The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-04-10

GKoEaE E GARD, chief of the South.
ern Pacific railway detective service.i
has given publicity, according to q
San Francisco paper of the 9th, to a
plot to hold up the Vanderbilt-Depew
special train, now on the Pacific coast,
and abduct Cornelius Vanderbilt at
some point in the San Joaquin valley.
The railroad officials had put armed
guards on the train and were going to
keep them on until the Vanderbilt
party had passed the Sierras.
The boiler in Watson Bros hoop
and stave millsfat Ridgetown, Ont, ex-
ploded on the 9Th, wrecking the build
ing and causing the death Of two men
| at least and the injury of several others
The New York World said on the 9Th
that a cash offer of So, 600, 900 had been
made by q banking house representing
foreign syndicate for the privilege Of
| running boats on the Erie canal by
| potent for good or evil to the frei2 ht
shippers of both east and west
THREE Italian guests at a hotel at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were found dead in
their room shortly after noon on the
9th. They had been suffocated by gas.
GROVER E. STATES, a three-year-old
boy, was kicked by horse on the head
and killed at Marshall, Ok.
SISTER PATRICIA, of the St Francis
academy, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was
fatally burned by the explosion Of
some turpentine and sweet oil She
was oiling the floor, and the mixture
becoming hardened she placed the yes.
sci containing the fluid on a range
when it exploded and the flames en-.
veloped her.
1T was charged that nearly every
resident of the town of Lucas. Ia, was
guilty of Bookkeeping whisky.
NEAR McLeansboro, ILL.,, Ben Boeh.
mer, a we'll to do farmer, cut his wife's
throat and hanged his six-year-old son
to a rafter in his stable. He after.
wards covered the bodies with fodder
to hide his crime, and made his escape
to the woods Boehmer and his wife
had been having trouble over religious
differences. he being a non-believer in
| Catholicism, while she Wa firm
Catholic. The murderer was after
wards captured near CarmE Ill A
I good deal of excitement existed in the
neighborhood and lynching was freely
talked of.
AT the Clark street dime museum at
Chicago on tho 5th a fire broke out and
at least 1000 persou were panic
stricken and made a wild rush for the
doors. There was also wild confusion
among the freaks, but no one was
| particularly hurt.
A NOVEL measure, aimed at high
| theater hats, was enacted into a law
| by the Ohio legislature on the I'd. 1t
provides that any manager permitting
any person to wear a high hat or other
headgear in theater obstructing the
view, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be fined $40
WILLIAM KEMPER and John Lipkie
engaged in friendly contest for box
ing supremacy in saloon at Otis. Ind. +,
recently. After a few passes Kemper
struck Kipkie in the abdomen. The
injured man fell unconscious and re-
manned so until he expired.
A TERRIFIC explosion of gas took
place in the No. shaft of the Lehigh
& Wilkesbarre Co., at Sugar Notch,
Pa, killing one person, fatally injur-
ing another. and wounding five NOR e.
Il. H. HOLMES the convicted MUIR
derer of Philadelphia, has made con-
fession in which he tells how and why
he put to death no less than 20 men,
women and children. He writes as
calmly and remorselessly as he MUIR
dered, neglecting no detail. 1t was
we'll known that Holmes put IL per-
sons out of the world.
AT Lloyd, Wis, Charles Eastland
and William Keith were instantly
killed by the explosion Of boiler.
AT Clinton, Ill, on the Sd Ed Pollen,
trail railroad, murdered his wife and
eide by throwing himself in front of an
eastbound freight train. Jealousy was
given as his reason for committing the
horrible deed. At night a great crowd
of excited citizens assem- bled in front
! of the Jail, but Mayor McGill addressed
them and said Pollen would die of his
injuries and the crowd finally dis
persed.
Manila, the capital OF the Philippine
islands. by which 1000 houses were de-
stroyed and 80, 900 people left homeless.
| aCCOhDlN6 W DEduStTScGS luduCldl
Review on the 4th the first quarter OF
1896 presented the largest list of actual
failures in business in the United
States, those in which liabilities ex.
ceeded assets, ever reported for a like
period. The total was Asp or 7OC
more than in 1894. and l. 443 more than
in the first quarter of 1893, increases OF
1911 and ~ per cent respectively.
Liabilities of those failing this year
amount to S62, 513, 600, an increase of &c
per cent, as compared with year ago
FIRE at the Washburn and Moen
plant at Quinsigamond, Mass, caused
loss of $3.50, 900. Two hundred meu
will be thrown out of work by it.
THE banking firm of Belmont s. Co.
Of New York, was defrauded out Of
s25, 900 on forged draft presented by
smooth Spaniard.
LETTERS received from the Canadian
boundary report the death in Rainy
river OF Col. A. F. Naff, United States
deputy marshal, and an entire party OF
explorers, in all proba bly, eight men
They were on their way to investigate
reports of the timber stealing by Cana
iians along the boundary and were
ascending the river in sleighs anC
broke through the ice.
AT Corning, O., Thomas Branigan, 6
newspaper man. killed his wife and
himself because of jealousy.
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