The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-11-27


the a2d and burned up one gate and cut
the ropes of two others.
THOMAS CASEY and Hoppy Hopkins
were lodged in Jail at Mena, Ark,
| charged with disorderly conduct and
on the afternoon of the 23d the Jail was
discovered to be on fire and the two
men were burned to death. 1t was be-
lieved they set fire to the Jail, hoping
| to escape.
An unknown man and woman were
found dead in their room at the Stand
ard hotel at New York on the 22d, hav-
ing been suffocated by illuminating
gas, which was flowing from an open
and unlighted burner in the apart
! ment.
! PATRICK MEAGHER and his mother
were found dead at their home at Gill
bers, suburb of Elgin, Ill, on the
ED. Their deaths were caused by
asphyxiation from coal gas.
| DAWSON BOYD, a farmer of Eufaula,
Ala, had quarrel with Bill Bowling
and Jesse Sheap over their line fence,
when the two latter advanced on Boyd
with knives and he shot them dead.
A CABoosE attached to a work train
on the Licking Valley railroad, in Bath
county, KY, jumped the track and
rolled down a steep 40-foot embanll-
ment. Thirty employees were in the
car and were more or less injured.
DURING a drunken riot at a dance at
the residence of Charles johnson, near
LIE banon, Ind, three men were prob
ably fatally wounded and several 9TH
ers were more or less injured. Every
window in the house was broken.
REPORTS stated that there was great
excitement at Henrietta, Tex, over
some rich discoveries of gold in the
Wichita mountains in the Indian Ter
ritory and many people from that city
were rushing to the new mines.
A BOY named Champaign and two
companions were rolling rocks down a
hill at Cedar Run, Pa, when Mr..
Champaign came along the road and
was crushed lifeless by one bounding
upon him.
SECRETARY MORTON. of the agricul-
tural department, has made his fourth
annual report. He strongly urges that
government inspection be extended to
all animals intended for food, and re-
ports an increasing demand in En-
gland for American horses The secre-
tary hopes the gratuitous distribution
of seeds will be discontinued and con-
cludes his report by a review of the
condition of American farmers and re-
flutes the idea that the farms of the
west are more heavily mortgaged than
those of the east He says 70 per cent.
of farms in the United States are occu-
pied by their owners and are free from
mortgages.
NOTICE has been given that the St
Joseph & Grand Island railway, for
merly part of the Union Pacific, will
be sold at auction at the depot at Hast
ings, Neb.
Two torpedo boats collided during
Cape de la Chevre and one was sunk
and its crew reported as missing.
DIPHTHERIA prevails to an alarming
extent in the vicinity of Hopetown,
Woods county, Ok, ard the entire Sec
ton has been quarantined.
A DUEL occurred after dark on the
main street of Marietta, 1. T., on the
21st and William Gore, a bystandcr,
was seriously wounded and James
Barnett was shot in the neck. Owing
to the darkness and confusion the prin-
cipals could not be found, but they
were thought to have been Claude
Washington and either his uncle, Will
Washington, or Henry Foster on the
other side. The trouble was caused
over an alleged theft of cattle.
BRADFoRD's roller mills at Creston,
Ia, were destroyed by fire and large
amount of wheat, flour and cornmeal-
was consumed.
The London Chronicles correspond
ent stated on the ed that so Arme
mans had been condemned to hang at
Constantinople and that great agita
ton prevailed in the city.
c. c. ODELL went to a telephone at
Los Angeles, Cal, when he uttered
shrek and died in a few minutes from
an electric shock. A trolley wire had
broken and crossed the phone wire
| LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, secretary
for India, in a speech admitted that
1000, 600 people in India were affected
or threatened with alarming scarcity
of food, though it was thought the
government has some prospect of cop
ing successfully with the situation.
/ FIRE broke out on the Goth in Luet:
kemeyer & Co.'S hardware store at
Cleveland, o., and destroyed the build
ing. The loss was placed at 5000, 600,
with partial insurance.
A BALTIMORE Sun special from Rome
on the Goth said that Rev. DIR. Thomas
j. Conaty had been appointed to the
rectorship of the Catholic university at
Washington to succeed Bishop Keane.
REGULATORS called James Kelly from
his house at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, on the
night of the Goth and shot him. The
home of Nick Lyle was also visited,
Lyle and his farm hands being called
out and one of the latter slightly
wounded.
AT Newcastle, Del. on the night OF
the Goth some one placed a Spanish
flag in front of the armory of company
II, of the national guard, and when the
young soldiers came out they tore it
from the staff, trampled it under foot,
made some fiery speeches and finally
made bonfire and burned the flag
amid the cheers of the crowd.
JOHN R. GENTRY, the fastest PAGER in
the world, was sold for S19, 900 in New
York on the 10th. His record is 2:OO1S.
His race record is 2:o111. He is Is ?
hands, foaled in 1889, bred by G. II.
Toler, at Wichita, Kan. His sire is
Ashland Wilkes, dam Dame Wood, by
Wc5gewood.
THE joint wage scale committee OF
window-glass workers and manufac
turerS adjourned at Pitts burph Pa on