The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-17

RALPH NJ. EAsLEY, acting as secre-
tary for large number of reform and
quasi-political organizations. has is
sued a call for a national meeting in
New York, January Is, to push the en-
actment of laws to reform the pres
emit method of primary caucuses-
Two yard engines collided at Spring
field, Ill, during a heavy fog and
Switchman Castle was killed
A HEAVY fog at New York on the 9th
road collisions in which five persons
were hurt, but none seriously. Two
collisions of ferry boats also occurred,
but no one was injured, though there
were small panics on each of the boats.
E. Fl. WINsLow, president of the
Metropolitan Plate Glass company at
New York, confirmed a report to the
effect that rates for plate glass insur-
ance will probably soon be cut in every
state. He said the compact for bust
ness in Wisconsin, Illinois. Minnesota,
Missouri. Kansas and the Dakotas had
already been declared off.
TWENTY men were buried under de-
bris by the collapse of a cast house at
Milwaukee early the other morning.
Only two were seriously hurt, the 9TH
ers escaping with slight injuries. An
explosion of a furnace adjoining had
occurred the previous evening. which
had probably weakened the founda-
ton of the cast house. The roof being
of sheet iron did not fall fat on the
ground, else all the men would have
been killed.
THE Dupont trophy was won at Chi
cago, by J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas
City, Mo-. who defeated Fred Gilbert,
of Spirit Lake. Ia. Elliott killed his
25 birds straight and Gilbert missed
his sixth and tenth birds.
Mrs. NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, the
mother of President Mckinley, died at
Canton, O., at 2:2O on the morning of
the 18th. She was born in 1909 and
was stricken with paralysis IL days be-
fore her death and most of the time
had been unconscious. The president
and all the other members of the
family were present when her life
ended.
A. III. BARNES, a gray-haired old SOL
der, arrived in Washington the other
day, having walked from Leavenworth,
Kan. in $50 days, losing Is days from
rain and other causes. He made the
trip to prove the staying qualities of
an old soldier and to settle a wager.
The surveyor of the port at Council
Bluffs, Ia, was reported missing and
his books cannot be found.
THERE were 292 business failures in
the United States reported by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the 10th against ISL for
the corresponding week last year.
BROWN SMITH, a farmer in Simpson
county, Miss, left his family at home
to go to town for shopping purposes.
When he returned he found his wife
and five children weltering in their
blood and apparently all dead. An
alarm was raised Immediately and the
entire neighborhood turned out to
hunt for the perpetrator of the crime.
One of the little girls, supposed to have
been dead, revived enough to say that
the man who committed the deed was
a negro.
SOME of the ore from claim being
worked by John Finley at Alpine, Tex,
which was sent to Scranton, Pa, to be
JOHN d. LEoNI, a young Italian who
has a mania for breaking plate glass
windows, has been arrested by the po-
lice at Chicago. 1t transpires that he
has broken over SIS, 900 worth in that
city alone.
THE coal mining business in central
Iowa is enjoying boom such as it
never knew before. Several large COM
panies have been organized this fall
and at least ten large mines will be
opened near Des Moines during the
winter and spring.
A FIRE broke out on the night of the
18th in the building occupied by the
carpet firm of John & James Dobson
at Philadelphia and all the fire COM
panies were called out The stock in
the house, valued at 100000. was a
total loss and also the building, valued
at 900; fully insured.
AT the last annual convention of the
International Typographical union it
was decided to make fight for a work
day of nine hours in all book and Job
printing shops as soon as possible.
This fight will be started in New York
January 2, and will involve 5000 men,
as the employing printers have re-
solved to oppose the demand.
GERTRUDE PRINCE, the pretty 19-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Prince, of Hayes, Wis, has eloped with
William Smith. a negro. The couple
were married by a justice of the peace
at Mountain, Wis. The girls father
swears vengeance on Smith and has
disowned his daughter. insisting that
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