The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-29

of letters discussing the ostentatious
display of wealth in the face of the ex-
.sting hard times and the churches took
hold OF the subject on the cath and
many ministers denounced the prepa-
rations for the Bradley-Martin ball.
1t was said that several wealthy wom-
en- will remain away from the ball on
February 10 fearing an outbreak of
some kind from the prominence which
the affair has received.
! jim HARBoLT, who, with Bill Isaacs.
was indicted for the murder of Sheriff
| McGhee, at Canadian. on the Southern
Kansas railroad, about two years ago,
was rescued from the Canadian TEX
| Jail by a party of his friends during
the absence of Sheriff Arlington from
this county. Harbolt was to have been
tried on the 25th.
The fight at Paso Robes, Cal. be-
tween George F. Green young Cor
bett), welterweight champion of the
world, and w. Lewis, champion of
Southern California. resulted in Lewis
being knocked out in the first half of
the second round.
EARLY on the morning of the 25th
the temperature fell to so degrees b E.
low zero in Manitoba.
WILLIAM GILL and Frank Fisher. col
ored bell boys at the Clarendon hotel
at Lexington, KY, became involved in
a difficulty and Fisher threw an ice
pick, striking Gill in the abdomen, in
hicting a fatal wound.
THE Northwestern Stove Repair Co.'S
factory at Chicago was destroyed by
fire on the cath, causing loss of 1925.
900. The fremen had great difficulty
in getting water the plugs in the neigh
borhood being frozen.
A NEGRO named Pierce Taylor was
| taken from the Jail at Tallahassee,
Fla, on the 24th by a mob and hanged
to a tree in the Jail yard. He had been
arrested for an attempted assault on
woman.
EUGENE WASHINGTON, a negro ar.
rested for assaulting a girl at Bryan,
Tex. was taken by an Infatuated mob
on the evening of the I'D and hanged
to cottonwood tree on Main street in
that city.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul. Mimi. on
the oath said the coolest weather of
the winter was being experienced. the
mercury being from 30 to so degrees
below zero around that section of coun-
try.
TILE ANDERSON, the flying Swede.
won the woman's siX-day bicycle race
at Indianapolis. Ind. The score was as
follows: Anderson. 246 miles laps:
Farnsworth, go miles ~ laps; Allen,
246 miles laps; Baldwin and Christie
pher, a tie. 246 miles laps.
Mr.. ECKELs, the COMPTROLLER of the
currency, has sent a letter to governors
of all states asking them to request
their legislatures to enact such laws as
will result in the submission to
designated state officer of the condi-
ton of all banks doing business in
their states on the same dates as ma
| tional banks are required to make
their reports, so that the comptroller
of the currency can incorporate all the
banking statistics of this country in
his annual report to congress
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Santa Fe rail-
road collided with a hand car at Sealy,
Tex, and two men were killed and an
other fatally injured.
THE German savings bank at Des
Moines, Ia, closed its doors on the 21st.
GEN. WYMAN recently received tel
egram from Havana stating that there
were 1000 cases of smallpox among
the residents of that city.
JOHN HoCH was executed by cleo
tricity in the state prison at Auburn,
n. Y. July 10, 1895, he murdered Min
ME Ingersoll, 16 years of age.
The three-masted schooner Nahum
Chaplin went ashore near Quogue, L. l..
during fierce gale and her crew of
nine men was drowned.
A BULLETIN has just been issued from
the census bureau on the working hosts
of the United States, including those
engaged in professional pursuits.
THE Iowa millers passed resolution
at their convention at Des Moines ask
ing congress to restore reciprocity
with Central and South American
countries in regard to flour and cereal
. products.
A FAMINE exists in Rhodesia, Africa,
and the natives were reported digging
up and eating cattle which had been
buried six months ago because they
had died from the rinderpest. AS a
consequence terrible mortality prevails
among the natives.
FIRE broke out early in the morning
in the medical college, one of the build
ings of the Bellevue hospital at New
York. One thousand patients were
asleep at the time, but the firemen con-
trolled the flames without disturbing
them. Many valuable records and in
| struments were destroyed and ID cada
verS were cremated.
IT was reported as being almost GER
tain that big miners strike would be
inaugurated in the Des Moines, Ia.
| district. Miners have been asked to
accept so cents for all coal taken out,
instead of the old scale of so cents.
The miners declare that they cannot
live at the reduced rate.
AN earthquake occurred at Delvino,
Turkish Epirus. Several villages,
mostly inhabited by Christians, have
been destroyed, and it was feared many
people have persisted.
By the explosion of kerosene can
w. l.. Kimball, of Urbana, ILL.,, his wife
and two children were badly burned.
The children will die and the condition
! of the parents was critical. The house
was saved from destruction.
Four miners were badly hurt at Shaw,
w. Va, by fall of slate and coal.
One miner was horribly crushed and
the second one was not expected to
survive his injuries. The two others
will probably recover.
THE Missouri and Kansas Association
of noa larS in SoSSion of Kansas