The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-08-09

formed of Nicaragua, Salvador and
Honduras is named Republica Mayor
de Centre America. sor the Greater Re-
public of Central America
4 THE worlds hour bicycle record was
lowered at Dion. France, by Lesna,
who covered the remarkable distance
Of % miles, $50 yards, within the time
named.
The colored people of Chicago issued
o call to arms of all able-bodied men
1 of their race to meet on the morning
of the 9Th for the purpose of helping
the Spring Valley, ILL.,, miners who
were driven out by the Italians on the
9TH.
Mrs. JENNIE GARFIELD, of New Haven
township. near Owosso, Mich, died
from starvation. Domestic trouble
separated her from her husband and
she brooded over it and decided to
starve herself to death. She took no
nourishment for thirty-three days
The Cuban insur gents were reported
defeated in a skirmish with govern
ment troops in the province OF Santa
Clara on the 5th. The Spanish troops
captured thirty horses laden with provi-
sions and ammunition from the enemy.
The insurgents, commanded by Maceo,
were also said to have been defeated in
Santiago de Cuba It was reported
that Maceo had offered S., 900 for the
capture of Gen. Martinez Campos, the
Spanish commander.
A MOB of 500 Italians at Spring Val
ley, ILL.,, on the 4th cleared out the
eolored miners at No. shaft and
ordered their wives and children to
leave town by the next day on peril of
being shot down in their tracks The
being held up near the negro settle
ment, robbed and left for dead. The
mob asked the general manager to dis
charge the negroes, but he refused.
They then went to work and cleared
them out, wounding some and de-
molishing their goods.
DICK YEAGER, alias Zip Wyatt, the
most daring desperate in the Indian
territory. and for years the terror of
Oklahoma, was captured near Sheri-
dan, Ok, after one of the most desper-
ate fights recorded in the criminal his
tory of Oklahoma.
The international geographical con-
gress was formally opened in London
on the Goth by the duke of York.
Among the Americans in attendance is
Gen. A. w. Greeley.
THE strike of the Brotherhood of
Tailors at New York has been de.
clared off.
THE state department at Washington
has received official intelligence that
ten British missionaries were killed by
the Chinese at Ku Cheng. The Amer
leans were reported as being unhurt,
although a London dispatch stated
that two Americans were wounded.
The British and American consuls will
have an interview with the viceroy at
once.
A DECISION involving a portion of the
town of Ponca City, Ok, was rendered
in the land Office at Perry on the 3lst,
giving the land on which are the Santa
Fe depot and many of the best build
ings of the town to Andrew NJ. Waugh,
a homesteader. During the hearing, it
was developed that one of the claim.
ants obtained booth certificate at
Arkansas City, and it was held to be
no good and the holder not entitled TO
hold land in the Cherokee strip. This
decision, if sustained. will knock thou
sands of men out of claims they are
now holding in Kay, Pawnee and P
county.
The San Francisco Chronicle printed
4 story on the 4th exposing an alleged
plot to restore Queen Liliuokalani to
the Hawaiian throne and loot Homo
lulu. Rudolph Spreckels, youngest son
of Claus Spreckels, was said to be back
ing the scheme.
| AN organization was partly effected
at Chicago for the purpose of reclaim
| ing John Browns fort and sending it
back to Harper's Ferry, where it is
proposed it shall occupy it's old site.
1t is probable that the necessary funds
will be raised among the colored people.
MOUNTED police had a battle near
Salt Lake, Utah. with two desperadoes,
named Coughlin and George. During
the fusillade 600 shots were fred, but
nobody was harmed and the outlaws
finally escaped, abandoning their
/ horses.
BY the capsizing of a sloop yacht at
Brooklyn in the 4th. John Strand and
Arthur Hemingway were drowned.
In recent pension case Assistant
Secretary Reynolds, of the interior de
partment. decided that where there j.;
service in the confederate army, such
record failing to show whether the
service was voluntary or involuntary,
it will be presumed that service was
voluntary, but such presumption may
be rebutted, the burden of proof being
on the claimant.
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended July &c show an average
increase as compared with the CORE.
spending week last year of 20 2; in New
York the increase was 1871; outside
New York, 1863.
JOHN HICKS house was burned al
Big Stone Gap. Va, and four of his
children persisted while his wife and
one child were badly burned. The
fire caught from stove and burned
very rapidly, while the family were
asleep
A SERIOUS accident happened at
Chicago on the LIST. A car containing
about twenty people was near the top
of the chute when the cable broke
and the car went tearing down the
slide of 300 feet. A wild panic ensued
among the people in the car and many
of them in their desperate efforts to
escape were spilled out of the car. Nc
fatal injuries were, however, reported.
THs civil service commission has not