The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-08

1relndn Mike norman, OF Kansas Clly,
jumped and was instantly killed. Sew
eral others were badly injured. The
freight was nearly all total loss.
The state of Kansas won every i'm
portant point in the Kansas City stock
yards case, which was decided by
United States Judge Foster at Topeka,
Kan, on the 4th. His decision boiled
down was: The law governing stock
yards charges was regularly passed by
the Kansas legislature; the stock yards
company is only an incident of COM
merce and in the absence of action by
congress is subject to the state laws;
the charges fixed by the legislature
would give reasonable return on the
capital invested.
PRAIRIE fires devastated the country
around Winnipeg, Man. At Because
jour two women and five children were
horses, cattle and sheep were lying all
around. Many farmers lost every thing
and several small villages were practi-
cally wiped out.
| WILLIE PARo, of Troy, n. H., swal-
lowed live bee and died in great
agony soon after.
NEAR Schuyler, Neb., on the Sd a
physician was hastily summoned to the
home of Frank Divis. where he found
four of the seven children in the
family and their mother dead, fifth
child in dying condition and a sixth
child very sick. 1t was thought the
mother put strychnine in the coffee.
In freight collision on the Nickel
Plate at Willoughby, O.. Engineer
Brown was killed and seven cars load
ed with grain and stock were demol-
ished.
The steamer Rowena Lee struck i
snag near Moons Landing, Tenn, and
sank. The crew and passengers were
saved, but the boats cargo, consisting
of bales of cotton, foated down the
| river.
THE Indianapolis and Columbus play
ers decided not to play out the cup
series in the Western league and the
cup was given to the Hoosiers, as they
| had won three out of the five games
played.
A BAND of students from Taylor uni
versity at Waco, Tex, forced w. c.
Brann, editor of Brann's Iconoclast, to
go to the college campus, where he
was made to sign a paper embodying
retraction of the severe criticisms he
had printed on the morals of the insti-
| tuition. Brann signed the paper under
| iuress and was given "a hours to leave
the place. After Brann got to his Of
Zee and was surrounded by his friends,
he repudiated his act and declared he
would not leave Waco. More trouble
was feared.
THE plethora of the gold in the New
the scarcity of greenbacks is causing
banks difficulty in making payments
at the clearing house in bills.
Boston has Won the league pennant
for 1897 in the National Baseball
league.
| The failures in the United States for
the week ended the 1st were 1874, ac-
cording to Dun's report, against 299 for
the corresponding week last year.
| A RICH gold strike has been made on
Potosi mountain, in Colorado. The
vein was said to be wide and continu-
Gus and to run thousands of dollars to
the ton.
Two freight trains collided on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
near Colmar, Ill. and several cars were
badly damaged and one of the locomo-
tives rolled down an embankment. A
fire then broke out and Is cars, loaded
| with merchandise, were totally de-
| stroyed.
| The members of the National Irriga-
ton congress at Lincoln, Neb., got
through with their business on the
Both and adjourned. Cheyenne, WXo.,
was chosen for the next meeting place
Many resolutions bearing on subjects
pertinent to the meeting were passed.
J. II. Churchill, of Kansas, and Thomas
Knight, of Missouri, were among those
placed on the national executive COM
mittee.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
during September, 1897, shows the re-
ceipts to have been S21, 933, O9S and the
expenditures S25, 1868, SIS, an excess of
expenditures over receipts of IS, 435, SIT.
A sKIFF upset in the Ohio river as a
party of five negroes were returning
to Kentucky from a ball game at Tell
City, Ind, and three of them were
! drowned.
FRED d. WARNECkE. president of the
Peoples bank, of KinPfisher, Ok, was
found hanging by the neck dead on
the evening of the 3Oth. He occupied
the room in which the suicide was
committed for sleeping purposes. War
necke was wealthy and without a
family.
A TRAIN on the Boston < Maine rail
road met with an accident near Med
ford, Mass, and about 30 passengers
were more or less in jured.
AT seven p. IN. on the Goth the saw.
mill of Newman & Spencer at 1ronton.
o.. was discovered on fire and before
the fire department reached the scene
the flames had extended to the mills
and lumber yards of the Pennsylvania
Lumber Co. The loss was estimated
at from $500, 900 to $500. 600. An area
of three squares in length and two
squares back from the river was en-
tirely destroyed.
SUMMARY of the yellow fever cpl
demic made in the Office of the surgeon
general of the marine hospital service
at Washington gives total of 6s2 cases
and 80 deaths in the entire country uI
to September 80.
AT Abilene. Tex, Patrick Fl. Grady,
prominent blacksmith and iron
merchant, attempted to murder Rev.
Father Dole, formerly priest in charge
of the diocese. Grady alleged that the
reverend father had alienated the af.