The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-01

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for Japan with 1872. 600 cases of refined
recent hurricane which swept the
north Atlantic ocean.
SIX hundred Sac and Fox, Pawnee
and Usage Indians recently held a
grand ghost and medicine dance on
the Pawnee reservation in the Indian
territory. A large part of them
stripped to the skin and painted them
selves in the most gorgeous style.
| ENGINEER PATRICK MCNULTY was
doing some work under his engine at
Gladstone, Mimi, when a freight
struck and moved it and the wheels
cut off his head.
JOHN BoECKERT, prosperous Ger
man farmer near Carroll, Ia. shot his
wife and his six children on the night
of the Goth and then committed
suicide. No motive for the terrible
tragedy was known, as the family
lived happily together.
BAD blood has existed for a long
time between the Poles of two board
ing houses at Girardville. Pa, and on
the 2Tth it was brought to climax by
a bloody riot, in which at least nine
men received fatal injuries and possibly
two score others were more or less
seriously wounded. The battle was
the outcome of a quarrel over the
Hazleton troubles The men fought
like demons, using axes, knives guns
and other weapons Some of the ring
leaders were arrested.
ROBERT J. paced a mile in 2:Os14 at
Lancaster. Pa, on the 25th, lowering
the record of 2:111s made by Hal
Pointer in 1895.
NJ. MUNsEN, of Vincent, Ia, was made
so mad by being twitted at the supper
table about his love for Miss Peterson
that he arose and shot Osborn Peter
son, her brother, and then wounded
Fred Larson. A crowd then went after
Munsen, and when they found him he
blew his brains out.
PROF. WIGGINS of Ottawa, Can, has
predicted that great storm will occur
on the afternoon of the Goth with high
tides on the North American coast.
THE schooner Katie j. Ireland was
lost in a recent hurricane on the Flor
ida coast. The crew was saved by an
other vessel.
RAYMOND BUsnRoD, a negro, assault
ed 14-year-old Maggie Roberts at
Hawesville, KY. and was captured.
The officers tried to do all they could
to protect the culprit, but a mob
formed, got the negro and swung him
up in the court square at five o'clock in
the afternoon of the Goth in the pres
ence of 500 people, 200 of whom were
women. Cheers rent the air when the
dangling form of the victim went up.
AN order has been issued by Maj. A.
C. Sharpe, at the instance of the bureau
of Indian affairs in Washington, that
all those who rent lands in the Otoe
reservation in the Indian territory
must vacate them before noon on Oc-
tober 30 and get all their chattels off
the reservation under penalty of the
law, which provides $1,000 fine and inn
prisonment.
THE Pei-Po river in China recently
burst its banks through a freshet and
10000 people were rendered destitute.
ONE man was fatally burned and six
other persons were injured by the ex-
plosion of gasoline stove at Chicago
the other night
REPORT was brought to Port Town.
send, WASH, by the tug Pioneer that a
landslide struck the northern part OF
Sheep camp, Alaska. where all the pack
ers were quartered in tents and asleep
and carried it away. 1t was impossi
BILE to learn the names of the killed, as
they were known as Jack, Jim, Dick
and the like. The Skaguay trail was
literally obliterated.
JOSEPH Nj. HARDY and Henry G.
Blake, who kidnapped little John Con
way, were convicted at Albany, n. Y,
of the crime and sentenced each to Il
wears and four months in the state
prison at Dannemora.
NEAR New Boston, Tex, fire de
stroyed the home of jefferson Connor
farmer, and burned his three small
children to death during the absence
of the rest of the family.
NIGHT trains on the railroads in Tex
as have been taken off and the day
service largely curtailed on account o.
the yellow fever scare. Travel ovel
the state was said to be almost para
lyzed.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Balm
bridge, o., on the Esd. An entire
square-containing the principal bust
ness houses, several handsome resi-
dences and the Methodist church-wa.
destroyed. The fire started in a barr
and when it reached Beardsley's drug
store an explosion took place and the
proprietor and another man lost theil
lives.
AN explosion of gas occurred in /;
Williamson county. Ill. coal mine anC
one man was killed, three were fatally
injured and two severely burned anC
bruised. One miner was also impris
oned in the shaft and was thought I,
have been instantly killed.
THE sawmill boiler of E. G. DeX
near Livermore, Ky, blew up ant
three men were killed and ten injured
Cold water run into the boiler caused
the accident. The mill was total,
wrecked.
Noah JOHNSON, aged %, waylaid Mis-
Tacy Mang, aged 16. while she was o,
her way to school at Gas City, Ind.
and blew her brains out. They wer
lovers and had quarreled the previou
evening.
THE strike on all the school build
ings Of Chicago has ended, the boar'
adopting the report of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labo
) clause in all building contracts.
A THREE-DAYs' celebration of tn
completion of the new steel arcl
bridge over the Niagara gorge a
Niagara, n. V, was begun on the 81
J with burst of music from $50 musi