The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-10-02

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| 1922 As.
ARTHUR ]. KING. head of the firm OF
r. G. Dun & Co. of New York, died at
Bloomfield, N. j., on the 2sth, aged &c
years.
AN embankment of earth caved in on
! Fifth avenue, New York, killing one
man and injuring two others who were
digging trench.
The money value of army horses
condemned during the past year is
placed at $4,000, and Secretary La.
mont has issued an order looking to .
more economical administration in this
direction. His instruction is that in.
spection reports, condemning cavalry
horses for being vicious and unman.
ageable in ranks, are not to be ap.
proved, except in rare cases. The
number of cavalry horses condemned
last year for various causes was $40.
AT the West Wisconsin Methodist
conference the vote in favor of admit
ting women to the general assem- blies
was Sc to 6.
Four boilers at the Hardwood col
liery at Hazelton, Pa, exploded on the
2sth with terrific force, instantly kill
ing Peter Parker and fatally injuring
Michael and Andrew Harguard.
AN anti-masonic congress has opened
! at Trent, Austria, with delegates pres
ent from all European countries and a
group of French Canadians, the prince
bishop of Trent presiding. The object
of the congress-was ito make known
to all the immeasurableness of the
nd oil he nd
society have suffered through freema-
sonry and to seek an antidote."
HARRIS BOONE, colored, shot the
town marshal at Sparta, Ga, in fuss
and some citizens then shot Boone to
death.
The paymaster of the Longdale Iron
Co. was riding on an engine on the
Short Line railway near Charleston,
w. Va, on the 27th with $500 to pay
employees, when he was held up by
robber and the money secured. Shots
were exchanged and the paymaster was
killed, the robber escaping. A posse
went after the robber and a lynching
was expected.
HARVEY w. FoGLE, a ten-year-old
boy, was smothered to death while
playing in wheat bin in an elevator
at Hagerstown, Md.
Lulu KERLIN, of East Franklin, Ind,
was burned to death by her clothes
catching fire from CRATE. She lost
her presence of mind and ran into the
street.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, Peter Kamm killed
his wife with Ratchet and then cut
his own throat. They had been sep.
arated for several months.
The people of Washington county,
Ky. have risen in rebellion and torn
down about all the toll gates in the
county.
The American record was broken by
four men in the 24-hour bicycle race at
| Chicago on the 25th. The score at the
finish was: Gimm, 4S6 miles l, lis yards;
| Waller, 49, miles 96s yards; Schinner,
462 miles SGT yards; Miller, 459 miles
233 yards, and Myers, 427 miles ss7
yards. 1t was seen early in the day
that the American record was certain
to be wiped out, and it appeared to be
equally certain that the worlds record
of 533 miles 1,493 yards, made by
Rivierre, would not be touched.
THE first delegation of IS miners
from Missouri to Leadville, Col, ar.
rived over the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad on the 25th. The train was
met at Malta, three miles out, by two
companies of militia. They escorted
the train to the city, where it was met
| by 500 men with two Calling guns and
| the men were taken to the Emmett
| mine.
A WRECK occurred on the Pennsylva.
MIA road between Baltimore, Nd, and
Washington on the 27th. Five freight
cars were derailed and piled in a heap.
Nobody was hurt.
JOSEPH RAY, aged 10, while hunting
ducks on the Salt Fork river in Okla
homa, looked into the barrel of his gun
while loading it and it was accidental.
! ly discharged, blowing the top of his
| head off.
A FREE fight occurred during po
litical demonstration at Elwood, Ind, ,
on the 25th in which Joseph Martin,
Samuel Salvin and Hosea Templeton
were probably fatally stabbed and a
number of others were hurt.
| MASKED men broke into the Gretna
jail, near New Orleans, and took out
Jim Hawkins-a negro who had been
confined on charge of assault and
battery on little white boy-gave
him a brief time to pray and then
hanged him. The cause of the lynch.
ing was his generally bad reputation,
the people having a dread of him.
THE annual session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Dallas,
Tex. adjourned on the 25th. The
recommendation for a revised Rebekab
ritual was adopted. as was the revised
ritual for the Patriarchs Militant A
universal sign of distress for the Re-
oekah branch was adopted.
| JOHN FITCH, colored, was lynched
near Chapel Hill, Charleston county,
Ala. He>had broken into the room of
Miss Harrington a few evenings ago,
but was driven away. He was after
wards arrested and was taken by a
masked mob and lynched while en-
route to Jail.
Two men committed a daring rob-
berry at the Union Foundry Co s office
In Chicago on the 25th. The treasurer
If the company was engaged in filing
the employees envelopes with their pay
when the robbers held him up. The
president, superintendent and two
clerks were in the room at the time.
The robbers got 81 600.
AT the 24-hour bicycle race at the
Coliseum at Chicago on the Gath C. w.
! Miller did so miles in the remarla BILE
time of I:54:25 3-5. the previous record
| being 2:1l:6 "A.