The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-14
FRANCIS D. NEwToS. q prosperous

farmer of Brookfield Mass, his wife
and an adopted daugh ter were found
murdered in their beds by neighbors
on the 10th. The three had been killed
with an AK and a missing hired man
was suspected of the crime.
THE Western Union Beef company
recently sold 5000 steers off its West
Texas ranch, the consideration being
sl75, 900. The company is disposing of
all its stock in Texas, Colorado, New
Mexico and Montana and will retire
from business. 1t is the largest cattle
company in the United State4M
Two little children of Rudolph Won
Achen and their grandmother were Sc
riously burned by a Christmas tree
catching fire at their home at Peoria,
ILL, the other night
BILL ADLER, charged with the kill
ing of William Johnson. colored, was
convicted at Kansas City, Mo-. of MUIR
der in the second degree and sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary.
MEMBERS of the family and immedi-
ate friends of Secretary Alger were
seriously disturbed about his illness
on the 10th and his physicians feared
that he had typhoid fever.
A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico
stated that the Mexican government
will refuse to permit the colonization
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
in that country, the law strictly pro-
hibiting the establishment of colony
composed of one nationality.
DETH BURROWS, cowboy near Ell
Paso, Tex, got into a fight across the
river in ynarez, Mex, and in a pitched
battle stood off the Mexican police for
hour. Burrows was then killed,
but before biting the dust he killed a
gambler and three policemen.
A FIRE destroyed one of Christian
Peppers tobacco warehouses on Mar
xet street, st. Louis, and 1000 hogs
leads of tobacco were consumed. The
oss was estimated at $3.50, 900; fully in
sured. =
GEORGE SMITH, a, colored section
1and on the Iron Mountain railroad,
while attempting W board a moving
freight train nears: Fairfield, Ark,
clipped and his legS, were crushed to
pulp, resulting in almost instant
leath.
BURGLARS broke into the office OF
the Standard Oil company near Alton,
Ill, the other night and blew up the
safe with dynamite. The explosion
was terrific, the safe door being blown
open and almost the entire Office
wrecked. There was only $50 in the
safe and this was all the robbers got.
The mission school building of the
Presbyterian board of home missions
at Tahlequah, 1. T., was recently
burned by incendiaries.
UP to the 9th no cemetery in San
Francisco had consented to receive the
body of Theodore Durrant, hanged for
the murder of Blanche Lamont. and all
the crematories had refused to burn it.
1t was expected that. the body would
have to be cast into the ocean.
FIRE destroyed Rehkopf g. Sons col.
lar factory at Paducah, KY, the other
morning, entailing loss of $50, 900,
with only s., 900 of insurance. Charles
Dillon, a fireman, was caught under
falling walls and fatally injured.
A MAMMOTH ice house in course OF
construction at Whitmore Lake, Mich,
collapsed the other day and two men
were instantly killed, five others prob
ably fatally injured and dozen more
badly hurt.
A MEAGER account of the whipping
to death of Dave Hunter, negro, by a
party of farmers at Clinton was re.
ceived at Columbia, S. c., the other
night. The man had been a tenant on
violated his contract by secretly NOV.
ing away. He was caught soon after
by a party of men, tied and terribly
whipped, from the effects of which he
died
In fit of insanity Alexander Carter,
white citizen of Greenville, Tenn,
Drained his wife and 19-year-old daugh-
ter with an AK while they slept and
then shot himself. He was said to
have been mentally unbalanced for
some time.
A FIRE broke out at Patoka, I'LL, and
destroyed IL buildings, causing heavy
loss, as there was little or no insur.
ance. Eight of the buildings were
business houses.
Two negroes, named Jim Watts and
Sam Cole, who were paying a visit to
relatives at Pea Ridge, Miss, were
lynched by other negroes for being toe
thick with their kinsmen's wives.
JOHN MILLS, aged 20 years, a we'll
/ known farmer of Huntington, Ind.
was butchering some hogs, when he
dropped dead. Before he was discov
cred the hogs had chewed off one o.
| his hands.
w. Il. T. DURRANr, generally known
as Theodore Durrant, was hanged in
the prison at San Quentin, Cal. on the
morning of the It'll for the murder o.
Blanche Lamont in Emmanuel Baptis