The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-08-04
LOUIS PULLERsoN and Michael Nc

in the prison at Sing Sing, N. Y. on
the 3lst. Louis Pullerson, a negro
porter, killed his common law wife. a
white woman, and Michael Mcdonald
employed in New York slaughter.
house, killed the timekeeper in quar-
eel over several dollars which he claimed
were due him for overtime.
THE Universalist national summer
meeting at Saratoga, n. Y, was ad.
dressed on the 31st by Rev. D. II. Shinn.
OF Kansas City, Mo-, on Affirmation
of Universalism.
CONSIDERABLE excitement exists at
Kildare, Ok, over suit filed by Charles
w. Harper, of that town, asking the
court to vacate the town of stores,
churches, schools, saloons and resi-
dences and to award him the site as a
homestead. Harper claims to have the
title to the land on which the town is
located.
GOLD has been discovered about 35
miles above Boise, Ida.
A BOILER of a threshing engine ex-
ploded at Big Prairie, Mich, instantly
killing six men and fatally hurting an
other.
REAR ADMIRAL SAMPSON has filed suit
in the supreme court of the District of
Colum bia for the bounty for himself
and men in capturing the Spani sh YES
sci Maria Teresa.
A SPECIAL from st. Paul, Mimi, on
the 30th said that there was a great
scarcity of harvest hands in the north
west and that farmers were appealing
to the railroads to aid them in securing
hands to harvest their grain.
FIRE destroyed the Altamont hotel
and a number of dwellings at Upper
lake, near Utica, N. Y.
The mayor of st. Louis has addressed
lengthy protest to President McKin-
ley in the name of the citizens of that
place against the Chicago drainage
canal.
FIRE destroyed the insane asylum at
Glack, Scotland. Inmates were saved.
In going down an incline an over
loaded trolley car at Spring City, Ia,
jumped the track and about 80 people
were more OF less injured.
THREE girls were drowned in the
river at Evansville. Ind, on the 2Sth.
BY the capsizing of boat on the
river at Philadelphia, Otto Kampf, his
son and Christian Osterage were
drowned.
Upon one scaffold and Simultaneous
Iy four negroes were hanged on the
esth in the Baltimore (Md.) city Jail
yard. Three of the men, Cornelius
Gardner, John Myers and Charles
James, paid with their lives for crimi-
nally assaulting Annie Bailey, a 13-
the fourth member of the quartette,
killed Mary Pack, negress with whom
he lived.
A PECULIAR disease among cattle has
been discovered in the herd owned by
James Cunningham, farmer near
Clare, Ia. Within a month, out of a
herd of IS, one-third have lost their
sight. Stockmen said that they had
never known anything like it. The
blindness was caused by film forming
over the eye.
The mystery surrounding the MUIR
der of Charles A. Brant. the stenogra-
pher who was shot and killed at st.
Louis on July 25, 1898, has been cleared
up. Three men participated in the
murder and all of these are now, a year
from the date of the commission of the
crime, in custody. The men who, by
their own admissions, killed Brant are
John Connors, Harry Morris and Ed
ward Hellman.
WILLARD E. THAYER was killed at
Streator, ILL.,, by falling from balloon
a distance of 400 feet. His neck, back,
both legs and both arms were broken.
Probably 10000 people witnessed the
accident.
CHARLES WOLFANGEL became violent
ly insane at his home in Denmark,
Ind, and, Selling Ratchet, chopped
his two daughters and wife to death
while they were sleeping. He then
took knife and cut his own throat.
AT Celtic, Tex, an eccentric old
woman named Carr concealed her
money in a fruit jar and placed the
same in a nest under a setting hen.
The hens nest was robbed and $500
taken.
ALTHOUGH the amount of capitaliza-
ton has not been settled on the exist
ence of great compassionate power
trust is an accomplished fact, New
York dispatch stated.
The commission investigating the
causes of the decline of commerce of
the port of New York heard witnesses
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the Goth. George
81. Raymond, an elevator owner read
q paper in which he stated that the de-
! cline had been almost exactly coinci-
dent with the decline of traffic over the
Erie canal and was due to the failure
n, ha