The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-03

THE Boersen Courier, OF Berlin, said
that negotiations were proceeding be-
tween the United States government
and some of the leading bankers of
Berlin with the view of the latter TAX
ing over a new loan of 5000. 600. 600
A DISPATCH from Constantinople
stated that the United States had de-
manded from the porte the payment
of large indemnity for the loss sus-
tanned by American missionaries in
Asia Minor.
AT the old Front street theater at
Baltimore, Md, an immense crowd as
sem led on the 2Tth to listen to He.
brew opera One of the attendants
went to light a gas jet which had been
extinguished. As he turned the cock
and applied a match it was seen that
there was no tip to the burner. Some
one in the gallery shouted, "Firev' In
an instant there was a mad scramble
for the door. A dozen policemen hur-
ried to the scene. and pushed through
the door and to the writhing mass on
the landing. When the mass had been
cleared it was found that "a people
were killed, two fatally injured and
ten seriously hurt.
The failures for the week ended De-
cember 81 Oun's report) were 322 in the
United States, against $50 last year,
and 40 in Canada, against Al last year.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended December 81 showed an av-
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of &C. 6;
in New York the increase was Sc 8; out
side New York the increase was 1914.
BY the explosion of $50 sticks of
iualin and 1000 pounds of black pow
der, three men were killed at Hazel
ton, Pa, on the eth. The cause of
the explosion was not known. One of
the bodies was blown 60 yards.
TwENTY-THREE federal prisoners
made their escape from the United
States Jail at South McAlester, 1. T.,
on the Goth. They had in some un.
known way been furnished with a
skeleton key, and while all the guards
but one were at breakfast suddenly
unlocked the Jail door, knocked the
guard down, choking him insensible,
after which they took his pistol and
made their escape, each running in
different direction.
A SPECIAL. from Massillon, O., on the
Goth stated that the members of the
Royal Hawaiian band, which stranded
in Cleveland recently, were in de-
plorable condition. One of them was
taken sick Christmas day and it was
found that he was starving. Theyh had
been practically without food for sew
eral days Massillon people were en-
deavoring to put the band on its feet
Their instruments were held in Cleve-
land under attachments.
The saw mill of the Switzerland
Lumber Co. at Ashland, Wis, burned
to the ground the other morning. 1t
was supposed that Jack and Bill Noon
an, cousins of Jack Carl1eek, the wres-
tier, were buried in the ruins
In a head-end collision, which &C.
Cured between Chattahoochee and
Peyton, Ga, on the Georgia Pacific d.
vision of the Southern railroad, be-
tween two freight trains, two fremen
and brakeman were killed, one engi-
neer was perhaps fatally hurt and three
tramps received painful injuries.
THIEVES broke into the post Office at
Harvey, ILL.,, on the night of the 25th
and carried away So, 500 worth of post
age stamps and $500 in money. The
postmaster is poor man, and the loss
will fall heavily upon him.
FOUR tons of giant powder exploded
at Romeo, ILL.,, at four o'clock on the
morning of the 27th and made the
country tremble for miles around. No
one was killed, but not stick of wood
or scrap of iron of the magazine was
left.
MCLEANsBORO, ILL.,, was devastated
by an $50, 900 fire on the Goth.
A New YORK dispatch on the Goth
said that Joe Vendig had made final
for the boxing carnival
which is to take place in Ell Paso. Mex.
The programme will be: February II,
Wallcott and Bright Eyes," the Texas
negro; February IL, Dixon and Mar
shall; February 10. Leeds and Ever
hart; February IA, Maher and Fitzsim-
mons.
The English loan companies doing
business in Dallas, Tex, and repre-
senting hundreds of millions of dollars,
have ca bled their agents to discontinue
loaning money in Texas. The fear of
war with the United States was said
to be the cause.
THREE masked robbers held up a
Mission street car at San Francisco and
robbed Richard Clarke, an employee of
the Pacific Coast Jockey club, of the
receipts of the day. said to aggregate
$4,000. Clarke and two other men
were shot by the robbers, but it was be-
lieved that none of the wounds would
prove fatal. although Clarke will prob
ABLY lose one of his legs.
WARDEN GEORGE, of the Kentucky
state penitentiary, has discovered that
several of his convicts have been max
ing counterfeit money.
FIRE on the Goth destroyed most of
the business part and several dwellings
at Ryan. L T.
BROWN LEE LoGUE, a teacher, es-
corted home from a school entertain.
ment near Marshall, Ill, young lady
of whom Charles Wilson. a young man,
was enamored. Wilson waylaid Logue
as the latter was returning from the
girls home and shot him twice, and it
was feared that Logue was fatally
hurt Wilson barricaded himself at
home and defied the authorities, threat
ening death to any one attempting his
arrest
NEAR Independence, G county, Ok,
George Rogers and Will French, young
men, quarreled over girl and fought
it-out with knives. French was fatally
cut in the face and back.
A TERRIBLE battle between revenue