The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-04

Clifton, Tex, was DESTROYED by fire
early the other morning. The business
houses of C. L. Mite. j. M. Brooks, o.
j. Rea, w. A. Potts, j. b. Odom. 81. L.
Walling and others. aggregating &c
buildings were burned. The total
loss is placed at So, 200; insurance,
$3.50.
The International Paper company,
of Corinth, n. Y. combination of all
the big paper firms of the country.
filed articles of incorporation at AL
bany on the 31st with capital stock
of s45, 900. 900.
A BAD state of affairs was reported
in Newcastle, Del, on the 31st. Six
hundred idle ironworkers and their
families were said to be suffering for
want of food and many storekeepers
were on the verge of bankruptcy.
A DOZEN stores, one warehouse and
two dwellings were destroyed by fire
at Ash burn, Ca, on the 3;st. The loss
was estimated at $4,000; insurance
about 1000. 1t was thought at one
time the whole town would be de-
stroved.
REV. M ARTIN GEssNER, the priest OF
ST. Patrick's church at Elizabeth, N.
j., has disappeared. 1t was said he
had left Elizabeth to avoid receiving a
purse containing $4,000 in gold in
honor of his 25th anniversary as priest.
NEAR Greenville, O.. a Dayton &
Union passenger engine caught c. F.
Young, his wife and four-year-old
daughter in a top buggy and killed the
father and child and terribly injured
the mother.
THE 5000 operatives of the Atlantic
&, Pacific cotton mills at Lawrence,
Mass, have decided to accept the ten
per cent. reduction in wages.
ALDERMAN CHRIsTY BYRNE, of Joliet,
ILL.,, and his wife and child were out
sleigh riding the other day and, while
crossing the tracks, a Santa Fee engine
struck the sleigh and Byrne was killed
and his wife probably fatally injured
DAVID SEELEY. aged 6S, was under
arrest at Kalamazoo. Mich, on the
charge of having eight wives.
The opera house and library building
at Maysville, KY, were destroyed by
fire and a number of business houses
damaged. Loss. $50, 600.
SEVERAL lives were lost in Oaxaca.
Mex, and on the isthmus of Tehuante-
pee by recent earthquakes and much
damage was wrought.
SToCKMEN in the vicinity of Hooper,
Neb.. are seriously alarmed over a new
disease among their cattle which is
causing great mortality. The disease
seems like ''foot rot" The governor
has been appealed to do something in
the matter.
Mrs. LOUISA JACKSON ARNOLD, of Co
lumbus, O., the only surviving sister
Of the famous confederate officer, Gen.
''Stonewall" jackson, in a recent inter-
view declared that ''Stonewall' Jack
son was a strong unionist, being Bit
terly opposed to secession, and it was
mis- belief in state rights that caused
MIN to be on the confederate side.
A MAN thought to be insane entered
the Colorado national bank at Denver,
Col. on the goth and said to the teller
"Give me $1,000, OOO." When the teller
recovered from his surprise he told the
man he would have to go to the vaults
for such a large sum and begged to be
excused for few minutes. The po-
lice were soon notified and the crank
was arrested.
MRS. MICHAEL RUMINsKY was burned
to death in fire of mysterious origin
in Allegheny, Pa, on the 2Sth. The
woman was found locked in her room
and later the key of the room was found
in her husbands pocket.
CHARLES WEBB, colored, who killed
Mallie Wade, a colored schoolteacher,
in cold blood on May 80, 1895, was con-
victed at st. Louis and sentenced to 90
years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. The two were lovers.
A DISPATCH from Nanimo. B. c.,
stated that the steamer Corona, with
245 passengers on board. struck rock
near the mouth of the Skeena river
and was wrecked. Lifeboats conveyed
those on board to land. 1t was feared
that the steamer and all her cargo
would be totally lost. She was on her
way to the Alaska gold fields.
STEVENS & Co. g large hardware house
at Gainesville, Tex, was destroyed by
fire early the other morning. Every
pane of glass within three blocks was
broken and several firemen were in
jured by an explosion of dynamite dur
ing the fire.
A QUARREL over a game of cards by
negroes at Brooklyn, a suburb of East
st. Louis, ILL.,, the other night resulted
in Ben Lucas, Dan Lucas and Ed Green
being probably mortally wounded and
several others badly injured. The con-
stable had to summons a posse of the
people to quell the riot
Mr.. FILsON. school land commissioner
of Oklahoma, recently reported that