The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-07
THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON on the Sd
handed a letter to John X. Gowdy,
chairman of the republican state cen.
trail committee at Indianapolis, Ind,
for publication which explicitly stated
that he would not consent to have his
name presented to the ST. Louis con-
vention for president and he hoped
that this expression of his opinion on
the subject would be taken as sincere
and final
In the United States supreme court
a decree was entered on the Sd to relo'
cate the boundary line between the
states of Iowa and Missouri
THE senate committee has decided ia
recommend the confirmation of Pat
rick Nagle for the United States mar
shalship of Oklahoma.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote a letter
to congress on the Sd transmitting the
Italian correspondence in regard to
the lawless killing of Italians in Colo.
RADIO and advising that some money be
appropriated for the families of the
victims.
The elections committee of the house
has decided to report in favor of seating
Col Van Horn for the Fifth Missouri.
district and to GUST Mr.. Tarsney.
The monthly statement of the secre.
tary of the treasury showed the public
debt on January 81, less cash in the
treasury, to have been $3.50, DAG, 237.
THE monthly report of the director
of the mint showed the total coinage
during January to have been S13,O33,.
$50, classified as follows: Gold, S12,-
914, 600; silver, S35, 900; minor coin, $751;.
900.
SENATOR JOHN P. JONES, at Washing
ton, has received a message from John
Hammond, who is in Jail at Pretoria,
South Africa, charged with high trea.
son, in which Hammond urges this
government to warn the Transvaal
government of the consequences OF
maltreatment of Americans, and asks
as a last resort the invoking of aid
from Great Britain.
THE national board of trade, in ses-
sion at Washington, passed resolutions
advocating one-cent postage, also in
favor of deepening the channels Of the
great lakes, for opening deep draf,
connections between the lakes. the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the
Atlantic, in continuing the improve
ment of the great rivers of the central
basin, and for the construction of an
interior coastwise canal for domestic
commerce and national defense.
THE national board of trade, at its
annual meeting in Washington passed
d resolution demanding the retirement
of greenbacks. The Torrey bank.
ruptcy bill was also Endorsed and con-
gress urged to pass it.
GENERAL NEWS.
A STRIKE of printers took place il
Davenport, Ia. ON the Sd. Three after
noon and two morning papers were
affected.
WHILE two brothers, Calvin and An
drew Reed, were playing together al
Guthrie, Ok, Calvin picked up a re
volver and, supposing it was unloaded,
snapped it at the other, and Andrew
fell, fatally wounded.
LIZZIE HICKMAN, notorious woman
who recently died at Knoxville, Tenn.
mas left a confession that.Lee Sellers
who was lynched at knoxville IL year.
ago for the robbery and murder of 9
drummer, was innocent, and that she
tured the drummer to an isolated spo
and Ike Wright, an outlaw, committed
the deed.
British artist, was buried in st. Paul.
cathedral, London, on the Sd, a nota
BILE company being present
"A EREIGHT train on the Norfolk
Western railroad ran into a big land
slide on the Sd near Radford siding
w. Va, and was badly wrecked. The
engineer was fatally hurt and the fire
man dangerously injured.
A PATENT has been granted t.
Thomas H. Royce, of Brooklyn, for in
venting bloomers and hereafter the
atty on such garments.
The papjacket of blast furnace wa.
blown out at the Arkansas Valley
smelter at Leadville, Col, on the 3Oth
allowing the red hot metal and Stag K
escape. Several men were severely in
jured. 1t was believed that the mar
who had charge of the furnace al
lowed the jacket to get hot and ther
turned in water.
A FIRE at Dayton, o., destroyed tn,
Makley building, four-story bricl
structure. Loss, $4,000; covered BY
insurance.
CHICAGO spectators have lost up
wards of 5000, 900 on cold storage egg
as the result of q war with the Amer
lean Egglayers' union.
A PETITION was sent out by the Ma
tional w. C. T. U. to each legislator al
Washington protesting against mill
tary instruction in schools and asking
them to vote against any measure in
troduced to promote it. The signer.
believed the principles of peace rathe,
than the science of war should b.
taught.
The boiler in the stave mill on Viii
liam Morrison's farm. near Freeport
O., exploded, killing three persons and
injuring two. The clothing of the thres
dead men was stripped from thei,
bodies by the explosion and lodged IL
the neig boring bushes and trees. The
mill was wrecked.
The sixth incendiary FIRE within
nine days occurred at Lancaster, Pa.
on the GOTH The large brick building
owned by the Bitner estate and occu.
pied as tobacco and storage ware.
house, was badly damaged. Loss $50.
600 A reward of $500 was offered by
the city for the arrest of the perpetrat
ora