The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-16

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1t work in the Mississippi valley. The
| counterfeit is of standard silver dollars,
Ill of which so far discovered bear date
IF 1890. twas believed that something
like 200. 600 of them had been circulated.
They have the same ring. apparently
the same weight and the same exter.
| nal marks as the genuine.
CARL MCBRIDE and his wife were in.
stantly killed by an express train at
Raccoon station, Pa They were cross.
ing the track when the train dashed
into them, both being terribly man.
yled. Mcbride and his wife had been
married but a few weeks.
The Brownwood oil mill at Fort
Worth, Tex, was destroyed by fire.
ABAND of 80 Indians of the Arapahoe
tribe in Oklahoma have formed co.
operative colony and will leave soon
for the Philippine islands, where they
hope to purchase land and reside per-
manently.
A PARIS dispatch of the 10th stated
that the conviction was gaining ground
in France that war with England is
inevitable. The French also recog-
nized that war with their transchannel
neighbors meant almost certain defeat
for France, yet it could not be seen
how war could be averted, as England,
| they said, seemed determined to force
| Frances back to the wall.
THE great water main at Hobart
street and Central avenue, New York,
burst at five o'clock on the morning of
the 18th and an area of 20 blocks was
inundated, foundations Of houses be-
ing washed out, trolley and telegraph
poles torn down and many persons
| nearly drowned and made homeless.
The damage may reach 100000.
A REAR-END collision occurred on the
Oregon railway. II miles east of Pen
ileton. Ore, between a fast mail and
a freight train and four men were Sc
| riously injured.
1T was 20 degrees below zero at Val
entine, Neb., on the 9th.
REPORTS received at Dallas, Tex, on
the 9th stated that a severe blizzard
ragged all over Texas.
THE total loss by a recent fire in the
works of the Standard Oil company at
Los Angeles, Cal, amounted to $685.
900.
POINT PARK, on Lookout untain,
in rsNnessee. has been transferred to
the government as a part of the Chicka.
mauga-Chattanooga national military
park.
The river Neva suddenly rose nine
feet the other night, inundating the
lower quarters of St Petersburg, and
communication was carried on by
boats. The inhabitants were panic
| stricken and there was great loss of
life and property.
THE citizens of Chicago held mass
meetings on the 9th in various parts
of the city to protest against franchise
extension.
JORDAN WEBB. colored, was legally
hanged at CORTLAND, Va, for an as.
sault on an aged~woman.
GEORGE HOWARD and Frank Howard,
miners, wandered off the road in the
mountains near Ironton, COL, and
froze to death.
THERE was said to be a great scarcity
of soft coal throughout Iowa
THREE men were killed and eight
injured, three of them probably
fatally, by the explosion of press
mill and four grinding mills in the
Hagley yard of the Dupont powder
works at Wilmington, Del
FORTY-FIvE survivors of the crew Of
| the steamer Londonian. which was re-
Gently lost were rescued by the British
steamer Vedamore and taken to Balti-
more. Md. The captain and "a others
Of the Londonian's crew were believed
to be drowned.
THE steamer B. F. Young ran into a
su Emerged rock near Decatur, Ala,
and sunk one of her barges with 1, 900
tons of coal.
For 10 years and more George Ogle
had worn convict's stripes in Sing
Sing prison in New York and faced
the horrors of a life sentence with
out a promise of release. The other
day free pardon reached him. In 1887 a
man named James Brown was stab ned
to death in a saloon at New York.
Two men swore Ogle was the assailant.
and he was convicted and sent up for
life. Recently one of the men con-
fessed that he had committed perjury.
THE national convention of the
American Federation of Labor met in
Kansas City, Mo-. on the 18th. Samuel
Gompers, president of the federation,
presided.
PRIVATE ]. E MOORE, of battery A,
First Maine artillery, was fined $500
for embracing the wife of county
official in Savannah. Ga, upon the
street The soldier was intoxicated
THE explosion of gasoline stove in
Tabitha hospital at Lincoln, Neb., the
other evening resulted in Mary Stein
aker, a nurse. being burned to death
and Or. Wilmeth and a medical stu.
dent being badly burned.