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DEAD AT BOWLING GREEN.
Ieveral Persons Were Killed and q Number
Seriously Injured.

geveral Persons Were Killed and q Number
Seriously Injured.
BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, June For
.he first time since the storm the West
.rn Union wires are now working.
This town suffered great loss of prop
.rty and injury to man and beast.
Two miles west of Bowling Green resi-
lences and barns were blown to atoms,
houses were picked up with their con.
,ents and occupants and carried over
rec tops and set down again, in one in
stance without injury to the family. In
strip of country mile wide and ex.
ending from here to Curryville,
eight miles, almost every house
S damaged and many are utterly de.
nolished. At Curryville not single
house escaped damage. The residence
If ]. w. Avis was crushed like an egg
she'll, and Mrs Rebecca Reed instantly
KILLED. Jack Emerson and Henry Cash
md wife were injured. The damage
to property will aggregate many
thousands of dollars Four miles west
IF here Mrs. Carrie. Bradbury had her
lbs crushed and sustained internal in
'uries. Louis James boy had both
trims broken and Joe Smiths boy had
ais scalp taken off and will die.
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BICYCLE RACES.


Largo Crowd witnesses the Contest OF
Wheelmen at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 1.-The an
nual Waldo park road race Saturday
drew together one of the largest
crowds that ever witnessed bicycle
race in the west The crowd was so
large that it could not be handled, and
1t almost spoilt the race. 1t took the
officials of the race long time to
egure out the result, and for several
hours it was not known who
were the winners of the time
prizes. When the returns were in
At last, however, it was found
that V. p. Dole, of the Kansas City
cyclists, had covered the distance in
the fast time of 27:O6 Dole was 81
minute man and a dark horse Few,
even of his friends, expected that he
would be the winner. w. T. Kidd
made the second best time, 27:1O, and
Ola White was third with 27:1i. Dole
wins tandem machine, Kidd dia-
mond ring and White a gold watch.
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CONGRESS.
CONDENSED Report Of the Past Weeks Pro
coodInGH.

c00ohngns
The senate on the 9th defeated the propose
don to increase the beer tax IS cents per bar
:el by the vote OF 81 to a. The vote was taKen
As soon as the filled cheese bill was taken up
the beer tax proposition being submitted as an
amendment: with the amendment disposed Oh
the cheese bill was further debated, but nos
disposed Of The debate on the bond bill pro-
:eeded after two o'clock Mr.. Hansbrougn. o.
North Dakota, and Mr. Daniel, OF virginia
speaking for and Mr. Elkins against the Dill
partial conference report on the naval aP-
preparation bill was agreed to....Tne mousse
spent almost the entire day discussing the sen.
ate amendment to the general deficiency Dill
appropriatiug 81 ,027 900 for the payment OF
about 700 French spoliation claims, eo4S,OOo for
IS war claims, found to be due under the BOW
man act, and several other claims. The amend
ment was finally agreed to- The remainder OF
the session was taken up in considering the
conference report on the sundry civil bill
WHEN the senate met on the 18th the house
resolution directing the secretary OF war TO
provide tents for the St Louis and East St
Louis storm victims passed and was immed1-
ately signed by the president The bond bill
was then further discussed, Senators Daniel
and PETER speaking in favor Of it,. AS soon
as the journal was read in the house Mr.. Bar
tholdt (Mo.) offered q resolution that the Sec
rotary Of war furnish tents to the st. Louis
storm victims. which was unanimously adopt
ed The conference report on the civil service
bill was then considered
the senate on the 29th, and the body then adj
journed until Monday. .... The house spent the
entire day in debating the Johnson-Stokes
election contest from the Seventh South Caro-
lima district The veto message Of the presi-
dent disappearing OF the river and harbor bill
was received and referred and the naval APP
preparation bill sent to further conference
Pension bills were considered at the night ses-
sion and the house adjourned until Monday.
DEBATE on the bond bill continued in the
senate on June l. Mr.. Cullom opposed the bill
as O step toward reputation, and Mr.. Brown
(Utah) fav ored it, or rather he favored a de-
claration against any future issue Of bonds
breezy debate was sprung over q resolution
offered by Mr. Hansbrough. chairman Of the
library committee, appropriating $4,000 for
completing the frieze in the capitol. 1t went
over. The president sent in veto Of three
private pension bills. =. The proceedings in the
house were unimportant. There was q partial
agreement the conference report on the
sundry civil bill, and it was sent back to con.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

