The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-07-09

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2:02. He also went a half mile against
time in :5715.
BECAUSE Saloonkeeper Patrick Grace
and wife at Chicago refused to open
their money drawer, three masked men
mortally shot them the other night
and then escaped.
A STRANGER with lighted cigar
ignited the gas of mammoth oil we'll
in Madison county, Ind, on the 5th,
the flames shooting 40 feet high and
burning down the derrick and damag-
ing much adjacent property.
BY the capsizing of a boat near West
Superior, Wis, four persons were
drowned in a party of seven.
HENRY B. STONE, president of the
Chicago Telephone Co., was killed at
Nonauitt, Mass, on the 5th by the ex-
plosion of bomb
THE body of the child of the second
wife of Sandy Soper, of Cass county,
Mo-, who killed his first wife and two
children, was found near the William
cite river at Portland, Ore, where
Soper said he had hidden it.
THE st Paul Pioneer Press advo-
Gates the proposed pardon of the
for SO many years in the Minnesota
penitentiary for being concerned in
the killing of a bank cashier. The
paper had heretofore strenuously OPP
opposed the pardon of the men.
Two men and two women lost their
lives by pleasure steamer running
down their skiff at Little Rock. Ark,
and throwing them into the water.
BY a premature explosion of fire.
works at the celebration at Hedrick,
Ia, a rocket struck Mae johnson over
the heart and another tore away half
of Mary Sweitzer's head. Both expired
instantly.
SECRETARY BLISS has definitely au-
thoriZed the removal of % of the in
truders in the Cherokee nation. These
% are the heads of families who have
received the amount of reimbursement
awarded them, but refuse to move.
This step is only an initial one. The
proceedings will be repeated until all
the intruders are ousted.
CHARLES SEYMOUR and wife, of Wy
more, Neb., went to battle in the Blue
river and both were drowned.
AT Pedra Gorda, Mex, at an amateur
bull fight, the animals became so en-
ragged that they jumped over the bar
rier and charged the crowd and six
people were gored to death and several
others injured.
EIGHT persons were drowned in Lake
Michigan on the 4th while bathing at
various points along the beach at Chi
cago.
JUDGE PARLAND, in the United States
circuit court at New Orleans, sentenced
ex-President Gardes and eX-Cashier
Gerault to eight years in the peniten-
tiary for wrecking the American ma
tional bank at that place.
AT Colorado Springs. Col, on the I'd
McReynolds and Carruthers, the tan
dem pair, broke the worlds tandem
records. They did the third of a mile
in "a As; half, So 3-5; two-thirds, III
2-5. The previous records for these
distances were: Third. 81; half, 81 As;
twot thirds, .:21 As.
JUDGE CLAYTON has handed down an
opinion at South McAlester, l. T., in
the Indian citizenship cases. He says
all white persons married to Choctaws
in accordance with their laws are en-
titled to be enrolled.
A SWEEPING reduction has been
made in the wages of the employees in
the shops of the Santa Fe-Pacific rail-
road from Albuquerque, n. NJ, to Los
Angeles, Cal. The reductions were
accepted by the men.
! THE coinage executed at the minis of
the United States in the month of June
amounted to 1858. $50 pieces, of the
value of 81, 1872, 353.27. The gold coin
age was S., 1OO,547. Silver dollars to
the number of 1,475, 4O1 were struck.
The total silver coinage was S., $50, 754.
THE Louvre, dry goods, millinery
and furnishing house, which was
stocked and about to be opened at
/ New York, was destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss, over 100000.
AT midnight on the 3Oth the anti
gambling law went into effect in Mon
tana, wiping out a custom which has
existed ever since the territory was
| formed
| LAKE BRATISCH, near GalatZ, Rou-
mania. became swollen by rains and
burst it's embankment and 60 soldiers
and many women and children were
carried away by the torrent and
| drowned.
JAMES NJ. BURGIN and his wife were
found murdered in their home near
Bentonville. Ark. Robbery was pre-
sumed to have been the motive. There
was no clew to the murderers.
JONAS WILDER, an emigrant, and his
wife and two little girls were burned
to death in a cabin near Rochester,
Ky. They had stopped in the cabin
for a few days rest. They We're sup
posed to be from Ben ton. Mo.
In the freshman boat race at POUCH
lkeepsie, n. V, on the 30th Cornell won
by three-quarters of a length; Column
bia second, by one-third of a length
over Pennsylvania. The official time
Cornell. minutes 81 is seconds; Co
lumbia, 9 minutes a3 Is seconds. II
was over two-mile course.
THE fiscal court of Franklin county
KY, has purchased the Lawrence burg
and Frankfort turnpike for $4,000 and
the Shelbyville and Frankfort road foI
Sc, 500 and the tollgates have been re
moved. The sales of the roads were
forced by the turnpike raiders, who
have fired and dynamited many of the
toll houses and threatened the keepers
A PITTSBURGH, Pa. dispatch of the
1st said that through the failure of the
joint wage conference of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Stee
Workers and manufacturers to agree
upon the scale at the Youngstown con
ference all the union mills had CLOSED
down and between $1,000 and SO, 00