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

THE large establishment OF the
Niedringhaus House Furnishing COM
oanv at ST. Louis was totally destroyed
by fire on the 21st. resulting in a loss
If more than $50, 900 on stock and build
ing; fully insured.
The new wharf at Tampico, Mex,
the finest on the American continent.
was destroyed by fire, together with
the custom house. Loss, So, 600, 900.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Pres
.ott, Ariz.. the other night, by which
The johnson hotel was totally de-
,troyed and the guests had narrow
escape for their lives. AS it was they
ost nearly everything.
SOME peculiar disease, a Webster
Jity, Ia, dispatch of the 21st said,
vas destroying the lives of the cats in
hat vicinity, the highways in the
country especially being strewn with
he carcasses of dead felines.
THE court of inquiry got down to
work at Havana on the 2ist for the in
Ves,igation into the cause of the dis.
Aster to the battleship Maine. Capt.
Sigsbee being the first witness. Capt.
Sampson, the president of the court,
has announced that nothing of i'm.
portance will be made public until all
the testimony has been received and
the findings considered. The divers
brought up Capt. Sigsbee's state dOcu-
ments and the keys to the magazine.
WHILE Mrs. George H. Huelswede
was at a fancy dress ball in st. Louis
the other night her costume that of a
fairy-caught fire at stove and she
was probably fatally burned.
News has reached San Francisco of
a rich gold strike on American creek.
100 miles down the Yukon river in
Alaska. The new diggings are on
American soil, 25 miles across the
boundary line.
COBALT has been discovered at Grand
Encampment. Wyo., by the French
mineralogist, Charles Poulet 1t is the
first discovery of cobalt in America.
Cobalt is more valuable than gold.
AT the conference of the leaders of
the Creek Indians at Okmulgee, 1. T.,
resolutions were passed declaring that
as nation they opposed the allotment
of their lands in severalty and asking
the principal chief to have a vote taken
by the chiefs of their respective towns
on the subject and forward it to their
delegates in congress. AS soon as the
conference had adjourned Chief Ispar-
hecher issued a letter to all Creek
judges to enforce the nations laws and
to oppose the recent legislation of con-
gress abolishing their courts.
The appointment of Count Cassini as
Russian ambassador to the United
States was gazetted at st. Petersburg
on the 18th.
REV. SAM P. JONES, the evangelist,
returned to his home at Gainesville,
Ga, on the 10Th from a western lectur-
ing tour and in the evening issued a
formal announcement of his candidacy
for governor, which has created big
sensation in Chicago. He has not vet
announced his platform, but it was
said he would oppose especially Geor-
gia's free school system.
ALL records were broken at st. Louis
on Change on the nth when May
wheat advanced to $1O31s, rs cents
higher than the previous days close.
The attorney general of Colorado
has furnished an opinion that there is
no law for women in that state drop.
ping their maiden name on the simple
excuse of a wedding. The man is
nothing more than a party to a con-
tract, he says, and cannot demonstrate
his mental superiority by forcing his
family name on the bride. The opin.
ion is sweeping.
A SPECIAL from Juneau. Alaska, OF
February IL, confirmed the news OF
the loss of the Clara Nevada and said
The cause of the disaster was doubt
less the explosion of her boilers. Oh
the so people on board none are be-
ieved to have been saved.
In the Gown coal mine of the Choc.
taw Coal company, at Hartshorne, L
T., Maron Betras, Syrian employee OF
the company, let a mule escape from
him. He went in pursuit of the mule
which ran into a condemned room full
OF gas, which Betras' lamp ignited
The mule was incinerated and Betras
himself was burned about the back
breast, neck and arms. His recovery
was considered doubtful.
The passenger and freight steam.
boat Ericsson, which piled between
Philadelphia and Baltimore. Md, sank
in the Delaware river off Wilmington
Del, on the 10th. The passengers
were all taken off.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD. president
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, died early on the morning Of
the 18th at New York. She had suf
fered for some years from profound
anemia and a few weeks ago she wa:
much Frustrated and readily took the
grip, which attacked the stomach
liver, intestines and finally over
whelmed the nerve centers. She wa.