The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

| snal ana was SHOT dead by the latter.
Old Pemberton then inflicted flesh
wound on the marshal, but was killed
by the latter.
THE Windsor hotel, four saloons, two
clothing stores, three restaurants, one
grocery store, two livery stables and
two barber shops, composing a large
portion of the business section of Potts
dam, N. Y, were destroyed by fire.
The damage was estimated at 500, 600;
partially insured.
GREGoR KREICHBAUM and his aged
wife were burned to death by a fire in
a grocery store under their rooms at
Providence, R. !.
THREE masked men held up Mrs.
Mary Bernhardt in her saloon at 131
West Twelfth street, Chicago, and took
$3.50 from the cash drawer. There
were two customers in the place at the
time playing dominoes. The robbers
escaped.
WILLIAM WALKER attempted to board
a moving train near Pekin, ILL.,, and
fell under the wheels and was killed.
LANDSLIDE occurred at Ratsmore,
Eng, on the night of the eth and a
la borer's house was overwhelmed and
the man, his wife and seven children
were buried.
FORTY families were burned out on
the 2Sth by a fire in an apartment
house on West Fifteenth street, New
York.
A LANDSLIDE destroyed the village
of Santa Ana de Pelago, Italy, demol-
ishing 11s houses and rendering $50
families homeless.
THE large furniture house of julius
Lansburg and some adjacent struc-
lures at Washington were destroyed by
fire on the 2sth. Loss, 5000, 600.
| DONALD MCLEAN, protector of the
Pacific Short Line. stated at Sioux
City, Ia, that he had absolutely Sc
cured all the capital necessary for the
completion of a railway from Sioux
City to San Francisco. The road will
cost So, 900, 900, which is advanced by
English capitalists.
Two tramps were frozen to death at
Eastport. n. Y, on the 2Sth. At Kings
ston, N. Y, the thermometer marked
16 degrees below zero. .
The double-decked ferryboat New
Brunswick, owned by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., was burned to the waters
edge at New York on the 2sth. The
loss was about $3.50, ZOO.
A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp oc-
Cured in the mine of the Maule Coal
| Co. at Princeton, Ind, on the Goth and
six miners were killed, one was reported
missing and eight others were rescued
almost lifeless. The scenes around the
mine were most pathetic, wives, moth
ers and children stood weeping bitterly
and with blanched faces, waiting for
the bodies to be brought up.
/ A PASSENGER train on the Birming-
ham Mineral railroad went through a
bridge 81 miles from Birmingham,
Ala, and 90 people were killed, five
fatally injured and two badly wounded.
The entire wreck then took fire and
most of those killed were burned
beyond recognition. The accident was
thought to have been caused by the re-
moval of rail on the bridge. A re-
lief train sent to the scene was run
into by a construction train and one
man was crushed to death and several
| others were more or less hurt.
CHRISTIAN CHRISTENSEN has been
convicted of wife murder at Clarke, S.
D., and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
GEORGE WILTON, the marshal of
Stamping Ground, KY, was shot and
fatally wounded by Tom Drummer.
Whisky was the cause.
SECRETARY FRANCIS, of the interior
de partment, said on the Goth that he
would name allotting agents before
congress meets, which is a decided step
towards the opening of the Wichita
reservation.
| SUCCI, the Italian faster, who has
given exhibitions of his endurance in
the United States, became insane after
performance at Paris and was taken
to hospital.
THE grand stand at the Buffalo On.
" Driving park was destroyed by fire
on the Goth, en- failing loss of $4,000.
This is the fourth fire that has occurred
there at short intervals and nothing
now remains but the track.
CHARLES HERNDoN, of Williamsburg,
KY, shot and killed his wife because
she would not live with him on account
of his brutal treatment of her.
/ EBENEZER SCOTT, of Peoria, ILL.,, who
had recently filled his wife with shot,
was found dead on the gath on the
river bank. Jealousy caused the trag-
edy.
ALFRED HOLT, colored, the murderer
Of Policeman A. White, was taken from
Jail at Owensboro, Ky, by mob at
2:3O a. m. on the Goth and hanged to
tree in the courthouse yard. This
made the seventh man who had met
death at the hands of a mob in Ken
lucky within a week.
CHARLES II. GRIMM, of Clear Lake,
Ia, is the champion trap shot of Amer
lea In the match at Chicago be-
tween Grimm and DR.. Carver at 100
birds for 5000 side and the champion
ship of America Grimm won by a score
of IS to &C.
1T was automatically reported at
Washington that the department of
justice contemplated early foreclosure
action by the government against the
Union Pacific railroad, with the proba-
bility also of similar proceedings
against the Central Pacific and Kansas
Pacific systems. Such a step was con-
sidered imperative to protect the gov
ernments interest.
GEORGE E. DENMARK, seven years
old, was killed by a trolley car at Chi
cago on Christmas day and mob tried
to lynch the motorman. A riot call
was sent to the police and they locked
up the motorman and conductor
GEORGE GREEN, while intoxicated,