The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-09-24

| a single death for the day was report
ed. Eleven new cases were registered
at Edwards, Miss, making the total 81.
THE Belle Ellen coal mine at Block
ton. Ala, caught fire on the Goth and
rescue parties were at once formed to
get the miners out. Many of those got
out were found to be overcome BY the
smoke. Five miners working at a
place which could not be reached were
thought to have persisted. Women and
children gathered at the mines mouth
and there was wild excitement.
AHUMADA, Tex, was visited by one
of the worst floods the other night it
has ever known. Men, women and
children were driven from their beds
and had to take refuge on high ground.
Many houses were wrecked and many
more were expected to collapse. The
| river overlooked it's banks and water
stood four or five feet in the houses.
A COLLISION occurred near the Union
depot at st. Louis on the 10Th between
an outgoing Wabash passenger train
and an incoming st. Louis, Kansas City
& Colorado passenger train and four
persons were injured.
THE business portion of Wilmore.
KY, was entirely destroyed by fire.
supposed to have originated from
sparks from passing train.
Two men and a woman went out on
the lake at Chicago for boat ride on
the 10th and the boat capsized, owing
to the rough water, and both men
were drowned. The woman managed
to grasp the upturned boat and was
| rescued.
Of oh
the b. & nj. railway ran into each
other at Helpers station, O., and the
engineer and three trampS were killed.
SIX new cases and two deaths from
yellow fever were reported on the 10th
at New Orleans. At Mobile, Ala, II
new cases were reported, at Ocean
Springs, Miss, three new cases and at
Edwards, Miss, four new cases and no
deaths.
IT was said that DIR. V. A. Norgaard,
of Denver, Col, has discovered a sure
cure for cattle fever by dipping.
Should this prove true, the cattle mar
ket will experience q revolution, as
stock will be shipped north during the
prohibited season. A meeting of all
states and territories that handle cat
tie has been called at Fort Worth,
Tex, on September %, to examine the
| cure.
WHILE cooking dinner at Grandview,
Ky, the dress of Mrs. Elizabeth Chap
man became ignited and she was ia
tally burned.
The lifeless body of d. T. Watson, a
colored school-teacher, was found
hanging to tree in Lonoke county,
Ark, the other morning, with this
placard found on it: "A warning to
niger school-teachers. We want
none of this kind of people in this
country; others beware" Watson had
been teaching a school in the county
during the last three months.
The postmaster of Belmont, Neb.,
\ was held up in his office by masked
men and compelled to deliver up some
$500 of his funds. Two of the robbers
were afterwards apprehended after a
fight in which one was mortally
wounded.
damaged property valued at $4,000
and for time threatened the entire
town.
THE yellow fever situation at New
Orleans assumed a serious aspect on
the 18th, eight new cases being report
ed. At Vicksburg, Miss, Is cases OF
the fever were reported for the day. A
case of death from yellow fever oc-
Cured at Augusta, Miss. and it was
feared that a new focus of the plague
had been started.
THE Dawes and Creek commissions
have begun negotiations at Muskogee,
l. T., looking to the allotment of the
lands belonging to the Creek Indians,
the dissolution of their tribal govern
ment and the establishment of town
sites in the nation. 1t is the general
opinion that a satisfactory treaty will
be arranged.
A CALM pervaded Hazleton. Pa, on
the 18th and the striking miners main
tanned silence and good order. Maj
Whitney issued an order to his soldiers
however. not to accept food or drink
from any one outside the camp as il
was feared an attempt would be made
to poison the troops.
OSCAR GARDNER, the Kansas City
featherweight, had aO-round go with
Tommy Dixon, of Rochester, n. Y.
before the Rochester Athletic club
and, although Gardner did not KNOCK
out Dixon. Gardner was given the de
clSlOQ, winch met WIN general d p
. prevail.
A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on thu
Wisconsin Central railroad, near Chip
pewa Falls, on the 18th, resulting IL
. the death of five people and the serious
injury of four others. Two freigh
trains, through a mistake in orders
while going 40 miles an hour. met on
curve and came together with terrib l,
force.
FIRE at Youngstown, O.. destroyed
: the stock barn of young John A. Lo
S gan. Eight finely-bred horses ant
many handsome equipages We're burned
up. The loss was estimated at SIS, 600
+ EDWARD c. FLANAGAN. who killed
, three people little over year ag,
under horrible circumstances and VIII,
was tried, convicted and sentenced t.
$ be hanged, escaped from the DeKal1
county Jail at Decatur. Ga. at an earl,
hour on the morning of the 18th. II
was afterwards recaptured.
RAIN softened the roadbed and cause,
the derailment of freight train OIL
the Katy near Fort Worth, Tex. an,
four cars were smashed.
The negro postmaster of Hogans
vile, Ga, was recently shot by un
y known men. He was appointed by tn
administration over the protests of tn
white residents of the section and tn