The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-07-16

the Acton fly wheel of pair of Corliss
compound engines went to pieces and
wrecked the plant and building of the
street railway company at Tacoma,
Wash. 1t meant a stoppage of the
lines operated for perhaps a week and
10 electric light.
The Santa Fee Railroad Co. has put
in ], 200 new cars to help take care of
Oklahoma's wheat and many towns
can hardly get enough cars to remove
the crop. 1t was estimated the crop
yield will not fall less than 80, 600, 900
bushels.
THERE was a wreck on the Frisco
railroad at Underwood, near st. Louis,
which smashed in the front end of a
locomotive, completely demolished a
:aboose, broke two cars into kindling
wood and scattered the wreckage for a
distance of 800 feet along the track.
Only a brakeman was slightly injured.
The wreck was caused by the train
breaking in two.
THE government statistician reports
the potato acreage this year s.4 per
cent. less than last year, and the con-
iition of the crop SIS, against 80 a
year ago.
LOUIS FLOWER. an Indian territory
cattle thief, has been pardoned by the
president.
FRANK WALLER, the 'Flying Dutch
man. won the 10O-mile bicycle race at
Manhattan Beach, n. Y, on the 10th,
but was disqualified by the referee on
account of being illegally paced in the
concluding lap of the race and the
purse of $50 went to the second man,
Thomas A. Barnaby. of Boston. The
century was run in hours, "a minutes
and seconds.
SHORTAGES amounting to $4,000 of
the moneys due by county dispensers
to the state were brought to light by
the South Carolina dispensary board
Of control. The books are in such a
shape that no record can be made of
all the shortages, but it is probable
that the total sum will be much larger.
Miss TILE LARSEN tried to commit
suicide at Omaha, Neb., on the Sth by
tearing open the arteries of her left
wrist with a hairpin. She was uncon-
scious when found from the loss of
blood. and only prompt action on the
part of those who discovered her saved
her life. 81 wanted to go to Heaven,
and that is why did it, she said. The
authorities cannot understand her case.
THE commissioner of pensions has
before him the cases of about 100 veter-
ans dismissed from the pension Office
during the last administration and
who seek reinstatement. They are be-
ing carefully considered, and where
possible and circumstances warrant it
reinstatement will be made.
On unlocking his combined meat
shop and grocery the other morning
Gustav Stab, of Tomkinsville, L. l.,
saw a man packing articles. At Staib's
approach the thief stepped into large
refrigerator. Stab locked him in and
notified the police. 1t was hot day,
and after the man had been in a small
cell for an hour he asked to be put
back in the ice box.
SWIMMING parties and trips to China
town were said to be proving very at
tractive to the Christian Endeavorers
at San Francisco.
The bodies of a man and woman, ap-
parently dying, lying side by side on a
raft of logs moored to the shore near
the village of California, was found a
few miles above Cincinnati. Near the
raft the dead body of an infant was
taken from the water. The man and
woman were alive, but unable to speak.
Both their wrists were cut and bleed
ing and other wounds indicated an at
tempt at suicide.
THE drought which has prevailed
around jackson, Tenn, for two mon this
still continued on the Sth. The gar
dens were burned up and ruined and
unless it rains very soon the corn crop
will be a failure. The cotton crop
was reported failing daily.
JOSEPH WEIssHAUER was arrested
the other day at New York charged
with bringing home food, cooking and
eating it himself. and leaving his wife
and two-year-old child to starve.
A TENEMENT house in Providence, R.
l., was blown to pieces and burned by
an explosion of gasoline the other
evening and two children were fatally
| injured.
DIR. l.. A. BERGER, one of the most
prominent physicians of Kansas City,
Mo-, was shot on the Sth by John
! Schlegel, a grocer. He lived only Ii
minutes afterwards. Schlegel said
that he killed DIR. Berger because the
latter had committed rape upon Mrs.
Schlegel, but the story of a criminal
assault upon Mrs. Schlegel was dis
credited by friends of the dead man.
AT st. Louis on the Sth the Their
mometer showed 100 degrees on the
street and seven people died from the
heat, one man attempted suicide and
there were at least four out of the
many prostrations which will prove
| fatal.
The intense heat at Chicago on the
Sth caused four deaths and % prostra
tions, four of the latter being serious
and probably fatal. Six male prisoners
in the Bridewell went insane also from
the hot weather and were sent to the
asylum.
JOHN LEWIS, a farmer living neal
Langston, Ok, was killed while dig
cling we'll. The windlass which hi
| was working broke and he fell int
the we'll head first
A TARAsHING machine boiler blew
up in field one mile north of New
Haven, Neb., the other morning. Three
men were seriously injured. Tn,
boiler was blown 200 yards.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has pardone(
Robert NJ. Allen, sentenced to fiv'
| years in the Missouri penitentiary TO
mail robbery.
FIRE broke out at two o'clock thu
other morning in the large transfe
sheds of the Chicago & Alton Railroad
Co. at Chicago and 80 freight car