The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-11-11

ALLEN DAY, IA years old. was knocked
down and run over by Citizens line
car at St Louis. Two wheels passed
over him and his skull was fractured
and his left arm crushed at the elbow
SO that amputation was necessary. He
was in a dangerous condition.
To Judge William M. Springer be-
longs the credit of clearing the civil
docket of cases ready for trial in the
United States court at Muscogee, L T. !,
for the first time since the court has
been established He opened court
there and began work on the civil
docket September 26 and since that
date he has disposed of 1879 civil cases.
A HUNDRED miners from Toluca, Ill. i,
broke into the county Jail at Lacon
and took out F. w. Stewart, Toluca
negro, and hanged him to a tree.
Stewards crime was an assault upon a
daughter of one of the miners.
The immigration officials on the 9Th
passed through the barge Office at New
York 1000 immigrants.
7. 3. POTTER, the founder of the
London Golden free trade club, is dead.
A REIGN of terror was said to exist
in Wilmington, N. c.. and clash be-
tween the whites and negroes was ex-
pected at any time. Three hundred
armed negroes paraded the streets at
midnight on the 9th and the white
men guarded their houses and the
Wilmington light infantry and naval
reserves rendezvoused all night at their
armories. Street cars were stoned bv
the negroes and the white people were
compelled to walk, the police being
powerless.
FIRE destroyed the Cameron sawmill
at Richmond, Tex. Loss. $35. 900.
Two men attempted to cross the
Niagara river at Buffalo, N. Y, in a
small boat during gale and both were
drowned.
JOHN BAHLs and his wife, an aged
couple, at Mishicott. Wis, were found
hacked to pieces with an ak. Robbery
was supposed to have been the motive.
A laborer named Ernest Messman was
arrested on suspicion of having com.
mitted the crime.
THE new five-story Wonderland
theater at Detroit, Mich, collapsed on
the 5th while some IS men were at
work on the structure. The roof fell
in, carrying the men into the pit be.
low. Eleven dead bodies were recov-
cred, three more men were believed to
be laying dead under the debris and
the others were badly injured.
PATRICK. MURPHY was burned to
death in his blacksmith shop at De-
troit. Mich.
CHARLES NELSON, colored, was cleo
trocuted at Columbus. O., for murder.
A MAN apparently 80 or Is years of
age, who registered at the jefferson
hotel at Cleveland, O., day or two
ago as John Jones, Boston, was found
dead in his room. An empty vial and
a note told the story of a suicide. The
note was as follows: my name is
Smith; live in Boston Am out of work;
let the gravedigger do the rest"
A DISPATCH from Paris stated that
the emperor of Germany short time
ago offered Spain 500, 600, 900 for the
Philippine islands and Spain held back
to see what terms she could make
with the United States.
THE transport Panama, with several
hundred Americans aboard, whose loss
had been reported from Santiago, ar
rived at Havana from that port on the
Sd and landed seven American passen.
gers, including some military officers.
She then left Havana for New York.
It was reported the Panama had about
400 sick men on board.
The Woman's Board of Foreign Mis-.
sions convened at Springfield, Mass,
on the I'd. Nearly $50 delegates were
present. q
AT the Cincinnati Gun club live bird
tournament Fred Gilbert, of Spirit
Lake, a., won the silver cup and the
live bird championship of America
The passenger steamer Pacific was
burned at the Grand Trunk wharves
at Collingwood.. Ont, and the railway
freight sheds, filed with Canadian and
American goods, were also destroyed.
The Pacific was valued at So, 900 and
was insured for $25, 500. The loss from
the burning of the freight sheds was
very heavy. The steamer was operated
between Collingwood and Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, stopping at way points.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 4th
numbered 1873. according to Brad.
streets commercial report, against 223
for the corresponding week in last
year.
ADAM Rowe, a prominent politician
of Warren county, O., was fatally shot
near Ridgeville the other night by Will.
liam Smith. Rowe had been out cleo
pioneering and upon his return. it was
alleged, while under the influence OF
liquor, went to Smiths house and at.
tempted to kick the door in. Smith