A MAN in Sedaila, Mo-, recently
started a chain system on a large scale
for the benefit of worthy and aged
Methodist clergyman. He sent out a
batch of $500 letters, asking each per-
son addressed to send him a dime and
to start a chain by writing to three
personal friends, and so on. The
scheme, if it had worked successfully,
each one responding, in the course of
time would have brought in the sum
of $40, 900, 900, 600, OO0 The postmaster
general, however, nipped the scheme
by denying the privileges of the mail
to the party engineering it
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

In letter which Mr.. Brooks wrote
to the New York Herald he says that
If on January 1, 1900, a new division of
the year into Is months could be made
the first IL months would have just 80
days and the new month 90, to make
365, and 80 in leap years. After few
days there would be no need to refer
to calendars, as the same day of the
week would have the same date through
the year. If this change be adopted by
all countries and January were, say,
Monday, every Monday would be the
LIST, 9Th, 18th and 22d; every Tuesday
the I'd, 9th, 10th and esd, and so on
throughout the year.
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ST. LOUIS LOSSES.
Bodies stin Being Found and the Deatl
List Increased-PropertY Ioases.

b00ies st1il Being Found and the De8tI
List Increased-Property Losses.
ST. LOUIS, May 3L-There still ex.
lists about as much uncertainty as to
the actual number of people killed and
the amount of property damage as on
the first morning of the disaster.
Scores OF dead have been identified,
but no one is willing to venture a guess
as to how many bodies may be in the
ruins OF the hundreds of buildings as
yet unexplored. The total number OF
dead in ST. Louis, identified up to the
present, is 162, and in East ST. Louis,
1877. In ST. Louis there are 22 bodies
still unidentified, and in East st. Louis
two. 1t is believed that the deaths OF
the injured and the future recovery OF
bodies will bring the St Louis death
list we'll up to 200. In East St Louis
the city officials declared that they
have hope that the death roll on that
side of the river will not exceed $50,
but the ruins upon which the rescuers
have not yet begun work may swell
the total far beyond that figure.
The estimates upon the property loss
have grown wilder and further apart.
Guesses were made yesterday all the
way from $1,000 600 to $50 900, 900 for
st. Louis. and from $1,000, 600 to S2o.-
600, 600 for East st. Louis. The most
popular estimate is ino the neighbor
hood of S25, 00O 900 for both cities, in
GLIDING railroad buildings damaged.
Although thousands of men have
been at work night and day clearing
away the wreckage in the path of the
tornado, they have scarcely made 3
perceptible impression toward restor
ing the chaotic confusion to anything
like order. Passageways have been
made through some of the principal
thoroughfares, it is true, but for the
most part the streets are still choke6
with the battered remains of homes
and factories, hospitals and churches.
The number of families left homeless
by the devastation along the path OF
the storm will reach up into the thou.
sands In many instances these un.
fortunates have lost all their worldly
possessions Many will for days be
dependent on charity and their more
fortunate neighbors for shelter.
Two companies of the Illinois state
militia from Greenville and Belleville,
ILL.,, in all about 100 mel, patrolled the
levee district of East St Louis all day.
Dead lines were esta blished, and no
one was allowed to pass without a per
NIT. The effect of these stringent
measures was soon seen in the greatly
decreased number of people in the
devastated district
THE REPUBLICS SUMMARY.
ST. LOUIS. May 3l.-The situation in
St Louis at present, as viewed from
the Republics standpoint, is as fol.
lows:
st. Louis-Identified dead, 136; un.
known dead, IS; missing. SO; fatally
injured, 10; seriously injured in hos
pitfalls, 4o1; estimated outside of hos.
pitals, 1000; property loss, estimated,
$50. 600. 900.
East ST Louis-Identified dead, no;
unknown dead, 6; dying, 6; missing, 10;
seriously injured in hospitals, 200; esti-
mated injured outside of hospitals.
1000; property loss, estimated, SIS. OOO.-
MN
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05
DECORATION DAY,
The General Rainy Weather Int
Nth thu "a - n,oulea In NGanv tn,

