The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-03-04
THERE was nothing of Importance
IN the 9Stn concerning the Maine Nv

plosion. The court of inquiry COM
menced giving hearing to the survi-
vors of the wreck at Key West, Fla.
and it will probably be some weeks
before report will be made.
A SOLEMN requiem mass for the re-
pose of the souls of those who lost
their lives through the Maine disaster
was celebrated in the cathedral at Bal
timore, Md, on the 2Sth. Cardinal
Gibbons made an address and read the
services for the dead.
GEN. q. 3. TALIAFERRo, a Mexican
war veteran and a major general in
the confederate army, died at his home
in Gloucester county. Va. on the 2Sth.
MRS. GEORGE DAVIDSON left her home
at ST. Joseph, Mich, on the night of
the 2Sth. clad in a night dress, with
her two weeks old babe in her arms,
and jumped into the river. Both were
drowned. Insanity caused the deed.
Gov. BUDD. of California, is a candi-
date for the United States senate, pro-
vided the next legislature is demo-
cratic, to fill the seat of Senator White.
who wants to retire.
The entire business portion of Cor
tez, Col, was destroyed by fire which
originated in Blackmore's hotel.
The British steamer Legislator was
burned at sea the other day. A boat
capsized and five men ,7ere drowned
and fireman was fatally burned. the
rest of the crew and passengers being
rescued and taken to Boston.
THE court of inquiry into the Maine
disaster arrived at Key West, Fla, on
the 27th from Havana and will exam
inc the survivors of the catastrope
there and then probably return to Ha-
vana.
THE big steel sidewheel steamer City
of Erie, the finest of the steamers on
the great lakes, was launched at De-
troit, Mich. The City of Erie is 324
feet long and will accommodate $50
passengers.
The millionaire owners of residences
at Newport, r. l., are removing their
works of art and costly bric-a- brac and
having them stored in inland safe de-
post companies, for fear of the posi-
bility of their destruction by the hos
tile guns of Spanish warship
FIFTY girls employed in the ticket
windows of the elevated road on the
Union loop at Chicago have been or
dered discharged by the superintend-
ent for the good of the service. The
girls declared that the superintendent
was "a horrid woman hater."
AT Mineral Wells, w. Va, two old
women, Edith and Linda Caplinger.
were burned to death by their clothes
catching fire.
NINE people were burned to death in
a tenement house fire at Charleston,
S. c.. on the 18th.
The picking, drying and steaming
warehouses of the National Tobacco
company, at Louisville, KY, were to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 25th.
The loss will amount to $1,000, 600,
fully covered by insurance. Over 1, 400
people were thrown out of employ
ment.
GEORGE HAAS was assisting his father
to load wagon with manure at Belle
Vile, Ill, when the horses became
frightened and he was knocked down
and the heavy wheels passed over him.
killing him instantly.
ANGELO WILL. at Coalburg blocks,
near Youngstown, O., the other night
shot Martha Lawrence, Mrs. Peter
Farando, Joseph Farando and Daniel
Noute, the two latter being fatally
wounded. All the injured persons are
relatives. No motion for the deed was
learned. Farmers were out with their
guns hunting for Will
AT a meeting of the Woman's Tenn
pie trustees at Chicago on the 25th
resolutions were adopted appealing to
the public for assistance in raising the
debt which hangs over the w. c. L. U.
building. When these funds are Sc
cured the building will be rechristened
willard Temple" as monument to
Frances E. Willard.
TOMMY RYAN knocked out George
Green in the 18th round at San Fran
cisco on the 25th before an immense
crowd.
RUSSELL SAGE, the financier of New
York, said that he had private infor-
nation that the Maine was blown up
by Spanish fre-eaters, and that he
would be willing to loan the govern
ment SIS, 600, 900 if necessary.
A DISPATCH on the gath from New
Bedford, Mass, the seat of the great
cotton mill strike, said that 400 fami-
lies of strikers. comprising 1000 per-
sons, were slowly starving to death
and unless financial aid came quickly
the strike would have to be declared off.
In the midst of the busy proceedings
of Judge Berry's court at Atlanta, Ga.
the other day bailiff called atten-
ton to tho peculiar expression on
the face of Arnold Bumstead, a
teacher, who was defendant in the
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