The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-03-27
NIISCELLANEOUS.

The invitation came from Secretary
Smith.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued Q
| comprehensive order extending the
civil service to practically the en-.
tire Indian service.
A DISPATCH from Cairo stated that
the khalifa had proclaimed holy war
against Egypt and had called all der.
wishes to enroll under his banner.
A violent shock of earthquake was
felt about eight o'clock on the evening
of the 22d in the vicinity of Machias,
Me. Houses trembled, dishes ratified
and clocks stopped. People rushed
from their houses in alarm.
The amendment to the interstate
commerce law to compel witnesses to
testify to infraction of the law not
outstanding the constitutional pro-
vision releasing persons from incrim.
mating themselves, providing they are
not prosecuted, was on the 23d declared
by the United States supreme court to
be effective and valid.
The senate committee on territories
has agreed to report favorably the bill
for the admission of Arizona as a state.
j. w. o. PATTON, physician Of
Nowata, I. T., while crazed with
liquor, accidentally shot Charles Rob-
inson.
Mrs. Charlotte A. Drayton, nee
Astor, secured a divorce at Trenton,
| N. J., on the 23d from her husband, j.
| Coleman Drayton.
AT Joliet, ILL, the mill of the CONSOLE
dated Steel & Wire Co. was destroyed
by fire, causing a loss of $3.50, 900.
THE large hardware manufacturing
! concern of Sargent & Co. at New Ha-
ven, Conn. employing some !, 500 hands,
has reduced the hours of work IL hours
on account of the slack demand for
goods.
At the new Berwind-White shaft at
Dubois, Pa, IA men were instantly
killed and some were mutilated beyond
recognition by a gas explosion.
Fire broke out in the building of the
Thackera company, makers Of gas fix
lures, at Philadelphia on the 23d and
nearly half a million dollars went up
in smoke.
Gas exploded in the Adrian mine at
Punxsutawney, Pa, aud set it on fire.
Eleven men were brought out, with
two dead, and there were an unknown
number still said to be in the mine.
FULLY 1900 sports witnessed the
fight at Hot Springs, Ark, on the 23d
between Billy ODonnell, of Memphis,
and George Stout, of Omaha Both
men received considerable punishment.
At the end of the 18th round the ref
cree declared the bout draw.
A NEGRO, named Ike Pier, was
lynched by mob near Emporia sta
ton, La, on the Shreveport & Houston
railway. The victim had insulted two
white ladies the previous day and a
posse searched for him all night until
his hiding place was discovered.
Gov. MORTON, of New York, signed
the Raines' liquor tax bill on the 23d
and it is expected that the new Law
will enormously reduce the number OF
saloons in the empire state.
The Merrimac mills at Lowell, Mass
! closed down its cotton and print work.
on the Esd. The mills employed {, Cox
operatives and had a weekly pay roll o.
SEQ, 600 The Lowell Manufacturing
, Co. will also shut down its carpet mil
and only operate it every other week.
!. SUvA, the capital Of Fiji was de
stroyed by hurricane recently. tn,
: loss of the ferry steamer Pearl In tn,
Brisbane river. by which 81 people los
. their lives, was also reported.
FIFTY thousand people were report
, ed suffering in Chicago on the 2sd be
. cause of the strike in the clothing
, manufacturing trade, and there wa
, no prospect of any settlement of tn,
I trouble.
= THE Cuban insurgents burned 6
houses at Punta Bravo, near Havana
recently. Several other estates wer
q also reported as being burned by then
b In the province of Pinar del Rio.
Q WILLIAM CovEY, wife and child wer
! burned to death In their home nea
4 Montgomery. w. Va Tramps set fir
? to the house for the purpose of rot
? berry.
3 The dead bodies of three boys. age
+ 10, Is and II years, named Boone Smith
!, Tom Shiflet and Charles Mcmillan
q were found on the railroad track tw
, miles south of Brownsboro, Tex,
a the Esd. The boys were supposed
!, have been killed by train during tn
e night. The boys had run away fro'
home.
Mr. MALEr-PRovosr, secretary OF tt
Venezuelan commission, has denie
: that the commission had reached d.
e cision with reference to the boundal
question favorable to Venezuela
A The boxing bout between Kid McCe
and Joe Choynski at New York on Il
b 2lst was farce, the police not ALLOW
d ing the boxers to fight on their merit
g and the men boxed four one-minu
q rounds amid derisive cheers. groal
q and ca t-calla
a The British schooners Forrest Be
d and Zenith. both of Swansea, Vale
came into the channel on the night
+ the 10Th and the Zenith was sunk al
five of her crew drowned