The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-11-15

and that when it goes into operation
the whole traffic of the northwest will
be at the mercy of the carriers. Ship
pers will have to pay whatever rates
were demanded. without the POSSIBLE
ity of concessions or means of redress.
THE big New York Central depot at
flames were confined to one floor.
JOE VENDIe, Corbett's manager, has
received a check, it was said, for So, 500.
being the amount of the forfeit claimed
by the champion fighter from the Flor
ida Athletic club for the recent prize
fight fizzle.
THE first assistant postmaster-gen-
eral, Mr.. Frank Jones, has made his
annual report. An estimate of ST.
900, 900 is made for postmasters' sal.
aries for 1897. Mr.. Jones defends the
recent spotting of letter carriers on
their routes and says it has improved
the service considerably and recon-
mends a permanent force to supervise
the carriers work and make sugges.
tions as to changes in their routes. An
estimate of S12, 1880, 500 is made for the
free delivery service next year. Money
orders were issued during the past year
to the amount of S156, 7O9 Os9
A PRIVATE cable message from Rome
to Chicago said that Mgr. LaurenZelli,
now serving as internuncio at the
Hague, had been selected to succeed
Mgr. Satolli as papal ablegate in Amer
lea and that he would reach this coun-
try before Mgr. Satollrs departure for
Rome.
A MAN supposed to be S. C. Busch
was found dead with a woman he said
was his wife in boarding house at
New York. Gas was escaping from a
gas stove in the room. The police
both was the result of accident
SECRETARY SMITH has sent to the
president a draft of the proclamation
opening the Nez Perces lands to settle
ment.
The Chicago Evening Post asserted
on the sth that the Nicaragua canal
would be built by New York and Lon
don capitalists and that all attempts to
secure financial aid from the United
States government would be aban-
doned. Between So 600, 900 and SS5,
900, 900, had been guaranteed.
DURING dense fog in Chesapeake
bay on the 9Th the Norfolk and Wash.
ington line steamer Newport News
ran down and sunk the tug Katie. The
crew of the steamer Louise, which was
near the scene of the accident, heard
the two vessels crash together and the
cries of the men in distress, but the
fog was so heavy that they were una
BILE to render any assistance. When
they arrived at the scene of the disas-
ter they found the bodies of the cook
and fireman floating near the sunken
tug.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended November showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 1872;
in New York the increase was 90. 4;
outside New York the increase was
12.5.
PRACTICALLY all of the Clyde en-
gineers were idle on the 18th, as the
bulk of them had refused to go to
work as protest against the action of
the ship-builders locking out % per
cent. of the union employees in their
yards, and the extent to which the
other industries were affected was in
calcula BILE, for when the ship-building
on the Clyde is at a stand-still gen.
eral stagnation of business in the west
of Scotland is the result. The coal and
iron industries were most affected, and
numbers of miners and iron workers
will probably be thrown, out of work.
MONA MCDONALD, the 1s-year. old son
of II. D. Mcdonald, proprietor of the
Oxford Kan. Register, was murdered
in Chicago on the 18th by one of three
burglars whom he surprised while at
tempting to rob a house where he was
staying. Mcdonald entered the house
alone and found the burglars at work.
One of them shot him through the
head as soon as he stepped inside. He
lived only few moments. All the men
escaped.
The president has approved an
amendment to the civil service rules,
which will result in bringing many
postmasters and employees within the
classified service.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper said that the
Fair will case has been settled out of
court, and what promised to be bit
ter contest over an estate valued at
$40, 900, 900 has been abandoned. Those
interested in the matter, however, de-
MED that there had been any compro-
mise made.
THE failures for the week ended No.
vember 8 Dun's reporD were $50 in the
United States, against 261 last year,
and 80 in Canada, against AZ last year.
ACABLEGRAM to the New York World
stated that the five Chinese vegetarian
leaders in the recent massacre of mis-
sionaries at Hwasang had been be.
headed.
A DISPATCH from Alton, ILL.,, said that
the steamer Belle of Calhoun sunk a
barge near Clifton on which were 3, OOC
barrels of apples
WILLIAM BENNET, of Ashland, Pa.
was driving with his wife and family
in a wagon when the horses slipped
and fell. After getting his family out
the team disappeared. The ground
had dropped into an abandoned mine.
Hon. THOMAS F. BAYARD, United
States ambassador to England. deliv.
cred the inaugural address to the Phi.
losophic society at Edin burg, Scot
land. The ambassador glorified the
institutions of the United States and
denounced socialism and protection.
THE double-scull race of miles at
Austin, Tex, between Bubear and
Barry, Englishmen, and Rogers and
TIE emer, Americans, was won by the
EnO1iShmen Time 1T.aO rTbic ro q