The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-06-25

| y. II. ANDERSON, OF the ArapahOe
Wheel club at Denver, Col, has low
cred the road record for 100 miles from
6:31 to 6:30:3O. He rode from Denver to
Evans and return, making his ride
actually 1o2 miles.
RIOTS have broken out in the province
of Kiang-Si, China, against foreigners.
The English mission at Wa-Chang was
destroyed by a mob and Mr.. Blandford,
the missionary, and five English women
had to flee for their lives, losing all
their possessions. The rioters also at
ia cked the French Catholic mission at
Wa-Chang.
| PROTESTS are reaching the state de-
partment at Washington from Europe
about the poor corn sent to that coun-
try, and unless a remedy is applied
soon the foreign corn trade of this
country will be ruined. The trouble
is said to be principally with the Ne
braska, Kansas and Texas crops, which
we're gathered under bad conditions.
WHILE $40 graduates of the county
schools were on the stage at Ottawa,
Ill, for the purpose of having their
photographs taken the structure gave
way and they were precipitated ten
! feet to the ground below. Many were
rather severely hurt.
! Four more bodies of supposed sui
rides wese found in the Thames at
London on the 18th. making 81 found
in the river during the last three
weeks.
A CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL
suburban train. bound for Evanston,
ran into the Chicago river at the Kin
zie street bridge at Chicago the other
night. The draw was open and the
engine and tender disappeared under
the water, and the first car, a combi-
nation baggage and passenger car, was
partly submerged. Many of the pas
sengers had a ducking, but were unin-
jured.
By fire at the home of Joseph Me-
lenskie near Buffalo, N. Y, his five
children were SO badly burned that
one has died and the others were not
expected to live.
MEAN whisky was the cause of eXcit-
ing a riot among negroes at Gadsden,
Ala. One man was fatally shot and
several others injured.
The Pickwick hotel and several
buildings adjoining were destroyed by
fire at New Orleans the other morning.
All the guests escaped. Loss, $160, 900.
THE window-glass factory at Orestes,
Ind, was burned on the night of the
Goth. Loss, 100000. Four hundred
men were made idle.
A CYCLONE shook up Duncan, Neb.,
on the Goth and a number of people
were hurt by flying debris.
Two sharp shocks of earthquake
fo1% ~ ~
Goth.
A STATE convention of Kentucky
farmers is called to meet at Lexington
on July to perfect a combination so
as to hold the wheat crop until higher
prices can be got for that cereal. If
the movement is successful national
convention will be called to form a ma
tional farmers trust.
THE creamery proprietors, butter
dealers and dairy farmers of the big
butter producing states are being
formed into an organization to work
for legislation that will prevent the
coloring of butterine.
THE library building of the state
university at Iowa City, Ia, was struck
by lightning on the 10Th and destroyed
by fire. Loss, 500, 900; no insurance
Many of the books cannot be replaced!
A fireman was caught in the building
under falling roof and burned to
death.
A GLUCOSE trust has been formed, a
Chicago dispatch stated, that included
every big company in the United States
except two.
AT Chicago on the 10th there was
one death and one prostration from
the hot weather.
ABOUT 800 pounds of condemned
dynamite was given to Joseph Foster
at the city dump in Decatur, ILL.,, and
he was ordered to bury it in the ground
by the authorities, but instead of do
ing so he piled the stuff on heap OF
refuse and set fire to it and there was
4 terrible explosion. Chimneys top
pied, ceilings and walls were cracked
and much damage done to buildin gs.
and suits against the city will prob
ably result.
VIOLENT windstorms passed over a
wide district in Nebraska on the 18th.
At Monroe hardly a chimney was left
in the place and many roofs were taken
off.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta on the
18th said that earthquake shocks still
continued to be felt in Assam and that
the ruin in that province was appall-
ing; that courts, treasures, jails and
hospitals had collapsed; that crops
We're mostly ruined and number of
roads had been completely demolished.
MORE tea was reported af1oat on the
Pacific ocean on the 18th than ever be-
fore at one time. the importers of New
York and other eastern cities having
made large purchases in China and
Japan for immediate delivery and
were having it hurried across the Pa
cific in order to enter it before the
Dingley bill goes into effect.
A LITTLE whirlwind the other day in
New Orleans blew the roof off a pub
lie market, damaged about 80 houses
and spent itself in about six squares.
Nobody was seriously hurt.
AT Emit, 1. T., Rev. j. 7. Evans. of
the Baptist church, was killed by fist
blow delivered by Elisha Bradburn.
They quarreled in a field over crop
contract.
THE Adirondack express the other
afternoon struck a carriage containing
Samuel Stimson and Miss Schemerhorn
at street crossing in Herkimer, n.
Y, and Stimson was instantly killed
and Miss Schemerhorn was fatally in
jured.
WHILE bathing in pool near Green
| vile, Tex, Miss Austin, Miss Ida
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