The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-14

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for an increase CT the circulating me-
dunn to $50 per capita were eliminated
from the platform.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
| JOE LEWIS, negro. attempted to as
sault Mrs. Prence, a farmers wife, near
Pell City, Ala, but she managed to
beat him off. Friends of Mrs Prence
started after the negro and caught
him. The culprit was given fair
trial, in which ne owned up to what
he had done. The constable then
started to Asheville with the prisoner,
but was soon overtaken by a crowd of
masked men who lynched the culprit.
| FRANK T1MMs, farmer of Dunkirk,
| N. Y, was gored to death and his son
had his leg broken by an enraged bull.
The hired man then put an end to the
animals life by hitting him on the head
with an ak.
IT has been learned that a regular
system for the shipping of bodies stolen
from the cemeteries about Washington
| existed.
AT the l. A. w, convention at Balti
more. Nd, on the 10th, the good roads
meeting was addressed by Consul Isaac
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his remarks with the aid of stereopti
| con views.
The boiler in the Annes hop mill at
Lonsdale, R l., exploded on the 10th.
Patrick McConnen was killed, Hugh
McClaren will probably die and three
or four others were badly injured.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
10th stated that bishops of the Profess
tant Episcopal church in this country
have sent petitions to the archbishop
of Canterbury and through the various
ministers of foreign affairs to the car,
the president Of France and the EN-.
perors of Germany and Austria declar-
ing that a crusade, supported by Chris.
tians the world over, would be war.
ranted against the Turks, and pleading
that the great Church of England,
through its episcopate, take decisive
action to stop the Armenian massacres.
NEARLY all the Protestant churches
and Jewish congregations of Buffalo,
N. Y. united on the night of the 9th
in q protest against the Turkish atroci.
ties on the Christians and called on
congress and the executive to take i'm.
mediate action to restrain the Turks.
THE schooner John w. Foster, with
a cargo of lumber, was burned 100 miles
west of Cedar Keys, Fla The captain
and crew of seven men left the vessel
in an open yawl and were afterwards
capsized. They managed tc get on the
bottom of the boat, where they re.
NAMED for So hours before being
picked up.
PETER L. ATKINS took Maud Kelley
ont driving on the night of the 9th.
They crossed Waikiki river near Mid.
dleton, N. Y, and in the darkness At
kins drove off the road into flooded
meadow. A man went to their assist
ance with q lantern, but could not sue
cor them and the two succumbed to
the intense cold and sank beneath the
flood after an hours suffering.
FIRE started from an unknown cause
and burned an unoccupied cottage at
Brooklyn to the ground On the 9th.
Later in the day while q crowd was
viewing the ruins the chimney fell
without warning and instantly killed
two children and seriously injured a
man.
FREDERICK ZUERsT, living near Cush-
ing, Ok. who has been beating his wife
and children brutality of late, was
masked men, tied to q tree and given
then informed that if he kept up his
brutality he would be hanged next
} time.
; SIX workmen lost their lives and
nine others were barely rescued from
) the icy water of the Pequeboc river,
near Bristol, Conn.,. on the 9Th. They
} were pulling an old bridge down when
It suddenly collapsed and they were
precipitated into the river and the
broken mass of timbers fell on them.
Mr. AND MRS. SHAuSNEssY and two
, children were asphyxiated on thei,
farm near Carbonate, Pa, through
the gas escaping from q kitchen stove
Ar . church in Clifton P&airie, Tex
the Williams boys met the Wake,
} boys on the 9th and there was q figh,
between them, pistols being freely
used. One Of the Walkers was killed
outright and several on both sides
} were seriously wounded It was the
. climax of q feud Of long standing.
, CARL DAHLKK and Herman Dahllxe
: brothers, fought . frightful duel with
knives at Chicago There had been q
} family gathering for the christening
of = babe, when the brothers quarreled
and Carl buried his knife in Herman.
: head, entering at the left eye, and the
; unfortunate man fell to the ground in
agony. Carl then mnde his escape.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended February for the follow
ing cities were: New York. $500. So. 29s
Chicago, e84, SOS, 45l; St Louis. S23. 500,
800; Kansas City. 50, o04, 765; St Joseph
81, :62, 600; Topeka, s452, AS; Wichita
$3ss, go; Omaha, a. 417,494.
An unknown man was decapitated By
the wheels of Hannibal & st. JOSEPH
train on the river bridge at Quincy
. Ill, on the 7th. So far Identification
has been impossible on account of tn,
fact that the head fell into the Mis-
sissippi
THE West Virginia state norma
building at West Liberty has been de
stroyed by fire.