The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-10-09

many people had narrow escapes. A
strip 20 miles long has been burned
over and the Echo mountain hotel was
reported to be in danger.
MAJ.-GEN MERRITT has issued cir
cular to the department of the Mis-.
souri, directing a thorough course OF
military gymnastics at the posts of his
command and prescribing conditions
to insure uniformity in the exercises.
Two cousins, named Ed McEachin
and Charlie McEachin quarreled while
out hunting near Bailey, Ga, and
turned their guns on each other which
resulted in the death of Charlie and
the infiicting of probably fatal wounds
on Ed.
CHARLIE WILLIAMS and his wife were
found on the railroad track at Peoria,
ILL.,, with bullet wounds in their heads.
From letters found it was evident
they had agreed to die together.
MARK GREEN was terribly beaten by
a band of regulators near Dover Is
land, Tenn, for immortality.
THE Detroit (Mich.) Free Press lost a
large part of its plant by fire on the
5th.
A WEEK of carnival for the benefit of
the Cuban cause began at Music hall
in Cincinnati on the 5th, about $500
people being present.
A REM and his two sons were
drowned in the South Canadian, near
Guthrie, Ok, while attempting to ford
the stream.
THE 2O-round boxing match between
Pedlar Palmer, of England, and Johnny
Murphy, of Boston, for the bantam
championship of the world and purse
of So, 500 is fixed to take place before
the National Sporting club at London
on October IL.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
ECKELs has issued a statement giving
the results of an investigation made
by him of the amount of all kinds of
money held by the banking institu.
tons of the country on July 1. The
number of banking houses and trust
companies inquired of were 20, S62, and
II clearing houses, covering all of such
institutions in every state and territory
and the District of Columbia.
A PARTY of freighters attempted to
ford the South Canadian river south
east of Earlboro, Ok, and getting in
the quicksand all of the wagons with
their loads were lost and several horses
also disappeared in the treacherous
sands. The men escaped with their
lives by hard struggle and several of
the horses were cut loose and man.
aged to get out.
THE Spencer academy, located ten
miles west of Antlers, l. T., burned to
ashes, and four Choctaw boys lost their
lives in the flames. Several other stu
dents were injured through jumping
out of windows. The origin of the
fire was supposed to be incendiary.
CLYDE DAVIS, aged IA years, of St.
Mary's. w. Va, was run over by the
Bryan special train. His mangled ~
mains were found on the track.
THIRTEEN business houses were re-
Gently burned at Evansville, Wis.
THE crops in northern and central
India have utterly failed for want of
rain, and grain riots have occurred in
many places as the result of the scar
city of cereals.
THE monthly statement of the di.
rector of the mint shows the total coin
age at the United States minis during
the month of September, 1896, to have
been S5.915, 800. so, divided as follows:
Gold, So, l4O, 922. so; silver, S2,754. 165;
minor coins, $50, a26. OF the silver coined
So. 700, 100 was in standard dollars.
THE people of Washington county,
down about all the toll gates in the
| county.
A LARGE powder magazine exploded
at Buluwayo, Africa. Five white men
were killed and many others injured
and scores of Kaffirs camping in the
vicinity, were crushed to death by fly
Ing fragments of rock. Many houses
were also wrecked.
Two negro brothers named John
stone, near the Sac and Fox agency in
Oklahoma, quarreled over an Indian
girl whom both desired to court and
one stabbed the other repeatedly in
the abdomen with large pocket
knife. The wounded man was able tc
walk 100 yards and get his gun, with
which he fatally wounded the other
and then fell to the ground dead.
HEAVY damage has been done to the
farmers on the low lands along the
Juniata river in Blair county, Pa, by
the severe rains, many farms being
submerged by lakes of water and out.
buildings swept down the stream.
Several bridges on the Martinsburg
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad
were also demolished.
THE war department has turned over
to the interior department for DISPOSE
ton, under the abandoned reservation
act, all of the Fort Robinson (Neb.
military reservation lying east Of the
line marked as the eastern boundary
of the reservation in the survey of the
adjacent public land.
A Houston. Tex, dispatch stated
that nearly every passenger conducto,
on the main line of the Houston &
Texas Central railway had been dis
charged. Some of the men discharged
had been in the employ of the com
! pany for IS years, and the least hac
seen ten years service.
The large barge Sumatra founderet
off Milwaukee on the Both and foul
men were drowned. She had load o
railroad iron and the sea ran high.
THE Alamo hotel at Hot Springs
Ark, was destroyed by fire on the
Goth, the guests barely escaping with
their lives and losing all their persona
property.
WILEY HAYES shot and fa.ally
wounded Nathan Washington at Mon
ticello, Ark. Both men are negroe
and the difficulty arose over ;
woman