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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-05

Ls &c Not Possible Ehut 7FesVer's Chances
Are 40 Good EE AuEs
The hual wiud-up OF the silver bill
was reached on last week ia tine huus1r
and "a clean knockout was the result
After all the platform resolutions. be-
fore and after conventions, the voice OK
the people Is mot regarded. and Wall
street reigus supreme Tho question 20
take up the Stewart bill was siIsd by
the following vote: Yeas IsG; uavs,
15+- Democrats voting yea, 1Lsi peo-
pies party. 1U9 republicans, s7 totui, Ir6
Democrat IS voting nay, 94f rePuhlicanz
voting nay, go; total 1dI-
It Is pleasing to- note that every pco-
pies party man was true for the mems
ure- lt 10 also gratifying to note that
the per cent of democrats voting for
the bin was greater by far than our
republican brethren. Why is BE- that
republicans have gone back ON sugh
platform statements as were adouied
In Topeka i'm 1890 which were as iol-
lows.
''The practical operation of lhc silver
act, now i'm force recently passed 10y e.
republican majority and opposed Lg- %
democratic majority i'm both houses 1E
congress is rapidly increasing the val La
of silver, is good step iE the right de-
rectiou; but we the republicans OF Nast-
sas, demand the free coinage of siLvrrr
ously denounced 10y the late dsmoera 10
administration led 10y cz-PrcsidgEs
Grover Cleveland
And ou january 4, 1891, the TopeIza
Capital said: stop your windy
speeches about tho election bill Pass
the Plumb measure for the free coinage
of silver, and give the country one or
two hundred millions more 90. paper
currency"
And yet after all this pretcgsc to re-
Hgve she people, only eight f.4ubIicaua
voted Tor the bill Oh, how they honor
the late Plumb, and the tight he made
for free silver! But. Wall street said.
"No, and they make the laws not tho
people. How long, 5h- Lord! how IouE2
-EmpCria lkau-J Tidiugs
The vote of these free silver demo-
Gratis and republicans iu tine face Of the
terrible pressure that must have been
brought TO bear upon them would srom
to Indicate that they are true friends to
the cause of the common people. ia
case the election of O. president shuuld
be thrown into the house, and the re-
pu5Iicaus, including the eight who
voted for free silver should support
Harrison. the free silver democrats and
pHpuIi~ts would yet have a maj ajCritv Or
tHi-ty-f0ur over the guti-frec silver OK
Cleveland democrats We shall -es
what we shall see Who knows what
gve may see? GEoE8E G.. WAND
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A.

