The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-05

two empty chambers by his side. He
had previously written to his wife,
from whom he was separated, that he
intended to burn the hotel and perish
in the flames.
THE residence Of Charles Russell at
North Baltimore, O., caught fire and
Russell was burned to a crisp and his
wife was SO badly burned that she ca.4-
| not recover.
MISS OLLIE SULLIVAN was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Fr'nF
Lauer at one a. m. on the 1st at Cha
90. Lauer then fed from the hs,nss
and his dead body was after~ -.us
found in the street. The shooting was
the result of jealous quarrel.
THE Underwood betting factory and
four tenement houses at Tolland, Conn,
were burned. Loss, $50, ZOO.
THE Kalamazoo, Mich, high school
was destroyed by fire on the 1st. Sew
eral fremen were more or less hurt
by the breaking of a ladder.
| ALvA AMES, a carpenter, jailed at
Rockford, ILL.,, for an assault on his
daughter, hanged himself because he
| Jail and lynch him.
month of January show deficiency in
revenues, the receipts for the month
having fallen S., 922, 1895 below the
expenditures.
In Pike county, near jackson, O., a
gang of ten men were telling trees for
railroad ties and left a tree nearly
chopped through while they went into a
shanty to dinner. The tree fell on the
shanty and killed three men, fatally in
| jured two more, and seriously injured
the five others.
GEORGE TAYLOR. the murderer of the
Meelks family, who escaped from the
Carrollton, Mo-, Jail on April 10 while
under sentence of death. has been cap
tured and lodged in the Hanford. Cal,
Jail and the Missouri authorities
notified. B f. Lane, a Missourian,
was the man who identified the pris-
Oner.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was re-
| ported at Deadwood, S. D., and the
Black hills over recent discoveries of
gold ore in unsupported quarters.
A GIGANTIC London syndicate has got
an option on the 16 biggest breweries in
Cincinnati and the deal was likely to
go through it was reported.
JACK DELANEY won the fight with
"Australian Billy" on the 3Oth at New
York after Is rounds of clever boxing.
| Two colored servants at the residence
of Henry Daspit, at New Orleans, made
a charcoal fire in their room to keep
warm and one was found dead and the
other dying from the fumes.
FIRE destroyed almost the entire bus
mess portion of the town of Center
burg, o., on the 2Sth.
ELEVEN men were injured, one, Louis
Fogler, probably fatally, by an explo
sion in coal mine at Foster, Ia.
A POWDER magazine at the Crystal
Ridge colliery, near Hazelton, Pa, eX-
ploded about midnight of the 2Sth, do
ing considerable damage. The night
Waterman was the only person injured
The heat from stove was thought to
have caused the explosion. Hazelton
was considerably shaken up.
FIRE destroyed Olson & Co.'S furni-
ture factory at Chicago on the Goth.
Loss, S35, 900; partially insured.
JOSEPH SMITH, head of the Latter
Day Saints church, arrived in Atchi-
son, Kan. on the 2Sth to unite all Lat
ter Day Saints factions in that city
with the reorganized church. Smith
is working to unite all factions of Lat
ter Day Saints in the United States. in
GLIDING the followers of brigham
Young.
To keep out the cold Mandilla Hunt
made big fire in her house near Spar
tanburg, S. c., and went to bed with
her two children. The house burned
down and the three were cremated.
| Sfa A &c
collided with the steam yacht Argo in
the Mississippi river near New Orleans
ON the 2Sth. The yacht sunk and two
reporters for the Picayune We're
drowned.
AT the Georgia mine, near Fleming
ton, w. Va, by an accident on a coal
incline railway, 80 men were thrown
from a car and one was killed, two
others were fatally and eight seriously
injured.
| Observation-Disclosures WILSON has
made public the statement of postal
receipts for the quarter ended Deem
Der 81, 1896. as compared with the re-
ceipts of the corresponding period of
1895, which shows a decrease of about
$50, 900. OF 30 offices only Is show an
| increase, while II show decrease.
AS the result of misplaced switch,
an engine drawing a train of empty
cars collided with a loaded passenger
train on the Brooklyn elevated railroad
on the night of the 2Sth. One person
was killed and five were injured, one
perhaps fatally. The engine and the
forward car of the loaded train top
pied over into the street 20 feet below.
GERTRUDE PALMER died at Mamaro-
neck, n. Y, on the Goth, making the
third victim of Arthur Palmer's frenzy,
he having previously killed his mother
and brother The sheriff left for St.
Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been
arrested.
THE bill to permit glove contests has
passed both houses of the Nevada leg
islature and Dan Stuart has announced
that the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight
will occur in that state.
Mrs. JOHN SHAW, of Aurora. ILL,
while in a state of temporary insanity,
administered arsenic to her two young
boys and herself. They were all re-
ported in a critical condition.
THE small steamer Plankinshaw was
scuttled by ice and sunk in the Ohio
river near Evansville, Ind, on the night
of the 27th. The engineer was drowned
and II others on board escaped to a
barge in tow, but suffered considerably
from the cold weather and several Were