The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

CHARLES JOHNSON and Frank kauf-
man, bakers, were suffocated in their
beds, and Clara Erhart. aged II, was
found dead at the rear stairs in a fire
at Erhart's bakery at Hot Springs, Ark.
A FIRE at Louisville, KY, on the Sth
destroyed the wholesale stores of Bar
ford & Lawson, milliners, and Benja-
min s. Allen, boots and shoes. The
losses aggregated S15O,OOO.
THERE was $22, 900 deficit on the
recent horse show in Chicago.
THE notorious desperate Charles
Clifton, alias dynamite Dick" was
shot to death by a posse of deputy
marshals near Checotah, l. T., while
resisting arrest.
A TERRIBLE famine is raging in the
province of Archangel, Russia. The
| people are said to wander about re-
duced almost to skeletons.
A NEGRO named Burrell Shears, liv-
ing about IL miles from Lufkin, Tex,
| shot his wife three times, fatally
wouuding her. He then blew his own
brains out, dying Immediately. No
cause for the crime could be assigned.
IN a football game at Pittsburgh,
Pa, Robert Grange suffered a cerebral
conclusion, from which he was reported
as lying in a precarious condition, and
Bert Richie received possibly fatal
injuries.
| EDDIE MACKIN, the champion waltz
er of the Bowery, while dancing with
a fat woman at Webster hall, New
York. slipped and fell and the fat
woman crashed upon his chest. Mackin
was carried away internally injured
and died the next day.
SEVERAL rich finds of lead and zinc
ore on the Quapaw reservation, in the
Indian territory. caused quite rush
to that locality recently.
q. AN Atlantic & Pacific passenger train
was held up near Grants station. o.
miles west of Albuquerque, N. NJ, the
other evening. The robbers dynami-
ted the express safe and set the train
on fire, the express, baggage and smok
ing cars being totally destroyed.
By an explosion at the Illinois stee,
works at Milwaukee five men were in.
jured, two fatally.
LUIS SILICEO, the Mexican govern
ment colonization agent, is making
the final arrangements for taking IL;
to 100 families. comprising 500 person:
or Whereabouts, from Luling, Corpu:
Christi, Prairie Lea. Taylor, Gonzale:
and elsewhere in Texas and settling
them in the state of Tamaulipas. Mex
On an average each family will receive
100 acres of land.
JESUS MEJIA, Mexican, applied fol
a burial permit for his child at Tucson
Ariz- His actions aroused suspicion
and the child was found to be alive
although in the throes of death from
son of Mejia expired under peculiar
circumstances. He has been arrested
on a charge of child murder.
NEAR Lawson, Neb., Willis Dunn.
aged 81, and two younger brother.
found what they supposed was bottl,
of whisky in a wheat bin. Each dranl
of the contents and all will die. Thu
stuff proved to be horse medicine.
THE commissioner of pensions made
public his annual report on the 5th
The whole number of pensioners or
the rolls June so, 1897, was go, Ola. &
gain over the previous year of $3.50
The number of western pensioners i.
as follows: Missouri. IS, e57; Kansas
.s4S; Indian territory, 1855; Okla
homa, 6.l7s- The aggregate annual
value of all pensions at the close OF
the fiscal year was $l29, 795, 42S, exclud
ing the cases held up.
THE large hay sheds of the Ardmore
| q. IT, Oil & Milling company, contain
ing about 40 cars of baled hay ant
some machinery, were destroyed b,
fire.