The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-07-23

| Sion OF tne nearI ana ne dropped 10
the ground dead. Wilmington was
arrested.
THE old Cheyenne and -Arapahoe
warriors in Oklahoma who have more
than one wife have been assured that
the anti-polygamy law passed by the
last legislature will not be enforced
against those Indians who were mar
ried according to the tribal custom,
but all marriages contracted hereafter
must be strictly in accordance with the
law. This conclusion was reached at
a conference held at Darlington be-
tween the attorney-general and the
chiefs and representative men of each
tribe.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 10Th said that it was believed that
the leaders of the striking coal miners
contemplated calling on the railway
organizations for assistance.
THE steamer Benton, recently taken
to Sioux City, Ia, from ST. Louis to en-
gage in the upper river traffic. collided
with the combination bridge draw and
sank in shallow water.
JUDGE PHILIPS, of the federal court,
has granted the temporary injunction
restraining the association of cattle
| spectators at the Kansas City stock
yards, known as the Traders Live
Stock exchange, from interfering with
the business of others. The order will
hold till the trial of the case on its
merits in the November term and dis
solves the exchange till that time.
A NEGRO preacher named Edmondson
who had assisted Anthony Williams,
| he hn fl1y
lynched, to escape for a time-was
caught by 400 pursuers at Florence,
Ala, beaten to death with clubs, his
body riddled with bullets and then
hanged.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at Chicago to
form a national billiard league and
establish circuit of cities represented
in the league, almost identical with
the system in vogue in baseball, so as
to create a national interest in bill
| lizards.
A DISPATCH from Antlers, l. T., said
that the Choctaw-C hickasaw union
party proposed to treat with the Dawes
commission, provided the United States
government would buy all of their
land outright. They would then form
a colony, go to Mexico, buy land and
have their own laws.
ALL unions affiliated with the Chica-
| go Federal ton of Labor will contribute
to the striking coal miners relief fund.
CHARLES STEVENS, who had been i'm
prisoned in the mammoth mine near
Phoenix, AriZ., since July 4, was res
cued on the evening of the nth. A
shaft had to be drilled through solid
| granite and men worked without ces-
sation. Stevens had been without food
and water all the time
| COMMANDER BooTH-TUCKER, of the
| Salvation army, has selected southern
! Colorado for the location of his first
colony and will secure $4,000 acres of
land on which to locate poor people
from the over-crowded sections of the
east and enable them to earn a living.
THE reports of mortgage and loan
companies doing business in Nebraska
show proportion of Indebtedness
paid during the six months ended July
l that is most extraordinary. A close
estimate of the aggregate places the
amount paid during that time at S2S,-
900, 900.
II was reported at Redfield, S. D.,
that many stockmen in the hill coun-
try in that section had been compelled
to move their cattle to new feeding
grounds on account of swarms of grass
hoppers eating up the grass on the
! ranges.
EMANUEL RICH, of the firm of Rich
Bros, millionaire dry goods men of
| Atlanta, Ga, was found dead on the
| 10th with his throat cut from ear to
ear. He had been a victim of dyspepsia
and complained that he would sooner
be dead than live in such misery.
THERE were. 247 business failures
throughout the United States reported
by Bradstreet's commercial agency for
the week ended the 10th, against 255
for the corresponding week last year.
MASKED robbers held up and robbed
the post Office at the Sac and Fox agen-
cy in the Indian territory on the 18th
and got $3.50 in stamps and a big batch
of registered letters and money orders.
MARYsvILLE, Ala, was greatly ex-
cited on the 14th and trouble between
negroes and whites was anticipated.
Sam Mckinney, white man, shot a
negro farm hand named Jack Nance.
They had disagreement and the ne
| gro moved toward the white man with
an AK elevated and ready to strike.
Mckinney drew his pistol and shot the
negro dead in his tracks. The negroes
of the neigh borhood said they would
lynch the white man.
MRS. EMMA SYMoNDs, the wife of an
engine filter at London, Eng, cut the
throats of her four children and then
| her own. Mrs. Symonds had been
drinking heavily since the jubilee.
A BIG landslide occurred in the noun
tains near Lincoln, VT, the other day.
slide half a mile wide came down a
mountain, a distance of over half a
mile, sweeping off every tree and NOV
able rock, which were piled into an
immense heap of debris in the valley
below. Several farms were practical
| ly covered, but no houses.
FIVE young men ventured out on the
| Piscataquog river near Manchester, n.
H., in an old scow, without oars, de-
pending for the guidance of the boat
upon board. The men were unable
to control the old hulk, and in a short
time it was over the dam and three of
the occupants were drowned.
| THE seventh international conven-
ton of the Baptist Young Peoples
union of America began at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, on the 18th with about 1000
delegates present, 200 being from Kan
SaS.
THE Epworth league convention be-