The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-18

bars, Mass. on the night of the 18th.
The captain, made desperate by hi.
situation, shot himself with revolver
and the mate cut his own throat will
a razor. Twelve sailors chung to the
deck house, but were washed over
board and five were drowned, the
others reaching shore in an exhausted
condition.
FIVE men made their escape from
the Pawnee, Ok, Jail. One was a muir
derer. They made file from old shoe
springs.
lyman, Number One" was arrested
at Boulogne, France, on an English
warrant which was issued in 1882
The warrant on which the arrest wa:
made charged that the prisoner wa:
concerned in the murders of LORD
Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary,
and Mr.. Burke, under secretary, in
Phoenix park, Dublin, on May 6, 1882.
HENRY WARFoRD and his four sons
were drowned in the straits of Belle
Isle, Canada, on the 18th.
PADDY" SLAvIS, the Australian,
knocked out Jake Iilrain, the Balti.
morean, in one round at Baltimore.
Nd, on the 14th. The round lasted
but IN minutes.
| d. NEAR Shaner, Ok, while John Ellis
wood and wife were attending a dance
their home caught fire and two small
children were burned to death. The
mother has become demented.
The people of Washington county,
KY, have risen in rebellion and torn
down about all the toll gates in the
county.
THE Nashville, Tenn, cotton mill
has shut down for six weeks. The
present high price of cotton was as
signed as the cause. The mill has
been running with a short force fol
some time, and the shutdown throws
200 hands out of employment The
full force is 1000.
A TRAIN on The Mad River & Arcats
road. near Eureka Cal went through
the Mad river bridge on the 18th. Sly
cars loaded with passengers dropped 81
feet into the dry bed of the river. Fom
persons were killed and several fatally
injured.
THERE was a laundry war on in Chi
cago, it was reported, and dress shirt.
were ''donc up for three cents each
FRANZ OSCAR loren was hanged il
the Jail yard at Florence, Ariz, on the
| 18th for train robbery. He was the
first victim under the new law which
makes train robbery a capital offense
in that territory.
The trades and labor assembly of
Denver, Col, have decided to send a
committee to Mexico to investigate the
conditions of labor in that free silver
country. This was done because it
was alleged by them that the commit
tee recently sent to Mexico by the Chi
cago assembly was under the influence
of the gold standard advocates.
The second annual session of the In
dian Territory Press association con-
vened at South McAlester, /. T. on the
18th, majority of the territory being
represented. A splendid banquet was
given the visitors at night.
Two hundred Chicago manufacture
ers and jobbers and over 80, 900 retail
merchants outside of Chicago have just
completed the greatest mercantile alli-
ance that the history of the country
has ever known. 1t is called the Ma
tional Association of Merchants and
Travellers. Profit to the retail mer-
chants who buy goods in Chicago is
one of the main objects. The interests
of travelling statesmen, too, are in
/ cluded.
JACK EvERHARDT and George La
vigne have been matched to box 25
rounds before the Bohemian club at
New York on October 81. This bout
will practically decide the lightweight
championship of the world.
FNnCES, fohooo foofory, of p;ob
mond, Va, which during the war was
used to accommodate the overflow of
prisoners from Libby prison, one
square away, has been destroyed by
fire. About $500 worth of leaf to-
bacco was destroyed.
Two sops of Mr.. Mathews, living 80
miles south of Ell Reno, Ok, were play
ing together and Barney, aged l.,
leased and irritated his younger broth
er, aged IL, until he became furious
with anger and ran into the house and
got his fathers shotgun and sent a
charge into Barney's breast and killed
him. The youthful murderer has not
been put under arrest.
WARREN D. WHITEHEAD and wife
and Mrs. Patrick Kearney were recent
ly drinking beer at Whitehead's house
IN DenVer, COl. MIS-. WnlCenedQ Qc
clined glassful and soon afterward
the other two showed signs of poison.
Both died later in agony. Mrs. White
head has been arrested.
THE Lake Shore through express,
carrying mails and express from New
York to Chicago, caught fire near
Goshen, Ind, on the night of the 10th
and thousands of dollars worth OF
goods, with much mail matter, were
destroyed. The origin of the flames
was supposed to have been spontane
Gus com bustion.
FIRE destroyed the Mcclure Manu-
featuring Co. IS plant at Chicago on the
10th, causing a loss of $50, 600. Flames
from the burning building ENDANGERED
lot of cottages near by and drove the
tenants into the street.
JAMES QUEER, a nine-year-old boy o:
Bethlehem, Pa. was accidentally
struck on the side of the head, near the
temple. with baseball. thrown in
practice game. The unfortunate lad
lived but few minutes.
AT wedding at Bondurant, Ia, on
the 10th 25 persons were poisoned from
ice cream. None of the cases proved
fatal, although several were seriously
ill.
AN oil tank on a freight train ex
ploded just as the train entered Wei
lington, ILL.,, setting fire to and burn
inp % oars and The Pate & Torfop elo.