The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-03

OLD >TEUTH. who has for years thrilled
youthful readers ofcheap literature with
his detective stories. is Harlan p. Hal
sey. a member of the Brooklyn Board
of Education.
TTrEnR is considerable speculation in
the City of Mexico as to who will be ap-
pointed secretary of tho United States
legation there in place of Mr.. H REM
sen Whitchouse. who, it is reported,
VIII not return
The late Marquis Tseng has received
the highest posthumous honors which
the Celestial Kingdom can bestow. in a
formal decree of the Emperor that he
'ferg. yes him all his sins and crimes
committed during his life"
Prince EpwAuD. of SAGE weimar, the
German who commands the British arm y
in Ireland, weighs 30S pounds. Two OF
his chargers were burned in a recent
FIRE at Curragh camp. and the task of
finding a horse able to carry him is a
hard one
TEXAS is wonderfully prosperous
From all sections come reports of in
crease of capital and arrival of wel1-to-
do Immigrants The moneys invested
for the school fund and the lands held
by the State for the same are estimated
at 500 ooo, 600
A VERY serious error has been diseov-
cred in the River and Harbor bill which
has just become a law. Tho act, as
printed, approrriates but 81, 900 for con-
tinuing the work on the Illinois river,
while tho bill as it passed both houses
and prior to its enrolment for presen ia
ton to tho President. appropriated $500,
coo.
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THE Duke OF Westminster has one of
g xurfrna IN.
England and he is a particularly good
judge of sherry and claret lie is. per-
haps, the greatest living instance of
men who have grown enormously rich
by tho "unearned increment" London
having spread all over one of his big
estates.
HoN. S. J. RANDALL. who died at his
Washington residence April Is, failed
to execute a will and Register of Wills
Gratz, of Philadelphia, granted letters
of administration on his estate to the
widow Fanny w. Randall The entire
estate loft by deceased is valued at
about $4,000 and consists entirely of
personal effects
PRESIDENT $. b. EnwIS. of the Farmers
Alliance of kentucky, and cd tor of the
official organ, the kentucky State Union,
has come out boldly against the sub
treasury scheme, and has created much
comment by SO doing, but the Demo-
cratic Wheelers of that section are up
holding him He had previously been
quoted as favoring it
LoTTIE DIcIvINsoN, a pretty American
girl of seventeen, a domestic, got ac-
quainted with Chin Ling, a Chinese
lhundryman, at Asbury Park, n. j., last
summer and has gone to New York with
him, presumably to become his wife,
in er1 fSy. f.t<. a
like native American and is an expert
vocalist and musician.
EVIDENTLY the days of big nuggets in
Australia are not yet over by the last
mails from Perth comes the statement
that :hvo men arrived from Shaw Falls,
NullaRine Ia Western Australian gold
held). bringing with them 400 ounces of
gold and big nugget weighing 1853
OUNCES o penrywe gifts" tits described
as IVORY uiass We and handsome mug
GET 49,.
BIZ tho derailing of Q train between
Florence and Fiesole five persons were
killed>and twenty injured. King Hum
bert and Queen Margaret were about to
startfor the races. but upon learning oil
the disaster thcy abandoned their in
tention and Immediately proceeded to
tho scene of the accident, where they
personally directed the. care Of the in
jured.
NJ TAsiouHoux, who WITS formerly
secretary for Court Dillon. has pub
lished hook bearing the title. "A Yea,
in Exile" which contains revelations
concerning the Boulangist party. Most
of the matter in the book is old. The
author charges General Boulanger with
approprinting to his personal use part
OF the fund subscribed to advance the
re Nf ff.ea a..ex
Colon. nearly destroyed by fire, is the
northern port of the fsthmus of Panama
and is better known by the name Of
Aspinwah. Tho place was also con
sumed in 1855 and has always had 6
siclSly and unfortunate existence. The
claim that it has 10. 600 inhabitants i.
probably an exaggeration. Its only
reason for being is that it is the At
lantic terminus of the Panama railway
w. p. PiNcKARp, editor and pres. don
of tho Age-Heraid Company, of Dir
7 iningham, Ala, has been arrested on
warrant charging him with publishing
advert senfents of the Louisiana Lot
terry Company. Tho United States Com
missioner held that each issue was .
separate offense and put him unde
bond OF IS, Gao to await the action of tbs
grand jury. Bond was promptly given
Mrs JESSIE BENTON FREMONT, ths
widow of General John C. Fremont hal
addressed q letter to. the public il
which she expresses great gratitude fo
the timely aid rendered during the re
cent financial straits OF herself ane
daughter. Sho states further that il
view of the passage of a bill granttn,
her a pension the emergency has heeI
tided over and she desires no fertile
financial assistance.
1T is said that the electric compass il
! having an excellent effect on the sailor
I on ships on which 1t has boon adopted
as the steering in such cases has mark
eddy improved. The object of this In
vention is to indicate by an eiectri,
! bell placed in tho captains cabin any
deviation from the course laid dowr
through the careiessness of the man n
the Wheel This invention is likely t.
materially lessen dangers at sea.
WORD has just been received in New
Bedford, Mass, from Point Barrow
Arctic Ocean. that Joseph George,
RDrttuueSc~i in ffrfs r,fnv NJ the D.