The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-11-05


hold up Frank Wilson's gambling
house at Sioux City, Ia. at two o'clock
the other morning, but one of the pair
lost his nerve, owing to the cry of po-
lice, and skipped down the stairs and
the other soon followed.
THE gold reserve in the national
treasury at the end of October amount
ed to S153, 551 ,s11, which was the high
est recorded since November. 1890.
The deficit for October was SO, 32o. 653;
the total receipts, S24, 39O.S47.
CARL GERBER, four years old, died at
New York from the effects of eating
| jimson weed or thorn apple and Will
liam Roth, six years old, who also ate
some of the poisonous stuff, was in a
| precarious condition.
THE Union Pacific railroad proper,
including the buildings and all that
goes to operate the system, was sold at
the freight depot at Omaha, Neb., on
the LIST to the reorganization commit
tee for SIS, SOS, $50. IS. The amount
does not include the sinking fund in
the hands of the government, and, TAX
ing this to be 81, O36, 400, the amount
stated in the government decree cover
| ing the sale of the road. the total paid
for the property was $57, 564, 932. 76.
THE Kansas university football team
defeated the Iowans at Lawrence.
Kan, on the 3Oth by a score of Sc to O..
THE Swedish government has in.
structed the governor of the province
of Tromsoe to charter a steamer at the
| expense of the state, to provision il
| for six months and to send out relief
expedition for Herr Andree, the aero
| naut, who assembled in his balloon on
July II last in a proposed expedition
| to the north pole.
FIRE destroyed the Mount Vernon
| On. W day nursery. The children
were safely carried through the smoke
by the nurses.
The Nebraska university football
team defeated the Missouri university
| IL at Lincoln, Neb., on the 3Oth. The
score was Al toe.
A LARGE crowd witnessed the legal
whipping of five men at Dover, Del,
on the 3Oth. The sheriff used a raw
hide 81 inches long and was not spar
| ing with it. Some of the culprits were
| afterwards stood in the pillory.
A LARGE quantity of giant powder
| exploded in the Grand Central mine at
killed outright and three sustained
probably fatal injuries.
The New York limited over the Van
dalia struck a team and wagon at the
Union street crossing at Martinsville,
Ind, killing the driver. Oscar Neidigh,
and both horses, and making kindling
wood of the wagon.
A DAUGHTER, aged three, and a cone
year-old girl belonging to John
Kuhne, of Miltona, Mimi, were left in
the house while the rest of the family
were working in field, when the
house was burned down and the two
children were cremated.
DR. JACOBS and a man named Smith,
bridge builders of the Chesapeake Il
Ohio railway, were struck by a train
just below Russell, KY, and instantly
killed. They were on a railroad veloc-
ipede, and were run down before they
could jump from the trestle.
GEORGE LAvIGNE whipped Joe Wal
colt in 12 rounds at San Francisco on
the goth. The pace was terrific from
start to finish.
The decision of Amos NJ. Thayer,
United States circuit Judge, in the
Kansas City stock yards case was read
by Judge Foster at Topeka, Kan, on
the 2Sth. 1t sustains Judge Fosters
decision and is a sweeping victory for
Attorney General Boyle and the state
of Kansas on every single point in
issue. Judge Thayer declares that the
state has right to legislate to control
the stock yards company. The attor-
ney for the stock yards company gave
notice of an appeal to the supreme
court.
A POSTAL clerk named Walter r.
Houghton has been arrested at Chey-
| enne, Wyo., for stealing a registered
package containing $4,000 mailed by
a Chicago bank. Houghton confessed
and offered to return the money if the
prosecution was dropped, but threat
ened that if the officers would not agree
| to that the money would be burned.
JACOB II. AMOS and Henry Bergen
keiger, cigarmakers at st. Paul, Mimi,
bet % cents with friends that they
would kill themselves and then jumped
off bridge into the Mississippi river
and were drowned. No plausible mo-
tive for the deed could be imagined in
| either case.
A CROSS tie was recently placed on
the Cotton Belt railroad near Waco.
! Tex. and the locomotive of a passen-
ger train was derailed. No other dam
age was done.
THE directors of the Kansas City.
| Pittsburg & Gulf railway decided at a
meeting to expend $500. 900 for per
manent improvements at Port Arthur.
the Gulf of Mexico terminus of the
line.
The Union Trust building at Pitts
burgh, Pa. was destroyed by fire on
the Goth. One fireman was killed and
several had narrow escapes The loss
was estimated at from $50, 900 to 5000.
900: insurance about half.
MAT and Jennie Blakely, indicted al
Princeton, KY, for attempting to poi
son the family of L. Y. Pollard by
throwing poison in the we'll. pleaded
guilty and were given two years each
in the penitentiary. One has young
baby and very pathetic scene oc-
Cured when the mother and baby
were separated.
FLOODS have washed away every
building in Ahumada. Mex. The town
had population of 1000 persons and
| they are all homeless and suffering
Eduardo Linss, a wealthy merchant
and grain buyer of the place, lost $40.
900 worth of property, including 5000
bushels of wheat
MAYOR JONES has signed the ordi
nance creating n Greater Kansas CITY