The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-18

the millionaire evangelist" concluded
a series of meetings at New York at
which 1000 persons prOfessed CONVEX
! sion.
| GEN. FITZHUGH LEE, consul general
| of the United States at Havana, has
sent a large quantity of Havana to-
bacco seed to farmers in Texas. Tests
of Havana tobacco have been made in
that state and it has been found to do
nearly as well as in Cuba
The result of Investigations into the
food habits of number of families in
| the congested districts of New York
city in 1895 and 1896 have been made
public by the agricultural department
in a report entitled Dietary Studies
in New York City"
BARKINGs of a Great Dane dog saved
from destruction the other morning
the Drexel theater at Chicago. A
large palm at the entrance was ignited
by a gas jet on the wall and the flames
were communicating to the woodwork
of the ceiling when the bowls of the
dog brought men to battle with the
fire.
THE Auditorium opera house at Mo-
line, ILL.,, was totally destroyed by fire
on the evening of the 18th. Loss, $780,
600, covered by insurance.
AGNEIsKA kUDIK, newly arrived
from Hungary. blew out the gas in her
room in the fiat of her employer at
New York and then crawled into bed
beside another servant. In the morn
ing they were both found dead.
A LARGE business block at Gold
-
The post office with all its contents,
Odd Fellows hall and 90 stores were
destroyed. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$40. 600
THE 18th annual meeting of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION began at Washington on the
18th. The feature of the days meet
ing was sermon by Rev. Anna Shaw
and speech by Miss Susan B. Anthony
on the present outlook.
MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH has opened
headquarters at Taylor's hotel, Jersey
City, N. j.. to push bill through the
New Jersey legislature for the pur-
pose of taxing all bachelors and old
maids. She favors compulsory mar
riage law.
in 1926 minutes, actual running time,
was the record made over the Erie
railroad on the 18th by special news
paper train.
The pope celebrated mass in the
Basilica at Rome on the 18th in COM
memoration of his first mass, his cleo
ton and his coronation. 1t was esti.
mated that no fewer than SO, 900 per-
sons were present, 20, 900 of whom were
pilgrims.
REPRESENTATIVES of SIS textile unions
met in Boston on the 18th and voted
unanimously to recommend that all
unions call out the operatives in every
cotton mill in New England. Should
the various national unions take action
in favor of the recommendation 147, 900
operatives will cease work and the
manufacture of cotton goods in New
England will be at standstill.
A FIRE broke out at st. Emilianus
orphan asylum at st. Francis, near
Milwaukee, but the 300 children quar-
tered there were all marshaled out in
safety.
ACCORDING to news received at Vic
toria, B. c., from Alaska, five men
were frozen to death upon the Chilkoot
pass
STILLwELL post G. A. R., at Colfax,
Ind, decided by a unanimous vote to
enter politics by calling meeting of
the ex-union soldiers of the Ninth con-
gressional district to nominate a can
didate for congress pledged to intro
duce and work for bill providing for
penSiOning all union soldiers at 81 a
day. The resolution of Stillwell post
also provides for making national
organization along these lines. The
action has caused sensation in Grand
Army circles.
In the British house of commons on
the 18th John Redmond. the Parnellite
leader, introduced measure granting
home rule for Ireland. 1t was defeated,
233 to 65
SEVEN members of the Covington
council were in jail at Independence,
KY, on the 10th, having been incar
cerated for contempt of Judge Tar
order to improve the court room and
provide better protection to the court
records. The Judge extended the olive
branch, but all refused to purge them.
selves of contempt on the advice of
their attorney.
Two Philadelphia schooners with 90
men were lost during the late blizzard
off the New England coast One was
the William johnson and the other
the William X. Park.
In the New York assembly on the
nth w hon tho Wool,e rocofr%;oo oel,