The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-07-24

tions will be received by w. d. Leiper,
chairman relief committee.
AS a result of dependency over fail
ure in business, Mr.. and Mrs Louis S.
Gradke, of Galesburg. H., took NOR
phine, and were discovered by their
daughter Jennie, in a dying condition.
Doctors were summoned but could do
nothing.
HARRY MCKEAN, a fireman at the
Frisco yards at Vinita, 1. T. was scald.
ed to death. The man was under the
engine, cleaning out cinders, when .
valve blew out
NEAR Harrodsburg, KY, while Philip
Board was on his way to church he
was shot in the. back by Silas Bugg
ard instantly killed. They had quar-
relied over .Bugg's wife. Bugg was
jailed.
JAMES CRANsToN was killed by
boiler explosion at English, Ind. He
had insisted on performing his en-.
gineer's duty while the latter visited
sweetheart.
THOMAS j. BENTON, who shot and
killed his father-in-law, John Murphy,
at Oklahoma City, Ok, five years ago,
and was sentenced to prison for life,
has been pardoped.
The trouble to find places in the
army for the graduates of West Point
and those in the ranks who have
passed successful preliminary examina-
tions for commissions was said to be
giving much concern to the war de-
partment officials at Washington.
THE National Confederation of Col
ored Women met at Washington on
the Goth. The aim of the convention
was the elevation of the race.
A. j. CALL and his daughter Nettie
were killed in a shanty boat near
Hun tington, w. Va. on the Goth. Lot
tie Call and several other small chill
dren were also reported at the point of
death. Eta Robins has been accused
of the crime. An ak was used on the
victims. No cause was assigned for
the deed.
A SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Enquirer
on the 18th indicated a reign of terror
in the counties of Scioto, Meigs and
Gallia, O.. At Portsmouth the Second
Presbyterian church was badly dam
aged by dynamite. Attempts were
also made to blow up other buildings.
A gang of 81 outlaws were said to be
evading all efforts of the officers and
posse to capture them. The large
stock barns of Judge H. A. Kentz
have also been burned by the incen-
diaries.
GEORGE FISHER, OF Swanville. Ind,
fell from haystack and alighted on a
pitchfork, the tines entering his chest
and killing him.
AT Admission, Ala, w. P. Rouse and
Nora Tanner, dissolute woman,
fought duel with pistol and knife.
Both were killed, the woman being
literally cut to pieces.
The car barns of the Chicago City
Railway Co. were burned on the night
of the 18th. They occupied three.
fourths of square. The company
lost 554 cars, 100 of them being grip
cars Fourteen horses were also
burned to death. The loss was esti-
mated at S5OO.OOO; insurance, S311, OOO
Three men were discovered dead in the
ruins the next day. 1t was thought
the crossing of electric wires caused
the fire..
THE Hallett & Davis Co. dealers in
pianos and organs at Chicago, have
made an assignment. A statement
was filed showing assets of $3.50, 900;
$4,000.
BUSINESS failures for the week ended
the 18th (Dun's reporD were 269 in the
United States, against 256 for the same
time last year, and 81 in Canada, against
SO last year.
A NUMBER of ore handlers at Cleve.
land, O., crowded upon the ferry boat
and when it was about half way over
the river it turned over and the occu
pants were thrown into the water and
most of the unfortunate men sank like
lead. The life-saving crew, whose
station is near the scene of the acct
dent, was summoned and they re-
covered ten bodies, which were taken
to the morgue. 1t was thought that
one or two more victims might be
added to the list.
II. J. WHIGHAM, Of Chicago, won the
amateur golf championship of America
at Southampton, L. l., defeating Cham
pion Mcdonald, of Chicago.
AT Leila. Ok, Allen r. Cook, a law
yer and a farmer, was found murdered
nett A. j. Montgomery and Charles
hvaLL nave Ueeu drTeSU6u Oh Inc
charge of numbering him. Cook and
Bennett were claimants for the same
track of land.
The London Chronicle published 3
dispatch on the 10th which asserted
that a massacre had occurred at Egin,
in the Diarbekir district of Armenia.
in which 400 persons were killed and
the city was pillaged. The Turkish
were said to be trying to |
keep the report of the massacre Sc
cret.
WHILE bathing at Lake Minnetonka,
a summer resort in Minneapolis, Flor
ence Bird, aged II, Birdie Mills, aged |
IA. and Helen CLANCY, aged 10, were
drowned.
THE strikers at the Brown company's
works ut Cleveland. O., on the 18th
were charged by the militia because
they threw stones at them and at least
a dozen men were bayoneted and seri
ously hurt
LIGHTNING struck a gas well near the
farm of Michael Whitney at Muncie,
Ind, and ignited it. ALI efforts to put
the blaze out have been futile and il
was said to be impossible to go closer
than SO feet to the roaring monster.
ADEsrRUCTIvE tornado swept through
the Adirondacks recently. A funnel
shaped cloud struck the earth between
Fort Edward and Argyle, in Washing
ton county, N. Y, destroying farm
duall;unso opd borpc Damapo -oe