The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-25

the cause.
The fourth assistant postmaster
general has made his annual report for
the year ended June 30, 1896. 1t shows
that the number of post Offices in op-
Grafton in the United States is 20. 800
During the year .. 046 post offices were
esta blished and 1,75O discontinued.
The big sugar refinery at Moncton,
N. B., was destroyed by fire. Loss.
over $500, ZOO.
AT a mass meeting called by Evan
gelist D. l. Moody at Chicago on the
ing to the Christian citizens of the
United States to observe October s
as day of fasting and prayer to AL
mighty God to interpose and allay
passion in the throes of the great con-
fict which the nation is undergoing.
LEADvILLE. Col. was reported quiet
on the 21st, the city being full of state
troops and practically under military
rule. Five dead bodies were lying at
the morgue and half a dozen persons
were reported wounded as the result
of the previous nights lawlessness.
The property damaged by the dynamite
amounted to S25. 900. The back bone OF
the strike was thought to have been
broken
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is
making war on tramps and one even
ing landed &c in Jail. 1t was estimated
that 1000 tramps were in camp be-
tween Greensburg and Altoona, Pa.
THE post Office department at Wash
ington issued an order on the 10Th pro.
hibiting the use of the mails to the
bucket shop operators of Chicago. The
order was issued on the report of an
inspector. who stated that nearly all
the persons named had been indicted
by the grand jury in Chicago. The
order affects about 60 firms.
STRIKING miners attempted to blow
up the Coronado mine at Leadville
Col, early on the morning of the Goth.
A brisk fusillade of shots between those
guarding the mine and the strikers
followed the explosions. The city was
said to be in a panic of fear. The local
militia has been called out and tbs
situation was extremely warlike.
THE police have found by accident
in an old trunk left at Is Sedgwick
court, Chicago. three years ago by Jo'
seph Bestman, an anarchist, enough
dynamite to have destroyed an acre OF
property and taken the lives of hun
dreds of people. Bestman was said te
be now living at Dallas, Tex, and the
police there were wired to arrest him.
JAMES SWIMMER, full-blood Chero
kee Indian, and Henry Williams, col
ored youth of IS, were hanged in the
national Jail yard at Tahlequah, 1. T..
on the 18th for murder.
A BRUSSELS dispatch to the London
Chronicle on the Goth said that the
authorities of Rotterdam had received
an anonymous letter threatening to
blow up all the public buildings there
unless the Irish prisoners, Kearney and
Haines, were liberated.
WHITECAPs near Toledo. O., whipped
a farmer named Huntsman and then
buried him alive, dug him up. and then
another whipping. The
farmer and his children were accused
of stealing a pocket-book. Huntsman
was reported as respecta BILE we'll to
do farmer.
NJ. BossU, the public prosecutor in
charge at Boulogne-sur-M er, France,
of the case against P. j. P. lyman, the
alleged Irish dynamiter, received a
violent letter on the 18th, informing
him, in the name of committee Of
invincibles and anarchist brotherhood,
that unless lyman was released within
"a hours he, NJ. Bossu, would be blown
up with dynamite. The letter was
written with red fluid, believed to be
blood.
Four men We're killed and a number
of others badly injured on the 18th in
a wreck on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton, near Connersville, Ind. A
pay train was following a freight. The
crew took the engine of the freight
and started back and the wild engine
met the pay car. 1t was down grade
and impossible to stop. The two en-
gines came together with terrible
crash and the paw car was thrown on
it's side into the ditch.
JAMES MICHAEL did 81 miles and GOO
yards in one hour on his wheel at the
circuit meet at Manhattan Beach, N.
Y, smashing all the American records
for one hour.
JIMMY BRITT. once champion bantum
weight of the Pacific coast, and Frank
Lawler, another we'll known athlete,
had mill at San Francisco on the
18th. Both men were terribly punished
and the referee called the fight draw
at the 2sth round, as there seemed nc
prospect of it being finished.
FLORENCE Harry, Creek woman,
received so lashes on the bare back at
Wewolsa, 1. T., recently, for an ordi.
Gary offense against chastity. During
the laying on of the so lasbes she
maintained a stoical Indifference, ut.
tering not word of complaint. The
blood was drawn in several places on
her back and arms.
STAR POINTER at Mystic park, Massa.
chusetts, not only beat two accredited
fast horses, Robert j., 2:O115 and Frank
Agan, 2:O34, but paced the three fast
est heats ever made in competition, the
time being 2:Oo1a, a:O311 and 2:O3%, an
average of 2:O314. He also lowered the
worlds record for the fastest heat ever
paced, 2:O2H, as we'll as the record for
the fastest quarter and half, :29% and
and :59& respectively.
HOMER CHASE, a farmer living near
Hudson, Mich, wound up a weeks
carouse at the fair at Hudson bv shoot
ing his wife twice and then putting a
bullet into his own head. The wife
may recover.
A DYNAMITE explosion at the bottom
of a 12O-foot shaft of the Metropolitan
waterworks, about two miles from
Clinton, Mass, on the 10Th instantly
killed three men and fatally wounded