The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-05-07

affiliated with the building trades will
result
THE treasury figures for April con-
firm Chairman Dingley's statement,
made short time ago, that there was
likely to be nearly a years supply of
foreign goods in the country when the
new tariff bill goes into effect.
THE town of Pulaski, Va, and vicin-
ity was shaken by an earthquake soon
after noon on the Sd. No damage re-
suited, but the people were terribly
frightened.
JOHN NoLIN, his two little daughters
and another man whose name could
not be learned were drowned in the
river above Gallatin, Tenn, on the Sd.
The skiff was overturned and the
father tried to take his children to
shore but the swift current swept all
four of them under.
THE Atlantic & Pacific railway was
sold at Gallup n. NJ, on the Sd for
s12, OOO,O The only bidder was AL
dace F. Walker. chairman of the board
of directors of the Atchison, Topeka
/ &, Santa Fee railway.
IT has been given out that the
amount of Cashier H. Fl. Espes defalca-
ton from the Savings bank of Rad
cliffe. Ia. was about $4,000. Espe
has disappeared.
JOHN V. CRUM. the famous sprinter,
died at Des Moines, Ia, on the Sd as
the result of an operation for appen-
dicitis.
THE Tennessee Centennial exposition
was formally opened at Nashville on
the LIST. There was parade through
the city to the grounds, where, after
prayer by Bishop Gailor and speeches
by President Thomas and Gov. Taylor,
at given signal President Mckinley,
at Washington, touched an electric
button, and as the band played Hail
Columbia the machinery began to
move and the exposition was opened tc
| the world.
THE report of the director of the
mint shows that during April the total
coinage at the United States mints
was $40. 40, $50. Of this amount IS, $780,,
400 was in gold, 81, $50, 900 in silver and
| fs74.6SO in minor coins. OF the silver
coinage 81, 400, 900 was in standard dol
lars.
WHOLESALE arrests have been made
| of persons at Anderson, Ind. for lille
gally dynamiting fish in White river
and other eastern Indiana streams.
SPECTATORS were pouring into An
derson, Ind, on the 3Oth and leasing
farms in the vicinity on account of the
oil boom in that neighborhood.
GIN PoNG, a Chinaman, was hanged
at Spokane, Wash. on the 3Uth for the
murder of another Chinaman.
A TRIP through every section of the
flooded district at Guthrie, Ok, on the
| 29th showed over 100 houses entirely
gone, three times as many wrecked or
damaged. a dozen business houses
wrecked and twice as many stocks of
| goods mixed. The loss was fully $780,
900. Five hundred people are home
less and twice as many have lost their
household goods and personal effects.
| The deaths will probably not exceed 20
or %, as many of those previously re-
ported drowned were afterwards found
| in trees or in houses lodged down
| stream.
WILLIAM EPPs, a colored jockey at
Leadville. Col, flogged his ten-year-
old nephew SO severely that he may
die. Epps caught the little fellow
stealing so cents, and taking him to
his bed room he tied him to the bed,
| gagged him and beat him until he be-
| came unconscious.
SIX negroes were lynched by mob
at Sunnyside, Tex, on the night Of the
Goth for the murder of an old man,
child and a young woman. The
lynchers We're mostly colored men.
The victims had been tracked from the
scene of the crime by bloodhounds.
When caught they made a confession.
MORAL reformers in Weston, w. Va.
went to the house of two women whom
they suspected of not being of good
character, broke open the doors and
then stripped them and smeared their
naked bodies with hot tar. One of the
women will die from the outrage and
the other was reported in a serious
| condition.
| at Adonis, w. Va. was tortured by a
negro and white man to make her
| tell where her money was. They
burned her feet to crisp with candles,
burned her hair off and roasted one
ear The woman will probably die.
! The fends secured $500 and escaped.
GEORGE LAvIGNE, of Saginaw, Mich.
is still the lightweight champion of
lIiS Nollt LIZ ~ LIZ NOiiiSAiS; VI
st. Johns, \. B.. at New York on the
3Oth and sent him staggering into his
corner at the end of the 18th round,
hopelessly beaten. They were matched
to fight p rounds under 133 pounds
weight.
THERE were pa business failures in
the United States, according to Brad
streets report, for the week ended the
3Oth, against 254 for the same week
last year.
SECRETARY GAGE has given instruc-
tons that every employee in the treas
ury department shall be judged by the
industry. rapidity and faithfulness
with which duties are performed and
shall be graded accordingly in the
commissions report which is to be
made. A similar inquiry will be con-
Quoted in all the other departments,
and many changes probably will re-
suit in the salaries and standing of the
clerks.
NEAR Bloomer, Ok, Mrs Martha B.
Pinson has given birth to five children
in one year and all are living. First
came triplets. which are named Faith.
Hope and Charity: and later twins,
named Alpha and Omega.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has decided not