dream TO the weaker aIIfuueeE Ts
o'ertops anything ever undertaken by
the old parties, and Lhey viii never bu
forgotten in this state They demon
gtratC the singular organizing and exc
esutiv= strength of the state lecturer of
Ainuesotzr who seems 70 hesitate az no
task OK peril
DR.. Fish was born iu New York iu
1s45- He is of medium size, weighing
about 100 pounds. fair complexion and
blue eyes 1t is dsHculr 20 lima viuc this
sociall genial man. who is SO fond OF
young peoples and chiIdreu's society
70 bs tine Butnor OF the bittarsst
iuvectives and most terrible phillip
pics ever used either in journal
ism or ON the rostruzu- Ills cduca-
zion is profound. extending into
Sansllrit and EgTptoIuEy, and quite an
the modern sciences lie is the author
OF "a textbook on chemical analysis, n
work on the Egyptian pyramids ''Duu-
ne-LClua' and VLTiuus pamphlets uuE
he probably never uudsrtCuiz o. mOra
gigantic task than the conduct OF the
Aliuuesota caupHiEu for the peoples
party although the wheat light" has
made him famous For three years ua
has been elm the saddle" campaigning
all the time, flying from hamlet 90
hamlet paying his own expenses when
necessary and often sleeping i'm sod
shuuties
Minnesota Is proud uf Two men, Hon.
lguutius uauueliy and Everett ~ Fish
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As far as the city of New Orleans is
concerned the Gaines case is thing of
the past w. w. Whitney, the admin
istrator of the estate, has received a
check for S929, 75s in full settlement Of
the eity's indebtedness
An explosion of barrel of whisky in
a saloon on Second street came near
causing a disastrous conhagratiou at
Fort Smith, Ark.
The cemetery company OF Frankfort,
Ky, has decided to have no more Sun
day funerals.
LAWYER GBIFFITu, of Wilmington,
Del, has received n draft for $500 from
the Switzerland government as dam
ages for a recent Illegal detention with
other Americans at Beruc.
NEW ORLEANS painters have been
locked out for refusing to lift a boycott
against one Of the bosses
CARTER A AsHBUBY was killed at Para
gould, Ark. He was drawn into the
machinery at a shingle mill.
THE drought on the lower Rio Grands
is assuming fearful proportions.
Col RoPEs says ne is ready to begin
work on the deep-water project at Mus
tang island, OF the Texas coast, when
ever the citizens of Corpus Christi put
up $500, 600 promised as a bonus He
threatens TO sue the Daily Caller for a
publication insinuating that the Ropes
Co. had collapsed
THE people of the Mississippi delta
met in GreenviIle and observed the day
as one OF thanksgiving because that
section had escaped the late overflow.
julius WISE a negro, was executed
at Lexington courthouse, S. c., for the
murder OF another negro
DASTEL SULLIVAN, a deaf mute, killed
Fred Moerer at Houston, Tex, on az
count of girl
SIX boys were drowned by the over
turning Of a skin at Winchester, Ky.
A MYSTERIOUS letter has been received
by the chief of police of New Orleans,
stating that the writer aud his eoufed-
crates had in their possession Judge
AIarr and would deliver him for $500;
otherwise he would be killed Judge
Mari disappeared last April
CAMDEN, Ark. hopes to have q big cot
tousesd oil E,il1 located there
THE jury ia the Alice Mitchell case at
Memphis. Tenn, returned a verdict of
insanity. Alice Mitchell killed Ereda
Ward, a young woman for vvhoua she
had an abnormal affection.
The extensive cotton firm of BicIz-
ham & Moore, Kew Orleans, has failed
GEns- SPIEED 3. FRY superintendent Of
the Kentucky soldiers home, died re
Gently IN his 10th year. He served in
the kfsxicIn war and in the civil war OF
the union side. EIe became famous as
the man who killed the confederate
hrigadisF general Zollieoffer IN single
combat 81 the battle Of 8fslI SpziaEa
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THE WORLD AT LARGE,
Summary OF the Daily Newa
WAsHENaEasE -


aSEcBETABE TRACY has decided that
he vilI about October 1. send the
United states steamer ConstelIc ion,
the training ship, to Havre and Genoa.
me Constellation on her return trip
NFiil bring to this country a large col
lection Of works Of art of CoIu4n bus
time for exhibition at the worlds fair.
IHE president has nominated A r.
6Perry 20 be minister to Persia
SECRETARY RUsK talks Of successful
experiments for the cure of lu1npy law.
As . precautionary measure against
the introduction OF cholera. the secre-
tary OF the treasury has directed col
4ectors OF customs along the Atlantic
sea6osrd to prohibit the landing of emil
grants from France.
CoNGREssAIAN O-NEIII.'s indefatipabil-
Aty In pushing the eight hour law re
suited IN its passage by the house.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has vetoed the
McGarrahan claim bill. The bill gave
hcSsarraha IA quicksilver mine now in
OGO.
SENATOR CABIisLE's speech in the SEN
ate on the tariff issue is to be used by
the democrats as a campaign document.
THERE was an increase of 81, ,I67, seq
IN the public debt during the month of
July.
IHE democratic caucus decided to
have no vote on the worlds fair appro-
priatiOH until December.
IT IS proposed to establish a court to
review sentences of dismissal of army
officers passed by courts-martiaI.
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A GANG Of nineteen convicts chained
together were passing through Schulen-
berg, Tex One of them got loose and
jumped of the train and escaped At
the next station two more did the same.
RKTURyB from various parts of Ala
bama show that the straight democrat
ic ticket headed by Thomas G.. Jones
was Overyvhelmiugly elected
THE engineers surveying the Rock
Island railroad are camped few miles
north of HVeatherford. Tex They report
a satisfactory route to Weatherford-
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BOTH SIDES cONFIpENr.
Condition of AuaIrs at the IIouaestead
Carnegie Plant.

