The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-11


for a short time five tramps broke into
posse of irate farmers chased them and
captured them. after wounding two,
and turned them over to the authori-
ties.
FIRE at an early hour on the eth de-
stroyed all the business houses on the
west side of Exeter, Neb., with the
exception of a brick bank and one
frame structure. Fourteen business
houses were entirely consumed and
very little of the contents of the build
ings were saved. Loss, So. 900: insur-
ance, S12, 500. :
A FIRE which originate in the Ac2d-
envy of MIsic at Atlantic City, n. j.,
on the 7th destroyed that building
two furniture stores, the Bryn Mawr
hotel and the Gold Mine bath house.
doing damage to the amount of $685.
900 before it was controlled.
AN incendiary fire was started in a
hay warehouse on the wharf at Savan-
nah. Ga. the other night which did
damage to the amount of s125, OOO-
A CALL for a labor convention at St.
Louis, May 2, to consider measures of
reform. has been issued by the commit
tee appointed by the United Labor
convention held at Chicago last Sep
TENDER.
SIX firemen persisted by the roof col
lapsing and tearing down two floors in
the fire at the Bent building at Boston.
Four other firemen were buried in the
h,,< I,
more or less injuries.
T. A. CoCKBURN, one of the proprie-
tors of two large ostrich farms in
southern California. will establish an
ostrich farm near San Antonio, Tex.
/. OWING to slack business there has
been general reduction of employees in
all departments of the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas railway at Denison, Tex.
Altogether about 200 employees have
received their walking papers.
The Sawyer & Goodman sawmill at
Marinette, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
The loss amounted to $50, 200.
A DISPATCH from Tahlequah, |. T., on
the 4th stated that ID. w. Bushy head, a
leading Cherokee. was dead. He was
IS years old and had filed every Office
in the nation. Recently he was on the
Dawes commission, representing the
Cherokee nation.
THE highest price ever paid in the
northwest for hog was reached at a
sale at Quinby. Ia, when j. II. Van
Buren, sold Poland China boar for
So, 500. A herd of Sc porkers disposed
of the same day brought an average of
$92 so per head.
THE explosion of cinematograph
films caused the burning of the hand
some Y. M. C. A. building at Scranton,
Pa. Loss, 1925. 900.
THE semi-annual re ports of the Grand
Army posts in Oklahoma show 54 posts
organized, with a membership of 800.
The Mcintyre block, in the heart OF
Winnipeg, Man., was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $500. 600.
THREE lives were lost in the Della.
ware river opposite Burlington, n. j.,
on the 4th by the breaking of the ice
under a shedding party.
A HORRIBLE crime took place in
Franklin county, Ark, recently. While
engaged in a heated religious discus
sion Sol Aubrey killed his aged father,
mother and his own ten-year-old son
and seriously wounded his wife and
three remaining children, two of whom
were expected to die.
AT Saginaw, Mich, a passenger train
| struck sleigh containing man and
| three women. The man and two OF
| the women were killed and the third
woman badly injured.
DISTINCT earthquake shocks were re.
Gently felt at Lynchburg and other
| towns in Virginia, but no damage was
done.
EDWARD j. LONERGAN, a plumber
was run down and killed by Lindell
railway trolley car at st. Louis the
| other night. His head was crushed
| and his body otherwise mangled.
AT Chicago on the 5th Judge Brown
of the circuit court, rendered a decision
upholding blacklisting and said that
employers. as we'll as employees. may
combine for protection.
| JACOB MEYER. of st. Louis, wa:
swindled out of $500 by two three-card
monte men with whom he got &C
quainted on st. Louis passenger trair
running into Kansas City. Mo. Meye,
was on his way to the klondike golo
fields
| FRANK Mcconnell, of San Francisco
a practically unknown man in tn,
boxing world, outpointed and out
fought Young Critic, the celebrated
Australian boxer, in a 15-round go a
| San Francisco.
A WOMAN who wished to conceal he
identity donated to the Volunteers O
America an orange orchard of 90 acre
situated at Thermalito, Cal, valued a
$4,000.