The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-11-20

Both oil and natural gas have been
| struck by the Standard Oil Co. in the
test wells put down east of the Sac
and Fox agency in Indian territory.
SOME children near Greenville, Va,
| played with some matches in barn
and set it on fire. When the barn was
| burned down the remains of two chill
| dren were found so badly burned that
they had to be handled in shovels
AT the fourth days session of the w.
c. T. U. at st. Louis on the 10th the re-
port of the executive committee to re-
sumo giving W. C. T. U. medals was
adopted. The subcommittee fnan-
cial plan for a voluntary contribution
of 81 from each union was adopted.
1t was announced that 5000 in cash and
$500 in pledges had been raised the pre-
vious day for the benefit of Armenians-
Mrs Carso submitted report about
the temple. She had raised Sal, 1895 of
the $500, 900 needed to buy trust bonds
and would try to secure the balance
this year.
A PARTY of men went to the Jail at
Farmville, Va, and attempted to lynch
Elisha johnson. charged with high
way robbery. The prisoner was badly
wounded.
THE supreme court of the United
States adjourned on the 10th for the
Thanksgiving recess. Its next session
will be on the 30th.
The report of Paymaster-General
Stanton. made public on the 10th,
stated that the cost of the United
States army for the last year was sl6,-
O74, 4ss.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, commissioner
of labor, has transmitted to the secre-
tary of the interior a special report on
the statistics of occupations. He says
there were 2.735, Gel persons engaged
in gainful occupations in 1890, and of
these 1888, $50 were unemployed dur
ing some part of the year, or, approx
imately, !, 139, 67o persons were unem-
ployed at their occupations during the
entire i2 months, representing Sol per
cent. of the total number of persons
engaged in gainful occupations.
CHARLEY ALLEN, negro, was shot
to death by mob near Mckenzie,
Tenn, for assaulting a white girl.
In the anderbilt-Tennessee football
game at Nashville, Tenn, on the 14th,
a scrimmage occurred between the
players and good many bruises were
inflicted. The university of Tennessee
team left the field and the game went
to Vanderbilt.
JAMES B. SPURRIER, a printer at
Glenwood Springs, Col, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Miss Nina Cor
nell and slightly wounded James E.
Wilson, her escort, and then sent a
bullet through his own heart Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
HENRY BLANKINsHIP, the oldest man
in Kentucky, died at his home near
Fairview on the 18th of complicatio
of diseases, aged 100 years He was
the father of Is children, II of whom
are still living, the eldest being past
so years of age.
THE final examination at London of
Edward j. Ivory, alias Edward Bell,
the saloonkeeper of New York and al
legged Irish dynamiter. was sensation
al, the principal witness against him
being "Jones," a British spy who had
gained admittance to secret Irish So
cieties in America and also possessed
the secrets of the Clan-na-Gael associa-
ton. Ivory was formally committed for
trial
A FIGHT occurred in a saloon in
Leadville, Col, at an early hour on the
18th in which five men were stabbed,
and one at least will die. Fifteen or
20 men were engaged in the affair,
which was an outcome of the miners
strike, the strikers calling some Aus
TRAN miners scabs.
AT Lyman, n. H, Herbert R. Ash, a
we'll to do farmer, shot his wife and
then hanged himself.
WILLIAM H. Cox, the "squatter,"
who has been trying for many years to
prove his right to $50, 600, 900 of real es-
tate along the lake shore in Chicago,
has discovered, it is claimed, that the
United states never had the right to
grant lands in the northwest territory.
If Cox succeeds in establishing his con-
tention the titles to the homes of
about 10. 900. 600 people in Illinois. In
diana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio
will be placed in jeopardy.
The stable of Mrs. w. E. D. Stokes
near Lexington. KY was destroyed by
fire and Josie B., the worlds record
pacing mare, and six other valua BILE
horses were burned.
FANNY SCHoFIELD, country girl IL
years old. has been lodged in the coun
ty Jail at Oswego. N. Y, on the charge
of administering arsenic to two small
children of Albert Field, of Co!ose,
whose hired girl she was.
THE magnates composing the West
ern Baseball league went into session
at late hour on the 10th at Chicago.
Ban johnson was reelected president
and the old board of directors were re-
tanned. 1t was agreed to keep Colum.
bus and Grand Rapids in the league for
another year. The schedule committee
will meet in Milwaukee N March to
arrange the schedule of games for the
coming season.
THE Western Freight association has
authorized all roads in the association
to reduce Minnesota rates on potatoes.
The cut caused a flood in the potato
market at Chicago on the 18th. which
brought about a blockade in the
freight yards there.
THE Chicago manual training school
was destroyed by fire on the eth. II
was one of the best equipped institu-
tions of it's kind in the country. Loss,
$4,000; fully insured.
WALL street recently went into hys
terics over a rumor that Cornelius Van
derbilt had died suddenly at his home
in New York. Upon investigation the |
rumor proved to be untrue.