The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

to that part of Venezuela claimed by
| Great Britain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
News comes from st. Barnabee of a
young woman named Drechenel, who
has taken no food for sixty-five days,
| the only thing she can swallow being
little water or tea. Although very
weak she is still able to move about
and the doctors are puzzled about the
case.
THE president has made the follow.
ing appointments, President James B.
Angel, of Michigan university; John
E. Russell, of Massachusetts,, and Ly-
man E. Conley, of Illinois, to be COM
missioners to make inquiry upon the
feasibility of 4 deep water canal be-
tween the great lakes and the Atlantic
ocean under the act approved in March
| last.
In his annual report to the secretary
Of the navy Surgeon General Tryon
discusses the new medical treatments
at length and gives a favora BILE opin-
ton of the value of strychnia in the
treatment of pneumonia. He also says
that anti-toxine has been tried at the
Washington naval hospital with the
most favorable results.
H. H: HOLMES, who is accused of at
least six murders to get the insurance
money on the lives of his victims, was
found guilty at Philadelphia of the
murder of B. F. Pietzel
EALF the village of Lancaster, Ont,
was destroyed by fire on the Sd. Loss.
O,OOO.
FIRE visited Arcadia, Ia, on the Sd
and only one store was left in the
town. 1t burned over an area of four
acres, taking with it six residences and
hotels, opera house, one livery barn,
one harness shop. two grain elevators,
one lumber and coal yard. barber shop,
| post office, two drug stores, two sa-
looms, three general merchandise
| stores, one furniture store, one hard
ware store, one butcher shop, one
vacan. store room, one boot and shoe
store and four barns The estimated
loss was $50, 900, partly covered by in
surance.
| JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has written
letter to the trustees of Chicago uni
versity in which he states he will give
the university 100000 for endow-
ment, payable January 1, 1896, and a
further sum of S.. OOO. 900 in amounts
equal to the contributions of others.
This makes the total amount of Mr..
Rockefeller's gifts to the Chicago uni
versity $7,4a5, OoO
The Oak Ridge sanitarium at Green
Springs. O., four-story brick struct-
ure, was destroyed by fire recently.
The forty-eight guests, most of whom
were invalids, all escaped, many of
them having to be carried from the
burning building. The loss will be
about $40. 900, with SIC, 900 insurance.
The monthly coinage statement
shows the coinage executed at the
United States minis during the month
of October to have been as follows
Gold, $7,215, 700; silver, $500, 900; one
cent pieces, S23, 500; total coinage, So,
O59, 200.
navigation, in his annual report to the
secretary of the navy, shows that dur
ing the past year 3,9l2 men and 34s ap.
prentices were enlisted in the navy
Seven hundred and~6fty men and II;
apprentices deserted, and of this mum
Der 63S men and 16l apprentices de-
seT1eu IN nome ports.
SELLS Bros, the circus men, have
purchased the interest of the Barnum
heirs in the Barnum- Bailey shows.
PROF. MOORE, chief of the weather
bureau, said on the 31st that rain fell
throughout the drought region from
New Mexico to England and that the
drought had been broken.
! AT jacksonville, Mimi, Ada Potter
aged 10 years, and Nettie Wagner, aged
Q, were drowned in the Des Moline.
river. The Potter girl broke through
the ice and her friend attempted t.
rescue her. Two older sisters of tn,
dead girls tried to rescue them, ant
both broke through the ice. The,
were gotten out just in time, and b,
prompt aid were resuscitated.
THE commissioner of immigration
) in his annual report covering the las
. fiscal year, shows total immigration
for the year 25S, a31, which is less thar
, any year since 1879 OF these 14s, 90
were males
MGR SATOLLI, papal delegate to tn
United States, has been made a cardi
nal by the pope. The beretta will b
imposed by Cardinal Gibbons in Balti
, more early in December.
. The large band and gang saw mill
\ of the Cable Lumber Co., st Daven
port, Ia. were entirely destroyed b,
: fire on the Sist Loss about SIS, OOl
2 well covered by insurance. One hun
: bred and thirty men were thrown on
9 of employment
ExECurIvE officers of roads interest
ed in Colorado traffic have decided t
restore rates to the tariffs which wer
: in effect before the recent dencralizs
ton set IN