The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-02-03
A GANG of 2e laborers, while working

iOwn by locomotive and two men
we're killed and the rest were more or
ess seriously injured.
A BLIZZARD swept over the west on
The 30th. In many places in Missouri
md Kansas the thermometer ranged
from zero to six and eight degrees be-
ow. Stockmen reported much suffer
ing of stock and predicted heavy
losses.
LOUIS A. LAMBERT, president of the
Bank of Grand Avenue at Kansas City,
Mo-, and the man who built the first
steam ferry boat that ever crossed the
Missouri river, died on the S0th of
pneumonia, aged 81.
REV. MYRoN w. REED. pastor of the
Broadway temple at Denver. Col, and
a well-known politician. died at st.
Joseph's hospital in that city on the
30th after a protracted illness due to a
general breaking down of the system.
EVERY steam laundry of any i'm
portance in Chicago will be operated
by one stock company if the present
plans do not miscarry. Contracts of
sale have been entered into by 80 steam
laundry companies and negotiations
are under way to secure 40 more.
ONE of the three powder magazines
situated just outside of Bridgeport,
Conn.,. exploded. Several houses in
the neigh borhood were badly dam
aged. The shock of the explosion
shook the whole city. 1t was supposed
that mischievous boys set fire to the
long, dry meadow grass and that the
fire, reaching the magazine, caused the
explosion.
BY the burning of the Ohio Glass
works at Dunkirk, Ind, 200 workmen
were thrown out of employment. The
loss was $50, 600, with $35. 900 insurance.
THE Japanese steamer Yamaguchi
Maru, from Seattle, Wash, for Yoko-
hama, was reported on fire at Ogino-
hama on the 30th.
Four men were badly burned, one
perhaps fatally, by the explosion of a
boiler in the basement of the Chicago
Tribune.
MRS. MARY MCINTYRE, a wealthy
widow 60 years old, was found MUIR
dered in her home at Pana, ILL.,. on the
29th. Her body had been chopped al
most to pieces and every thing of value
had been carried away by the murder
ers.
SPECIALS on the goth from points in
the interior of Wisconsin reported
very low temperature. At Appleton
the thermometer recorded IS degrees
below zero, the coolest in recent years.
Black River Falls reported tempera-
ture of 40 degrees; Medford, 40, and
Whitehall, SO degrees below zero.
The house of George Brown. Long
Island farmer, took fire while the fam
lily was asleep. Brown dashed out the
window and broke his neck. The wife
and five children escaped uninjured.
The waters of the Canadian river
have been turned into the canal which
was recently constructed by. the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railway COM
pany at Wirth, I. T. The construc.
ton of this canal became necessary on
account of the heavy floods last spring
which caused the river to shift its
channel.
The Farmers Elevator company at
st. Louis recently made an assignment
Its elevator was one of the largest in
that city, having capacity of 1,500.-
900 bushels.
The frame portion of the Norton
Brewing company's establishment at
Anderson, Ind, was burned, causing a
loss of $50. 900.
THE American Missionary associa-
ton has issued an appeal from New
York to the Congregational churches
of the United States to observe Feb
ruary IL as Lincoln Sunday.
INCENDIARIEs set fire to the sch DOL
house in Summer City. Tenn.
SEISMIC disturbances were very vio-
the 27th. A number of houses fell and
in many places the inhabitants were
panic-stricken.
The steam canal boat ]. C. Austin
ran on the rocks off Norwalk, Conn,
and sank. together with her consort.
the David B. Fisk, loaded with coal.
Five persons lost their lives.
THE Commercial hotel at Hillsboro.
Tex, was destroyed by fire and two
men were cremated. It was feared
also that another man was under the
ruins.
SIMON PoKAGoN, the last chief of the
Pottawatomie' Indians, died at Benton
Harbor, Mich, on the 27th, aged so
years.
JUDGE E. NJ. HUGHES, of the Audrain
county circuit court at Mexico, Mo-,
has decided test case in reference to
war tax law, declaring it was not the
intention of congress to require
stamp upon certificates of a judicial
character, because it would be uncon-
stitutional. He said that the states
did not delegate to the federal govern