The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-03
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all of the hollowware factories of the
Cum berland glass works were closed
on the night of the 27th and LOCO men
and boys were out of work.
THE 500 employees of the American
Plate Glass company at Alexandria,
Ind. went on strike on the 27th and
the factory was closed down.
ROLAND y. MoLINEUx, son of Gen.
Leslie Molineux, of Brooklyn, was ar.
rested on che 9th, charged with MUIR
dering Mrs. katherine J. Adams in
New York by means of poison in some
bromo-seltzer sent as Christmas pres
ent to Harry Cornish, athletic director
of the Knickerbocker club.
A DISPATCH from Manila on the 27th
stated that in the recent fires in that
city 60 buildings of stone, $50 substan-
tial wooden structures and 5000 nipa
houses of the natives were burned.
The Western Coal & Mining COM
pany at Little Rock. Ark, on the 27th
posted an nltimatum to the employees
at all their mines at Denning, Coal
Hill and Jenny Lind stating that none
of their demands will be granted.
the miners refused to yield and it was
settled that the 4, 900 men or more will
quit work, closing down the entire
district.
Two Cinnamon were found murdered
at Ell Paso. Tex. A highlander was sus-
pected of the crime.
The Planters cottonseed oil mill at
Monroe, La. was destroyed by fire on
the Goth. Loss, 500, ZOO.
The bodies of Letter Carrier Fred
Marty, his wife and two-year-old child,
who a few days ago persisted in the
fire at the Arlington fat in Chicago,
were found on the Goth under pile of
debris. The body of Mrs. Marty had
been burned to a crisp.
The house of Daniel Ecklon at Wal.
ton. Ind. was blown to pieces by
natural gas explosion on the Doth and
were fatally injured and Charles Eek
Ion and Willis Coblentz and Jesse Cob.
lentz more or less seriously hurt The
Coblentz family had just arrived on a
visit.
THE United States gunboat Petrol
visited the island of Cebu, one of the
Philippines, and hoisted the stars and
and stripes over it. The president of
the local government of the island de-
clared he yielded only to superior force.
SIX men were killed by a dynamite
explosion at the tunnel works on the
Jungfrau railway in Switzerland.
A BICYCLE race of one mile at Sgd
ney, Australia, in which so of the fast
est men in that section of country took
part, was won by a man wf..o went un-
der the tape a corpse. Doctors said he
had an attack of heart failure on the
last lap.
A STRIKE of all the employees in the
South Omaha packing-houses, involv-
ing 5000 men, was said to be immi-
nent on the gath. The men asserted
that they were getting only half time,
and in many instances less than that.
A CYCLONE passed over Evansville,
Ind. on the Goth. doing much damage.
" A FAMINE in eggs was reported at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the oath and prices
had advanced from 81 cents to 40 cents
a dozen. II. D. Miller quietly started
in to buy eggs In a few days he had
secured 1000 cases, or $4,000 dozen,
and had the market cornered. Miller
had previously gone among the poul-
try farms and found that the hens h ad
been frostbitten during the blizzard.
AS it would take them several weeks
to recuperate Miller said eggs would
be selling at nickel apiece before
Easter.
HENRY S1LAs. negro preacher, ar
rested on suspicion, confessed to hav-
ing killed Jim Pattillo, a negro hack
driver, few days ago in Waco, Tex.
Silas said he acted in self-defense. A
woman was at the bottom of the trou-
BILE.
THE smallpox situation became SO
alarming that the district courts were
closed at Dallas, Tex. on the Esd and
the juries dismissed. There was also
an agitation in favor of closing the
public schools. All pupils were being
vaccinated. Reports from Cleburne.
Weatherford, San Diego. Corpus Christi
and other Texas towns indicated that
the disease was becoming epidemic,
the cold weather causing the disease
to spread.
AT three o'clock on the morning of
the gath what was supposed to be an
incendiary fire was discovered under
the main stairway of the Reinhart
hotel at Ripley. o. The flames had
such Roadway that two guests of the
hotel were cut off from escape by the
stairway and found safety through a
window on the second floor. The fire
spread to two blocks adjoining and
eight business houses including the
hotel were involved in the loss
AT fernando, Miss, Bob Campbell