The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.

Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
TELKGRAMs poured in on the 25th at
Canton, O., for ex-Gov. and Mrs. Nc.
Kinley. cangratulating them upon
their 25th wedding anniversary.
The executive committee of the Ma.
tional Suffrage association at Wash
inRton, considered the trouble over the
so-called "Woman's Bible" and it was
agreed that the question was a per.
sonal one of which the general organ.
ization could take no cognizance.
THE Cincinnati CommercialGazett
printed on the 23d in its series of pres
idential possibilities word in support
of ex-United States Senator Mander.
son, of Nebraska 1t stated that the
Nebraska delegation would go to ST.
Louis for Mckinley. but in case of .
dark horse coming upon the scene they
would make Henderson the dark
horse.
CONGRESSMAN H. D. MONEY was
nominated by the democratic caucus
on the Goth ballot at Jackson, Miss q,
AOI OalOCo oLdLcS SSuotOEs 4hAS WoS
equivalent to an election.
THE silver conference at Washington
on the 23d resulted in the adoption of
q declaration for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, and the call for delegate ma.
tional convention to be held at St.
Louis. July %, 1896, the date of the
populist national convention. The
call stipulates that delegates to the
convention shall be willing to subor-
dinate party allegiance to the princi-
Piles enunciated in the declaration and
to support the nominees of the conven-
ton.
THEODORE RUNYoN, United States
ambassador to Germany, expired sud-
denly and unexpectedly at Berlin on
the eth of heart failure. He had been
in somewhat feeble health for some
time past, but no immediate fatal re-
suits were anticipated.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper said that
President Cleveland had accepted an
invitation from Attorney w. w. Foote
to spend a part of his vacation next
summer on the Pacific coast
AS result of desperate fight at
jefferson, Ia, on the 9th two men are
dead, two men desperately wounded
and young woman seriously hurt.
The trouble started over an old feud.
Neighbors attracted to the scene put
an end to the battle.
AT Sewell, w. Va, Stewart Props,
Layton Jacobs and George Higgins,
railroad men, were drowned while
crossing New river in a boat
The treasury department has re-
ceived 90, $50 Columbian worlds exposi-
ton bronze medals to be awarded to
exhibitors. The distribution of them
rests with the worlds fair commission.
MRS EDMUND TUCKER was choked to
death by a burglar at her home in
Yonkers, N. Y, on the night of the
eth. Her little boy was also found to
be suffering from a severe cut across
the face.
The Weihe business block, at Con-
nellsville, Pa, was burned. Several
families who lived in the block had
narrow escapes from the flames Loss,
between $40, 900 and $50, 600; partly in
sured.
DAN STUART has added another event
to his fstic carnival by offering purse
Of $1,000 for the Smith-Burns fight.
Billy Smith is a portege of Jimmy Car.
roll and Peter Burns is Peter Makers
trainer. The fight will be doubled up
on the bantam fight, the last day Of
the carnival.
THE chess tournament was ended al
St Petersburg on the 9th. Laske,
took the first; Steinitz, the second;
Pillsbury, third, and Tschigorin the
fourth prize. The total score was
Emanuel Lasker won 11K, lost 61z
81. N. Pillsbury won 8, lost 10; w.
Steinitz won 91S, lost sh;M. Tsch igorir
won 2, lost II.
AN explosion occurred in a colliery
The shafts were shattered and the
whole town was shaken by the ire
mendous conclusion. Fifty-four min
ers were below when the explosion oc
Cured. Some reached the surface, but
90 dead bodies were taken out an6
more men were reported missing.
In dispute at a masquerade ball a
hotel in Sacramento, Cal, one of the
jewellers discharged his revolver and G
bullet struck Hugo Klaas, a boarder
who was coming down stairs to break
fast, inf1icting a wound from which he
soon died. Klaas was to have beer
married on the Goth to Miss May I'm
1erwood, of Kansas City, who was sale
60 be en- route to Sacramento and igno
:ant of her lovers tragic fate.
ANentire family of four was drowned
in the Prairie Dog fork of the Red rive,
IN Randall county, Tex. Joseph Wick
er and his wife and two children at
tempted to ford the stream In a GOV
cred wagon. The waters swept tn
wagon and team down The fathe
attempted to swim ashore with on,
shild on his back, but he sank and boil
he and the child were drowned. TIL
mother and second child remained il
the wagon and were also drowned.
A LATE London dispatch said tha'
the outlook there regard to tn,
speedy settlement Of the dispute be
tween Great britain and Venezuel,
was now looked upon as being mucl
more hopeful and nobody anticipated
any further serious trouble in connec
ton with the dispute.
The new American line stea mshil
st. Paul went ashore at Long Branch