The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-06-04

Kansas City, Mo-, and surrounding
cities in an appropriate manner, the
graves of the dead veterans in the
different cemeteries being decorated
with flowers and the day given up to
parades by the G.. A. R. posts.
An earthquake was felt at Zanes-
vile. O., about one o'clock in the after
noon of the 31st- Employees in the
Courier building rushed downstairs.
the vibrations being so decided. Shocks
were also felt in towns in the Virginias,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia
and other places.
MEMORIAL day was generally OBJ
served at Washington. There was a
parade of the G. A. R. and imposing
ceremonies were held at the national
cemetery at Arlington. President Nc
Kinley was present
The Cheyenne Indians at the Lame
Deer agency in Montana were said to
be making threatening demonstrations
against the white settlers and the
ranchmen were anxious to avenge the
murder of a sheep herder by the In
dians. Trouble was expected.
FIVE young people were killed and "a
number of others injured at Valley
Springs, l.. l., by the tally-ho in which
they were out for an excursion being
struck by train at a crossing.
DURING service in the cathedral at
Pisa, Italy, upon the unwilling of an
image to the Virgin a candle fell, set
ting fire to the building and causing a
panic. During the rush for the doors
nine persons were killed and 81 others
seriously injured. The fire was soon
extinguished, without causing much
damage.
THE athletes of the Pennsylvania
university are the intercollegiate cham
pions for this year as they won the
Intercollegiate associations champion
ship cup at New York on the 29th.
The score by points was as follows:
Pennsylvania, "a; Yale, 241G; Harvard,
1874; Princeton, 1514; Georgetown, 4;
Boston, 5; Syracuse, !; Cornell, 1; Trim
ity, y; Wesleyan, Is.
WHILE a Grand Army post was de-
cOrating the graves in the cemetery
adjoining st. Peters Episcopal church
at Philadelphia a wall upon which
number of children were climbing to
get a view of the ceremonies fell down
and ten of the little ones were severely
injured.
WILL LEWIS and Wit Bosworth met
at Salem church at Sweet Hole, Tex,
to observe Decoration day when they
walked a short distance away from the
crowd and began emptying their re-
vOlvers at one another. By the time
their friends got to them both men
were dead. Bad blood had existed be-
tween them.
Whitehall and other places in New
York about 1915 on the night of the
27th. Dispatches from jefferson and
st. Lawrence counties stated that the
inhabitants were greatly frightened
and rushed out of their houses in their
night clothes. Windows were shaken,
sashes broken and lamps overturned.
FRED BEEsON, on the ranch of Harry
Morse, at Sunol, Cal. was on an emer-
gency made cook. In looking around
for soda to bake biscuits he picked up
baking can and used some of the white
powder it contained. The dinner was
served. Beeson soon afterward died,
another man was reported dying and
several others We're dangerously ILL
The, white powder was arsenic.
SECRETARY WILSON has sent to the
senate committee on agriculture COM
munication in which he declares his
opposition to the senate bill regulat-
ing vivisections He says the passage
of such a law would have a most in
furious effect upon the scientific in
vestigations of the department and
that this legislation is unanimously
opposed by the great scientific bodies
of the United States.
THERE was a desperate shooting af-
fray at the little town of Oakman. Ala,
on the 27th. Charles Williams, a ma
chinist, while intoxicated, became
boisterous in Appling Bros store and
was ordered out. He then drew his re-
volver- and began shooting, in which
the other side joined in. Isaac Appling
and Williams were killed and Andrew
Richards. Montgomery Appling and
William Duncan were probably fatally
wounded.
THE four-year-old baby of Mrs. Barr,
of Abbott, Tex, tumbled into a tank
of water and the mother and aunt of
the child tried to save it, but all three
were drowned.
On the 27th at Webster City, Ia. was
closed the most successful district con-
vention of Christian churches ever
held. The committee on resolutions
severely censured Gov. Drake and the
state Legislature for the part they had
taken in compromising with the saloon
element in passing the manufacturing
bill and making it law.
WHILE Frank Hall, boy of II years.
was in a wagon which was being loaded
at Dallas, Tex, the mules took fright
and ran away. The wagon struck
post and parted in two, the boy being
dragged on the front wheels and soon
after dashed against a telephone pole
and killed.
JACOB CONRAD, Joseph Bolum and
Carl Eisteben entered into a contest as
to who could drink the most whisky at
Carl Schoepler's saloon at Chicago on
the Goth. All three became uncon-
scious after time and the police were
sent for and Conrad was found to be
dead, Bolum dying and EistebeD in
critical condition. The saloonkeeper
was arrested, charged with manslaugh-
ter.
THE Atlantic express, eastbound, on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
collided with a freight train near
Grand junction, Col, on the 2sth and
the engineer and fireman We're killed
and several passengers injured.
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