The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-18

lies escaping on RATS after their dwell
ings had been carried away. Nine
inches of rain have fallen in II days
and many people have been drowned.
CLAY II. COOPER, a convict charged
with larceny, who was shackled to
another convict, slipped his shackles
unknown to the guard and dived
through the window of a car and
escaped near South McAlester, L T.
PosTMAsTER-GENERA WILSON has is.
sued an order SO as to provide for the
sale of stamps by letter carriers II
will be tried at Washington at once
and, if found practicable, extended
generally.
THOMAS SrARKEY, junior member OF
the firm of Starkey & Son, proprietors
of the city roller mills at North Bend,
Neb., met instant death, by being
wound around a shaft in the mill.
Sharkey was placing a belt, when his
clothing caught in cog-wheel.
THE secretary of the treasury has
sent to congress a statement of receipts
and expenditures of the government
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896,
including the postal service. The total
TcCSIUlS dS ICpOItCo "ClC u two
and the expenditures S434, 67s,6
G. w. BENJE and Judge Keys, Of
Tahlequah, 1. T., have gone to Wash
ington as representatives of the In
dians on matters affecting tribal vel
fare before congress. Mr.. Benje said
the five civilized tribes were not yet
ready for statehood, as a large per
cent of the Indians were too imper-
fectly advanced in civilization to I'M
derstand the duties of citizenship.
A WHOLESALE raid of downtown pool
rooms at Chicago was made on the 10th
and upwards of 1000 prisoners were
taken to the central station.
GEORGE ISAAC, a scientist at Berlin,
was experimenting with acetyline gas
and he and three assistants were blown
to atoms.
THE boundary line between Missouri
and Iowa was to be settled by the fed
eral supreme court, it was reported, by
a formal decree sustaining the conten-
ton of Missouri and Mercer county,
Mo, will acquire a slice CT territory
heretofore claimed by Decatur coun.
ty, la.
A SPECIAL from Fort Smith, Ark.
stated that the Choctaw delegates had
agreed with the Dawes commission for
the allotment of lands and abolition Of
tribal government in eight years.
Townsites will be set apart and sold
and the balance of the land equally di-
vided among citizens
THE commissioner of internal reve-
nue. in his report states that the re-
ceipts from all sources for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1896, amounted to
STAG, $50, ESQ., &c. For the ensuing year
the commissioner estimates the ex-
penses of the internal revenue service
at 81, 800, 900. Over 1000 liquor licenses
were issued in Kansas.
THE steamship Salier, with 214 pas
sengers and crew of IS men, was sunk
in a recent gale off the coast of Spain
and all on board persisted.
RUMoRs were afloat at Yuma, Ariz,
of terrible disaster at some mines in
Hedges, San Diego, Cal. Four miners
were killed and from three to twenty
injured it was reported.
THE failures for the week ended the
18th Oun's report) were $50 in the
United States, against 1913 last year,
and As in Canada, against 81 last year.
THE German ship Rajah foundered
in the Bristol channel and II of her
crew were drowned.
MARSHALL J. MILLER was hanged at
the state prison at San Quentin. Cal,
on the 18th for the murder of Joseph
Pierre.
j. X. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted divorce at New York from
his wife, whom he married in 1894.
A VERDICT was given to Mrs Rugga-
Der against the supreme lodge, Knights
of Pythias, in the superior court at
Milwaukee for the insurance on her
husbands life, who committed suicide.
This was a test case to decide others
like it all over the United States. the
order claiming that members forfeited
their rights by suicide.
AN old-time feud between Taylor
Miller and George Jacks, farmers liv-
ing in McMinn county, Tenn, had a
tragic sequel by the pair meeting and
quarreling, when Miller drew a pistol,
but before he could use it Jacks had
cut him almost to pieces with pocket
knife.
WHILE John Palingwest and his wife
were away from their house at Irwin,
Pa, three of their children, aged four
mon this, four and six years, played
with an oil can in front of the CRATE
and all caught fire and were burned to
death.
EDWARD HALE, of county Antrim,
Ireland, won the six days bicycle
championship of the world in the race
at New York. He made 1910 miles and
8 laps, winning purse of $1,000.
Rice was second, with 1889 miles ande
laps, purse $500, and Reading third,
with 1855 miles and laps. purse $500.
Twentv-eight men started in the race
and Is rode at the finish.
THE principal manufacturers of
white paper used by newspapers have
held conference at New York and
have agreed to pool interests and to
deal with consumers only through a
general agency. Thirty companies are
interested in the movement and they
are said to control the industry in this
country.
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred at
Xeres, Spain, through building col
lapsing and burying SIS persons. Eleven
dead bodies were taken out of the
wreckage, besides 46 persons seriously
injured. The work to recover the
others buried was going on as rapidly
as possible.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
said that Delegate Flynn has had a
number of interviews with the secre-
tary of the interior regarding the
opening of the Wichita reservation and