The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-24
OFFICIALS of the Port Arthur canal

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been made to take ont an injunction
and to checkmate the proceeding the
dredge was moved to the meeting
point at night and set to work and the
waters of the gulf now flow through
the canal in Texas.
| A ROME correspondent on the Goth
stated that the pope's life was ebbing
| away.
THE New Haven Conn.) Register
| stated that screw trust was being
perfected.
NEWS from Jamaica on the Goth said
that ex-Secretary John Sherman was
worse and was not likely to recover.
THO UsANDs of men were camped on
the edges of the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache reservations in Oklahoma on
the Goth waiting for the word which
would permit them to make dash for
homes.
w. j. BRYAN was the guest of the
Bryan Birthday Club Democratic asso.
citation. of Chattanooga, Tenn. on the
Goth and was rendered an ovation by
the democracy of the Third congress
sional district
A TORNADO struck Cleburne county,
Ala, on the night of the 18th and
swept houses away, uprooted trees and
leveled everything in its path. The
house of Lewis Coffee was demolished
among others and ten members of the
family were killed. A woman in an
other house at Hof1in also lost her life.
A great number of people were injured.
and dozens of grain mills demolished.
NEAR Waynesboro, Ga, on the 10Th
four people were killed by a tornado
and many houses were destroyed.
NEGRO boy. aged IS years. was
jailed at Bowie. Md, for beating an
elderly woman to death with club
and then attacking her sister and mall
treating her SO badly that she will die
There was talk of lynching the pris-
Oner
DISPATCH from Dallas. Tex, said
that Milton Park, chairman of the
populist national organization commit
tee has issued manifesto setting forth
the nomination of Barker and Donnel-
ly for president and vice president of
the United States. lie has appointed
Paul II. Dixon. of Chillicothc. Mo,
as organizer for Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska.
CHARLES l.. BAcKMAN. an engraver,
mortally wounded his wife at Chicago
and then sent a bullet through his
own brain. It was caused by the
woman refusing to live with her hus-
band.
THE passenger train on the Cheyenne
& Northern railway. which was
snowed-in for a mon tn near Iron Noun.
tain. Wyo.. has been finally released,
a rotary snow pillow pushed by three
locomotives opening the road.
IMMENSE copper lodges have been dis
covered on Prince William sound,
Alaska.
A FIRE started in the opera house at
Amesburg, Mass, and destroyed three
of the largest business blocks in the
place and one church. The loss was
estimated at $3.50, 1000.
FLAMES broke out in the Windsor
hotel at New York on the afternoon
of the 18th and spread with such rap
idity that the means of escape for the
guests were soon cut off and there was
wild scene of excitement. Many of
the panic-stricken women threw them
selves from the windows and some
died from their injuries. Soon two of
the walls collapsed and several per-
sons were undoubtedly buried in the
debris. It was estimated that about 40
persons were injured and Is lives lost.
with the proba bility of the death list
increasing. The loss on the hotel was
about ST., 900. 600.
The queen regent signed the treaty
OF peace between Spain and the United
States on the nth.
OLIVER Provost was hanged at Port
Arthur, Ont, on the 18th for the muir.
der of two swine herders.
PARTS of Rome, Ga, were under
water through the rise in the river.
In the United States court at Atoka,
]. T., Judge Clayton granted an in.
junction restraining striking miners
in the territory from interfering with
other miners who wanted to work
with federal protection.
BENJAMIN P. HUTCHINSON, better
known as "Old Hutch" the former
board of trade operator at Chicago,
died of heart failure at the Lakeside
sanitarium, Lake Geneva, Wis He
was 20 years old.
WHILE alone in her home at Chicago
the other evening Mrs. Charles H.
Nix was seized by two burglars, who,
after gagging her. tied her to a chair
in the basement Then they looted
the house and secured 50. 600 worth of
valuables. After this they carried Mrs.
Nix, still gagged and bound in the
her in clothes press. After ~ hours
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