Condition of AuaIrs at the IIouaestead
Carnegie Plant.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Aug. 8.-The thirty
ninth day of the strike closed last even
ing with both sides claiming victory.
a monster meeting was held in the
opera house here at which all day
laborers were induced to be present.
On the stage We're President We.hc.
Vice President John Pierce and Orator
Jere Dauglcrty, of the Amalgamated
association each of whom addressed
the assemblage in turn.
An important feature of the meeting
was the report of a committee which
went through the mill. A committee
of eight Ama!gamated association men
at noon called upon Superintendent
Potter and told him how they
would like to see if the mill was
really being operated as was claimed
by the firm They stated that they
would report at the meeting. The com
mittee really did not think the manage
meut would entertain its request, but
Mr. Potter chcerfully agreed to take
four members through the mill and he
did The committee reported that the
firm had a large number of men
working and few experienced
rollers who turned out two or
three plates a day. The great
mum Der of men were, however, uuslzfIIcd
and useless The committee found no
cause for disCoura cement The report
was really a surprise to the men who
would not accept press statemeuts- The
Anal lgamated officials rallied them i'm
mediately, however, and the meeting
adjourned with unanimous sentiment
in favor OF prolongiug the struggle
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sfE I ~ q
EVERETT F. FT-H
It took a man who mas. siuqle-hauded.
fought the svudfcates OF the northwest
and their frrauizeH three hundred rrff-
lions Of wealth. on the .yHts1t r11,fsriez
TO put O. campaign on its feet like the
present effort in NTfuueS7ta TO start
with there was not one cent OF money.
Out of over fourteen hundred ALLIANCES
not over seven hundred were h0Idfur
meeting TEis was due to fhe utter
failure of tine lecture bureau i'm 1871.
and "a sad faatiouuL warfare for and
agaiust the fusion or anti-pIaLforn sle-
mcut-IiIze the o.. S. Hail wing
f1 Missouri rt ye --e-r7tf-iI5, Z,
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EEV dETHoD o. CAmPAIGNNo.

The 'ElsH IuatsLurrsH OF lIfuucsola Are
Doing a Great S. nFsr
There may not be many things new
under the sum- but certainly DR. Everett
w. Fish, state lecturer of the hfiuuesota
alliance has uGuEurstnd O method
w Th-cu is new and TeIlrlzu BILE It re-
quires lit-le nerve aud dash 20 set the
method i'm motion. A c8uHtv attorney
vFlo was lzuov-u TO have g great hustiI-
ity 10 Or. Fish once heard a group OF
village peopl- deuounciug the doctor
and the peoples cause
'Well- % said the attorney ''I viii say
this for the doctur, no man ever called
him coyyariir
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ARBITRATIoN AND ~.

brennan says the Carnegie Company WIN
Get the Latter if They Refuse She For
mcr.
PTrsBURGH, Pa, Aug. a.-W. j.
brennan representing the Amalra-
mated association, made application be-
fore Judge Ewing for the appointment
OF voluntary trade tribunal to settle
the Homestead trouble The petition
was signed by sizty-seveu former en-
Pioyes of the Carnegie company. Judge
Ewing made an order for q provisional
license for the tribunal as provided for
In the act where only the employees re-
quest appointment of the board If
the Carnegie Steel Co. does not sign the
petition in sixty days it VIII be dis
missed
Speaking OF the application for a
tribunal of arbitration to-day. w j.
Brennan counsel for the AmaIvamated
association, said:
II understand that Secretary Loveiov
says the company has nothing to arbi-
trate, If that is the case we will give
them some law and we viii see whether
there Is one law for the rich and auo-
ther for the poor They viii find when
they get into court that the jury has
something to say and that they are the
judges of fact as well as of the law.
We viii give them all the law they
want"
Mr. Bremen stated further that the
suits against FricIr, Lovejoy and Potter
would surely be entered
1t is also the intention to lodge inEor-
nation against the bosses of the various
departments and all who Were on the
ground the day of the riot
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THE Missouri Pacific denies that it in
tends to put collectors on its passenger
trains
TIRE Iessees of the American Civil
mine at Ouray, Col, have paid their
81 900, 600 bond and now own the prop
erty. St. Louis and Denver capitalists
form the company.
The two-story frame cooler of the
Bruggerman brewery, St Paul, Mimi.
collapsed, and three men who vvero
sleeping in the building were buried
and one killed,
THE supreme court Of Michigan has
handed down opinions declaring uncou-
stitutional the two acts OF the last legis-
lature reapportioning the representa-
tive and senatorial districts in the state.
A REvENuE collector OF the Cherokee
nation SAYS there are now about 100, 600
cattle, 20, coo horses and Is. coo sheep on
the strip and that the soldiers have
made no attempt to remove any OF
THE engines Of the Chicago & South.
eastern road have been seized for taxes
and chained TO the track by an Indiana
county treasurer,
THE bank OF Et Reno, Ok, was robbed
by two men, who compelled the wife of
President Sawyer to hand over SO, 800.
EIGHT hundred employees of the Gillzey
& Anson Luul beE Co, at Merrill. Wis,
have struck for ten hours work instead
of eleven at ten hours pay. which was
refused them
Two men were killed and three prob
ably fatally injured by a boiler ezplO-
sion at a savvEniu near Stanley, l. 7.
TIE boiler In the shingle mill of
Haruneu & Smith, on Otsego lake, near
Gaylord, Mich, blew up, killing four
men, fatally injuring one other and
demoiishing the mill
The Hotel Norder, Belding, Mich,
vVas burned The guests narrowly
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-05

