The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS,

LILLE ANDERSON, the D1cyclSC. broke
the half mile woman's record, flying
start, at Youngstown. o., on the Goth,
riding the distance in SO 3-5 seconds.
She was paced by a tandem and the
course was straight away.
AN extra freight train was running
at high speed on the Iowa Central near
Steamboat Rock, Ia, when the front
trucks of the engine gave way, send
ing the entire train of 25 cars into
ditch, wrecking some of them badly.
The engineer was thought to be fatal
ly injured.
IsADoRE WEBER shot his four-year-
Did daughter and then killed himself
at New York on the Goth. Weber was
hard drinker and used his wife badly
and she had been obliged to turn him
out of doors.
AT Alexandria, Va, the negroes at
tackled the whites and police and one
policeman was killed. The fire de-
partment trucks were used to trans
port troops and citizens from one point
to another as the negroes had formed
bands throughout the town. The race
way was caused by the lynching of a
negro.
AT Williamson, IA miles east of Lam
sing, Mich, Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged
81 years. murdered her aged mother
in-law with an AK. She severed the head
from the body and then poured oil on
the lifeless body and set it on fire.
AT the Methodist church at Craw
louisville, Ind, the minister, who was
about to marry Henry Humphreys and
Anna Jones, asked. as was customary,
if there was any objection to the mar
rage, when Miss Hattie Chavis leaped
up with an infant in her arms and de-
clared the groom to be the child's
father, but the clergyman ignored her
and rushed the ceremony through.
Later on Miss Chavis was led off by
the police as she tried to enter the re-
ception armed with a dagger.
FIVE thousand people saw Jimmy
Barry and Jimmy Anthony, bantam
weights, fight 90 rounds before the Ma
tional Athletic club at San Francisco
ON the Esd. The fight was for $1,000
purse, 75 per cent to the winner, at
lis pounds. Barry had the best of it
all through and after the Goth round
he was declared the bantam champion
| of the world.
/ hEshE was Ou uAS Win thC WIN
service commission in Washington on
the esd over 1a, 900 applications for ex-
animation, all of which applicants
will have their fitness to hold Office
tested during the coming spring. The
number of applicants is far in excess
of the needs of the service and will
place upon the eligible lists thousands
Of men and women who will have their
hopes raised only to be disappointed.
ACCORDING to Bradstreets report
there We're 216 business failures
throughout the United States for the
week ended the esd, against 240 in the
corresponding week last year.
THE man who was hypnotized and
buried in the ground for three days at
Simcoe, Ont, was disinterred when the
time had elapsed and great crowds fol
lowed the box to the opera house. 1,
required five men to control the sub
ject in his struggles while he was be
ing brought back to consciousness and
the box was smashed to pieces
No official action will probably fol
low the lynching of Joseph Mccoy, the
negro who assaulted little girl a
Alexandria, Va, as the citizens who
were arrested during the assault OF
the Jail have been released, public
opinion not countenancing their prose
cution-