repulsed him.
THE big prize in the Panama lottery,
at Paris, amounting to $780, 900, has
been won by a Marseilles market wom-
an, the widow Boissiere.
WILLIAM STEVENS, of Porter. O., put
some giant power near the fire to dry
when his children began playing with
it and set the place on fire. The moth
er and father rushed out of the build
ing and the father, not discovering his
three children, went back and found
them burned to n crisp.
THE most violent earthquake ever
experienced it England shook that
country from Durham to Surrey and
from London to the Welsh coast about
$50 o'clock on the morning of the 18th,
lasting from four to thirty seconds. At
many points two distinct shocks were
experienced. No great damage was
done.
THE Illinois abor organizations have
been called on to send delegates to a
conference at Chicago on Decem Der 90 !
to consider the question of convict |
abor.