The General Rainy Weather Interfered
with the Ceremonies In Many Towns.
KANSAS CITy, Mo-, June L-Decora
ton day was appropriately observed
in this city. In the morning the vet
Grams of both sides, the blue and the
gray. repaired to the cemeteries. where
the graves of their fallen comrades
were decorated with flowers In the
afternoon there was a parade of the
military and civic bodies of the city.
Dispatches receives from many citief
in Kansas and Missouri stated that the
decoration day services were greatly
interfered with by the threat ening and
rainy weather.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

The farmers of Oxford county. Me-,
are nearly all taking to bicycles. The
other day one of them rode three miles
to the store on a wheel, carrying pail
of butter in one hand and a basket of
eggs in the other. Another los I'D
bag Of meal to the handle bar of his
wheel and rode home with the load,
passing a neighbor who was returning
In q wagon
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

A COMMITTEE appointed by the con-
vention of state railroad commission
ers to consider the matter Of strikes
has given its approval to a measure
pending in congress which provides for
arbitration between railroads and
their employees in contests involving
the suspension of traffic or other incon-
veniences to the public.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

STATISTICS show that Pennsylvania
has more citizens whose sight has
been destroyed, or who have had their
eyes rendered useless, than any other
state. The large number of iron and
steel plants, and other manufactures
and mines within its limits is respon-
sible for this
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05
In anticipation of an enormous draft

In anticipation of an enormous draft
on the staying powers of his right
hand, Maj Mckinley has devised, it is
said, protective handshake. Instead
of thrusting out his hand to take
chances with his friendly adversary,
he, holds it well in control. high up
and close to his side, in such a posi-
ton that the adversary must reach out
and up, and thus lose all the advan-
tage of position for the grip. The
major has the handshaker at his
mercy, and after quick squeeze re-
leases him. This is an ingenious trick
hand.
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Minor State News.

The Kansas City, Kan, board of
trade is seeking reduction of grain
rates
Topeka horsemen will furnish sew.
era1 entries at the Leavenworth races
in September.
Some thief stole carpet valued at
e138 from the state house at Topeka
several days ago.
Populists of the Third district have
nominated J. E. Ridgely, a Girard mer-
chant, for congress.
Arthur Foster, barber, was recent
ly drowned while bathing in the Kaw
river at Kansas City, Kan.
Large fields of grain were flooded by
late rains in southern Kansas as far as
the Indian territorial line.
The late rains made the Cotton wood,
Neosho and Marais des Cygnes rivers
higher than they had been for Is years.
An unknown negro man committed
suicide at Topeka the other day by
jumping from the bridge into the river
The second day of the jubilee meet
ing and musical contest at Hutchin-
son was voted a great success The
array of musical talent was said to
have been the greatest ever assembled
in the state
The late heavy rains flooded. the
streets leading to the depot from four
to six feet deep at La Cygne and many
people were out in boats enjoying the
sport, when q boat in which was a
party of young people was capsized
and two young ladies, Miss Birdie Cas-
sadly and Miss Georgia Ricketts,, were
drowned.
The chief organizer Of the anti-pro-
hibition "Order of the Western
Brotherhood" claims a membership Of
so, 600 in the state.
The corner stone of the new Kansas
university "a Methodist institution)
WAS laid with appropriate ceremonies
at Kansas City, Kan, On the 25th.
Mrs Thompson, wife of a Douglas
county farmer residing near Eudora.
committed suicide the other day by
jumping into the Kansas river. Tenn
porary insanity the cause.
Lightning struck one of the build
ines of the Laflin-Rand Powder Co. I,
near Fort Scott the other night. caus-
ing a terrific explosion that demol-
ished the building. No one was hurt
It is stated that the Mckinley corn
train gotten up to 60 to the national re-
publican convention, which was at first
looked upon as joke will prove a
reality. The train will be highly dec
Grated
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

