The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-22

18th to be $50, and the loss of property
| in Texas and the Indian territory was
| estimated at 81, O0O, 600. It was agreed
| that there were three distinct lorna
does. Dead bodies were being discov-
cred in out of the way places. A dead
| infant was found at the top of hick-
ory tree, inpaled on a limb
The boiler of Strawburg's sawmill
at Hoffman, N. c., exploded on the
| 18th and instantly killed three negro
employees and wounded another.
AT East Carondelet, Ill, 43 negroes
were admitted to membership in the
Baptism church and baptized in the
Mississippi on the 18th.
A BOUT which was to have been of Is
rounds between Kid Mccoy and
Mysterious Billy Smith at Boston on
the 18th was stopped by Referee DAILY
in the sixth round and awarded to Nc
Coy on a foul break by Smith
The proposed strike of carpenters at
Buffalo, N. Y, for eight hours was
met by a lockout, those carpenters
favoring the eight-hour day being dis,
missed on the spot by the contractors
A protracted struggle was anticipated.
A DISPATCH from Iowa City, Ia, ON
the 18th said that strong movement
was on foot in the state to retire John
S. Clarkson from the position of ma
tional committeeman. 1t was also
said that Senator Allison might with.
draw from the presidential nomination
race before the convention met and
Iowa would be put in the Mckinley
column.
NEARLY half the business portion OF
the su burban town of Blue Isl<nd,
near Chicago, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Altogether, &c buildings
were consumed. entailing total loss
of about $780, 600.
fire on the 18th, whole block being
destroyed, including the Markham
house. Loss, 100000.
THE north central part of Kansas
was visited by tornado on the after.
noon of the 18th. At Seneca six per.
sons have been killed and many in.
jured. The Grand opera house was
demolished and 25 residences RACED to
the ground. At Oneida six have
been killed and at Frankfort 200 peo-
pie were made homeless. Frightful
damage was also done at Reserve, Sa-
betha, Falls City, Baileyville and other
places, and many people were badly
injured. Five persons were killed at
Sabetha.
WHILE the street railway company at
Milwaukee was operating all its lines
On the 18th and there was little or no
turbance, the buses were heavily
patronized as against the patronage OF
the cars, and there was a general boy
colt. The cause of the strikers was
being advocated by every labor union
and business of all kinds suffered with
the railway company.
CoMMANDER-IN-CHI WALKER, of the
G. A. R., on the 18th, from the head
quarters at Indianapolis. Ind, called
attention to the fact that some posts
have been engaged in political work
and some officers have been using their
official positions to further the interest
Of certain candidates. He deprecated
all such action and demanded that it
be discontinued.
WITHDRAWALS of gold from the fed
sral treasury make it appear certain
that unless congress enacts relief leg
tslation another bond issue will be re-
1uired before December. 1t was the
generally expressed opinion of friends
Of the administration that Mr. Cleve-
land would not wait for the occasion
to call an extra session in the summer,
but would send message to congress
after both houses had adopted an ad-
iournment resolution, insisting that
they should afford some relief to the
treasury before going to their homes
AT Chicago Alfred Fields, negro
convicted of the murder of Mrs Ran
iolph. was hanged on the 18th. Joseph
Windrath and Mic Marzden. who were
to have been hanged with Fields, were
granted short stays.
AT Mercer, Pa, fire destroyed the
large four story brick. Touring mill of
vim & Young near by. The loss was
$4,000 The mills were the chief in
dustries of the place.
FIRE inside the penitentiary at Ed
dyville. KY, destroyed the shoe, broom
and spoke factories, involving loss OF
500, 600. Four hundred convicts will
be idle for time.
"A DARING bank robbery was perpe-
trateo at Buffalo. I'LL, on the 14th. At
noon two masked men entered the
bank just as Carl Kloppen burg, the
cashier, was locking up the safe pre-
paratory to going to dinner. Kloppen-
burg was the only person in the bank
at the time The robbers seized him
from behind, bound and gagged him
and then took all the money in the
bank, amounting to $1,000, and es-
capped.
FAILURES for the week ended the
18th were, according to Dun's Review,
224 in the United States. against ell
last wear, and 33 in Canada, against 81
last year.
d. w. SIMPKINs, of Mason City, Ia,
was bitten by a mad dog Is years ago
and was recently suffering from hydro
phobia and taken to the county asylum
for safe keeping.
AT the session of the general confer
ence of the African Methodist Epis-
copal church at Wilmington, N. c., on
the 18th Rev. d. B. Parks, D. D.. of
Kansas City. Mo-, was elected general
secretary of home and foreign mis-
sionk
THOUSANDS of acres of wheat have
been damaged SO much by the fly
around Delphi, Ind, that many farm
ers stated they would not run the har-
vestcr over their fields
\ The schooner Mary D. Aver was
sunk in collision with the steamer
Onoko. in Lake Michigan. off Crosse
Point, and five members of her crew