The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-05-21

Cracker county, NY. The appearance
of the fever has created great excite
| ment.
In fight over the cutting off of a
horses tail at Big Valley schoolhouse,
near Goldth waite. Tex, Tom Weathers
was fatally shot; John Patton was
shot through the thigh and may die,
and Curtis WI as shot in the leg.
ABOUT $4,000 tailors, men and wom-
en-. in New York and vicinity refused
to work on the 18th on account of the
contractors failing to live up to the
agreement they had made year ago.
OWEN ZEIGLER outpointed Kid La
vigne at Philadelphia on the nth in a
six-round go.
| MARTIN WICKS and wife. who live
near Gresham, Wis. left their home to
look after some stock that had strayed
away. During their absence forest fires
destroyed their house and three small
children who had been left alone per-
I ished.
THE Missouri river has been cutting
banks badly between Bismarck and
Omaha. south of Sioux City, Ia. many
farms being entirely lost. Near Sloan
the river has been washing away a
bling into the river at the rate of four
or five day and indications We're that
the cemetery would soon be entirely
swept away.
WILLIAM JOHNSON. aged IL, fell from
a wagon as he was trying to set the
brake and broke his neck at Guthrie,
Ok, and his father. who came along in
another wagon, found him lying in the
road dead.
A STEAM launch, in which We're Is
persons seeking view of the dedica-
ton ceremonies of the Washington
monument at Philadelphia on the 18TH
became unmanageable, was swept over
the dam at Paramount and capsized.
Three women were drowned. The
others were saved.
THE agricultural department at
Washington has exhausted its supply
of beet sugar seed, about 10000 pounds
having been sent out to farmers in
four-ffths of the states.
A PASSENGER train on the Santa Fe
railroad went through trestle near
Marietta, /. T., on the 10th and Is per-
sons were badly injured, two probably
fatally.
The New York Press says that a bill
will soon be submitted to congress for
the establishment of credit company
under federal supervision, on the plan
of the Credit Foncier of France, but
with greater powers. The company, as
planned, is to have a capital of $780,
600, 200, with the privilege of doing a
business of s.. OOO, 600, 900. Many of the
leading financial men in the United
tot cd ha
THEODORE DURRANT, under death
sentence for the Emanuel Baptist
church murders, through his attorneys,
asked Gov. Rudd on the 14th to pardon
him on the ground that the real murder
err of Blanche Lamont had at last con-
fessed his crime. John Rosenberg, a
convict in San Quentin prison, has
made sworn confession that he killed
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco at
the instigation of a stranger and in
consideration of the payment of $700
for his work.
A NoRTHBoUND cattle train jumped
the track mile north of Eufaula, l.
T.. on the 18th, the engine turning bot
tom up and ten cars Of cattle being de-
rallied. Four men were injured and a
colored boy killed There were prob
ably 80 head of cattle killed and others
SO badly hurt that they had to be killed
FRED HOLMAN was hanged at Pax
ton, ILL.,, on the 18th for the murder of
Mrs. Weibke Geddes.
NINETY earthquake shocks were felt
in South Australia during the three
days preceding the 14th. The disturb
ances were particularly severe at
Kingston, where the buildings were
| damaged and some of the inha bitants
have taken to living in tents for safety.
BRADsTREET's agency reported 251
business failures throughout the United
States for the week ended the l4th,
against 265 in the corresponding week
year ago.
A THIRD negro was reported to have
been lynched near jeff. Ala, the other
night for being implicated in the
wholesale poisoning Of the Kelly fam
lily.
THREE negroes, who had been con-
fined in the Jail at Rosebud, Tex, on a
charge of attempting to assault white
girl, were taken from the officers of
the law, who were taking the negroes
to another place for safety. and hanged
to tree by mob of 200 masked men.
The returns received by the immi-
grafton bureau during the last few
months show a marked falling off in
the number of immigrant arrivals in
this country. Commissioner-Genera
Stump estimates that the decrease for
the entire country during the fiscal
wear ending June 80 next will not be
less than $4,000, of which New York
will show 10000.
ELMER CLAwsoN was hanged in the
county Jail at Somerville, N. j., on the
18th for the murder of Harry HOdgett
a farmer. The victim was shot be-
cause he refused to re-employ Claw
son, which caused a quarrel.
A REPORT reached Guthrie, Ok, from
Lincoln county that two travelling men
attempted to ford the Deep Fork river
and were carried down in the swollen
current and drowned.
AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order OF
United Workmen has eXonerated SUI
preme Master Workman Tate from
charges of malfeasance in office, pre-
ferred by his local lodge.
AT daybreak on the 12th the bodie:
of Mollie Smith and Amanda Franks
two negro girls, were found hanging
on trees on the side of the road lead
ing from jeff, Ala, to Huntsville
Tenn. They had been lynched during
| the NIGHT The girls were SUSPECTED