The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

INTERNAL revenue officers discovered
an immense cave on Crooked creek in
Rockcastle county, KY, and found two
good-sized moonshine distilleries, which
they destroyed.
THE supreme court of the United
States formally ratified the report of
the special commission on the boun-
Diary line between Missouri and Iowa.
Mercer county, Mo-, gains about 1000
acres of land formerly supposed to be-
long to Decatur county, Ia.
SAM PALATKA, an Unlocking negro,
was arrested in Putnam county, Ga,
and confessed that he was the fiend
who perpetrated the recent great Ca
haba bridge disaster in Alabama.
whereby 35 persons lost their lives and
many others were MANNED and wound
ed by the wrecking of passenger train.
A GANG of a dozen highwaymen held
up an emigrant train going south from
Missouri in the Creek nation in the In
dian territory on the 18th and robbed
them of erythih bthey had. Some of
the emigrants identified the leader of
the desperadoes as being George Tay-
lor, the escaped murderer of the Meeks
family. Posses were organized at Guth-
rie, Ok, to locate the gang.
Two children and niece of John d.
Reynolds were discovered dead in
tenement house at Roxbury, Mass,
shortly after he arose on the morning
of the nth, the three having been suf-
located by gas, carelessness or ignO-
rance in using the fixture being the
cause.
PAYMENT has been stopped by Illinois
on nearly everything except the ex
penses of the legislature, the state
treasury being empty.
LOT GRIMsLEY, a 14-year-old son of
farmer living near Guthrie, Ok, was re
Gently killed by two-ton stone falling
on him.
AT Ell Paso, Tex, United States quar-
antine inspectors directed the killing
of 5000 "scabby" sheep that had beer
brought across the line from Mexico.
FIVE children broke through the ice
at North Leominster, Mass, on the
10th and were drowned.
BRADsTREEr's agency reports ATS bust
ness failures in the United States fol
the week ended the 18th against 41E
for the corresponding week of last year
The immense mills of the Fox Paper
Co., at Crescentville, O., were destroyed
by fire on the night of the 14th. Loss
estimated at $780, 900.
Tom LOWE, &c years of age, jailed at
Denison, Tex, on charge of dispos
ing of mortgaged property, has made
confession in writing that he is the
husband of 16 wives, all of whom he
has married within the last eight
years.
THERE was great rejoicing at Perry
passage of the free homes bill, the PEG
pie celebrating by shooting off their
guns and blowing whistles.
CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, of New York
city, fled suit at Perry, Ok, asking
that his wife's divorce decree, which
was granted in the territory a year
ago, be set aside on the grounds that she
was not a bona fide resident of the terri
tory. Mrs Anna c. Whitney, one OF
New York's foremost society women,
after three months stay, fled suit al
leging 80 days bona fde residence, and
next day after the decree was granted
she left the territory and went back to
New York city. Since that time she
has welded another. The case may
affect thousands of people.
Ar the national convention of the
United Mine Workers at Columbus, O.,
on the 14th John A. Cairns, ex-presi-
dent, was expelled from the union for
! making an attack on President Penna,
whose official acts were unanimously
Endorsed by the convention. A propo-
sition for levying IS cents per capita
per month for q defense fund was re-
ferred to q special committee.
TWENTY men, disguised as whitecaps,
took J. j. Brooks, who has a wife and
family in another place, out of a house
in Stapleton, Pa, where he was living
with another mans wife, and cowhided
him till he begged for mercy and then
marched him'out of town.