THE RaiDes liquor lawsdoes not seem
to be doing so much for New York as
was expected. Its effect has been to
turn restaurants and lunch counters
into pseudo hotels and enables the
thirsty to drink on Sunday without let
or hindrance.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

ARRANGEMENTS were being perfected
by Herbert E Maslin, of Syracuse, N.
Y, for a relay race between San Fran
cisco and New York. in which a mes
sage will be carried from the presiding
army officer in San Francisco addressed
to Gen. Miles It was estimated that
the ride would be made in from Is to
20 days, providing good condition of
roads prevailed.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

A BENEVOLENT association has been
formed in New York to establish a
home for aged and disabled gripmen
on farm 100 miles from the city. The
board of trustees consists of Catholic
priest, Protestant clergyman and
Jewish rabbi
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

IT was announced in New York re-
Gently that the first steps had been
taken to commemorate the consolida-
ton of New York and Brooklyn with
adjoining towns into the second largest
city in the world by grand interna-
tional exposition, which if it will rot
surpass the worlds fair of 1898 in Chi
cago, will be nevertheless the greatest
project in the same line ever under
taken in the east
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MISCELLANEOUS.

A MOB of 600 men broke into the
courtroom at Columbus, Ga and took
Jesse Slayton, q negro charged with
assaulting Mrs. Howard Bryan, away
from the officers and hanged him to .
tree, subsequently filing his body
with bullets. The mob afterward took
Will Meyers, colored, charged with the
same offense, from Jail and lynched
him at the same place.
The president returned to congress
three private pension bills on the Is,
with veto on each. The two origi
mating in the house were vetoed be
cause they were carelessly drawn and
the one in the senate because the pres
ident objected to pensioning widows OF
soldiers who remarry.
A MAN was found in box car at East
St. Louis on the 3lst with his throat
cut from ear to ear. There was nc
knife near and it was believed he wa:
murdered. The dead man was not
identified.
DURING performance of Lockhart's
American circus at Antwerp a stair
case gave way and the audience was
panic stricken and 20 persons were
more or less injured by being squeezed
or trampled upon.
ALTON, Ia, had an incendiary fire or
the 31st which burned five building,
and the merchandise contained ir
them. Loss, $40. 900; no insurance.
AT Mount Vernon, Ill, nine people
were killed by q tornado on the eth.
THE steamer Ironsides struck large
stone in the Ohio river Is miles below
Parkersburg, w. Va, on the 31st and
sank. The boat was valued at sci, 600
No lives were lost
AT Chicago nearly zoo. 600 people
gathered to witness the finish of the
bicycle race from Wheeling to Chicago
241 miles. The race was won by o
P. Nelson in 1:12:53 He had beer
given nine minutes in the handicap.
HARRY FISHER, a SON of one of thu
most prominent citizens of Austin
Tex, has been arrested for incendiar
ism He confessed to having fred Z
dozen buildings and also to robbins
the United States street mail boxes
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

IT has been claimed that a respecta-
BILE funeral cannot be had for q sum
within the compass Of an ordinary
pocketbook, and in order to meet this
objection an enterprising Vermont
firm has invented plan to popularize
funerals, in a financial way at least, SO
that everybody can have q proper in
terment. This firm conducts business
on the installment plan. For the sum
of SIS. Sc of which must be paid down,
and Sc monthly, a cortege commensu'
rate with the station in life of the de-
ceased is guaranteed, together with
all the accessories, such as coffin, flow.
ers. grave, headstone. etc.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

In q record Of tornadoes kept for
seven years by the weather bureau it
appears that the United States suffered
an average of 60 q year and the funnel
shaped cloud was seen in 30 different
states, so that the west does not suffer
from a tornado monopoly. In the seven
years New York state averaged two
tornadoes a year and SO did New En-.
gland. Kansas and Illinois, at first
glance, seemed to be the champion tor.
nado states by this record, with Mis-,
souri, close third. Kansas and Hi.
nois had an average of nearly sever
tornadoes a year while the record wa
kept and Missouri had five.
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The south Rampant for sIIve

ArcHIsoN, Kan, May BOB. P. Wag
gener, who returned from Nashville,
Tenn, yesterday. says that every one
in the south seems to be for free silver
and that they talk nothing else. He
thinks that 90 out of every 100 persons
are for the white metal.
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Man Named Wynne, and His Son. strnck by
LiHhtninI and Killed.

