The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-10

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Houses shook and windows ratified vio-
lently. A shock was also felt at Black
Earth. Wis.
LEWIS WILMoT, Shawnee Indian, in
a fit of jealousy, brutally beat to death
Mary Bennett, member of the same
tribe. The tragedy occurred near
Shawnee, Ok, at a dance.
The democratic caucus at Richmond,
Va. on the Sd nominated John Daniels
to succeed himself in the United States
senate.
Gov. JOHN GRIGGs, of New Jersey,
has been rendered the portfolio of at
torney general of the United States to
be vacated by Judge McKenna's ap-
pointment to the supreme bench.
A CONFERENCE of citizens from vari-
Gus parts of the United States will
soon be held in New York in the inter-
est of uniform primary elections. The
conference is to advocate the enact
ment of laws bringing primaries under
state supervision. The movement was
inaugurated by the civic federation of
Chicago.
JOHN L. SULLIvAN's friends have
persuaded the ex-champion to with
draw from the mayoralty race in Bos-
ton.
AT the recent election in the Chicka-
saw nation the ratification of the
Dawes-Choctaw treaty was overwhelm-
ingly defeated
A DISASTROUS fire occurred the other
night at the Pomeroy and the Opera
House blocks at La Crosse, Wis. On
the third floor the powder and shells
of a company of national guards were
kept and when the fire reached them
the explosion was terrific. Six fire.
men were injured, three seriously. The
loss will exceed 100000
JUDGE DALE, at Saltwater, Ok, dis
charged Thomas Latin, a negro, on
trial for the murder of j. E. Morrow
and little daughter, without allowing
the case to go to the jury, as there was
really no evidence against him. Nor
row and the little girl were killed with
an ak while sleeping in their wagon
by the roadside. and at the time Latin
was arrested the excitement was so
great that the officers had hard fight
to keep him from being lynched.
A BIG combine of river coal interests
promises to be effected, according to a
Pittsburgh, Pa, dispatch before the
new year. A committee is hard at
work considering schedules of prop
erty values as presented by the vari-
GUS companies. The scheme proposes
the organization of one company, with
a capitalization of Bill 100000, which
will control the river coal interests
from lock No. 5 on the Monongahela
river to New Orleans.
HORACE QUIMBY and wife and Mrs.
Annie Fitzsimmons died at Exeter, N.
H.. from drinking wood alcohol.
The Interstate Association of Live
Stock Sanitary Boards adjourned their
meet in St. Louis on the Cd to meet at
Fort Worth, Tex, October 2, 1898.
They recommend to the department of
agriculture that nine additional coun-
ties in Tennessee, six in Missouri and
all of Arkansas be placed below the
southern fever quarantine line, the line
of 1896 through the Indian territory
and Texas to remain undisturbed.
The chief of police of Chicago has is
sued an order directing that each po-
liceman on the force take vacation of
three days this month without pay, in
order to make up a shortage in the APP
preparation for the department..
j. A. r. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City, Mo-, ,
ex-champion wing shot of America,
was defeated in a 1OO-bird shoot at
Omaha, Neb., by Frank Parmalee, of
Omaha. Parmalee, killed 81 birds
while Elliott brought down only 81.
The Mexican Herald denies author
tot ivo1v that Nfovioo SC ,,ro-
parations to go on gold basis and
changing the silver standard.
MRS. VARvEY MITCHELL and Lena
Pitcher engaged In a high kicking con-
test at the home of the former at
Shelbyville, Ind, the other day when
Mrs. Mitchell fell to the ground I'M
conscious. She cannot recover.
An examination of the books of the
water Office at Chicago by an expert
accountant disclosed the fact that the
city had been defrauded out of $454, 9s5
in the past two years by unauthorized
rebates.
GEORGE BLODGETT, head of the law
department of the General Electric
company at Schenectady, N. Y, was
shot by burglar and mortally wound
ed at his home the other night.
PRESIDENT BECKER, of the Natl on.
al Anti-Spiritualist association, at
Adrian, Mich, has issued an invita-
ton to the National Spiritualist asso-
citation to join in appointing a commits
tee to meet similar one from the
Anti-Spiritualist association to in
vestigate thoroughly the phenomena
of modern spiritualism.
BY vote of 5,7S1 to 1913 Kansas City