The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-26
JAMES AsHror. a brakeman.-.ried to [

oiSloOSc d tramp, WHO was SuedIlng a
ride on freight train near Hawkins,
Tex, and desperate fight ensued and
the tramp was killed.
| MICHAEL GLEASON, aged SIS, residing
at Galena. Ind. started to transfer a
| flock of 40 sheep from one lot to an
other, and was letting down the bars
of a fence, when a ram dashed at him
and butted him to the ground. While
| lying PROSTATE, the other sheep fol-
lowed and trampled him to death.
NINE peasons were recently bitten by
a rabid dog at Valley Dale, lumber
camp so miles northwest of Muscogee,
l. L. The victims and their friends
were said to be anXiously awaiting for
symptoms of hydrophobia to appear.
A SECTION of the elevated seats at a
circus at Brownsville, Tex, collapsed
and precipitated 800 persons to the
| ground. Six persons may die. Many
others were badly bruised.
THE president has issued IS procla-
nations setting aside certain timber
lands in South Dakota, Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Califor-
MIA and Utah as forest reservations.
A FIRE broke out in Beares' dry goods
store at Grand Forks, n. D., at two
| o'clock on the morning of the 21st, with
the mercury % degrees below zero. and
did damage to the amount of 1925, 900.
There were many narrow escapes of
people in scanty clothing.
A DISPATCH from Middlesboro, KY,
on the 21st stated that a most disas-
trous flood had visited that valley,
many people being forced out of their
homes Railroad bridges had been
washed away and trains water-bound.
Near Powells river James Caldwell
and his family were drowned, the flood
sweeping away his house.
THE postmasters and the patrons at
every one of the Al post offices where
rural free delivery has been in opera
ton have Endorsed the plan and the
postmaster-generalw will make a special
report to congress concerning the ex-
pertinent.
Gov. THORNTON has placed a company
of infantry on guard at the peniten-
tiary at Santa Fe, n. NJ, on ac-
count of the discovery of plot to blow
up the building SO as to iberate four
members of the Borrego gang, under
sentence of death for murder.
The eastbound Norfolk & Western
express was wrecked through a wash
out near Lovelette, o., on the 21st and
three trainmen were probably fatally
injured.
A TRAIN in two sections on the c., st.
p, M. & o. road, while backing up to
recouple near Ponca, Neb., collided.
Several cars were derailed and the
wreck caught fire and Michael Waters,
a travelling salesman, was pinned under
the debris and SO badly burned that he
will die.
A MOB of about $50 colored men as
sembled at the Guthrie, Ok, depot for
the purpose of lynching Eldridge Pres
ton, colored, who shot another colored
man, but the sheriff and his deputies
outwitted them.
By decision of the secretary of the
interior the swamp land in Florida,
known as 1.-The Everglades" is con-
veyed to the state. The tract comprises
about 1922, 800 acres.
DANIEL MCCARTHY was hanged at
Chicago on the 10Th for the murder of
his wife on May ~, 1896. She had sep
arated from him on account of his
drunken habits and on her refusal to
live with him, he shot her at her moth
er's house while he was in a state of
intoXication.
THE general conference of Seventh
Day Adventists commenced at Lincoln,
Neb.. on the 10Th, delegates being pres
ent from Europe. Asia, Africa, Austria
liza and all portions of the United
States. President Olsen made an ad-
dress, in which he reviewed the work
done by the denomination
THE mothers congress at Washing
ton on the 10Th passed many resolu-
tions and listened to the reading of
papers bearing on the bringing up of
children and then adjourned to meet
again in Washington next year.
The Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railway elevator "A" at Toledo,
O., was destroyed by fire on the night
About 325, 900 bushels of wheat in the
elevator and in 60 unloaded cars went
up in smoke.
The county infirmary at Garfield, o.,
was burned on the 21st. One of the in
sane patients was cremated. but the
235 others We're all rescued.
WHILE force of workmen were low
ering boiler into Spanish cruiser at
the naval yards in Cadiz on the 18th
the tackling gave way and the boiler
fell on the men, killing six and seri-
ously in juring ten others.
AT the meeting of the executive coun-
ell of the Baptist Young Peoples Union
of America. recently held in Chicago,
it was decided to hold the next inter
national union in Chattanooga. Tenn,
on July Is, 1897.
AN engine and IA cars. with contents,
We're demolished on the Illinois Cen
trail railroad near Bosky Della, ILL.,, on
the 10th by the breaking of an axle on
the engine.
The 18th annual convention of the
Newspaper Publishers association be-
gan at New York on the nth, the at
tendance being unusually large.
THE First Baptist church at WASH
ington was crowded on the 18th by at
tendants at the mothers congress.
Mrs. Ballington Booth conducted the
devotional exercises. Man, prominent
woman discussed the best way to bring
up children.
THE residence of Thomes Brown
owski at Iron River, Mich, was Quilted
by fire on the 18th and two young chill
dren who We're in the house at the time
were burned to death. The mother
had left the children locked in.
THE seventh annual convention of