PIEHzzE AEILI-Er, the brother of Jean
Eraucoise Aiillet1 is living I'm Boston
He is sculptor Of great ability. but,
Ike his brother, as retiring and modest
to an unusual degree, and shrinlzs from
n0toristy-
ONE Thousand eight hundred and
ninety-ouG is the banner -four year of
Minneapolis its Official output being
s.sz7s s91T barrels, exceeding the banner
year GSSs bF more than SOC. 600 barrels
r'Lr Is EiEglc. gabble, Eobbie ana git- %
was Or. Holmes description OF ala after
noon tea, IN reply 60 . polite inquiry
from hil hosteaa
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USIoSrowS, Pa, Aug. SO f.
Rheiuhart7 a representative of the Car
negie company, came here and stopued
at the Hotel AIahonsy- He made his
business known, which was that he de
sired to employ some of the Unioutovvn
steel workers to go to Homestead and
work in the mills there The AmaIra-
mated people learned of Rheiuhartrs
mission, and when Rheiuhart started
to the Baltimore & Ohio depot to take a
train for home, he was met by fully 600
angry men, who drove him back to the
hotel, where he still remains
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-05

"A SfsIn<eDE mas TED New York
against the employment of Piulzerton
detectives st summer resorts. which is
contrary to the anti -Pinizcrton law re-
Gently passed by the state legislature
STOCK gam bling caused Ronald Ken
nedy to kill Charles II. Page. a well
known broker of Philadelphia Ken
nedy immediately afterward took his
own life.
A SENSATIONAL feature in the Private
Iams' ease was brought out when mem
oers of the Randall club at Pittsburgh
Pa-, announced they would take steps
TO have Licut.-Col Streator expelled
from the club.
WAsHISGTON NATHAN's recent death at
Boulogne, France, recalls the Nathan
murder mystery of July %, 1870, at
New York. He was son of the muir
be concerned.
THE body of the late Robert Raw
Hamilton has been sent east for burial.
IHE college league of ofrepublican clubs
has opened headquarters in New York
A PoIIcEsTAS. chased two little stark
naked nevvsbuys through the streets OF
New York recently. Thev had been
bathing in one of the fountains.
THE Crane chemical works at Spring.
Held, N. j.. blew mp, One man was
missing.
GEORGE K. SIsTARE, the well known
New York broker, who failed with his
brother some time ago for a large
amount, has committed suicide.
WILLIAM WILSON, who has bean fy-av-
cling as 'sSir Edward Cook, - is in jaA at
New York. Ho first came to grief at
Denver, Col, where he got six months
A YOUNG woman Mt LehiRhton, Pa.
was prevented marrying George Bell
ster by her brothers. Bolster had ac-
cepted position in the Homestead
works and the brothcrs said they would
have 10 ''scab' in their family
IT IS stated that Chuuncey NJ. Depeyy
has started to Europe for the purpose
of influencing Carnegie to agree to an
amicable settlement of the Homestead
strike.
COEaREssAfAS McKrNNEr, democrat,
wants to be governor OF New HamP-
shire.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, the editor
OF Harper's, is improving in health.
BERGMAS, who attempted to kill H.
c. FriclS, had his bail fixed at s24, 600.
NEW York millers have combined to
increase profits.
WESTERN coal agents at New York
decided not to advance prices.
THE fve-inch segmental tube wire is
said to be a wonderful gun at Birds
bOro. Pa
PHILIP LUsTTa was put to rest forever
at New York by his physicians He
was badly intoxicated and noisy, and
they gave him ether and ehloroform to
quiet him.
THE formal consolidation of the
Poughkeepsie Bridge Co, with the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad has
been announced.
CARPET and upholstery dealers are
said at New York to be formiEg a com
bine.
IAAIs, the militiaman maItreated by
Col. Streator at Homestead, Pa, syvore
out criminal warrants for the arrest of
Col. Hawkins and Surgeon Grim as well
as StreatOr.
TIE steamship POrtia was run into
by the schooner Fair Wind in the New
York sound The Portia had a hole
stove in, but MANAGED 10 reach port.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-05

