The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE president of Colorado college at
Colorado Springs, Col, has announced
the receipt of an anonymous gift OF
$4,000 to be used in the erection of Il
building for young women.
FRANK WILLIAMS, an 1S-year-old
newsboy, met his death by drowning
at st. Louis. He attempted to board a
moving cattle train on the trestlework
of the Eads bridge and lost his footing
and fell into the river below.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY on the Sd sent
to congress message concerning the
lynching of three Italians at Hahn
vile, La, on the night of August s,
1896. He recommended an appropri-
alton of SC, 900 for the heirs Of the per-
sons, without admitting the liability
of the United States in the premises.
AUGUST NORMAN stopped at the house
of knute HillStead. a farmer near Lar
imore, n. d., while Hillstead was alb
sent. and during the night he attempt
ed to break into Mrs. Hillsteads room
to assault her, but she barricaded the
door. and because she would not adj
NIT him he threatened to kill all her
family and did cut the threats of four
of her children, two of whom will die.
He afterwards assaulted the woman
and escaped.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. was visited 10y a big
fire on the morning of the Sd, which
started in Jenkins wholesale grocery
and reduced three large blocks to ashes.
Loss, estimated between S. 900, 900 and
S., 200, 900.
A SENSATION has been caused at Still
1x-afor Oly INV tho in6iotr,apt nf Fl +
Hand, John McLain and J. c. Fisher,
three of the wealthiest citizens of the
county, for perjury in making false re-
turns of their property for taxation.
TwENTY-sIX more anarchists, in ad'
dition to those already sentenced, We're
condemned to death on the 1st for con-
plicity in the bomb outrage at BARGE.
Iona, Spain, by which a dozen persons
were killed and so others injured.
A DISPATCH from Jamaica said that
news had been received there of series
Of earthquakes throughout the Lee
ward islands that caused the loss of
hundreds of lives and the collapse of
many buildings
Four wagons loaded with barrels of
dynamite were recently driven through
the streets of San Salvador in South
America when an explosion took place
and two blocks of buildings were de-
stroyed and many lives lost.
ATERRE HAUTE, Ind. dispatch stated
that there was no truth in the report
that the Debs cooperative common
wealth idea is to be put into practical
test by starting a marching army to
Utah this year. 1t is true that Debs
desires to establish cooperative com
monwealth in some one of the western
states and that he looks favorably on
Utah, but it is not the purpose to get
men there by Coxey sort of a move
ment
WILLIAM Schultz was found dead in
lumber yard at the foot of Sixth
| street, New York, from starvation and
| exposure. He kept the record of his
| privations in an old Bible, which was
| found on him.
AT Sunnyside, Tex, Henry Daniels,
his stepdaughter and little child were
| murdered and then burned. together
| with the hut in which they lived.
A MAN named Ray, desperate char
acter, had been arrested by the sheriff
in Mitchell county, Va, when two
friends of Ray attempted to rescue him
and the prisoner and one of his friends
| were killed and the other was fatally
! wounded by the sheriff and his deputy.