The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-05-14
A LETTER from Stuart to a business

pictures of the Carson City fight be
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons taken
by the verascope are perfect. They
will be ready for exhibition in New
York city by June 10 or Is.
THREE children, Eduardo, Gabriel
and Manuel Padilla, were recently
burned to death at Fairbank, Ariz
The parents had gone to q dance near
by, locking the door on the sleeping
children. It is believed a lighted lamp
exploded.
THE United States supreme court has
denied the petition for a rehearing in
the Transmissouri Freight association
| case.
Mrs. JOSEPH GREEN, an aged woman
in Haukegan, Ill, fell asleep in a chair
while smoking her pipe and a spark set
| her clothing on fire and she was burned
to death.
LITTLE Guy Stephens, the two-year-
old son of w. 81. Stephens, a farmer re-
siding near Farmingdale, Ill, fell into
a cornstalk fire on the farm and was
burned to death.
OSCAR WILLIAMS, a negro Baptist
preacher living near Eliza, Ala, took
his young son, Isaac, into the woods.
into the thicket and they found the
boy strapped to log and his father
standing over him with a bloody. knife.
| The boy died soon after, the old man
having cut the child's throat Will
liams said the Lord had commanded
the sacrifice.
FREEMAN C. GARDNER, carpenter,
shot Ida Miller at hotel in Chicago,
and then shot himself. Both will die.
Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued by
the commissioner of the general land
office to registers and receivers of the
various United States land offices that
homestead settlers on all ceded Indian
reservations are granted an extension
| of one year in which to make the pay
ments provided by law.
NUMBER of girls at Wellesley (Mass)
college have been expelled by the au-
| thorities for alcoholic and narcotic in
dulgences. The names were kept quiet.
The cabin of Lauren Tucker at
Laurens, S. c., was burned and four
| children were cremated. The father
and mother had gone fishing.
In a thunderstorm at San Antonio,
Tex, Robert Dannenberger and wife
were killed while working in field
and Wesley Dairs, a negro, was struck
dead under a tree.
BoTH houses of the Iowa legislature
defeated the anti-Sunday baseball bill
on the nth and the Western association
is safe for another year.
THE south and west grain and trade
congress got through with its business
on the 9th at Kansas City, Mo-, and
adjourned to meet in Tampa, Fla, in
1898. The resolutions demanded equi-
table rates of transportation between
carrier and shipper, the improvement
of the Mississippi river and other water
courses, Endorsed the Nicaragua canal,
| favored the Torrey bankruptcy BILL the
promotion of the consumption of our
food products abroad and aid rendered
to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad.
HARRY STOUT and Ernest King, two
featherweight pugilists, met under a
secret arrangement of seven members
of the Delaware legislature and fought
ten rounds to a draw in front of the
speakers desk in the house of repre-
sentatives. Both wore regulation ring
| costumes.
THE trial in the case of George Har-
ris against the Modern Woodmen of
America for $4,000 damages for an al
legged injury while being initiated into
the order ended abruptly in the United
States court at Dubuque, Ia, by Judge
Woolson ordering the jury to return a
verdict for the defendant.
AN order prohibiting pension claim
ant, whose claim has been adjudicated
either favorably or unfavora bly,, from
filing papers for it's reconsideration if
disallowed or for an increase if pen
sion has been issued until one year
from the date of the previous consid-
Grafton of the case. is contemplated
by the commissioner of pensions and
may be issued soon.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and Is cars ditched.
Most of them were broken into kind
ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
The whisky escaped and filled the gull
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
OFFICIAL notice was taken by the
lower house of the Illinois legislature
of the restitution alleged to exist
among the coal miners of the state.
Resolutions were adopted reciting the
proposed reduction of wages and
threatened strike and the calling upon
the state board of arbitration to inves-
tigate the cause of the troubles.
The first case of prostration from
the heat this season occurred at Chi
cago on the 9th. Charles Wilson, a
milk wagon driver, fell into the street
unconscious. The weather bureau
/ thermometer registered 80 degrees dur
ing the day. On the streets it was
three to five degrees warmer.
THE Seminole council at Wewoka, l.
T., passed two important bills. One
was townsite law incorporating the
town of Wewoka, and another a reso-
luton appointing a commission to
treat with the Dawes commission.
all got intoxicated.
The interior of the large storage
warehouse of the Merchants Refriger-
ator Co. at New York was almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the 9th.
The loss will probably amount to more
than $500, 900. Thirty or more fremen
who entered the basement where the
1 fire started were overcome by smoke
and one died in an ambulance on the
way to hospital.
WORD has been received at Guthrie.
Il L.