The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-10-11
IN view of a general misunderstand7

| .ng on the part of applicants OF the
terms of the presidents order touching
| places in the consular service which
| are to be filed by non-competitive ex-
| aminations, Assistant Secretary Rock
| hill has been obliged to send out a cir
cular in answer to all applicants.
AN earthquake shock was expert
| enced at Winona, Ill, at leo on the
morning of the eth. Many people
were SO alarmed that they sat up until
daylight A good deal of damage was
done to the mines in the vicinity, slate
and rock being shaken from the roofs,
and there was scarcely mine but
would have to expend 5000 or $500 to
repair the damage.
AT Decatur, ILL.,. Charles N. Smith
was sentenced on the 18th to be hanged
Novemb Der 90 for numbering his daugh-
ter. Louise Smith, and his sister-in-
law, Edna Buchert. Smith heard the
sentence unmoved and quietly said:
Thank YOU" At the last word from
the Judge there was an outbreak of
applause and a shrek from the prison
er's wife. the mother of the murdered
girl. ''Oh, the slayer of my child has
got what he deserved" she cried.
''Thank God he has got his dues. am
SO glad, l am SO glad
THE Kansas City trades assembly on
the 9th took decided step in the boy
colt against the Swift Packing Co. A
statement of the facts in the case was
to be sent to the Federated Labor
union and every labor organization in
the United States. 1t was also decided
TO he 70 ho fy.od
gress of Europe, which was the head
of the la Dor unions of France, Germany
and England.
THE international atheletic contests
between Yale and Cam bridge at Man
haitian field New York, resulted in the
Americans winning all but three of
the events, the Britishers taking the 4
mile, the Is mile and the mile runs.
AT the wedding of H. D. Gage, near
Sabula, Ia, three weeks ago there
were more than 400 persons. OF these
1O4 on the 9th were confined to their
beds, suffering the most intense agony.
At the wedding feast pressed chicken,
prepared the day before, was served.
Another dish freely partaken of was
pork, and many inclined to the belief
trichinosis.
ONE of the largest fires that has ever
occurred in southeastern New England
broke out in one of the mills of the
Warren Or. ~ Manufacturing Co..
just after midnight on the Sd and be-
fore it was gotten under control it had
swept through three large cotton
mills, two warehouses, small sheds.
freight cars and other property, caus-
ing loss estimated at 81. 125. 600. The
local fire department was totally mad
equate to cope with the flames and had
to appeal to adjacent towns.
IT was said at the treasury depart
ment at Washington that the case of
the Chinaman Gee Hop, who claimed ad-
mission into this country at San Fran
cisco on the ground that he was a nat
uralized citizen of the United States,
presented no novel features. The law
was very plain on that point. The act,
approved May 6, 1882, provided that
hereafter no state court or court of the
United States shall admit Chinese to
citizenship, and all laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed
Gov. CI1LBERsON signed the anti
prize fight bill on the Sd and prize
fighting in Texas hereafter will be
punished as felony. There was
much bitter feeling at Dallas against
Gov. Culberson, Many usually con-
sentative citizens openly declared that
he ought to be burned in eftigy. The
governor, however, was kept busy
opening kilograms from Maine to Cali
fornia congratulating him on the pas
sage of the law.
AS the result of a six weeks spree
William c. Henry, an engineer on the
Wabash road at Springfield, Ill. shot
and fatally wounded his wife and then
fed, but his body was found after
wards in corn shock in the suburbs,
where he had committed suicide.
CHAMPION CORBETT and his party
reached New Orleans on the 4th. Local
sports said Corbett was not in good
condition, his face being very much
pinched and there was a dull look
about his eyes and the opinion was en-
pressed that the champion showed by
his conversation that he was building
up foundation to get out of the fight
if possible.
AT Silsterville. W. Va, citizens
burned gambling house kept by AL
oCi DOL eoh Jul ing tou doSChCC.
The gamblers wife, attempting to es-
cape. jumped from the second story
window and was fatally injured. Bar
ton had been repeatedly warned by
citizens.
SURROGATE FIrZGERALD, of New
York, has returned to David Mcclure,
appraiser of the Jay Gould estate, his re-
ports on it's value in order that the coli
lateral inheritance tax may be levied.
The report values the personal proper
ty of the estate at $50. 934, $50, and the
real estate at So. 900. 600 The residuary
estate amounts to S73, 224, 547.
THE latest rumor in railway circles
declared that an agreement had been
reached between the Missouri Pacific.
Wabash and the Chicago. Milwaukee
& St. Paul roads by which the Central
branch of the Missouri Pacific would
be extended to Denver from Stockton
or Lenora. Kan, next year.
THE South Carolina constitutional
convention by an overwhelming ma
jority, has adopted a clause forbidding
the intermarriage of a white person
with any person who has any negro
blood whatever in his or her veins.
This, in connection with the suffrage
clause, will have the effect of disfran-
chising the mulattoes.
HARRY j. L. MARTIN, for seven years
teller of the Commercial national