The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-03-24
THE WEST.

The situation In the Kalamazoo,
Mich, flooded districts remained about
the same on the 18th. The water had
not risen any since the previous night,
but there was much suffering as ice had
formed and house to house communica-
tion by boats was almost impossible
In fight at the Athletic club rooms
at Grand Rapids, Mich, Fred Broome
was knocked out in the third round,
sustaining conclusion of the brain,
from the effects of which he may die.
JOHN ORTILLY, a rich bachelor of San
Francisco, has died and left million
dollars or more to his brother, Michael,
who is wanderer and cannot be found.
The much talked-of statue of Miss
Rehan in silver has dwindled down con-
siderably. 1t is now announced that
only her bust will be on show.
SOLDIERS are patrolling the Cherokee
strip and are arresting and running out
all boomers whom they find trespassing
upon it
IT is reported that defects were de-
veloped at the trial of the coast defense
ship Monterey at San Francisco and
that the constructors will lose $50, 900
because of the burning out of two large
boilers.
THE Western Freight association has
decided not to change the grain rates
AN explosion occurred in the Wheeler
opera house at Toledo. o., and in few
minutes the entire building was ablaze.
The building was erected in 1871 and
the loss was $4,000.
GEN. SIMON Brown died at st. Clair,
Mich, on the 18th, aged 81 years. He
participated in seventy-two engage
ments during his life.
THE Minnesota legislature, in def
ance of the opinion of the attorney
general, will hold on to the coal COM
panies' books, obtained by force, and it
proposes to prove by them that coal
combine exists in the state.
OTTo FAULKENBURG, convicted of
''whitecapping" in Perry county, Ill,
ber of citizens in participating in the
lynching of John Davidson at Doolit-
ties Mill five years ago. Thirteen men
have been indicted.
A STRANGE disease among cattle in
Central Illinois is believed to be due to
the feeding of millet
The switchmen on the Big Four at
Springfield, O., have struck.
j. NJ, ORcUTT, the Michigan 'Bohe-
mian oats" schemer, is dead He made
$500 out of the swindle from 1888 to
1855.
A SUCCESSFUL cast of Montana's silver
statue of justice, for which Miss Ada
Rehan was the model, has been. made
at Grand Crossing, near Chicago.
EN-Gov. CLICK announces that he is
not in the race for commissioner of the
land Office or any other place
A WALL of the burned Wheeler opera
house at Toledo. O., was blown over,
wrecking two other buildings
IT has been practically decided to
keep the worlds faif open late every
evening to give people chance to see
the wonderful electrical exhibit
FRANK LEsNET, receiver of the United
States land office at Roswell, N. NJ,
has disappeared and it is feared that he
is short in his accounts.
The war between the Minnesota coal
combine and the legislature was car
ried into the courts and the legislature
was sustained at every point.
CHIEFS ARTHUR AND SARGENT. of the
brotherhoods ofengineers and firemen,
have been sued for damages by the Ann
Arbor road for ordering strike.
Ex-CONGREssMAN BLoUNT has left
San Francisco on his mission to Hawaii
and expects to be gone three months.
A COMPARISON of appropriations made
by the present Missouri legislature
with those of previous years shows a
marked retrenchment at the present
session