The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

convened at Dallas, Tex, on the 22d,
IS states being represented. Resolu.
tions indorsing the Omaha platform
and declaring against the invasion of
America by the pauper la Dor of Europe
were adopted. Paul Vandervoort, of
Nebraska, was elected president, and
J. A. Parker, of Kentucky. correspond.
ing secretary.
THE Confederate museum was opened
in the Davis mansion at Richmond,
Va, on the ed.
THE cotton mills of the Swift Creek
Manufacturing Co., near Petersburg,
Va, were destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 500. 600 and throwing 200 people
out of employment
A FIRE occurred at the Pratt santa
rum at Chicago and IL bed-riddeu pa
tients had to be taken ont of windows
and down ladders by fremen. The
flames were subdued without serious
loss.
BEN BROWN, who has travelled all
over the country with circuses posing
as the California giant, was murdered
at Manchester. O., by being struck on
the head by a companion with whom
he was drinking.
JAMES SARRAN and Pearl Kimms
were found dead near the railroad in
the vicinity of Keystone, w. Va, on
the cath where a general fight occurred
the previous night among 200 miners.
The executive assembly of the grand
council of the Knights of Pythias met
at Cincinnati recently and resolved to
abandon Minneapolis this year and to
hold the biennial convention of the
supreme lodge at Cleveland on August
25. It was also decided to hold no en-
campment of the uniform rank this
year on account of the railroads refus-
ing to make satisfactory rates.
The clearing house returns for the
week ended February 81 for the follow
ing cities were: New York, S669, O53, 5s3;
Chicago, Ss4, 574, 933; St Louis, S22, 1862, :
5a5; Kansas City. 50, 935. 574; st. Joseph.
81, 139, ia; Topeka, 1855, 7O4; Wichita,
$4O9, 4sO; Omaha, SO. $50, 400
PETER MAHER was knocked out BY
Bob Fitzsimmons on the 2lst in Mex.
leo, opposite Langtry, Tex, in the first
round, after one minute and thirty
five seconds of actual fighting. Fitz
landed lightning righthand swing on
ness to get at Fitzsimmons Maher com.
mitted a palpable foul during clinch,
and was warned by Referee Siler that
its repetition would cost him the fight
Fitzsimmons is now the champion of
the world and declared, through
Julian, his willingness to defend the
championship against any and all
corners.
DARLINGTON BOOTH, commander of
the Salvation army in America, has
disappeared from New York with his
wife. Maud Booth. Herbert Booth,
brother of Ballington Booth and COM
mander of the army in Canada, will
take charge of the forces in America.
He offered reward on the 21st to any
one who would tell him where Balling-
ton was. The army was stirred to great
excitement Ballington Booth was ac-
cused of INSTRUMENTATION by Herbert
Booth at a recent court of inquiry and
under his authority Herbert dismissed
his brother Ballington from office.
MRS. VALENTINE KURTz, of South
Dansville, KY, had abstained from
food for period of "a days on the 21st
and her friends were reported urging
her to break all worlds records. She
was very weak and confined to her bed.
FIVE men were seriously Injured, two
perhaps fatally, by boiler explosion
while dredging on the worlds fair
grounds, Chicago.
A RUMoR was current in Buffalo, N.
Y, that 13 fishermen had lost their
lives out on the lake during a recent
storm.
SHORTLY after the high school was
called to order at Muscatine, Ia, on
the Goth fire was discovered on the
roof and the building was destroyed.
The children were marched out in
good order and none got injured.
Loss, $500 insurance, S15, 900.
A GOLD fever was reported at Perry,
Ok, coused by an alleged find of the
yellow metal near that place.
CHICAGO experienced the coolest
weather of the season on the Goth, the
thermometer indicating IA below zero.
Michael Hughes was frozen to death
while on his way to work and John
Bradley was overcome by the cold and
fell into the river.
A NAN who gave his name as j. Smith
was arrested at Des Moines, Ia, while
in charge of two trunks, shipped from
Council Bluffs, containing two dead
bodies, one of a man and the other of
woman. The bodies were stolen
from cemeteries at Council Bluffs and
consigned to q medical college in Des
Moines
NEAR Lexington, KY. John and
Richard Steele were killed by Chesa-
peake & Ohio train while trying to
cross the track.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 21st said
that severe shocks of earthquake were
felt at South Baden, but no serious
damage was done.
SHORTLY after noon on the Goth fire
was discovered at PAS Dearborn street,
Chicago, and neighbors found the body
of Mrs Ellen Randolph, q colored
woman, laying on a burning bed. She
had received Is cuts with Ratchet,
any one of which would have been
fatal. Mrs Randol phi was treasurer
for the Order of the Household of Ruth
and robbery was supposed to have been
the motive of the crime.
JAMES j. CoRBErr on the goth sent
kilograms from Chicago to Peter Maher
and Bob Fitzsimmons at Ell Paso. Tex,
challenging the winner in the fight to
meet him, anywhere on earth for con.
test
A DISPATCH from Utica. n. Y, stated
that the boiler of the locomotive at
tached to an express on the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western railway ex-
ploded when about four miles south of
n