The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-03-11

Gaping gas from a hard coal stove.
A BIG gathering of Irish-Americans
assembled in Denver, Col. on the nth,
the occasion being the celebration OF
the centennial anniversary of the Irish
rebellion of 1898. Delegates were pres
emit from all the Irish American organ
lizations in the state.
THE steam tug Dauntless was iibeled
at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 9TH by the
government. charged with filibuster-
ling. The vessel was put in charge OF
a deputy marshal.
THE Berlin Tageblatt published a
dispatch from Pekin on the nth saying
China had agreed to lease Port Arthur
and Ta-Lien-Wan to Russia for 80 years.
EVERY man employed in the Erie
canal work between Utica and Rome,
N. Y, quit work on the 7th. There
were about 1000 of them. They de-
manded that the pay for laborers be
increased from 1215 to Ii cents an hour.
A committee waited on the contractors
and it was said that the increase will
be granted.
| A FELL disease has broken out
among the cattle of Hall and adjacent
counties in Nebraska. Stockmen were
much alarmed and cattlemen of other
counties were apprehensive because
the disease is spreading rapidly. The
federal government recognized the
seriousness of the disease and ordered
veterinarian to Nebraska. The farm
.rs have termed the disease hoof rot
because that member decays rapidly
after an animal contracts the disease.
| ED hot nd Ill
George Rickstraw, coal miner, at
Athens, Ill, early the other morning.
He also wounded John Wineland, but
the latter's condition was not serious.
The trouble was at IA dance where a
fight took place.
FRANK C. LACEY and Joseph Short
died and two other companions were
in a critical condition at Moose Lake,
Mont, from the effects of drinking
wood alcohol.
The students of the veterinary coll
lege at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 5th
gave banquet of horse meat to the
members of the faculty of that insti-
tuition.
A FIERCE street battle took place in
Texarkana, Ark, on the 9th between
Eve BARRIERS in which one was killed
outright, another mortally wounded
and a third seriously injured.
MRS. SELvANIA Ross, a widow, was
burned to death by her clothes catch
ing fire while encamped with her par
ents on the line of the Frisco extern
sion in Lincoln county, Ok. She hailed
from Kansas City.
THREE thousand people saw Michaers
exhibition of speed on his wheel at st.
Louis on the 5th. He rode five miles
in 1O:41.
The steel steamer William r. Lynn
was launched at Chicago on the 5th.
She is 42O feet long over all and can
accommodate aO4, 900 bushels of corn.
A FIRE recently occurred in the Sa-
turn and Sozenowice mine at Breslau.
Prussia. Twenty dead miners were
got out and there were said to be
many more in the mine.
A NEGRO named Will Jones was
lynched by a mob at Lake Cormorant,
Miss, on the 9th for assaulting a col
ored woman.
In tenement house fire at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th one woman was
suffocated and five other people were
SO badly burned that three will prob
ably die from their injuries.
The Post at Houston, Tex, has print
ed a letter from United States Senator
Mills in which he formally withdraws
from the race for reelection, which
leaves the field to Gov. Culberson.
WHILE out walking on the 9th at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, Alfred s. Hea1y.
aged 25, shot and instantly killed Miss
Libbie Brauschand, aged Is, and then
sent bullet through his own head.
The Army and Navy journal at Bos-
ton has published a long article under
the heading Preparing for War;" in
which the present warlike situation is
carefully reviewed. It states that
there is grave danger in the United
States from ignorance and over-confi-
dence, but in case of extremity there
would be such an uprising of great
people as would shake the world.
CRAzED by jealousy c. w. Wood muir
dered Mrs. Irene BREEDER at Ottawa,
Ill, and afterwards sent a bullet
| through his own brain. Mrs. Wood
had threatened to give her affections
| to another man.
IN the waiting room of the prison at
Sing Sing, New York, Adrian Braun,
convict, attacked his wife with a
knife and hacked her until she was
dead. The man had been sentenced to
two years for beating the woman, and
she had paid him q visit to express her
sympathy and tell him of her forgive