The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-01-20
A BILL for woman suffrage has been
introduced in the Oklahoma legisla.

A BILL for woman suffrage has been
introduced in the Oklahoma legisla-
ture.
A FIRE at Roodhouse. ILL.,. destroyed
four buildings on the public square.
The farm house of Fayette Meacham.
near Pittsville, Wis, was blown tc
atoms by dynamite, killing Meacham
and fatally injuring his wife and four
children. How the dynamite became
ignited was not known.
THE was intense excitement in
Mountain Home, Ark. on the 10th
over the sudden deaths of six men. In
every case there were unmistakable
evidences of poisoning. Besides those
who died a number of others were TAX.
en- i'll. but were saved by prompt medi.
cal attendance. The poison was be.
lieved to be in whisky which the vic.
Tins had swallowed.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN declared in a
speech at the reception given him by
the Bimetaliic league at Denver. Col,
on the 10th that the silver issue was
still very much alive.
The residence of Charles Null in
Kokomo. Ind, was wrecked by natu-
raj gas explosion and three women were
badly burned, one fatally.
In a collision between freight train
and locomotive on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad at Glendale, Pa,
several cars were overturned and
burned. A brakeman was also pin
Toned under the debris and burned to
death.
The New York Sun says there is a
plan on foot to get ex-Gov. William j.
ident in 1900.
The gunboat York town sailed from
San Francisco to Manila on the 18th.
A TRAIN on the Illinois Central had
head-end collision with switch
engine at Champaign, ILL.,, and the
fireman of the passenger train was
killed. The passengers were badly
shaken up.
The Indian nations will try to col.
lect the traders license tax from
non-citizen merchandise dealers in the
Indian territory. Before the passage
of the Curtis bill the nations were not
in position to enforce these collec-
tions.
tenth United States infantry left
Columb bus. O.. on the 18th for New
York, en- route to the Philippines.
GREAT interest is being manifested
throughout the west over the coming
meeting of stockmen at Denver, COL,
during the week of January 90. Be-
sides the national live stock conven-
ton, range cattle exhibition is to be
held at the stock yards, the first ex.
hibition of its kind ever held in the
country. These cattle are range-bred
and have never tasted any feed but
grass and hay.
SAMUEL STEINER, a farmer of Pleas
ant Valley township, Ia, went to
West Union and surrendered himself
to the authorities. He said that his
brother John and himself, with
neighbor named Hunsberger, were to.
gether and drank freely of homemade
wine, becoming intoxicated. A quar-
rel arose between them. in which Sam
uel shot his brother, killing him in
stantly.
NEARLY all the business men of Chi.
cago have been invited to banquet to
be given by the Merchants club for
the purpose of considering in detail
the question of establishing munici pal
pawnshops in that city. BY the pas
sage of such a measure, it was said,
the large number of Shylocks, who
make loans at exorbitant rates, will
be forced out of business.
The Omer R. Weaver camp of ex.
Confederate Veterans at Little Rock,
Ark, adopted resolutions against the
proposed plan of government assist
ance in caring for the graves of con-
federate soldiers and also against the
proposition to pension ex-con federates.
A LETTER received by Stephen E.
Barton, chairman of the ban relief
committee at New York, from Mr..
Warner, recently sent to the Sancti
Spiritus district in Cuba, SAYS that
there are 1851 destitute women and
children in the town, with l, 392 men
to provide for them, more than half of
whom are too sick and weak to even
help themselves "The condition of
the people in the little villages and
country" he says, ''is even worse than
in the city"
FRED SAWYER, negro, was hanged
at Waxahachie, Tex. on the 18th, for
an assault committed on a white won.
an year ago.
The report that Mgr Ireland. thu
arch bishop of ST. Paul, Mimi. is to be
nominated papal nuncio in the Philip
pines was absolutely con tradicted at
the vatican at Rome. There is no in.
tention OF instituting a nunciature in
the Philippines
CONFIRMATION of the report that the
German government was secretly hack.