The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

road was crossing bridge near Wylie,
Tex, when the structure gave way
and the entire train, with the excep-
ton of the caboose, went into the
stream. One man, said to be tramp,
was killed.
THE shops of the Louisville, Evans
vile & st. Louis railway in Princeton,
Ind, were destroyed by fire on the sth.
Loss, SIS, 900 to 500, 900.
WHILE Constable Lawyer was at Jo-
seph Whites farm in Allegan county,
Mich, making an investigation of
cruelty to animals, White became in
dignant and made an attack upon Law
yer with a saw, when Lawyer drew a
revolver and shot White dead. Law
yer was seriously wounded.
AT the dance given at the wedding
| of Henry Wood and Carrie PEBBLES,
| near Jacksonville, Fla, Albert Thur
man, a rejected sutton, insisted on
| dancing with the bride and he waltzed
in such a manner as to excite the jeal-
ousy of the groom, who shot Thurman
down as he waltzed past him.
CHARLES LEWIS came into Pierre, S.
| D., the other day with the bodies of
his wife and one child, who were killed
| by the falling of the dirt roof of their
log house. Lewis, two children and
two hired men were in the house at
the time and managed to crawl out.
THE cowboys at Shelby Junction,
| Mont, terrorized the members of the
Columbia Opera company which arrived
there on the 7th. For three hours the
cowboys fought with the men, insulted
the women and fired off their revolvers.
THE president has signed, on the
recommendation of Secretary Francis,
an order reducing the number of pen
sion agencies from IS to nine. The
agency at Topeka, Kan, will be dis
continued and Missouri and Kansas
pensioners will be paid from ST. Louis.
The order goes into effect on Septem-
| Der /.
IN fit of desperation, after quar-
rel with her husband, the wife of Rob-
ert Cort, a rancher near Big Timber,
Mont, picked up her three small chill
dren and rushed to the Yellowstone
river and threw them in and then
jumped in herself. They were all
drowned.
A HEAD-END collision occurred be-
tween two freight trains on the Louis
Vile & Nashville railroad near Mont
gomery, Ala, on the nth through a
mistake of the telegraph operator and
the engineer and brakeman were
killed and the fireman fatally hurt.
The operator has disappeared.
AT the balloting of the L. A. w. at
Boston on the 9th it was decided that
the national meet shall be held at
Philadelphia, 223 votes being cast for
that city, "a for Columbus, O., and 10
for Nashville, Tenn.
IN the ladies' six-day bicycle race at
Columbus, o., which closed on the
night of the 9th Anderson finished
first, CLAW second, Farnsworth third
and Allen fourth. Miss Anderson in
II hours covered 226 miles and 10 laps.
A PASSENGER train ran into tree
which had rolled on the track at Wood
house, Pa, and the engine was thrown
across the track and the rest of the
train rolled down an embankment into
a creek. The fireman was fatally
crushed and several others were badly
injured.
ANDERSON PARKER, farmer of Rock
castle county, KY, in drunken rage
fractured his wife's skull with club,
shot his son through the wrist and in
fiicted a scalp wound and killed his
father with revolver. The rest of
the family escaped during the fight.
EXPERT accountants have found a
shortage of nearly SIS, 900 in the ac-
counts of Cashier c. E. BREEDER, of the
First national bank of Bethlehem, Pa.
BREEDER has absconded. He had been
cashier for 20 years.
A RELIEF committee which has just
inspected some parishes near Shreve-
port, La, reported that $4,000 people
were starving to death and would have
to be sustained during the unfruitful
season. The state has already ex-
pended sos, 900 for provisions for the
sufferers.
Two freight trains collided on the
Illinois Central railroad, near Tolono,
ILL.,, during a dense fog on the 9Th.
Both engines, five car loads of mer-
chandise and three box cars were de-
molished. In one car were so head of
horses and they were all killed. The
trainmen jumped in time to save them
selves.
CHARGES have been preferred against
Agent Pearson, who has charge of the
Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas. 1t
is said that he has been remarkably
1erelict and that the law has been fire.
luently violated on the reservation I'M
Ter his charge,
NICHOLAS SHAFFER. of Burlington.
n. j., shot his wife and then turned
the weapon on himself in the street on
the 5th. Mrs. Shaffer it was thought
would recover, while the husbands
wounds will prove fatal.
A LARGE portion of the business
section of Shellock, Ia, including the
post office. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, estimated at $500
The British steamer Jason, which
arrived at New York from Jamaica
picked up the crew of ten men of the
sinking schooner Mary Sprague near
Crooked island passage and brought
them to New York.
THE breaking ice gorges of the Lick
ing river sunk 25 coal barges at Pom
eroy, O., and vicinity and like damages
were reported at other points along the
Ohio river.
THE number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th We're
3O5 according to BradStreet'S report