The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-24

/ control OF the motorman and dashed
into horse car. The stove was upset
and the wreckage caught fire and
burned. Many passengers were seri-
ously injured.
A FREIGHT train of 81 cars, travelling
down the mountain near Altoona. Pa,
| became unmanageable. owing to the
| slippery tracks, and crashed into a
freight train standing at the station.
About so cars were completely broken
up and passenger train was also
| thrown over on its side. Several train
men were seriously hurt.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. is trying to get the
g. A. K. encampment to meet in that
city in 1900 and to take part in the
| dedication of a grand soldiers monu-
ment to cost in the neighborhood of
S5O0,OO
ROBBERS dynamted the safe in the
post Office at Canal Dover, O., the other
night and secured the contents.
MOTHER HUMPHREY" the aged wife
of White Bear, once chief of the Win
nebago Indians, was recently found
frozen to death in a hut made of gunny
sacks and rags on the Missouri river at
Sioux City. Ia.
WHILE plotting heavy freight train
up the Merchants bridge incline at st.
Louis, an engine jumped the track and
plunged to the 6 round below. Fire
man Pensinger was instantly killed;
Engineer Mccullough was dashed head
first through the cab window and bad
ly injured, and w. II. Cobb, yard
agent, had several ribs broken.
AN open switch on the Chicago &
Alton road was the cause of a collision
between the ST. Louis limited passen-
ger and a freight train on the side
track at Pontiac, Ill. Several persons
were seriously injured. The two en-
gines and two freight cars were total
wrecks.
GRADY REYNOLDS and Bud Brooks
were executed at jefferson, Ga, on
the 18th for murder.
kid" Mccoy, of Indiana, fought
Dan Creedon, of New Zealand, at New
York on the nth for the middleweight
championship of the world. After Is
lively rounds the latter threw up the
sponge and acknowledged the Hoosier's
superiority.
A DISPATCH from Ames, Neb., stated
that the American Sugar Growers as
ISOLATION had prepared petition to
congress against hasty action on
Hawaiian annexation. It represented
that the adoption of the islands would
ruin the growing beet sugar industry.
A STRONG earthquake shock, lasting
~ seconds was felt the other morning
at Curta di CASTILLO, Italy. The walls
of houses split, chimneys fell and a
panic ensued.
THE aggregate value of Iowa crops
for 1897, at prices prevailing December
l. was given at $500, 100000.
The American Federation of Labor
on the 18th reelected the following
officers: President, Samuel Gompers;
first vice president, P. J. Mcclure; Sec
rotary, Frank Morrison; treasurer,
George B. Lennon. Kansas City, Mo-,
was chosen as the next meeting place.
WILLIAM CARR was hanged by the
sheriff at Liberty, Mo-, on the nth for
the murder of his three-year-old
daughter.
WHILE herd of sheep, numbering
10000 head. belonging to M. o. Muir
county, Tex, to a new range, dense
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bewildered and the entire herd drifted
away and were not found, although
searching parties were out several days.
Carl. SCHURZ was reelected presi-
dent of the National Civil Service Re-
form league at the meeting at Cincin
natl on the nth. A resolution was
passed scoring the attempts of con-
gressmen to repeal the civil service
laws.
AS Jailer Gibson was making his
rounds at Pine Bluff, Ark, with a
trusty, eight negro prisoners, includ
ing the trusty, seized the jailer and
after a fierce struggle all escaped out
of the Jail.
A wEsTBoUND Missouri Pacific freight
train was wrecked one mile east of
Van Buren,, Ark, the other night, ID
cars being piled in heap. The dis
aster delayed traffic owing to a bridge
having been destroyed.
A BRIDGE on the Monon railroad near
Lafayette, Ind, went down and is cars
loaded with stone and coal were pre-
cipitated into a creek.
Two children named Maggie and
Henry Carroll, aged respectively four
and six years, were burned to death at
Newark, n. J. Their mother had
locked them in the house while she
went out washing.
The A. +. of L. convention at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the 18th adopted reso-
buttons for the government ownership
of telegraph lines, against anti-scalp-
ing legislation, for the appointment
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