The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-17

Z luOIuOuS are SO we'll plcdScO
with their colonization work in the
locality of Casas Grandes. Mex, that
they have just concluded the purchase
of another large tract on the Santa
Maria river, 80 miles south of Casas
Grandes.
AT Augustine. Pa, tn rec children OF
Mrs. John Frederick were burned to
death at their home. Mrs Frederick
rescued an infant. which was SO badly
burned that it may die.l< The woman
herself was seriously burned.
IT is whispered in select circles in
London and Paris that serious trouble
has arisen between Count and Countess
Boni Castellane over the formers ex-
travagance. Even the vast fortune of
Jay Gould's daughter. it is said. is
proving unequal to the drain made
upon it by the financial follies of Count
Boni. The question of possible sep
arat;on is now being discussed by rel
atives and lawyers.
The nude body of a beautiful young
woman. about 30 years of age, was
found in the Ohio river 30 miles above
Paducah, XIV. The body bore marks
of violence.
SIT miles in length, will not be cleaned
from now on until June, according
to the announcement made by Comp
troller Palmer, of that city, to the city
works commissioner. The appropria-
ton for street cleaning is now ex-
hausted. Comptroller Palmer says
that the problem will have to be
solved on January 1 by the new gov
eminent of Greater New York.
PETER MIX. butcher of Aurora, Ill,
slaughtered calf which had in its
stomach, when killed. silver spoon,
table fork, small salt cellar and an
ordinary curling iron, such as school
girls use.
THE Union Pacific eastbound mail
train the other day made the run be-
tween Upton and Wamsutter stations
On the Wyoming division at the rate of
70 miles an hour; from Cheyenne to
Sidney, distance of 1O2 miles, the
cunning time was 81 minutes; from
Sidney to North Platte, ia miles, the
time was lit minutes. This was the
fastest run in the history of the road.
The national conference of the Chris
tian Principles of Civil Government at
I
against sabbath dissertation" by the
operation of railways, steamboats,,
electric cars, baseball playing, the
publication of newspapers, the use of
bicycle. horse and carriage for pleas
ure, sessions of congress and transpor-
tation of the mails.
AT Dayton, O., Michael Dyer, an in
mate of the national soldiers home,
was killed in fist fight with John ].
Laughlin, a comrade. The two had
been drinking and quarreled.
ANTHONY DEvIN shot his wife at
Philadelphia and then committed sui
eide.
THREE suicides occurred in Kansas
City, Mo-, ON the 10th. Julius G.
Kneule, porter in a saloon, shot him
self; cause given as temporary insan-
ity. Myrtle Switzer. 10 years old, took
laudanum because of quarrel with
her father about lover. Homer T.
Basket, a night clerk at hotel, drank
carbolic acid because he could not quit
drinking whisky.
The great six-day bicycle race at
Madison Square garden, New York,
came to an end on the night of the
18th, Miller, of Chicago, doing 2,O9S
miles and laps, and winning, as re-
suit of his great ride, altogether about
IS, $50 in prizes. Rice was second with
score of 2,O26 miles and Schinneer
third, with 1900 miles and laps. The
| other Ii riders had scores ranging
| downward from 1922 miles to 1929
| miles. The SO starters narrowed down
| to Is at the finish. Outside of Miller,
| the riders were wrecks, most of them
| being affected in their brains. The
| track was afterward discovered to be
| 200 feet short to the mile thus reducing
all the scores, and making Miller's ac-
tual distance 2,014
A COLLISION between freight train
and a train of empty coal cars occurred
in the Vossburg tunnel near Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the Lehigh Valley road,
and both engines and 16 cars were de-
rallied and the wreck then took fire.
THE Ohio statute. giving damages to
persons assaulted or killed by mobs
was declared unconstitutional by the
state supreme court.
KEARNEY p. SPEEDY, professional
high diver, jumped from the bridge at
Memphis, Tenn, into the Mississippi
| river. a distance of 125 feet, swan to a
waiting skiff and was rowed ashore
uninjured.
| THREE small children of the Sobotka
| family at St Louis were mysteriously
poisoned the other day. Willie, aged
nine, has died, but antidotes were Civ
en- to the other two and thew will re-