The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-08

riguez and his horse were struck by a
thunderbolt and every bone in their
bodies was broken.
WILL BENDY, colored, shot and Sc
riously wounded his sweetheart, Roxey
Wall, at Buna, Tex, because she left
him. Constable Bibbo tried to arrest
Bendy when he, too. was shot and
Bendy made his escape. Philip Haines
tried to stop Bendy and was instantly
killed by the latter, who, continuing
on his. way, met E T. Bone, another
negro, who. in turn, was MORALLY
wounded by Bendy. A posse started
after the murderer and found him at
the home of his brother-in-law. He
was led by the crowd to a suitable tree
and swung up and then his body was
riddled with bullets
A PLAN was said to be on foot to re.
cruit the O'Connor guards, Chicago
organization, to full regiment of i.2Oc
men, organized on the battalion sys
tenn, with a full staff of field and line
officers and fight in the cause of Cuban
liberty.
SPONTANEOUS combustion in the
paint factory of W. A. Fuller & Co., at
stroyed property valued by the under
writer's at S13O. 900, but stated by a rep
resentative of Fuller & Co to be about
$500, 900
The remains of Walter O. Gresham,
late United States secretary of state,
were laid to rest at Arlington ceme-
terry, Washington, on the I'd At the
gates of the cemetery the funeral
party were joined by President Cleve.
land. Secretaries Olney, Carlisle and
Herbert, and Gen. Miles with eight
private soldiers and bugler. The re-
mains were lowered into their last
resting place, the bugler sounded
''taps," and that was all the cere mony
that marked the occasion.
JUSTICE ANDREWS, of the New York
supreme court, has appointed Alfred
Ely receiver for the Times Publishing
Co. in proceedings brought by the
! majority of the directors for dissolu-
ers stated that the capital stock of the
company was 81, $50. 900, that the assets
of the company were not sufficient to
pay its debts, and that the company
was indebted in the sum of 1916. 71O.
The clearing house returns for the
week ended May 1 for the follow
ing cities were: New York, $780,, 2l4,-
ss5; Chicago, 800. $50. 724; St Louis, SAL
O97, 165; Kansas City, 50, 1874, ISL; St Jo-
seph, $1,21l, 1896; Topeka. $685.. 500; Wich-
ita, s49s, 35s; Omaha, 81, 81, no.
! FAILURES for the week ended the LIST
| were, according to Dun's Review. 23S
in the United States, against 231 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against "a last
year.
The contest of the Northern Orator.
ical league was held on the ist at Chi
cago. The first prize was won by j.
s. Ingraham, of the university of Mich
igan, who delivered an grafton on
'Gettysburg;" H. l. Ward, of the
| Northwestern university, was second;
E. S. Gabrielle, of Oberlin college,
third; w. Z. Wilson, of the university
of Chicago, fourth; A. H. Schmidt, of
the university of Wisconsin, fifth; w.
C. Keller, of the university of Iowa,
sixth.
M. j. WYCoFF, an engineer, shot
William Wegner, wealthy manufac-
turer, through the head and in the
left breast, infiicting wounds from
which Wegner died within few min.
utes. The killing was done at Lake
and Anne streets. Chicago, a crowded
spot in the daytime, and after two
| officers had taken Wyckoff into Gus.
tody large crowed endeavored to take
him away. The policemen fought
hard for their prisoner. but they were
on the point of losing him when a pa
troll wagon of officers came in response
to riot call.
GEORGE GREEN young Corbett) made
the fight of his life and got the deci-
sion over Owen Zeigler, of Philadelphia,
before 5, 900 people at San Francisco on
the 1st Both men stripped in fine con-
dition, with Green apparently ten
pounds the heavier, Zeigler weighing
| about 1875.
THE May day celebrations in Lon
don, Paris and other European cities
by laboring men were attended with
| no unusual demonstrations
| A CHICAGO dispatch on the LIST said
that from present appearances the pro-
posed interstate commerce beef trust
investigation by the federal grand
jury would fall short of its purpose.
A MAN who gave the name of John
Lewis and who said he was an iron
molder was arrested at San Francisco
on the LIST while attempting to strangle
an abandoned woman in an alley.
The police believe Lewis may have
strangled the other fallen women who
recently were murdered in that city.
FEARS were entertained that the
steamer Mascot, which sailed from
Baltimore, Md, to Cuba with fill
clustering expedition, had been lost
with all on board, as nothing had
been heard of the vessel since she left
port 1t was thought possible that she
might have been sunk by Spanish
cruiser.
THE total loss by the fire at Cripple
Creek, Col , on the Goth was estimated
at 81, 500, 900 and the insurance about
$500, 600 The business men on the 3Oth
had mass meeting and issued an ad.
dress to the public announcing that,
though they had lost their homes and
their business blocks, they had not lost
their pluck and were ready to start q
magnificent city on the ruins of the
old.
NEAR Fairview, Pa, Edward Heidle,
killed his brother-in-law, Levi Kreider
over an estate, then fed to the woods
He was captured and a mob came neal
lvnching him. Both families are
wealthy.
JOSE RAMOS, in a ranch settlement
near Montemorelos, Mex. while crazeG
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