The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-10

Ala. was entirely destroyed by an in.
cendiary fire early the other morning.
The factory gave employment to $50
men.
| AMONG the boys who submitted es-
says which entitle them to the honor
If speaking at the junior competition
for the Ten Eyck prizes at Yale uni.
sersity. New Haven, Conn, was Mau.
rice p. Gould. of Wamego, Kan.
The magnificent banquet which is
to be given at New York by Richard
Croker and the Tammany cohorts in
honor of Jefferson's birthday on April
Is is likely to prove the opening gun
for the coming democratic national
campaign. as every democrat of inn
portance will be invited.
STORMY times are predicted for the
new Spanish cabinet
SIM BARBER, company L, Twentie
Kansas, died at Manila on the 27th of
rariola Howard A. Olds. of the same
regiment died of wounds received in
| action.
JOSEPHINE KIPLINe, the six-year-old
daughter of Rudyard Kipling and the
| oldest of his three children, died on
the 9Th at New York.
II,
from Nashville to Paducah, sank at
GAINESVILLE, Tenn. at an early hour
the other morning. There was large
number of passengers on board, and
when the boat struck the bridge much
excitement was created. but no lives
| were lost
The Kanawha valley was visited on
the 5th by one Of the worst floods in
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ton, w. Va, was almost entirely under
water, causing considerable damage
to property and distress among the
poor. The city was also in total dark
| ness at night, as the gas plants and
electric light works had been shut
down.
THREE small children of Mr. and Mrs.
Rhinehart, of Walkers Valley. WASH,
| were burned to death. They had been
| locked in the house while the parents
| were at work in the woods.
A CARBOY of benzine exploded in
first-class railway carriage near st.
Petersburg and the carriage was
burned and seven persons were killed
and l6 others injured.
MRS. JOHN A. CLARK. of Lucknow,
Tenn, administered rough on rats to
herself and three children in pie on
the Sd and all were reported at the
point of death. Her mind was I'M
balanced by the death of her husband.
HAM HUGHES, driver Of the Quincy g.
Kingston stage, which he reported was
robbed of registered mail by two ne.
grOes near Newton. ILL.,, was arrested
by United States Marshal Summers.
He confessed that his brother, Jack
Hughes, cut open the mail pouch and
took out registered mail The sheriff
went to Beverly. ILL.,, Jack Hughes.
FULLY 5000 workmen, largely en-
proyed in the various mills con trolled
by the American Steel & Wire company
in Cleveland. O.. were recently noti-
fed Of an increase in wages rang.
ing from five to ten per cent. The
flood of orders, revival in the steel
trade and advance in prices for finished
material were given as reasons for the
advance.
The Oklahoma secretary of state
granted a charter to the Shawnee,
Oklahoma & Missouri Coal & Railway
company; capital stock, 81, 600. 600.
The company is chartered to con-
struct. and operate and main tain line
of railroad from Purcell, L. T., $50 miles
through the counties of Pottawatomie
and Cleveland, Ok, and Seminole,
Creek and Cherokee nation, l. T., to
Seneca, Mo-; also to develop and oper-
ate coal mines
HARRY HUTCHINSON, aged 1s years,
was arrested at Corinth. KY, charged
with wrecking au express train on the
Southern railway the other night.
Other arrests were to be made.
The acting governor of Illinois has
signed the bill appropriating So. 600 for
a statue of Frances E. Willard to be
placed IN the rotunda of the capitol
building at Washington. The statue
of Miss Willard is the only one of a
woman given place in the rotunda.
A DISPATCH from South McAlester,
L T., on the Sd said that it was be.
lieved that the back bone of the strike
was broken. The Krebs miners, by a
vote of 400 to ca, voted not to strike.
Cherryvale, Lehigh and Coal Gate
mines were shut down, but it was
thought they would resume in a day
or so. All mines on the Choctaw rail-
way were working.
JOHN w. KING, paymaster for the
Missouri Pacific railway. committed
suicide at St Louis on the I'd by hang
ing himself to rafter in the cellar.
He was 50 years old. It was a matter
almost unaccountable to his friends
why he should have taken his own life.
Two freipht trains on the Chicap0