The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

HIRAM WARREN and wife were killed
and James Warren badly injured by
being struck by Union Pacific train
near Kersey, Col. They were crossing
the track in a wagon.
THE expected decision of the United
States supreme court in what is known
as the Nebraska maximum freight case
was not rendered on the oath, and, as
the court adjourned for the term, de-
cision cannot be announced before
next autumn.
THE man Crawford. who killed Dick
Whitsell near Pleasanton, Tex, few
weeks ago. committed suicide in jail
here by swallowing broken glass and
phosphorus.
ONE thousand miners at the Milford,
Fraser & Lehigh coal camps near
Boone, Ia, struck on the Gath because
of an attempt to give them IS cents a
ton for mine run coal instead of so
cents for screened coal, as has been the
rule.
The federal grand jury at Des
Moines, Ia, has returned indictments
against the trustees and commandant
of the soldiers home at Marshalltown
for making the inmates turn over their
pension money in excess of So month
to the institution.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, has returned to
New York, having been sent to India
to describe the scenes of the famine
and the bubonic plague. He says mill
lions have died from starvation and
the government figures represent one
sixth of the actual deaths from the
plague.
Two persons were killed and three
seriously injured in a fire in a building
at 149 West TwentyThird street, New
York, occupied for both business and
dwelling purposes, panic Selling the
inmates.
THE vatican has sent a decision to
the Catholic church in America in
which it says that Catholics of foreign
birth are not obliged to join parishes
in which their native tongue is spoken,
but may join parishes in which Eng
lish is used.
A WORKMAN named Michael Kennedy
was buried under as feet of sand and
clay in a cut being dug for railway
at Newcastle, Pa. He was taken out
dead. Another man was terribly
crushed about the shoulders and hips.
A DISPATCH from Danville, KY, on
the 10Th said that 1,5OO coal miners in
the Cincinnati Southern railroad dis
trict were on a strike against pro-
posed reduction of Is cents ton for
digging, which operators claim was
necessary to meet competition. The
strike will result in long shutdown.
A CLoUDBURST at some point near
Asotin, Wash, sent a wall of water
down the valley. Stock was drowned
houses wrecked, bridges washed out
and orchards ruined. So far as re-
| ported no lives were lost.
By the bursting of still in McGar-
rity's distillery at Hazelton, Pa. y the
| proprietor and laborer were scalde6
to death and Mrs. Mccarthy was bad
| ly burned in trying to save her hus
| band.
The Southern hotel at Meridian
Miss, was damaged Sl5O.OOO by fire OF
the Goth. The hotel was we'll filled
with guests and panic ensued, bu
SO far as known no lives were lost
The fire was miserably managed b,
the volunteer firemen.
The veriscope exhibition of the Cor
bett-Fitzsimmons fight attracted al
immense audience to the Academy o
Music at New York on the 2ad. On tn
whole the pictures must be, counte,
a success, the sixth and the 14tl
rounds being exceptionally clear. Tn
enthusiasm among the audience was a
intense as though the actual fight wa
| in progress