The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-31

| JOHN NUFER shot and killed Joseph
Enzler. a laborer. at st. Louis the other
evening. The murderer was crazed
from the effects of drink.
AT a dance at Cortland, Neb., o. w.
Vanderpool insulted Miss Sherman.
Her brother Edward interfered and
was fatally stabbed by Vanderpool
and two others were also severely
slashed
OVER 100 representatives of the
United States secret service are CEN
tering on a gang of counterfeiters,
now in Colorado, who are believed to
make their headquarters in Kansas
City, Mo. They are passing two dam
gerous counterfeits of the denomina-
tion SIS and $40. The gang has flood
ed Colorado with the bogus bills.
A SPECIAL on the 18th announced the
engagement of Miss Margaret Ogden,
of New York, and Frank McNutt, of
Richmond, Ind. Miss Ogden is said to
be worth S2O,OOO.OO
JOHN NJ. CARROLL. an expert machin-
list, of Cincinnati, thinks that he has
hit upon plan for the successful navi-
CATION of the air. He is building an
airship. He has a working model at
his home which will fly around the
room like bird and he is hard at work
On the ship itself, which he hopes to
launch soon. The machine is modelled
after a goose. 1t is to be guided by
the wings, which are to be operated by
| electricity.
A DRILL engine and a train of fat
cars collided on the New Jersey Cen
trail railroad at Communipaw by which
brakeman was killed, fireman
fatally injured and an engineer so
badly scalded that his flesh came off in
strips.
THE commercial failures in the
United States for the week ended the
oath were $50, according to Brad
streets report.
| INDIANAPOLIS veterans are signing a
petition to congress to pay all pension
ers 20 years pension money in lump
sum at once and abolish the pension
department and have the government
get out of the pension business perma-
nently.
| FOUR small children named Maltbski
were suffocated by smoke while alone
in an attic room occupied by the family
at Philadelphia. The house caught
fire from an overheated stove.
AT Milwaukee on the 22d Walter G.
Sanger broke his own worlds indoor
| bicycle record for mile unpaced, rid
| ing the distance in one minute fiat.
THE New York Medical Record on
the 25th gives full account of a re-
markable operation whereby a wom-
| ans stomach was cut out and the
patient has recovered and can eat and
drink and feels in better health than
before the operation.
SUSIE GREENLEAF, aged ten, went to
the schoolroom at Rockland, Tex, to
get her books. The door being locked,
he crawled in at the window and, in
getting out, the sash fell on her neck
and choked her to death.
A CHICAGO telegram said that Des
Moines, Ia, would become a member
of the Western Baseball league.
ANTHONY DEvIN shot his wife at
Philadelphia and then committed sui
eide.
THE Ferry street car house at Ever
EFT, Mass, was destroyed by fire on the
oath, together with 30 electric cars.
The loss on the building was estimated
at $50, 900 and on the cars at $780,
Mr.. WESLEY MCBRIDE, of Stanton,
Del., anu DIS VIE were klllcu anu
their daughter, Carrie, aged six, in
jured so that she will die, at the rail-
way crossing at that place.
GEN. PANDo has written to Capt.
Gen. Blanco that all of the commits
sioners sent to the Cuban insurgents
camps proposing peace with autonomy
have failed and therefore no other
course is open than to finish the war
| with war.
FIVE terrific explosions occurred the
other morning in the works of the
United States Acetylene company at
Jersey City, n. j.. and two men lost
their lives and three other employees
| were injured. Windows were broken
| for distance of mile from the gas
works. which burned to the ground
| and set fire to a paper mill and the
railroad bridge. Damage done, about
$40, 900.
Four hunters were found frozen to
death by the roadside near Dawes
Creek, Newton county, Ark. 1t was
believed they were w. 81. Hughes. A.
H. Dolphin, John w. Bright and Sam
uel Sewer, from Chicago.
THE Coliseum building at Chicago,
where the last democratic national
convention was held, was destroyed
by fire on the night of the oath. Five
or six people were supposed to have
lost their lives and II other persons
were more or less in jured. The build
ing cost $3.50, 900 and occupied a floor
space of seven acres. The crossing of