Political ambition is alleged bv GER
tain persons TO be the 1-ainsprinr of
Federal Attorney Ady-s warfare against
railroads
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-06-19
THE SEASONS CROP.

Mrs. A. I. BRANCH, Of Orient. Fla :,
FILLED a six-foot RATHER in her strawbcr.
y patch the other day.
a cALP with six distinct feet. all OF
which drc used in walking. is reported
from Moorcsvilie. Ind. 1t is alleged
that this freak has n brother endowed
with an equal number of feet.
MARK KESSIsroS, of Phillips, Me.
had the smallest bear probably over
seen by man, and he has been mounted
nrtistically. 1t is six inches from tip to
tip and IS three inches in height.
A MAN-EATISG shark eighteen and
feet long. with n head rs big rs
n barrel, came ashore on the beach at
Prescott, Me, recently. Its stomach
contained n sheep and several doglsh.
THERE is a brook which runs through
he borough of Winstead, Conn, which
"ntains many trout. Half a dozcu
ore seen together n few days ago
INNING around within five feet Of
" sidewalk. and appeared not tie
st afraid of the many people who
ntchcd them.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-06-19
SWEDISH SPECIE.

Pieces or Money Weighing Fonr Pounds
n Coin Arc Sent to tho Worlds TnIr.
Some curious copper pieces of money
were received at the custom house re-
Gently for Gustavus StcInbcrg, n
Swedish dealer in coins. who intends to
exhibit them ut the worlds fair. Tho
coins came from Sweden, where they
circulated in the sixteenth century,
and bear more resemblance to pieces OF
boiler iron after an explosion than
money.
The coins are great fiat pieces Of
copper, cut into squares. The smallest
coin Is four inches square and worth
thirty cents. The largest is over u foot
Square and with IL face value of four
dollars, and weighs four pounds. Each
slab of copper is stamped in several
places with an inscription giving the
date OF its issue and its denomination.
These enormous and cumbersome
coins were the result of n craze which
prevailed several hundred years ago for
the exclusive use of copper for money.
In those days wealthy ladies' were COM
PEELED to hire an attendant to accom-
pany then To carry n baskctful of tho
coppers while shopping.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-06-19
a birthday Party.

Last evening II number OF heyoung
people gathered at the residence OF
MIR. and Mrs. II. II. Harris and gnvc n
surprise party 10 their daughter,
Miss Cora, in honor of her 10th birth
day. The time was spout in playing
various games, music and dancing
until supper was announced when all
won't TO tho dining room md filled up
OH ice.crcam. cake, candy, etc. After
tho refreshments the fun was fast
and furious until Tine tune came for
the merry youngsters to 90 to thor
respective homes, when all bnde Miss
Cora II kind good night, Wishing her
many future birthdays. .,...,.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-06-19
THINGS ANTIQUATEO.

a TIFFfs CO.) man carries a gold
coffin screw II hundred years old for
luck. He found it in n graveyard.
TIE Oldest spoon in the world be-
longs to George 4. Warren. Of Indian-
npolis. 1t is two hundred and twenty
nine years old and was brought from
England.
j. n. PICKETT, Of Obion county,
Tenn, 1t is said has n mule twenty-ninc
years old. notwithstanding his age he
he is quite II mule. and his owner is
careful never to leave him hitchcd to a
wagon for fear he will run away and
get spoiled.
j. a. BUCHANAN. Of Obion county.
Tenn, has in his possession m old hun
ter's powder gourd, such rs was used
by all the old pioneer hunters, in which
they carried their powder, that be-
longcd to his grandfather, and is. ac-
cording to Mr.. ~Buch1Dan's estimation,
over one hundred years old.