The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-07

Two DOy6, 8ReQ uVe anu el8ut years.
children of Charles Spender, Of Dam
Vile, R L, were drowned while at
play on the ice back of their fathers
yard.
THE well known Weber Piano Co
made application for a receiver at New
York-on the Sd. Du II trade was given
as the cause of the failure.
THE Central Lumber Co. began BUSH
ness at Port Townsend, Wash, with q
capital of $40, OOO, 600 Its membership
includes every timber mill on the west
ern coast.
The Wire Nail Manufacturers asso-
citation, at Pittsburgh, Pa, has ad-
dressed circular letter to the jobbing
trade, giving notice of another ad.
vance in prices of Is cents per hundred
weight. This will change the base
rate from g. % to 81. 40 per hundred
weight, which is the highest price asked
for wire nails in many years
Two large iron compressed air tanks
for furnishing power to drills ex-
ploded at Lawrence, Mass, on the Sd.
The engineer and fireman were killed
and the shock was felt for ten miles
around doing much damage to window
glass.
THE big seven-story building Of
Charles II. Hazeltine. 1416 and 14is
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and the
adjoining fve-story structure of the
Baptist Publication society and the
American Baptist Historical society
were destroyed by fire on the ed. The
Hotel Lafayette was also damaged.
The loss was estimated at fully 81, OOO,-
600 Many valuable paintings were
destroyed. the loss on them being esti-
mated at between $500. 600 and $500, 600.
The Baptist Historical society lost TO-.
600 volumes.
near Decatur, I'LL, resulted in the
death of Engineer Rose and Conductor
Wheeler.
THE Reading (Pa) collieries have
been shut down for an indefinite period,
throwing Is, 600 persons out of work.
MARTIN LYNN, his wife, two infant
children and his sister were poisoned
at Rochester. N. Y. Miss Lynn was
dead, two others cannot recover and
the children were reported out of dan.
ger. The case was very mysterious.
A DISPATCH from Eagle Pass, Tex,
stated that $50 boilermakers and ma.
chinists of the Mexican International
Railway Co. were out on a stlike. They
demanded 25 per cent increase in
wages and the reinstatement of sew.
eral men.
A MEMPHIS, Tenn, dispatch on the
I'd stated that the unprecedent rain in
the lower Mississippi valley during the
past ten days had caused the streams
to overflow and the low lands in Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Mississippi were
one vast sea of water. Bridges had
been washed away on several of the
railroads and traffic was seriously de-.
layed.
The First Unitarian church at Meet
inghouse hill, Boston, was burned on
the Sd through an overheated furnace.
Two firemen were badly injured by
FALLING timbers.
PRIVATE advices received at New
York recently said that the Maher-
Fitzsimmons fight would take place on
a strip of land in dispute between New
Mexico and Texas, known as mo Mans
Land" The Southern Pacific had put
in tracks for the accommodation of
Pullman cars, and it was said that Pull
man cars would be at Ell Paso from
over 100 cities
LORD SALISBURY, at a banquet in
London on the 31st, made an address
and said he upheld the Monroe doc
trine as President Monroe understood
it. He also asserted that religious
communities labored under a mistake
when they supposed that England had
bound herself in honor to succor the
Armenians. The Berlin treaty only
bou nd the signatory powers to watch
over certain reforms promulgated by
the sultan, nothing more.
A TERRIFIC tornado, accompanied by
flood, occurred on the 31st in north
Queensland, attended with great de-
struction of life and property. Many
vessels were missing as result of the
storm. The rainfall during the storm
amounted to 90 inches and it was esti-
mated that the damage to property
would amount to 100000. A large
number of persons were drowned.
THE Osages, conceded to be the
wealthiest tribe of Indians on earth
per capita, passed a bill through their
council asking for separation from
Oklahoma and to be annexed to the
Indian territory.
THE failures for the week ended Jan.
dary 81 Dun's report) were 404 in the
United States, against 1854 last year,
and 20 in Canada, against 81 last year.
THE Mexican secretary of the int
rior has wired the state government OF
chihuahua that the Maher-Fitzsim
mons prize fight must not be allowed
1t Juarez and troops will be sent there
60 prevent the fight.
FIVE persons were killed and nearly
= score injured by the explosion of the
large 3O-inch cylinder boiler at the
works of the Hollidaysburg Iron &
Nail Co. at Hollidaysburg. Pa, on the
,Oth. Some of those hurt may die.
| The boiler was blown through the root
| IF the works 300 feet in the air, and
came sailing down like a spent rocket
crushing through the roof in another
department. of the works
HARVEY PAGE, wife and two young
sons, aged respectively three years and
| three months, were burned to death in
their home in Marengo township
Mich, on the 30th. Page and family
occupied the top part of log house
and there was but one window in the
| up stairs room. The house burned tc
the ground and the bodies, horribly
Shared, fell into the cellar.
THE annual banquet of the Western
Society of the Army of the Potomac
was held at Chicago on the 30tb, about
| A.