The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-04-30

and killed Mrs. Lula Tyres at Birming-
ham, Ala. He was wanted on some
charges and he thought some boarders
| at Mrs Tyres house had informed on
him and entered the place and tried
to shoot them, but missed and killed
Mrs. Tyres
WILHELM FISCHER, aged 75 and very
infirm, was jailed at Nebraska City,
Neb., charged with horse stealing. He
confessed the theft of a team at Lin
coin, one at Berlin and two in Kansas.
THE big Iowa elevator at Peoria, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire the other night,
entailing loss of 5000, 900. About 1oO,-
600 bushels of grain and 80 box cars
were burned.
Four young people were out skif
riding on the river at Parks Mills, near
| Cumberland Falls, KY. and got into
the current and were swept over the
dam and drowned.
AN appeal has been sent to Clara
Barton to come to the rescue of starv-
ing pacificos in Cuba, whose condition
is daily growing more heartrending.
Children are dying in the streets of
MatanZas and babies have been found
dead in the arms of exhausted mothers.
Whole villages of living skeletons in
bark huts are praying for death to re-
lease them from their suffering.
THE managers of Peter Maher and
Tom Sharkey on the Goth met repre-
sentatives of sporting club and ac-
cepted a proposition for fight be-
tween the principals for $40, 900 purse
to take place in the vicinity of New
York between May 25 and June 10 neXt.
AS result of a heavy storm and the
consequent rise of the Blue river 200
houses were flooded and LOO people
driven from their homes at Beatrice.
Neb
THE sewer pipe manufacturers re-
Gently completed a national associa-
ton at Cleveland, o., with capital of
$500, 600, A factories being included.
A FIRE at Whitney's Point, near
Binghamton, n. Y, recently destroyed
property to the value of S25O,OOO.
THE Connecticut house on the 24th
passed a bill prohibiting all Sunday
labor or sport.
AS a result of the warning of the
vigilance committee not colored man
| is left at the town of Davis, l. T.
A SEVERE earthquake was felt at
Cairo, ILL.,, at ten o'clock on the night
of the 25th, lasting about 20 seconds.
No particular damage was done.
A SERIES of cloudbursts and heavy
wind occurred in and around Eufaula,
l. T., on the night of the Gath. Farm
houses, fences and crops were washed
away and considerable damage done.
THE Cook County Qll.) Business
Mems association is getting up big
demonstration for May 20 for the pur-
pose of arousing sentiment against the
big department stores.
JOHN RAP, wholesale liquor deal
err at Chicago, was shot and killed by
his former confidential clerk, d. w.
Braunschweig, who afterward put the
revolver to his own temple and killed
himself. Raap had got warrant out
for Braunschweig for being short in
his accounts.
THE paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind,
were totally destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of $3.50
Mrs. PAGAN BoURLAND shot and
killed Maud Allen at Fort Smith, Ark,
because she had alienated the affec-
tions of Mr.. Rourland.
AT special meeting of the national
executive committee of the Western
Window Glass Co. and the Pittsburgh
Window Glass Co. at Chicago an ad
vance of five per cent. was declared on
ali window glass in all parts of the
country, to take effect May 3.
The Dawes commission reached an
agreement with the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indian commissioners at
Atoka, L. T., on the Esd for division
of their lands
THE international convention of the
Young Mems Christian association met
at Mobile, Ala, 700 delegates from all
parts of the United States and Canada
being present.
THE Immigration commissioner is in
vestigating a report that Japanese are
coming into the United States under
contract, many arriving at San Fran
cisco from Hawaii and British Column
bia to work in California orchards and
fields.
A MEMORIAL was on the 22d presented
| to the president by the executive coun-
ell Of the Federation of Labor. 1t re-
cites the lack of employment, stagnant
trade, and asks for the enactment of
remedial legislation. Amendments to
the eight-houf law. restricted immi-
grafton, reform in the national bank
rency, and liberal appropriations for
public works and the improvement of
rivers and harbors are asked for.
THREE negro boys named Baird were
cremated near Mcintosh, Ala. The
mother of the little fellows had locked
them in the shanty and went for visit
to a neighbor and the house caug hit fire.
A SPECIAL from Nashville, Tenn, on
the 21st said that five lives had been
lost in the flooded lands of Lake county.
A skiff was upset, causing the drown
ing of Joseph Cans and his entire fam
lily, wife, two sons and daughter.
FIRE broke out on the ed in the
town Of Pottersville, near Homestead,
Pa, and SO houses were burned. Pot
tersville is within the Carnegie yards
and consisted of about 400 frame dwell
ings, which were built at the time OF
the strike in 1892. The place is the
home of about 800 or 400 families, and
has a population of about 1000. No
household effects were saved by the
residents
SECRETARY WILSON proposes to make
the department of agriculture a sort of
clearing house for the publication Of
important state reports When a real
ly valuable result is achieved by an eX-
perime mt station he intends to publish