The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-09-03

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former were playing baseball ON some
vacant ground and the latter tried t.
get possession of it, missiles being
thrown and revolvers fred off. Rev
Father Joseph Shields, of st. Mat
thew's church, stepped in between the
combatants and drove the blacks bach
at the point of a revolver, just as the
police appeared in response to rio,
call. Several persons were hurt.
PIPE CHIEF, Pawnee Indian, aged
60, has brought suit at Pawnee, Ok.
for divorce from his wife, Wallasha
aged 90, charging her with neglectine
his wigwam to run around with GER
tain young braves of the tribe.
| A CATTLE train on the Clover Leaf
road took fire from a hot box at Rus.
siaville, Ind, and before the flames
could be extinguished several cars
were burned and number of Texas
steers en- route from Kansas City to
Buffalo persisted in the flames. The
remainder were turned loose in the
streets of the village, creating panic
among the inhabitants.
ELLIOTT, the Kansas City crack shot,
won the Dupont trophy at Eau Claire,
Wis, on the 2Sth, beating Charles
Budd. The score was 80 to "a. The
shooting of Elliott was nearly record
breaker. as he killed 80 birds out of 100
and his lost bird. the seventh, fell dead
out of bounds, making 90 straight after
losing his seventh.
DAVID r. RIDER was stung to death
while hiving bees at Whitfield, N. Y,
the other day.
A SEVERE windstorm struck Laurel
wood park, about "a miles west of Chi
cago, the other afternoon while the
grounds were filed with picnickers
attending a celebration of the Catholic
Total Abstinence union and Mrs. Kate
Brown was killed outright and nine
other persons were injured, all Chicago
people.
THREE hundred Kiowa Indians as
sembled at their dancing grounds in the
Indian territory several days ago and
began the medicine dance. This prov
ing too tame they began the ghost
dance and got wildly excited. Capt.
Baldwin, the Indian agent, called upon
them to desist and they laughed at
him. Finally with the aid of Indian
police he arrested the whole crowd
and they will be tried at the Indian
court at Anadarko.
THE midnight special from Chicago
to st. Louis on the c. & A. was derailed
near Alton, ILL.,, by spreading rails and
the tender, three baggage cars and
postal car rolled on top of the engine,
under which Peter Rafferty,, the engi-
neer, was pinned. He was taken out
fo 70 in ,,rol Sororo1 ofhorS 1uaro
more or less severely hurt.
WHITE river above and below Mount
Adams, Ark, for miles was lined
with pearl hunters on the 27th and
wagon loads of campers were reported
as arriving there hourly.
The official call for the sixth Ma
tional Irrigation congress has been
issued to be held in Lincoln, Neb,
September $3.50.
THE strike of the progressive tailors
at New York has been declared off, the
increase of % per cent. in wages de-
handed having been conceded by the
employers.
In connection with the coming
French exposition Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson hopes to develop plan
use in the cavalry of European armies
will be encouraged in America, the de-
mand for horses for army use being
very great in Europe.
H. c. BUNKER, who boarded at Ar
thur Storey's at Chicago, took Storey's
wife to the theater the other night.
When they came home there was a
violent quarrel and bunker fired two
shots, fatally wounding both Storey
and his wife.
The young negro named Bonner, who
was arrested for criminal assault upon
an aged white woman, near Wilhelm,
Tex, was taken from Jail by mob of
200 men early the other morning and
lynched in the woods. The negro con-
fessed the crime.
THE experiments conducted at Fort
Worth, Tex, under the direction of
DR.. Victor A. Norgaard, chief of the di-
vision of animal pathology in the ma
tional bureau of animal industry, with
a view of Kidding Texas cattle of the
fever-producing ticks, have eliminated
in success. DR.. Norgaard will in a
few days make official announcement
of the experiments.
THE body of Thompson Rhodes was
found within the doors of Mason Bros. >
planning mill at Marietta, Ind, where
he had been killed by load of slugs
from a spring gun, fixed by the pro-
prietor to prevent burglars.
JOSEPH FIFE, a negro youth, convict
ed of attempted assault on Mrs. Marks,
a widow, and who subsequently, con.
fessed to two other like crimes, was
hanged in the yard of the Jail at Rich
mond, Va, on the Goth.
HARRY FLETCHER and his grandson,
while driving across the railroad track
at Seatonville, Ill, were struck by
a passenger train and both instantly
killed.
AT the convention of the Foresters
of America at Denver, Col, on the 25th
Joshua A. Shaw, of New York, was
elected supreme chief ranger; E. NJ.
McMurtry, of Lowell, Mass. supreme
financial secretary, and A. Hogan, of
Lowell, Mass, supreme recording sec
rotary.
HARRY C. STONE, the veteran man
ager of the Patterson opera house at
New York, became i'll and was forced
to go to his home on the banks of the
Passaic river, and by his opportune
arrival he saved his three daughters
from drowning. The girls had gone
out for a row on the river and the boat
had upset.
JOHN E. JACOBSON. aged %, was
| found murdered on his beat at Kansas