The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

Two sealing vessels were though to
have been lost in the straits of Belle
isle. Their crews aggregated 40 men,.
FIRE at Jersey City on the 18th de-
stroyed the Lehigh Valley Co. IS hay
sheds and 40 or so cars loaded with hay.
Loss, $50. 600
A FIGHT over a widow occurred in
Calhoun county, Fla, in . room and
three men were killed and one wound.
ed.
NORTHEASTERN Missouri, southeast
ern Iowa and western Illinois were
suffering from q drought which had
reached critical period on the 10th.
Wheat was heading out short, blue
grass was ripening and grass generally
was taking on the yellow hue of sum
mer. There was q shortage of stocb
breaking could not pillow for corn.
The Vulcan iron works at San Fran.
cisco were destroyed by fire on the
10th The loss was estimated at $780,
600, with SS1 900 insurance.
THE steamer Monowai has brought
news to San Francisco of the whole
sale massacre of traders and mission.
aries by natives of the islands Of Man
ming straits and Solomona The mas
sacre was followed by acts of canni-
balism. Many missions have been
abandoned as the result of the atrcci.
ties of the natives.
MICHAEL WELSH, Dan Morrison, Mary
Berry, and Maggie Calder went out in
boat on the lake at Chicago and Mr..
Welsh and Miss Berry were drowned
and the other two were only saved
after an exciting struggle in the water.
The overturning of the boat was due
to the hilarity of Welsh, who persisted
in rocking the craft in fun.
NEAR Eastman's Mills, Ala, Redden
p Il. Williams, prominent white farm.
err, was lynched by a mob of 40 masked
white men for making an assault on
his 16-year-old daughter. The man
was being taken back to Jail by an Of.
ficer, after preliminary hearing,
when the mob took the prisoner from
him and hanged him to a tree.
LANsE, Mich, has been practically
wiped out by fire, the L'Anse Lumber
Co.'s mill and nearly all the business
houses in the place being burned, Two
hundred persons were made homeless.
The total loss is placed at $3.50, 600;
small insurance. The mill had been
idle for several days owing to strike.
At Nunising, Alger county, the entire
population was reported fighting
flames in an effort to save the town,
and forest fires were raging in several
other counties.
No CARS were run at Milwaukee on
the 10th and there was no rioting. The
strikers. nearly 1000 in number, pa.
raded the streets in the morning. The
strike was believed to be practically
over, the company having all the men
it required to operate its cars and re.
fusing to treat with the strikers in any
way.
A SEVERE storm passed over Clark, S.
D., recently. j. H. Lindland's house,
12 miles south, was taken up by the
wind and carried distance of so feet
and destroyed There were ten per.
sons in the house, and Mrs Lindland
was killed, while other members of
the family were more or less injured.
Upwards of two inches of rain fell in
three hours.
FAILURES for the week ended the Stb
were, according to Dun's Review, 23s
in the United States, against 227 last
year, and "a in Canada, against 81 last
year.
WALTER MAYN. employed on the new
Santa Fe bridge at Guthrie, Ok,
stepped off the bridge backwards, fall.
ing 20 feet and sustaining fatal in,
juries.
JOHN Waldorf, who, while serving
term in Coa1burg penitentiary for
larceny, Drained a fellow convict. Jas.
per Thornton, with a coal pick, was
hanged in the Jail yard at Birming.
ham, Ala, on the 9Th. Waldrip de.
clined to make any statement while on
the scaffold and died without fear.
The sheriff stole march on the news.
papers by having it an hour earlier
than customary, so that nobody was
present but few officials. -.
FL. II. HOLMES, the murderer recently
hanged at Philadelphia, was buried on
the Sth in cement, his tomb being 3
solid wall of rock in the Holy Cross
cemetery.
WHILE chasing a robber from his
store Thomas ]. Marshall, proprietor
of the Golden Rule dry goods store at
Chicago, was shot twice and died few
moments later on the sidewalk in front
of his place. The robber escaped after
wounding two other persons. The
robber entered the store and ap.
preached Miss Matte Garrettson, the
cashier, and demanded what money
she had. She screamed and Marshall
came to her aid, chasing the young fel.
low out to the sidewalk.
The German Lutheran synod, which
has been in session at Fort Wayne,
Ind, for ten days. closed on the 10th
to meet in St Louis three years hence.
The carpenters of Detroit, Mich, de.
cided to strike on the 18th for an eight.
hour day.
By vote of 4e5 to .96, the Methodist
general conference at Cleveland, O.,
on the 18th decided that the four won.
en- delegates might retain Their seats.
The decision was reached simply as the
result of a compromise, and with the
understanding that it should not ju.
dice the claims of the women in the
future or establish precedent for fu.
ture conferences to follow.
AMERICAN missionaries at Timpany,
Africa, reported that II natives were
recently burned alive there On the
score of witchcraft
The roundhouse and 12 locomotives
belonging to the Queen & Crescent Rail.
way Co. at Somerset. KY. were de-
stroyed by fire recently. Loss, $780,.
600; fully insured.