The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-06-09


from Hong Kong on the 5th said that
the sultan of Sulu, who, it was sup
posed, was favorably disposed toward
the United States, has imported large
quantity of arms from Singapore with
a view of resisting the Americans.
These arms he has stored on the island
of Siasi and he is raising force of
Sepoys at Singapore.
THE officers and executive board of
the National Congress of Mothers have
decided upon Des Moines, Ia, May %,
1900, as the place and date for the next
congress.
The opening session of the twelfth
annual convention Of the National As
ISOLATION of Steam and Hot Water Fit
tiers and Helpers of America was held
at Chicago on the 5th. H.
The National Civil Service ReforA
league has issued statement at New
York denouncing President Mckinley
because of his modification of the civil
service rules. The claim is made that
the order removes from civil service
positions in various departments 9, 240
men.
FARMERS and retail dealers m9gri
cultural implements will have to pay
more for plows, harrows, seeders and
implements of a kindred nature in the
future. At meeting of manufacture
ers of these implements of farm indus
try, held at Chicago on the 5th, it was
decided to make general raise in their
prices.
FRANK P. MILLIONS feed and grain
SfO 6oSfrovyo6 hxy OF
delphia on the 5th and six firemen were
hurt Loss, about $25, 900. Years ago
the feed store was a famous dramatic
hall known as the Drawing Roof, in
which many prominent actors and &C
tresses made their first appearance.
SEVERAL thousand dollars damage
was done by the heavy rainstorm, ac-
companied by a strong wind, which
swept over Oskaloosa, Ia, on the 4th.
The east wing of Penn college was I'M
rooted and the building flooded. Many
small buildings throughout the city
were also demolished.
JOHANN STRAUSS, the ''waltz king"
died at Vienna on the Sd, aged "a.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred where
by 80 Indians met death by drowning
near Laggan, B. c., in the Rocky noun
tains, on the line of the Canadian Pa
cific railway. They were crossing the
famous Lake of the Clouds when two
canoes, filed with half tipsy Indians,
were upset and all their occupants sank.
A DISPATCH from Louisville, KY, on
the 18th asserted that ex-Gov. John P.
Altgeld, of Illinois, will be William j.
Bryan's political manager in the COM
ing campaign.
THE court of cessation at Paris
rendered verdict in favor of re-
vision of the Dreyfus case. 1t ordered
new court-martial to sit at Rennes
for the trial of the prisoner.
Two men were killed while crossing
the railroad at Newark, o., on the 4th.
THE famous old st. Charles theater
in New Orleans was destroyed by fire
the other night.
and geodetic survey corps were recent
ly taking observations for the purpose
of determining the longitude of Mar
low, 1. T., in order to run the official
boundary line between the Indian ter
ritory and Oklahoma territory. This
boundary line is to be the ninety-eighth
meridian, and, while it has been APP
proximately fixed, the official line has
never been established.
The British steamer Banffshire, from
Wellington, N. H., was burned in the
Victoria dock, London, on the I'd. A
man on board was killed.
GEORGE K. NASH, the favorite of SEN
ator Hanna, was nominated for gov
ernor at the republican state conven-
ton at Columbus, O., on the 3D.
GEN. FUNSTON will be relieved from
duty in the Philippines and ordered
home for muster out with the volun-
teers.
THE Christian colored people of
Knoxville, Tenn, observed the I'd as a
day of fasting and prayer. Supplica-
tons we're offered for freedom from mob
violence and for the lessening of crime
throughout the land.
RINGING resolutions were adopted at
the Transmississippi congress at Wich-
tia, Kan, on the I'd indorsing the
Louisiana purchase fair. free homes"
and the opening of Indian reservation
lands, statehood for all the territories,
establishment of two new cabinet
offices-mines and mining and COM
merce and industry, and the establish
ment of a national academy for train
ing consular officers. taking their
appointment out of politics. Houston,
Tex, was selected as the next place of
meeting.
GEORGE STALKER, aged IS, shot his
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