The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-03-26


dence were destroyed by fire on the 22d.
One man was fatally burned. The fire
was supposed to have been incendiary.
AN epizootic of glossitis recently
broke out among the horses of st.
Louis. Thousands of horses were at
flicted and the veterinarians reaped a
rich harvest in consequence.
THE supreme court of the United
States on the 22d announced its deci-
sion that the agreement in the Trans
missouri Freight association to main
tain rates within it's territory was a
violation of the antitrust law of 1890
prohibiting contracts or combinations
in restraint of trade and must be aban-
doned. This reversed the decision OF
the court below.
A BOYCOTT against beer made by the
Chicago Brewers association has been
declared by the Chicago Federation of
Labor, to take effect April 1.
RICHARD MANSFIELD, his wife and
six children were drowned in Henry
county, Ala. They lived on the river
bank and the water rushed into their
cabin and all were lost.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over a sec
ton of Georgia and Alabama on the
ed. The town of Blakeley, Ga, was
almost lifted out of existence and many
people were injured by falling timbers.
The academy at Arlington. Ga, was
wrecked and eight children were taken
out dead and five other persons were
mortally wounded. The scenes around
the school were heart-rending. A
family of five was also reported killed
near Geneva, Ala.
THE senate committee on Indian af-
fairs has under consideration bill ap-
priating $4,000 ''for improving the
ground of the battle field at Lexing-
ton, Mo-, providing that the ground
itself shall be purchased and paid for
by the citizens of Missouri"
A PROTEST has been sent to congress
against the removal from the free list
of books, educational apparatus. etc.
1t is signed by President Dwight and
all the members of the faculty of Yale
university at New Haven, Conn.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Ottum-
wa, Ia, on the 21st in business block
on Main street which destroyed prop
erty valued at S1SO,O0O.
AN awful tragedy was enacted on
the night of the Goth near Orrick, Ray
county, Mo. Bee Rainwater shot his
wife, his mother-in-law, his step
daughter and his brother-in-law and
then blew the top of his own head off.
All the five are dead. The murderer
was said to be of a morose disposition
and did not live happily with his wife,
frequent separations taking place.
TELEGRAMs from all points in the
northwest on the 18th indicated that
all the rivers had turned to raging tor
rents. In South Dakota along the
Missouri and other rivers the settlers
were fleeing. An Omaha, Neb., dis
patch said that the Platte river was
rushing into the Missouri, carrying
with it the debris of wrecked bridges
and farm yards in its valley. From
Iowa came stories of ice gorges on the
Des Moines river at Fort Dodge and
Madrid, flooding miles of the bottoms
and doing great damage.
A SEVERE windstorm struck Jackson,
Miss, on the 10th. Heavy trees were
uprooted, outbuildings destroyed and
much other damage done.
THOMAS j. SHARKEY issued a def at
San Francisco on the 10th. The sailor
pugilist claimed that he was the
champion of the world and he intended
to hold the championship until his
colors were lowered. He said he had
deposited forfeit for bet of $4,000
and would fight Fitzsimmons, Maher,
! Goddard or any one else. Sharkey said
that he had whipped Corbett and had
got the decision over Fitzsimmons and
nobody had any better right to the
worlds championship than he had.
| ALL, T har
-Four children were trying to make
their way to Marion for shelter, and
while attempting to cross railroad
trestle the strong current caused by
<he great flood overwhelmed the party
and all persisted. The oldest child was
! girl aged 16 and the youngest an in
FAINT of eight months.
! THROUGHOUT Arkansas, Tennessee
and Mississippi many lives were re-
ported lost on the 10Th through the
floods and the railroads were heavy
sufferers. 1t was reported also that
the levee at Hill House, Miss. had
broken, flooding the farms in that 10
cality.
| A COLLISION between two engines on
the Denver & Gulf took place at Den
yer. Col, on the 18th. One of them
| was "ECShCu. L hO SciiA'iOH
caused an escape of steam and two
men, Hugh Mcbride and Patrick Casey
were caught in the escaping steam and
found literally parboiled when Their
dead bodies were taken out few min
utes later.
THE boiler of the locomotive which
was hauling the Chicago and Boston
train on the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad blew up at Chicago
on the 21st, killing the engineer and
fireman and completely demolishine
the engine.
DETECTIVES killed Walter Hughes as
he was in the act of entering the house
of Frank Dunn, a wealthy resident o.
Houston, Tex. The police received in
formation that scheme was on foot tC
kidnap Dunn's little daughter. keel
the little girl in captivity and then de
mand $40, 900 for restoring her to hel
parents.
HEART disease caused the death o
John Parshall, of Indianapolis, Ind.
on the 18th. He was one of the 81,
men deputed and sworn to dispose o
the remains of John Wilkes Booth, the
murderer of Abraham Lincoln, in sucf
a manner that the secret of their rest
ing place should never be known.
JESSE GARRETT, the wealthiest young