The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-11-19

quarters of the Indian school at Car.
Isle, Pa. the other night The blazes
were quickly extinguished and perfect
discipline was maintained by the teach.
ers-
SECRETARY WILSON proposes to ex.
tend the benefits of the agricultural
department to the wives and daughters
of farmers and keep them posted on
the departments investigations into
the food and nutrition of man and
otherwise aid women in the rational
practice of the arts of the home.
GEN. KADEsKI, commander of the
Uniformed Catholic Knights of Ameri-
ca, the military organization of the
Catholic church, has completed making
the rounds of all Communicates in the
nation, gathering written pledges of
these who will go to Paris in 1900 to
contest for papal and international
drill prizes. He finds he will have at
least 500.
KID MCCOY bested Australian Billy
Smith in two rounds at Chicago on the
18th. The contest was to have been
for six rounds, but the police inter-
fered. The fight was. however, Nc
Coy's from start to finish.
THERE was claim dispute near
| Wanamaker, Ok, between John
Hicks, George Malone and William
Roberts and in the shooting ARRAY
| which followed Hicks was killed and
the two other men were badly wounded
Mrs. HENRY PAYsEN tried to save
her child at Clinton, Ia, whose cloth
ing had caught fire from a bonfire
near which she was playing, but both
were fatally burned.
CECIL ROBINSON, boy IA years old,
| accidentally shot and killed his IL
year-old sister at Indianapolis, Ind.
He snapped a revolver at his sister,
thinking it was not loaded. and the
weapon sent bullet into her head.
THE first annual report of Postmas-
ter General Gary was made pu bile on the
14th. Its feature is the strong advo-
cacy of postal savings banks. The pos
tai revenue for 1897 was So, SOS, 1862. rs;
the estimated revenue for 1898 is Ssa
7S9, 735. IS; the estimated expenditures
for 1898 are sos, 922, 100.
THE referee in the football game be-
tween the Kansas and Nebraska uni
versity teams at Lincoln, Neb., on the
18th stated that the score was: Ne
braska, 10; Kansas, 5. In signed
statement on the night of the l4th he
altered his decision and gave the game
to Nebraska by score of 6 to 5. The
game was marked by disputes and con-
slant chickering's.
THERE was rumor in Washington
that Joseph 81. Choate, the noted New
York lawyer, was likely to be made
United States attorney general.
AT the meeting of the general assem-
bly, of the Knights Of Labor at Louis
vile, KY, on the 18th James r. Sover-
eign was retired as general master
workman and Henry A. Hicks, of New
York, was chosen to fill his place. l.
d. Chamberlain, of Pueblo, Col, was
selected as general master foreman.
Mr.. Sovereign made his annual ad-
dress, taking for his theme the great
miners strike and the court iniunc-
tions against strikers.
The football game between the uni
versity teams of Harvard and Yale at
Cambridge, Mass, on the 18th resulted
in draw, neither side scoring. There
were "a, 1000 spectators on the field.
WALTER GRAY, of Lomax, Ia, while
hunting on the Mississippi river, was
knocked from a skiff by the recoil of
his gun and drowned.
SEVEN persons persisted in a fire
which broke out among the wood
work of mine near Antonienhuette
Germany.
ALBERT VOTERS was hanged at Fay.
etteville, w. Va, on the 18th in the
presence of over 1000 people. He was
the last of the Lewis gang of outlaws.
THREE Indians, named Alex Coudot,
Paul Holy Track and Philip Ireland,
were taken from the county Jail at
Williamsport, N. D., and hanged by q
mob of 40 men. Two of them had
been convicted and sentenced to death
for the murder of six members of the
Spicer family last February and had
just been granted new trial by the
supreme court
IT was reported by the Indian agent
OF the five tribes on the 18th that the
Creek Indians, who refused to allow
the Dawes commission to enroll their
names on the new citizenship rolls,
were f1ocking to the towns to NEE the
commission.
PRACTICALLY all of the lines between
Chicago, st. Louis and the Utah state
line have entered into an agreement
hoe w carry passengers on 1relgnt
trains. This new rule was adopted at
the recent meeting in st. Louis. The
Kansas City Transportation bureau
has taken up the matter in behalf OF
the merchants and will make a hard
fight 70 Induce the railroads to rescind
or modify their order.
The Riverview hotel at Kankakee,
ILL.,, burned on the 18th. 1t was a
wooden structure and the flames licked
it up so rapidly that the guests barely
escaped with their lives and lost most
OF their clothing and valuables.
A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Henderson & st. Louis road struck
freight car which had been blown on
to the main track at Lewisport, Ky.,
and the engine, tender and combine
ton car were overturned. The stove
in the combination car set fire to the
infiammable matter around it and be-
fore the trainmen could remove the
cars the other coaches were destroyed.
The passengers. escaped.
THREE hundred cloakmakers in
Freedman Bros shops at New York
went on a strike on the 18th by order
of the union. Fifteen hundred opera
tives in outside shops supplying Freed
man Bros. also struck.