The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-08-23


THE National Tobacco Workers
dnion has announced that, in accord
ance with \ decision of a recent meet
ing at ST. Louis, it would boycott every
brand OF tobacco produced by the
American Tobacco Co., and that the
American Federation of Labor would
probably also indorse the boycott, and
an appeal be made to every tobacco
user to follow their example.
A MOTOR boat on the river Elbe, near
Hamburg, sank and seventeen people
were drowned
THE Trade and Labor assembly and
the Labor congress at Chicago have
each arranged for a parade on Labor
day. but SO serious has the feeling
grown between the two factions that
Chief of Police Badenoch has insisted
on laying out the line of march to be
followed by the two hostile camps te
keep them from a collision.
THE failures in the United States for
the week ended the 10th (Dun's report
we're 1876, against 229 last year.
The wife and little son of Arthur
Frances, of Englewood, Ill, were acct.
lentally drowned in Spring lake. Mich
igan. The child was in bathing and
got beyond his depth. when the mother
went to his rescue and both were
drowned.
THE dumry hotel ut Denver, COL.
was blown to pieces by an explosion
early on the morning of the 10th, and
it was feared that about twenty
people had lost their lives. 1t was
supposed that the battery of boilers
had exploded in the basement Fire
added to the horror of the situation,
the firemen having to abandon several
victims to their fate just as they had
been almost rescued.
PRESIDENT w. W. KENT, of the West
ern Baseball association, has trans
ferred the Jacksonville franchise to
Springfield, Ill. Poor patronage at
Jacksonville was the reason given for
the transfer.
A CHICAGO newspaper recently pub
lished interviews with national com
mitteemen of both the republican and
democratic parties. which indicated
that each were in favor of a short pres
dental campaign in 1896!
THE eighth biennial session of the
supreme lodge of the colored Knights
Of Pythias of North America. South
America. Europe, Asia and Africa con.
vened in Chicago on the 18th and will
continue in session four days. Aside
from the regular routine business
there was the important question OF
unifcation of the various branches OF
the order among colored men to be
considered.
AT Algonquin, small village near
Elgin, ILL.,, fire destroyed Frank
Kazers house. Kazer managed to get
his wife and two children out safely,
but before he could rescue another
daughter the roof fell in, CARRYING the
child down. Crazed with grief Kazer
resisted the efforts of neighbors to
drag him from the burning structure
and his life was lost with that of his
daughter.
A DISPATCH from Clearfeld, Pa, on
the 10th said that eight men were
killed and ten seriously hurt by the
premature explosion of blast near
Mehaffy on the Pittsburgh & Eastern
railway.
JAPAN was visited by terrible storms
recently. foundations adding theiI
devastating effects to the havoc
culated that over 1000 people lost theii
lives. many being drowned.
GEN. S. b. MAXEY, a noted eX-c,n
federate general, died at Eureka
Springs. Ark, on the 10th. He was
resident of Paris, Tex, and at the
breaking out of the war raised the
Ninth Texas infantry for service in
the confederate army.
JOHN HICKS house was burned at
Big Stone Gap, Va, and four of his
children persisted while his wife and
one child were badly burned. The
fire caught from a stove and burned
very rapidly, while the family were
asleep.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Lex.
ington, KY, on the 10th and lynch
ing was highly probable. Mrs. Mary
Hudson, wife of a prominent farmer,
was assaulted by a negro named Henry
Smith, who was captured and placed
in Jail. A large mob of angry people
surrounded the Jail and it was said
hundreds of others were on the way
there to do violence to the negro.
REPRESENTATIVE wire workers of the
country met at Cleveland. O., and or.
ganized the Federated Association of
Wire Workers of America, independ-
ent of the American Federation of La
Dor.
TIE schooner Ellen, British vessel,
was recently fred upon by Vene.
zuelan gunboat in the Caribbean sea
and, although the captain sent the
British flag to his mizzenmast head,
the gunboat ignored it and continued
firing until the schooner hove 10 and
the Venezuelans searched the vessel
, and then allowed her to continue her
voyage. The matter has been reported
to London.
The printers at Washington were re-
ported as being dissatisfied with the
results of the classified service as ex.
tended to the government printing Of
fee and the typographical union of
that city will make an attempt to get
the civil service commission to change
its methods TO agree with the ideas of
the compositors or do away with the
examinations altogether.
IN the presence of 5000 persons at
Dublin, Ireland, Peter Maher, the Irish
champion. knocked out johnson, OF
London, in half minute and the Lon
don Sporting Life said that Maher
deserved to go in the first rank of
| boxers