The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-25

JIMMY mICdAELs tuc Wu0olmdQ, the
greatest rider the field of bicycling
has ever known, has left Chicago and
gone to New York to enter the employ
of Phil Dwyer as a jockey and will
ride Dryers horses this season.
CENTRAL and southern New Mexico.
it was reported, is infested with cattle
and sheep thieves and trouble is ex-
pected. as the stock men are organizing
to rid themselves of the depredators.
Cola. j. BLACKWELL. widely known
as the Cherokee prophet" was ar
rested at Guthrie. Ok, on the charge
of insanity. He made an attempt to
colonize the town of Blackwell with
negroes and a race war ensued.
A DISPATCH from Center, Ala, the
other day said John Kellogg. a negro
who had assaulted white girl, had
been captured by a posse of citizens
and quietly hanged in some woods
about 20 miles away from the place.
THREE members of the family of
James Arthur, settler, near Orillia,
Ont, lost their lives in a fire which
destroyed their home. Mrs. Arthur
and two sons, aged 9 and 16. respect
lively, were the victims. The mother
lost her life trying to rescue the young
err boy.
THE deaths at st. Louis for the week
| ended the 10th were 1873, 40 of them be.
ing caused by pneumonia and other
diseases of the respiratory organs
During the corresponding week in 1897
214 deaths occurred
GEN. LEW WALLACE has been chal-
lenged to duel by George E. Cakes,
of Indianapolis, Ind. Wallace, in an
address delivered at Lebanon, Ind, on
Lincoln day, told an unpu blished story
rejecting on Gen. McCleilans courage
and Cakes denounced it as false and
challenged Wallace to a meeting on
the field of honor. The affair has
caused much excitement throughout
Indiana.
WILLIAM j. SEAMAN, the actor, died
on the 10th at the Bloomingdale in
sane asylum at White Plains, n. Y,
| where he had long been O patient.
JOSEPH ADAMS and Thomas Barnes
fought a duel over a woman at Dallas.
Tex, the other night, in which the
former was shot through the body and
has since died and the latter was re-
ported dying from wounds inflicted
with a bowie knife. The men had
been rivals and met unexpectedly and
then sprang upon each other.
AN epidemic of grippe was reported
on the Goth to be raging in Chicago.
NEAR Clifton. Ok, George Sawyer,
aged II, was killed by the accidental
discharge of gun in his brothers
hands.
NEAR Cushing, Ok, Ambrose Georgia,
farmer. quarreled with his tenant,
John White, over a crop settlement
and Georgia was fatally stabbed.
A SEVERE snowstorm recently caused
the collision of two passenger trains
on the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad in a deep cut six miles south
of Rockford, III. Both engines were
demolished, Engineer Tilden was in
stantly killed and score of persons
injured.
In a jealous fit George Bernhardt
shot and killed his employer, Rein
hardt Losier, and fatally wounded
Mary Reinhardt at Philadelphia the
other night.
JOSEPH LETTER, of Chicago, made an
emphatic denial that he disposed of
5000. 900 bushels of his May holdings
VI "hCdC uuTluS GuC cACiCeu GIdulHS
of day or two ago. He was credited
with making profit of 100000 He
said: 81 not only did not sell a bushel
| of wheat, but bought wheat. The cur
rent prices are only the beginning of
a range from $1.25 to $3.50 per bushel
| That is what propose to sell my
| wheat at"
A COMMUNICATION was recently re-
| ceived by Acting Gov. Jenkins from A.
| j. Blackwell, founder of the town of
Blackwell, Ok, that a state of riot had
| existed in that town for several DAYS
and that he and the five negroes he re-
| Gently brought to the town and sold
property to had been besieged in his
house. He called upon the governor
| for protection.
THE secret service of the treasury
department has discovered a new coun-
| terfeit $40 national bank note. 1t is
on the Hibernian national bank. of
| New Orleans, series 1882, check letter
b, Rosecrans register, Nebeker treas
urer. 1t is a Photographic production
| of poor workmanship
C. n. QUINN, assistant government
engineer, has served notice on the
dredgeboat Florida, stopping the oper'
alton of dredges in the Port Arthur
ship channel in Texas. The order was
issued by the war department at
Washington.
People of every class in Madrid de-
nounced in the strongest fashion the
insinuation on the part of the Ameri-
can press that the Spanish nation was
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