The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-21

WHILE attempting to extinguish a
fire in the johnson canyon tunnel on
the Santa Fe road near Ash Fork.
Ariz, Charles Mathews, superintend-
ent of bridges. and Pat LYONS, road
master, were fatally niured by falling
rock and two laborers dangerously
hurt. The tunnel was destroyed.
Col. WILLIAM KIRK, an ex-union
soldier of Wood county, Va, has pub
lished a card in which he criticises
what he calls the assaults made upon
the pension rolls, denouncing Commis-
sioner of Pensions Evans especially,
and announces that he will pay SlOO
for each case of fraudulent pension
now being paid by the United States
to a civil war soldier.
EDWARD A. KNIGHT, confidential
clerk for DR.. J. F. Canning. banker
and broker at Boston, was reported to
the police as missing and with him
were supposed to have gone diamonds,
jewelry and cash amounting to some
where between SIS, 900 to S4O,O 900.
PAUL METCALF. a refugee from Mon
tana with a 30-years' murder sentence
hanging over him. was fatally wound
ed while resisting arrest near Win
chester, Ok.
JOSEPH GRAFT, cornice worker. fell
from the top of a new block on which
he was working at Lima, O., to the
ground below, distance of 100 feet.
Nearly every bone in his body was
broken and he was taken home in
dying condition.
A FIRE at Bridgeville, Pa, the other
morning destroyed six buildings and
an immense lumb Der yard. Loss, about
$4,000.
EIGHT firms sustained heavy losses
bya fire that broke out in the build.
ing at the northwest corner of Market
and Quincy streets, Chicago. The total
loss was about $500, 900. we'll insured.
BENJAMIN BUTTERwORTH, the United
States commissioner of patents, died
at Townsville. Ga, on the 10th, aged
81 years. He had left Washington for
the south to recuperate from pneu-
mOnia, but was attacked with uremic
commissions. which caused his death.
BURGLARS looted Glenn Seigler's store
at st. James, Neb.. the other night.
The stock consisted of dry goods,
clothing, shoes. hardware and jewelry,
worth about $500 and, as the bur-
glars took most of it, it was thought
they must have had more than one
wagon and have made several trips.
PRESIDENT DOLE, of Hawaii, arrived
at San Francisco on the 10Th on his
way to Washington to urge annexa-
ton of the islands to the United States.
WHEN Farmer Won der Ahe's horse
reached home the other night the reins
were held by a corpse. John Fries,
the hired man, had driven to Du buque,
Ia, to visit his parents and had been
stricken with heart disease on his re-
turn trip.
LOUIS ALFELD. a compositor at the
Cincinnati Enquirer office, shot his
sweetheart, Minnie Packner, at her
home inflicting a fatal wound, and
then killed himself. Jealousy was sup
posed to have been the cause.
C. NJ. OLIVER. convict in the Mon
tana penitentiary at Deer Lodge, has
fallen heir to Sl5O.OOO by the death OF
an uncle at Bridgeport, Conn.
OFFICERS of $50 German societiea IN
Chicago mailed an extensively signed
circular to every member of congress,
protesting against any legislation
which will restrict immigration. The
circular was also signed by the editors
of number of German, Irish, Swedish,
Italian and other newspapers in that
city.
A NEW party was born at ST. Louis
on the 18th in the conference of the
le-of-the-road populists and named
the peoples party. With few excep-
tons the delegates declared themselves
unequivocally in favor of going it alone
in the future. The referendum system
was recommended for use among the
middle-of-the-roaders in settling mat
tiers of national Importance to. the or
der, and there was a practical agree
ment among the delegates that ma
tional presidential convention should
be held this year. An address was is
sued to the people.
THE body of Theodore Durrant, who
was hanged for the murder of Blanche
| Lamont at San Francisco, and whose
body was refused burial place in all
| the cemeteries of that city, was finally
| cremated at Altadena, Cal.
A PERRY, Ok. dispatch stated that
the allotment of the lands of the Otter
and Missouri Indians had begun and
would be completed in two months. The
| allotting agent assigned to this work is
Miss Helen p. Clark, who is one-eighth
Blackfoot Indian. These Indians al.
ways have opposed allotment, but Miss
Clark, who is the only woman who has
ever been assigned to such a work, has
| gained their confidence and is proceed