The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-04-15

THE London papers commenton Pres
ident McKinley's message to congress.
on the 18th. The Daily News said i,
must convince Europe that the case fol
American Intervention is strong. The
Standard thought it was a pity the
message could not have been further
postponed. The Times comments upon
the grave responsibility which Presi.
dent Mckinley throws on congress and
thought the president ought to have
kept back the message and thus gained
more time for peace. The Post thought
the message vague. The Chronicle said
the message called a halt and threw
upon congress the responsibility OF
making war.
GEN. LEE got ovations from crowds
at every station on his way from Tam
pa, Fla, to Washington.
In shooting ARRAY at Fannin. Tex,
both com batants met their deaths.
Benson Golf had forbidden Edwin Pitts
to call at his house and when Pitts
made visit in defiance of COTS wishes
the latter kicked him down the porch.
Later they met at the post office and a
duel took place.
IT was reported on the 18th that
provisions in Havana had doubled in
price.
The Official Gazette of Havana pub
lished decree on the 18th, signed by
Capt. Gen. Blanco, announcing that
the Spanish government, yielding to
the reiterated wishes of the pope, had
decreed suspension of hostilities in
Cuba in order to facilitate the restora-
ton of peace in the island. No time
was fixed for the expiration of the de.
cree.
THE % cotton cloth mills of New
Bedford, Mass, which have been closed
since January ~, when the 5000 oper-
atives struck as the result of a ten per
cent reduction in wages, were opened
on the 18th to give the strikers an OPP
portunity to return. All the corpora
tions started their machinery, but in
many of the mills barely quarter of
the working force went in.
AN encounter between cattlemen
and sheepmen occurred in the south
ern part of Dawes county, Neb. re-
Gently. ]. S. Romine had a herd of
several thousand sheep on the range
near Wanatah, and an organized effort
was made by the farmers and cattle
owners to drive the sheep out of the
A mounted troop of SO men,
armed with Winchesters. captured the
flock, and after threatening to hang
the shepherds, scattered the sheep and
ordered the men to leave the country.
HENRY MAY was killed, and Editor
J. Guy Smith, of the La Sales Isonomy,
; paper published in Cotulla, Tex,
was mortally wounded in a street
light the other night. Smith was COM
monty known as ''Brann No. 2" on ac-
count of the bitterness of his writings.
ARCHIE C. MooRHoUsE, aged Is. was
killed by the accidental dis
charge of his gun. He was out hunt
ing near Guthrie, Ok, and the gun
was discharged just as he had finished
loading it, tearing off one entire side
IF his head.
THE Great Eastern hotel, of Chicago,
\ worlds fair relic, was destroyed by
ire with loss of $50, 1000.
THE recent conference between rep
of the American Fedora
lion of Labor and the Armour Packing
company at Kansas City, Mo-, have
settled the trouble which has
existed for nearly two years between
hat firm and organized labor.
The latest advices received from
Skaguay, Alaska. says that IS lives,
md possibly 100, had been lost in the
'nowslide on Chilkoot pass, that SO
bodies had been recovered and the
work of excavating was still progress
ng.
CONSUL GENERAL. LEE arrived at Key
West, Fla, on the 10th from Havana
md left at once for Washington.
In Monroe county, Tenn, John Nc
Ihee and his son Joe shot and killed
Henry and Ernest Howard and James
MUIR and mortally wounded Tom Har-
7ard. The killing was the result of a
family feud.
MRS. Buckley, IS years old, and an
adopted son about so years of age were
found dead in their dilapidated home.
hear Sellersville, Pa Every evidence
pointed to death by starvation, al
though the old lady was quite wealthy.
j. PIERPoINT MORGAN had an impor-
ant conference in New York on the Sth
With bankers touching national
affairs. A big prospective
bond issue was discussed. One bank
r said if bonds ranging from $50 to
800, netting three per cent, were is
iued, the people would snap them up,
being Influenced by sentiments of pa.
,riotism.
A HANDFUL at time the ashes of
The County Club house at Long Island,