The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-21

uedru OF his OauRutcr, VINO was StbuO'
Ing near him, and she fell dead. The
father also died soon afterwards.
AT Pratt's mine in. Alabama, where
the state convicts are worked, William
Stainback, a notorious negro MUIR
1erer serving life sentence, made an
assault upon John Crook, the mine
ooss, plunRing a coal pick three times
INTO Crooks back and head, beating
out his brains, causing instant death.
Stain back then made desperate eft.
fort to escape, but was shot to death
by the guards
The Buckeye glass works at Martins
Ferry. w. Va, were totally destroyed
by fire on the 10th. Loss, $3.50, 900; in.
surance oue-third.
AT mine in Republic, Mich, the
men were coming up in the skip from
work when it caught and turned over
on them, killing four aud seriously in.
juring several others
AT Russell Springs, KY, Morgan
Smith, while drunk, slashed Joseph
McElroy across the throat with knife,
nearly decapitating him and causing
instant death.
A FIRE at Dunfield, Mich, on the
l4th nearly wiped out the place, stiff
breeze blowing at the time.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended February IA for the follow
ing cities were: New York, S5O1, 496, 955;
Chicago. SO, 23O, O4s; St. Louis, SEE, $780,
O4O; Kansas City. SO, s43. 400; St Joseph,
81. 2s9, $50; Topeka, s277, 961; Wichita,
S496, 1873; Omaha, 81, 152, 664.
GEORGE JONES shot and killed his
sweetheart, Leah Martin, her mother,
Mrs. w. j. Martin, and then put bull
let into his own head, at Centerville,
Ia, on the 14th. The scene in the
there and had a quarrel with the girl,
and that her mother interfered be-
tween them; that Jones shot the mother
first and then the daughter.
A PASSENGER director on the Penn
sylvania road at New Brunswick, N. j..
tried to prevent a man from crossing
the line on account of the approach of
fast freight, when the man became
angry and gave the railroad employe a
push which sent him under the wheels
The employee died soon afterwards.
The man was arrested.
THE failures for the week ended Feb
'uary ID Dun's report) were 321 in the
United States, against 27O last year,
md G. in Canada, against 81 last year.
A PLOT to lynch Scott Jackson,
Alonzo Walling, William Wood and
The Gasker brothers for the murder of
Pearl Bryan was disclosed on the 13th
Dy a letter received at Muncie, Ind. 1t
iaid that at least 1000 men would take
part in the killing. It was said that
anless the murderers were taken to
Kentucky the mob of 1000 would bear
down on the Cincinnati Jail, armed
with Winchesters, and lynch the men.
The Gasker brothers are supposed to
nave rowed Pearl Bryan down the
ohio on the night of the murder, just
before she was decapitated.
AMBROSE THOMAS, the director OF
the famous conservatory and composer
Of "Mignon" and Hamlet" died in
Paris on the 18th at the age of IS years.
In Grace hospital, Toronto, Ont, the
value to surgery of Prot. Roentgen's
discovery was again demonstrated. A
woman patient, whose foot had caused
ner intense pain, was submitted to the
cathode rays and the photograph re-
vealed the presence of needle. The
surgeons operated at the point and
the photograph proved to be true one.
The post Office at Petersburg, ILL.,,
was entered recently by burglars. The
safe was blown open and rifed of its
contents, the office being generally
ransacked. A short time afterward
the building was discovered to be on
Ere and with its contents was totally
destroyed.
A BOAT containing five dead men and
six barely alive was found on Dog
Island beach near Carribelle, Fla, on
the 18th. The men were on q Seton
schooner which was sunk in q recent
gale. They had been adrift since
without food, water or clothing, and
Eve succumbed before land was
reached.
EXCISE men have seized an Illicit
still at the Trappist monastery of Okla,
near Montreal, Can. The officials of
the inland revenue department found
full-fedged whisky still of IS gallons
per day at work in the monastery.
The superior claimed the whisky was
distilled without his knowledge.
THE Brisbane river in Queensland
has been greatly swollen recently ow-
ing to the floods and while a small
steam ferry was crossing the river on
the 18th with about 80 passengers on
board she was capsized and 40 persons
were drowned.
ADv1cEs from Seoul, the capital of
Corea, stated that an uprising took
place there recently during which the
premier and seven officials were MUIR
dered. The king and crown prince
sought shelter in the Russian legation.
It was said the king ordered the min
listers to be put to death. A force of
200 Russian sailors and marines were
guarding the legation of that country.
AT Admission, Ala, three children eft
William Littlejohn died from eating
toadstools
WHILE the American line steamer
Paris, from New York on February S,
was docking at Southampton, Eng. on
the 18th. she collided with the steamer
Majestic, belonging to the Isle of
Wight The Majestic was sunk, but
all the members of her crew were
saved
MRS JOHN POWELL was arrested at
Delaware, O., on the 18th at the in
stance of John Maloney, charged with
poisoning his two children and Prot
Vansickle and nearly causing the death
Of Mrs Maloney.
In SUPPORT of the doctrine that tenn
perance is conducive to longevity, it
NAV be noted that the two oldest ex-
- ho both 1o1arp IN