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

uREv. SCOTT HYATT and wife, Royal
Mcqueen and Miss Mae Tibbitts were
drowned while bathing in the Cedar
river at Waverly, Ia
THREE masked men stood ten men up
in line in a beer garden at Omaha,
Neb., the other night and secured from
them about $500. While the work was
going on a policeman stood ten feet
away from the gang, but did not sus-
pect anything wrong.
A TERRIBLE tornado struck Port Ar
thur on the evening of the 18th blow
ing down many buildings and doing
much damage. Six people were known
to have been killed and many others
were injured. Advices from Winnie,
Tex, also stated that nearly all the
houses in that place had been blown
away. 1t was also known that much
destruction had been wrought at Sa-
bine Pass, with probable loss of life.
DIR. GUITERAs reported case of yell
low fever at Mobile, Ala, on the 18th
and apprehended serious outbreak
in that city. At Jackson, Miss, ex-
element was at fever heat over the
yellow fever scare and many people
were fleeing to the surrounding coun-
try.
THE paymaster-general, in his an
nual report to the secretary of war,
will present strong arguments against
the present system of payment of
troops by checks.
JAMES HOOPER swan from Troy to
the Battery in New York, distance
of 165 miles, in II days, 4 hours, As min
utes. He only swan when the tide
was favorable. He weighed 165 pounds
when he entered the water at Troy and
1875 pounds when he left it at the Bat
terry and was much exhausted.
REV. c. B. WILSON, while leading in
prayer at the NJ. E. church in Guthrie,
Ok, on the 18th, dropped dead of heart
disease.
killed while looking on at a great blast
at the Panuelas quarry on the Vera
Cruz railway in Mexico.
The last spike in the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad was driven
at $3.50 p. m. on the 18th and Kansas
City was connected with Port Arthur
Tex, by direct line.
AFTER a convention at Columbus, O.
which lasted four days, the representa-
tives of the miners of Ohio, Peunsyl
vania, Illinois, Indiana and West Vir
ginia adopted by a vote of 495 for tc
317 against the operators proposition
for settling the strike on the basis OF
a 65-cent scale in the Pittsburgh field
The British steamer Cheang Hyt
Tong foundered during q typhoor
! while on a voyage from Penang t.
Shanghai and 2: of the crew were lost
A RECENT examination of the 40 ter
ritorial banks in Oklahoma show
them to be in splendid condition.
FAILURES for the week ended tn,
10th were 215 in the United States
against 315 last year; and IS in Canada
against A last year.
i THIRTEEN fatalities have occurred i,
the Joplin (Mo.) mining district tn
past summer.
In the United States court at Mus
kogee, /. T., Cyrus A. Brown, who wa
convicted of first degree murder 70
killing Daniel Cutbert, was grante'
new trial
AT Anderson, Ind, on the 9Th tn
Anti-Spiritualist Association of tn
United States was formed, with j. E
Becker, of Dayton, O., as president
Organizations will be formed in ever
state and an anti-spiritualistic pape
will be started.
AT Charlottesville, Ind, Dandy jim
owned by ]. NJ. Battle, of St Loui
trotted mile in $40 over = half mil
track, breaking the worlds record Z
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