The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28

EueENE v. DEBs has issued a plea IA
the public in behalf of Salter T. Wor.
den under sentence of death for train
wrecking near Sacramento, Cal. dur.
ing the railroad strike of 1894. Mr.
Debs says that Worden is the victim of
e conspiracy of railroad detectives.
A FIRE at Spokane, Wash, on the
25th destroyed the Great Eastern block.
The upper floors were occupied bv
roomers and it was feared that ten tn
fifteen of them had persisted in the
flames.
STEPS will be taken, it was said. bv
the Humane society of Denver, Col. to
prosecute the officials of the state in.
dustrial school for incorrigible girls
for the alleged inhuman treatment of
five of the inmates. 1t was stated that
five girls disobeyed an order and were
placed in cold. damp dungeons and fed
on bread and water for ten DAYS to
break their spirits.
THE funeral of Joseph Handley took
place at Philadelphia on the 22d.
Handley weighed $50 pounds and was
four feet broad across the shoulders
The coffin, together with the corpse.
weighed 1000 pounds.
Two farmers near Charlottesville.
Ind, were swindled recently on the
god brick game. paying $4,000 for a
gilded brass brick.
FOUR fires occurred the other night
at Mahanoy City, Pa, three of which
were believed to be incendiary.
A MINE of platinum has been discov-
cred in Jack county, Tex. AS platinum
is three times as valuable as gold tho
great value of the find may be seen.
BY the explosion of an engine boiler
on the farm of Mrs. Meadows, So miles
southwest of Abingdon, ILL.,, Oscar An
derson and his stepson were killed and
Lloyd and Willis Meadows were seri-
ously, if not fatally, injured.
POLICE found S92, 600 worth of coun-
terfeit money in the chimney of va
cant house in West Hoboken, N. j..
recently. it was all in 500 notes on
the Bank of Montreal The United
States treasury department was mott.
fed and the secret service men took
charge of the counterfeits and will try
to find the plates.
JOHN MCGOWAN, who taught school
in Alexander county, ILL.,, whipped
Henry and Scott Jordan for disobedi-
ence. The brothers afterwards way
he died. They were jailed at Jones'
boro and an attempt at lynching was
feared.
EDWARD SHANNON. aged 20, who shot
his divorced wife dead on the train,
has been sentenced to be hanged Feb
ruary II, at Wheaton, Ill.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire visited Ransburg,
Cal, on the 10Th. The post Office and
several business houses went up in
smoke, causing a loss of 100000.
EAST Grand Forks, n. D., suffered
another severe fire on the goth. An ell
evator and the bridge approach are in
ruins and a number of stores burned.
The Lick observatory party. under
Prof. Campbell, wired that the observa-
tions taken in India of the eclipse of
the sun on the 22d were successful and
the results obtained were most valua-
BILE.
In the trial of the whitecaps at De-
catur, Ind, in which James Parrish, a
constable, was whipped almost to death
last september. evidence brought to
light the fact that Parrish's wife was
one of the persons to make the ar
engagements to have her husband
whipped and visited the whitecaps at
secret meetings to accomplish her pur-
pose.
REV. 7. DEWITT TALMAGE, the noted
divine of Washington, and Mrs. Eloree
McCutcheon Collier. of Allegheny City,
Pa, were united in marriage at the
McCutcheon residence on the 22d. The
present Mrs. Talmage is the reverend
gentleman's third wife.
THREE advanced students of the
Western Theological seminary, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, were recently indeti-
nitely suspended by the faculty for
gross immoral conduct.
RICHARD j. HALLoRAN, a policeman.
was shot at St Louis in wine room
by Miss Nellie Mangan, and some one
then shot the woman. They had been
engaged, but had a quarrel, Miss Man
gan being jealous of another woman.
u. A. r. MEN at Boston will erect a
monument in that city in memory OF
Henry Clay Work, author of March
ing Through Georgia" and other war
songs
The Iowa house of represent atives
passed a joint resolution requesting
Senators Allison and Gear to vote for
the Hawaiian annexation treaty. The
| vote was 81 to 40, most of the demo
Gratis and fusionists opposing it.
ROBERT G. HAzLErr. a leading citi.
zen of Youngstown, O.. was engaged
in moving from one house to another