The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

rolRIEEN LABOR organizations, In
Guiding Debs' social democracy, sup
plemented by the populists of Kansas,
were represented at the labor confer
ence at st. Louis on the 3Oth. Many
policies were proposed, but nothing
definite had been settled upon, the
committee on resolutions not having
reported upon plan of action.
AN unknown man was shot on the
Skaguay trail in Alaska by a commit
tee of vigilantes and his bones are now
rotting beneath pile of rocks near
the pass. He had stolen sack of flour
AT the session of the Zionist congress
for re-establishing the Jews in Pales-
tine, with publicly recognized rights,
was unanimously adopted.
In a fire at Venice nine men were
burned to death.
TWELVE hundred trousers makers
struck at Philadelphia on the 3Oth for
higher pay.
FIVE Finlanders were drowned at
Gladstone, Mich, by the capsizing of
a boat.
SIX deputy sheriffs hunting around
for illicit stills in Pope county, Ark.
were shot to death recently by moon
sinners.
LUTHER BROWN. liveryman, died the
other morning at Ottumwa, Ia, from
the result of an operation. His aged
father then looked at the remains,
walked down to the river and COM
mitted suicide by drowning.
MARIE, the 14-year-old daughter of
Vol IT,
attempted to start fire with kerosene.
There was an explosion and she was
set on fire. The mother went to her
daughters aid and her dress also
caught fire. Both ran into the street
and were burned to crisp. The
house burned down and small boy in
it was cremated. The fire spread and
destroyed five other houses
In a free fight at a dance at Good
win, Neb., Henry Carpenter, a farmer,
was shot through the abdomen by
James Lindsay, a bartender, who was
drunk.
AT Readville, Mass, the Chicago
pacing stallion, Star Pointer, on the
2Sth went a full mile in the phenome
nal time of 1884, thus necessitating
the setting of a new limit to the speed
of light harness horses. The people
who witnessed the performance went
wild over it.
SEVERE earthquakes recently oc-
Cured in Japan and China, followed
by tidal wave and great floods. A
thousand houses were inundated in
japan and 200 persons were killed and
injured. Sixty-fve Chinese villages
were also inundated and many people
drowned.
AT Davenport, Ia, Mrs. Claus Beh.
rens was indicted for numbering her
husband for his insurance money.
ABOUT $50 guests at the Minnewa-
wan hotel at Winona, Ind, were taken
sick the other night and some were re-
ported to be in serions condition.
The cause was supposed to have been
some food served at supper.
City, H., collapsed from overloadin
and about so, 900 bushels of grain were
scattered. The loss was very large.
A DISPATCH from Shreveport, La, on
the 27th stated that a general strike
was threatened on the Kansas City
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad on accoun,
| OF reductions in wages.
| FIREBUGs burned a large barn and
all its contents belonging to Van AID
ANS, a well-to-do farmer living neal
Princeton, Ind. They also attempted
to burn the Adams house.
THE United States fish commission
will soon distribute a car load o.
youngsters from the Illinois fish sta
ton at Quincy to various points il
Kansas. When this has been attended
to a supply will be taken from the sta
tion at Neosho and deposited in privat.
waters in Missouri. Each station viii
be drawn upon for upwards of 1O0, 00
fishes, consisting of rainbow trout
rock bass, black bass and croppie.
JOE WoLcorr knocked out Georg
Green in the 18th round the othe
night after one of the fastest fight
ever seen in San Francisco. It wa
rather one-sided, Wolcott leading il
J every round.