The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-04

dren were reported dead and diving
from exposure and starvation at St
Johns, N. F.. owing to pack ice off the
Newfoundland coast and billiards..
which prevented provisions from reach
ing them.
! Mr. AND MRS. FRANK MossMAN, of
Treaty, Ind, are the parents of what
local physicians state is the smallest
baby girl ever born in the United
States. The little one weithed less
than ~ pounds and hardly makes =
double handful.
| HARTsvILLE college. an institution
connected with the United Brethren
church at Huntsville, Ind. was burned,
together with the library and museum.
Loss. $4,000; Insurance, $1,000. The
fire was believed to have been started
by an incendiary.
| Two masked men broke into the
house of Louis A. Stanwood, a recluse.
living near Harvey. Ok, and tortured
him by sticking knife into his limbs
and burning off his hair and whiskers
/ until he gave up all the money he had,
which amounted to but few dollars.
The boiler of the steamship Benia-
min Sewell exploded at Baltimore,
| Nd, and four men were badly injured.
| The boiler was blown 100 feet in the
air and landed on a scow rs feet away.
THE provincial express, bound from
Boston to Halifax, on the Maine Gen.
trail railroad. plunged over an EN- bank
ment near Bangor, Me-, on the Goth.
Four passengers were killed and 80
others were injured.
IWENTY-THREE mem bers of the sophO-
more class were suspended from the
state university at Iowa City, Ia, on
the goth for preventing the annual
freshman banquet a short time ago by
abducting several freshmen, including
three young women.
Historic Indian Head, on the Pali-
sades at New York, is to be blown up
by a number of dynamite mines, con-
tanning in all 1900 pounds of the ex-
plosive. The amount of rock that will
be loosened is estimated at 800, 900 tons,
the biggest blast on record.
The third week of the cotton mill
strike at New Bedford, Mass, began
on the 31st with no prospect of settle
ment.
The body of Mrs. George Conneil
was 1Ouuu 1TOLcu 10 UcdCu Oh d rOdQ
near Troy, N. Y, on the 3Oth.
SAMUEL WOODS, smelter at the
Whitman Agricultural companys
works at st. Louis, was asphyxiated by
gas in one of the cupolas. His duty
was to regulate the amount of molten
metal allowed to flow into the steel
cone where the iron is cooled. The
gateway which shut off the flow failed
to work properly and in order to
remedy this Woods entered the cupola
and was overcome by the gas.
CLAUD j. WILSON quarreled with Ed
M. Calkins in the Union Stock Yards
hotel at Denver. Col, when Calkins
struck Wilson with his fist, knocking
him down. Wilson's head struck the
floor with great force and when picked
up he was dead.
FIRE destroyed four stores and a half
dozen offices and smaller buildings at
Somerset. KY, on the 2Sth. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, Sea, 900.
MOUNT STERLING. ILL.,, had a disas-
trous fire on the e7th, the Bloomfield
hotel being entirely destroyed and al
most a whole block as we'll. Albert
Pieper was killed by falling wall and
Constable Snodgrass and two other
men were injured. Loss, over 500. 900.
ANGELO CoRBoNE has been snatched
from death when it seemed almost as
though nothing could save him, as he
was sentenced to die in the electric
chair at Sing Sing. N. Y, on the 3lst.
Alexander Claramello, the real MUIR
derer, was caught on the Goth in Balti.
more, Nd, and when confron ted with
| the evidence against him broke down
and made full confession.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY made an ad.
dress at the annual banquet of the Ma.
tional Association of Manufacturers at
New York. on the 27th. The principal
feature of his speech was about the
money question. He said the financial
plank of the st. Louis platform was Of
as binding force upon the republicans
to-day as it was when it was adopted
and that all our silver and paper cur
rency must be maintained at parity
with gold.
The explosion of can of kerosene
oil in boiler house at Rosedale, Pa,
destroyed cement mill and storage
house, 800 barrels of cement and 800
tons of coal. Loss. 500, 900.
The interstate joint convention of
bituminous coal operators and miners
came to an end at Chicago on the 26th.
The miners were jubilant over the re.
suit of their ten days session, for it
means to nearly 200, 900 soft coal min
ers an advance of ten cents per ton
| and a uniform day of eight hours at
uniform day wages
The big convention of stockmen at