The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

A COW lying on the Choctaw railroad
track near South McAlester, 1. T.. de-
rallied an engine and IL cars the other
night. The engineer and fireman We're
killed and the brakeman was badly
hurt.
THE Mondamin carnival opened at
Sioux City, Ia, on the 4th to continue
one week.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire broke out
in the Indian territory near Sloan
Springs ON the 4th and the flames were
reported as eating everything before
them. There was great apprehension
felt for border towns. The flames
were destroying hundreds of tons of
prairie hay and it was feared that
many lives had been lost
FIRE broke out in Austin, Pa, on the
4th and in five hours every building in
the town was burned to the ground
and about 500 people made homeless.
The place was practically without a
water supply.
SoLLY SMITH, of Los Angeles, Cal,
was given the decision over George
Dixon. of Boston, in a 2O-round fight
the other night at San Francisco The
match was virtually for the champion
ship of the feather-weight class, and
Smith is now at the top.
Owing to the long-continued drought,
a dispatch on the 4th said, the people
of Osceola, Ark, were forced to buy
drinking water, paying five cents a
quart for it. All the wells and spring S
in the vicinity had gone dry.
FLOODS and typhoons wrought great
destruction in Japan recently, the
official report showing that $1,000
houses were submerged or wrecked.
Many deaths by drowning also oc-
Cured.
AT the recent convention of the Ne
| braska Woman's Christian Temperance
union at Lincoln Mrs. Caroline Wood
ward, the president. urged women of
| the Methodist denomination to with
draw from active church work until
the general conference should recog-
nize them as delegates. The idea was
applauded.
THE Rock Island road has offered a
reward of $500 each for the capture of
the five men who held up and robbed
| it's passenger train at Chickasha, l. T.
| recently.
Two persons were killed and many
others were more or less injured in !,
wreck on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad at CotopaXi, Col, on the Sd,
caused by the breaking of a journal on
one of the coaches.
THE Orange Judd Farmer, of Chica-
go, in its final estimate of the year.
wheat crop, said that figures based or
actual thrashing returns indicated a
total yield of $50, 900, 900 bushels. OF
which 1913, $50, O0O bushels was winter
and 2l5, 40, 900 bushels spring wheat.
FRANK STARBUCK, at Philadelphia,
| defeated Jimmy" Michael. the "Welsh
| wonder" in q 25-mile paced race at
| Willow Grove by six yards Starbuck's
| time was AZ minutes 2 LIS seconds, and
\ Michaers AZ minutes 2-5 seconds.
FIRE destroyed the Northern Pacific
railroad depot at Little Falls, Minn,,
the other morning, besides dozen
loaded freight cars and a number OF
small buildings Tramps were sus'
pected as being the cause.
In a race that was witnessed by IS,
900 people at the Illinois state fair
not only beat Joe Patchen, but he also
| io"ercu luc WOTlu > pacing TecOTu pre-
viously made by himself by half a sec
| ond, making mile in a:O05s.
THERE is a larger demand for male
stenographers and typewriuers in the
departments at Washington than the
| civil service commission has been able
to meet. The salaries range from $500
to 81 900 per annum.
| A soUTHBoUND Rock Island passen
ger train was held up at 1880 a. IN. or
the LIST near Chickasha, L T., by five
masked men. They tried to blow
open the safe in the express car bu,
failed. The car, however, was blown
to atoms The mail bags were rifleG
and all registered packages taken
The robbers then lined up the passen
| gers outside and took all their valua
bles. Posses were put on the trail o
the bandits.
| The 14th annual convention of tn,
Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medica
association took place at Iowa City, la
DIR. L. C. McElwee. of St Louis. wa
! elected president for the ensuing year