The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-14

Havlin'S theater in st. Louis on the
hight of the 10th James ]. Corbett
stepped before the curtain and an
bounced that he offered Bob Fitzsim-
mons $4,000 for finish fight, the en-
tire sum to go to FitZsimmons if Cor
bett failed to put him out in ten
rounds.
HADLEY A. SUTHERLAND, negro who
murdered Mrs. Wrenn. the wife of
barber, in quarrel, was electrocuted
at Sing Sing. n. Y. on the 10th.
ONE man succeeded in holding up the
Palace saloon. a gambling place at
Prescott, Ariz., and securing all the
money in sight. He terrorized about
20 patrons of the place and made his
escape.
APPARENTLY strike in the cloth
mills at New Bedford. Mass, can only
be averted by the withdrawal of the
notices of a ten per cent. reduction.
The spinners' action on the 10th on the
question of striking resulted in favor
of resistance to the reduction by a vote
Of 39S to 4.
On February 1 LAO looms in the
printing department of the Manchester
N. H.) cotton mills will be stopped for
an indefinite time. The cause assigned
Is the falling off in the demand for
goods.
AT the convention of the non-par-
tisan National w. C. T. U. at Column
BUS, O., on the 10th, Mrs. Annie Wit
tenmyer, of Santiago. Pa, was re-elect-
ed president; Mrs. Isabella Plumb, of
Chicago, secretary, and Mrs. Howard
Ingham, of Marysville, O., treasurer
NINE men from Dawson City, Alaska,
arrived at Port Townsend, Wash, on
the 10th bringing advices up to Decem-
Der 9. All said that while provisions
were scarce there would be no starva-
ton. The coolest weather reported at
Dawson was SIS degrees below zero.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN was the guest OF
honor at the Jackson day banquet
given by the democracy of Chicago.
The silver champion denounced Secre.
tary Cages policy and said he was
permanently upon the people of the
United States.
JUDGE ALBERT G. BOYNTON, for %
years political editor of the Detroit
(Mich.) Free Press, died on the 9th
from kidney trouble.
GEORGE CARROLL, 13-year-old boy,
was playing about the trains at Thir-
tieth street and Southwest boulevard
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th and at
tempted to get ride on an M, X. &
T. freight train when he missed his
hold and fell under the wheels. His
head was cut off and the lower part OF
his body and legs cut to pieces.
THE towboat Percy Kelsey blew up
while going down the Ohio river, near
Glenfield, o., and four men lost their
lives and several others were injured.
The boat was literally blown to pieces
valued at $3.50
The Virginia legislative committee
on courts of justice has recommended
the passage of the bill providing for
whipping posts for criminals.
CHIEF IspARHECKER and the Creek
council at Okmulgee, I. T., have ig
nored Secretary Bliss warning and
have appropriated money to pay law.
yers to test the constitutionality of the
act of congress abolishing their tribal
courts They declare that they will
not submit to the law abolishing their
courts until the United States supreme
| court says they must do so.
IT has been so warm lately in South
Dakota that farmers there have been
! cutting buffalo grass and making hay
as though it were June.
THE Missouri, Oklahoma & Texas
Railroad company has been chartered.
The road is to run from Henrietta,
Tex, northeasterly through Oklahoma
and the Indian territory to a point on
the Southern Kansas line east of Che
topa, a distance of 200 miles.
THREE negroes-Louis Richards,
George Washington and FoXey Morris
were hanged at Hahnville, La, on
the nth for numbering a Jewish ped
dler named Zeigler. Richards con-
fessed that he had murdered at least
nine men and one woman since 1884.
In the Portland saloon at Colorado
City, Col, 81. r. Fleetwood and George
Huston, colored, were drunk and wen,
to sleep on the floor. Some one poured
alcohol on the drunken mems feet and
| lighted it. Fleetwood died in horrible
agony, but Huston may recover.
RECENT arrivals at San Antonio
Tex, from the Indian creek gold field:
in Uvalde county reported that pros
pector had struck a vein of ore which
assayed 81, 900 to the ton. There were
said to be hundreds of prospectors il
the new fields and the late find ha
added to the excitement
IT was stated on what was considered
good authority that some 50 men OF
the police force of st. Louis are draw