The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-03-05

bishops. such as public instruction, ma
tlonalism and secret societies.
A RIOT was caused at Knoxville,
Tenn, on the LIST by a conflict of au-
thority between the United States and
city officials about the control of a
street car franchise. A negro was
fatally shot, the chief of the fire de-
partment sustained a fractured skull
and several policemen and special of
ficers were arrested.
THE American plate-glass factory at
Alexandria, Ind, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 1st. The loss will reach
$500, ZOO.
AT Rimouski, Que, the house of
Evariste ST. Pierre caught fire and his
three children, aged two, three and
| five, were burned to death. st. Pierre
| and his wife had gone out to visit
neighbors, locking the house and leav>
| ing the children in bed. The cause of
the fire was unknown.
A RESOLUTION to congress passed both
houses of the Oklahoma legislature on
the ist protesting against the detach-
ing of part of eastern Oklahoma and
! adding it to the Indian territory.
A DISPATCH from Switzerland on the
LIST said that the left wing of the great
| monastery of st. Bernard had been de-
molished by an avalanche. The monks
took refuge in the part of the building
which remained intact and dug a tun-
mel under the snow and crawled out.
DIR. RANIEz, a leading Cuban physi-
clan, who landed at Key West, Fla. on
the 27th from Cuba, stated that there
were 5000 cases of yellow fever in Ha-
vana and $50 deaths daily.
The Aurora chair factory and the
Wymond cooper shop at Aurora, Ind,
were destroyed by fire on the 2Sth.
The loss on the former was $50, 900 and
on the latter $4,000. The two fires
threw 500 operatives out of employ
ment.
ERNEST HERM, who was infatuated
with a school-teacher at Nebraska City,
Neb., asked J. d. Chapman for an eX-
PLANTATION of some remarks the latter
had made and in the quarrel which fol-
lowed Herm was fatally shot.
THE North Dakota house of repre-
sentatives passed bill on the 27th ex-
tending the period of residence in that
state from three months to one year
before action for divorce can be begun.
FIVE floors of the Shinkle, Wilson.
Kreis & Co.'S wholesale grocery store
at Cincinnati crashed into the cellar
under load of 1000 barrels of sugar.
The Waterman was crushed to death
and two other men were injured.
In the six-day bicycle race which
ended at Chicago on the 27th the scores
were: Schinneer, 1,7SS miles laps;
Miller, 1,764 miles 1 lap; Ashinger, l.
727 miles; Lawson, 1.7O7 miles lap;
Hansen, 1,6O3 miles laps.
AN incendiary fire at Palmer, Tex,
destroyed IA frame business houses, oc-
cupied by % firms. The business dis
trict was practically wiped out.
A PROMINENT business block in Fort
Wayne, Ind, was burned on the 2Sth,
entailing a loss of S125, 900. Three fire.
men were caught under falling walls
and dangerously hurt.
A BROOKLYN syndicate on the 27th
bought for $4,000 the property for
merly occupied by Rev. L. Dewitt Tai
mage as a tabernacle.
BENNIE BAYER, aged II, was racing
on his wheel with another boy on a
street in Indianapolis, Ind. and had
his head down, when he ran into
wagon and was killed almost instantly.
AT Como, ILL.,, Ferdinand Stutzke.
farmer, while drunk, slashed Mr.. and
Mrs. S. j. Wilkins with a knife. Mr..
Wilkins cannot live, but his wife may
recover.
THE plant of the B. P. Clapp Ammo
MIA Co. at Cincinnati was destroyed by
fire on the 25th. The place was sur
rounded by the flood from the river
and the firemen had to ride out in
skiffs to get the hose near enough to
play on the flames. The fire was caused
by the high water coming in contact
with lot of unslaked lime, which set
fire to some chemicals.
A YOUNG negro named Charlie Brown
attempted to assault farmers daugh-
ter at SOddi, Tenn, and when a posse
attempted to arrest him he fatally
shot deputy. The mob then strung
up the negro and riddled his body with
bullets.
HENRY NJ. KLEIN, who embezzled
3d. 900 of the funds of the Farmers ma
tional bank of Lebanon, while he
was its paying teller, was sentenced
on the Goth in the United States dis
trict court at Philadelphia to pay
fine of 500 and undergo an imprison-
ment of five years at hard labor in the
eastern penitentiary.
THE Nebraska house has passed a
bill providing for the issue of non-in-
terest bearing state warrants. which
are to be receivable in payment of
taxes and debts due the state. 1t is
known as the state scrip or fiat money
bill, and is patterned after Il similar
law existing in Mississippi.
A NORTHBoUND train on the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois road and the Column
bia Heights race train on the same
road collided with Calumet electric
car at n street crossing at Chicago on
the 25th. The motorman and two pas
sengers were instantly killed. two
other passengers probably fatally in
jured and the car smashed into kind
ling wood.
The capitol at Wheeling. W. Va. on
the 18th was entirely surrounded by
water and accessible only by boat.
The legislature was in session three
hours with the temperature at 40 de-
grees, the members keeping their hats
on and overcoats buttoned.
THE Park Gate hotel at Chicago was
damaged by fire at seven o'clock on the
morning of the cath to the extent of
$4,000. The blaze started in the boiler
room and ran up the elevator shaft.
MANY of the pueStS who yyere in he'd