Tonganoxie Kan, June 2.-There was
a heavy storm here yesterday which
damaged property to a considerable ex-
tent. At Hays City creeks are high
and dams are all washed out.
Lawrence, Kan. June 2.-In the storm
last night a man named Wynn. and his
son, of Edwardsville, were struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
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BIG STORM AT ST. JOSEPH.
Heavy Rains and High Winds Do Consider
able Damage.


ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June 1.-Between
two and five o'clock yesterday morn
ing the heaviest rain of years fell in
this vicinity, accompanied by high
wind. Many small buildings were
blown down and in the lower parts of
the city the damage was heaviest Mis-
souri, river bottom lands were sub.
merged and the damage to crops is
great. The rainfall at points along the
Burlington, northwest of here, ap-
pears to have been heavier but no.
great damage was done to buildings,
except at Mound City, where a cloud
burst caused loss Of $50. 900. Farm
lands near all points on the line of the
Kansas City, St Joseph & Council
Bluffs were submerged and crops badly
damaged, but no lives were lost
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Martin, Overmyer and silver.

Anthony, Kan, June 3.-The conven-
ton of Harper county Democrats held
in this city yesterday resolved TO favor
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and declared in favor of Martin and
Overmyer for delegates-at-large
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Wins the dupont Trophy.

CHICAGO, June AT Watson's shoot.
ing park yesterday. the Dupont trophy
for the largest number of live birds
out OF 100 was won from Fred S. Gil.
bert, of Spirit Lake, Ia, by George L.
Deter, of Milwaukee,; also the S1Oc
prize offered in connection with the
same event Yesterdays competition
was on a challenge from Deter, and
the latter won by the narrow margin
of mo bird, the score being "a to IS.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

THE latest scientific discovery re-
ported is that lenses of unlimited size
can be made Of oxygen gas, so that our
neighbors in space can be brought
within very short range.
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Fourth California District.

San Francisco, June 2--Congressman
James Mcguire has been renominate6
for congress by the Fourth district con-
igressiocal convention
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Union Veteran District As<oci.tiou.

Chion Veteran Dstfict Aef0ciati0n.
NEVADA, Mo-, June AT meeting
held here by delegates from Vernon.
Bates, Cedar and St Clair counties, il
was determined that the next annual
meeting of the Union Veteran district
association should be held at Eldoradc
Springs on September L
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

THE New York Sun says that enough
poker chips are manufactured in the
United States every year to make q
stack over go miles high if placed one
on top of the other.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

THOMAS A. EDISON has been granted
I'll patents during the last Is years
which beats the record of all times and
all countries by . large majority.
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.a.tt On.v Give. I'm

Washington, D. c., June Eft Is said
that Senator Quay comedies the nomina
ton Of Mckinley on the first ballot
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE opposition among Massachusetts,
legislators to statue of Gen. Butler
is said to be giving way.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

MRS. LAKE FRoNr-'T know I've met that
Mr.. Jaybird somewhere before I told him
70, but all he answered was that he knew
my former husband. The man must be an
dot" Mrs. Hyde Park-"Why sofn Mrs
Lake Front-"1've had four former hus.
bandsp'-Clevelaud Plain Dealer.
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Struck OIL.

While recently drilling an oil we'll
near Benedict the Forest Oil Co., struck
at depth of LOCO feet the strongest
flow of gas ever expeA fenced in Kansas.
The pressure was Estimated at 700
pounds and the sound of the esca ping
gas could be heard three miles.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

Mrs. PRosY-'Reading Is quite passion
with my husband" Mrs. Dresser--.So Il
!: with mine when he reads my milliner's
bills p'-LondonF Fun.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-06-05

INPossIBLE-it is not good French.-Na
poleon.
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A Fatal Drink.

James Flannery, brakeman for the
Maple Leaf road. living in Kansas City,
Kan, was found in an unconscious
condition from an overindulgence in
liquor the other morning. He was
sent to the police station, where he
died three hours later without recover
ing consciousness