The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-19


ground while coupling cars at Rock Is
land, Ill, and was killed by an engine.
RAIDERS shivered the tollgate to
pieces by dynamite near Frankfort,
KY, and aroused the citizens from
their slumbers early on the 14th by the
tremendous explosion.
Mrs. REBECcA CHRIsMAN, aged rs
years, was burned to death at Normal.
Ill, while attempting to light her
fire.
Alb BROOKS was captured near Tay-
lor, Tex, recently. He murdered his
stepfather over Is years ago and mob
shortly afterward captured a man sup
posed to be Brooks and burned him to
death Brooks admitted that it was an
innocent man that suffered and that he
is the original Brooks.
THE federal supreme court on the
18th decided the case of Joseph r. Dun
lop, editor of the Chicago Dispatch,
| charged with sending improper matter
| through the mails. The verdict of the
district court, which was against Dun
| lop, was affirmed.
A DISPATCH from Louisville. KY, on
the 18th stated that it was expected
that there would be division of the
! bicycle racing interests of America
into two separate bodies within the
| next month on account of the adverse
decision of the national assembly of
| the League of American Wheelmen on
the Sunday racing divisional opinion
of the question.
ALFRED Son was convicted at Ell
Reno, Ok, of the murder of Fred Hoff-
man, Wells-Fargo detective, and SEN
fenced to 80 years in prison.
FRANK WALLER, "the Flying Dutch
man. as he calls himself, won the re
cent siX-day bicycle race at Pittsburgh,
Pa, beating Louis Gimm, the Cleve-
land rider, by two miles. The score
was: waller, 1,216; Gimm, 1,214;
Schoch, 1,199; Hall, 1.1S1; Forster, l.
III, and Ruckett, l, 103 miles.
The international chess tournament
at New York between Great Britain
and the United States was won by
Great Britain by score of 81 to =.
FIRE broke out in the Roosevelt hos
pital at New York on the 18th and did
$40 900 damage. Two fremen were
hurt. but the rigid discipline of the
hospital prevented any excitement
among the patients.
The New York Post denied that there
was any combination between the Car
negie Steel Co. and John d. Rockefeller
in regard to iron and said that there
was no foundation whatever for the
| report.
THE waste oil from the Alexander
oil wells, which flows into a creek pass
ing through Elwood, Ind, was set on
fire by boys on the 14th and the flames
swept through the town and burned
two bridges and an elevator, causing a
heavy loss.
MALVERN, Ark, has been almost
wiped out by a fire.
THE most malignant type of measles
has been epidemic for over a month
throughout Jasper, Clark, Cumberland
and adjoining counties in Illinois and
was reported on the 18th as growing
more serious. The public schools at
Toledo and many country schools had
been closed.
| COMMISSIONER WRIGHT, of the bureau
of labor, has transmitted to congress,
| in obedience to a joint resolution di-
recting the investigation, a report rela-
| tive to the employment of men, women
and children in the United States.
THE League of American Wheelmen
in annual convention at Albany, n. Y,
on the 18th declined to admit profess
SIGNALS, no matter of what standing, to
| either full or associate membership in
the league and also declined by a heavy
| vote to allow local option for Sunday
racing.
AN incendiary fire at Plano, Tex, on
the 18th burned nearly so buildings.
including the business part of the city.
The loss was upward of 100000, with
practically no insurance. The post
office was destroyed, but the mails were
| saved.
The Pittsburgh and western selling
ufacturers will advance prices 81 per
cent. beginning March l in the central
| and western districts.
PROF. J. EDWARDS was arrested near
Waco, Tex, on the charge of having
murdered d. Lucas and John Day near
Blackburn, Ok, a year ago by shooting
them through a window at night.
A COMMITTEE of young men near
Clinton. Ok. took an evangelist named
Cogswell out of bed, rode him on a rail
several miles and gave him "a hours to
leave the country. In sermon he had
oSSioiSu oONiSeASS w ~ AtioeA
tutions of the devil, and referred to
women who danced as ''hell-cats."
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, was visited by
heavy earthquake shock. 1t was SO
severe that the bell in the courthouse
tapped five or six times
Mrs. JANE NUBY, aged 1O3 years, was
found frozen to death on the 18th in
her farm dwelling in Arlington town
ship, Mich, where she had lived alone
for 40 years.
MORTON SHEPPARD, residing near
Muncie, Ind, had his barn burned
down and 40 tons of hay, IS head of
sheep and lambs, IS head of hogs, two
mules, 700 bushels of wheat. 200 bush
els of corn and oats and all his farm
implements burned. The insurance
policies had recently expired.
A REPORT comes from Salem. Ark,
that an insane man in the asylum in
that city is believed to be George Tay-
lor, the escaped murderer of the Meeks
family of Missouri.
THE medical institute at Lancaster,
| O.. burned on the 18th. DR.. julius
Simon, of jackson, w. Va, lost his
| life.
THE postmaster-general has issued
| on ordar eSta bliShino the hOuSe-to-