The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-09-17

DER, NeO., refused TO return verdict
which the court had directed. It was
in the case of the county against ex-
County Treasurer Hollis bondsmen to
secure an alleged shortage of SIS, 900.
Judge Thomas ordered the jury to find
for the county. The jury refused, de-
claring that it was a matter of con-
science in which they could not per-
NIT the court to interfere. The court
ordered the clerk to make the record
show that the verdict was really re-
turned by the jury. The defense will
appeal and novel point will be tested
in the supreme court.
| A SENSATION was created at Denver,
Col, by the publication of a letter by
Norman c. Jones calling on the attor-
ney-general of Colorado to retract GER
tain statements or meet him on the
field of honor.
A FREIGHT train on the Iron Noun.
tain railroad was wrecked at Hanson,
l. T., on the 18th by the trucks of one
of the cars breaking and seven men
were killed and six others were badly
injured. Fifteen cars loaded with
walnut logs and baled hay were
wrecked. The men killed and injured
were all stealing ride to Van Buren,,
Ark, to get employment in the cotton
| fields.
Two negroes, named Charley Gibson
and Jim Smith. quarreled at Macon,
Ga, on the 18th over 80 cents, when
the former shot the latter and killed
him. A sheriffs posse got after the
latter and ran him down, wounding
him in the exchange of shots, and
while the sheriff was hunting for a
vehicle to convey the wounded man to
town, the negro confessed to having
assaulted a woman and the mob imme-
diately hanged the culprit.
Two maidens sisters named Sheldon
were fatally burned at Lynn, Mass,
by the overturning of a coal-oil stove.
The board of health of New Orleans
officially declared on the 18th that six
suspicious cases of sickness in that
city were yellow fever.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sent dispatch
to Michigan City, Ind, pardoning
Francis A. Coffin, who had been con-
fined in the penitentiary there for
wrecking the Indianapolis national
bank. Coffin had served one year of an
eight-year sentence.
AT least 25 persons were killed and
most of the bodies burned in collision
shortly after midnight of the 9th IL
miles west of Newcastle, Col, due to
the mistake of the conductor of an eX-
ira stock train on the Colorado Mid
land railroad in reading the wrong
column of figures. The westbound
passenger and express train of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad was
| telescoped and all of the passenger
cars except the rear Pullmans were
burned. A number of passengers who
were not killed outright, but were
pinned in the wreckage and could not
be eXtricated, persisted in the flames.
There were about 200 passengers, fully
one-fourth of whom were either killed
or injured.
A. l.. HACKENBERGER made a new
worlds bicycle record for so miles at
Denver, Col, doing it in 2:24:20.
H. L. PRESTON, formerly publisher Of
the Sunday Bee and Sunday Sun news
papers, was indicted by the Jackson
county grand jury at Kansas City, Mo.
WITHIN radius of so miles of Jack
son, Tenn, no rain has fallen for a
period of five months.
A TERRIBLE crisis was reached in the
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the 10th when a band of deputy sheriffs
fred into crowd of miners who were
marching to Latimer. The miners fell
like so many sheep and the excitement
was so intense that no accurate figures
of dead and wounded could be OBJ
tanned. Reports run from 20 to 25
killed and so wounded. The men
killed were all Hungarians.
WHILE six troops of the colored
Ninth cavalry, from Fort Robinson,
were camped at Chadron, Neb., one of
the negroes raided John Larkin's sa-
loon at one o'clock in the morning,
picked up a sack containing $500 in
silver and though pursued by crowd
he managed to escape.
TRAMPs at Pleasant Ridge, O., bru-
tally murdered John jackson, a Sec
ton boss, because he protested against
their shooting at his dog.
AT Topeka, Kan, Mrs. Mary Chris
tian and little son accidentally fell
from the Rock Island bridge into the
Kaw river and went down before they
were rescued.
OVER 500 delegates from every state
in the union assembled at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 9th to attend the annual
session of the Sons of Veterans. The
annual national convention of the
Ladies' Aid society, auxiliary to the
Sons of Veterans, also convened. Both
organizations show an increase in
membership the past year.
A REVISED list of the victims of the
terrible wreck on the Santa Fe near
Emporia, Kan, on the night of the Sth
places the number of dead at 12. The
coroner's jury will meet and try to
place the blame for the catastrophe.
The loss to the Santa Fe railroad will
exceed 100000.
IT has been definitely settled that
Henry Wall, young white man who
was lynched near Richmond, Va, for
an alleged assault upon Sadie Cook,
was innocent, and there is great indig.
nation against the leaders of the mob.
THE coinage of silver dollars and
minor coins, which was suspended at
the various minis during July and Au-
gust, will be resumed.
The annual report of the auditor for
the interior department shows that the
amount paid for pensions during the
last year was S14O, A.. 1897. The pay.
ments on pension account for the fiscal
year of 1896 were Sl3S, To-. 1877, and fol-
the fiscal year 1895, $40, 55S,641.
SIX young men were drowned in
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