The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-03-06

dispense them The students of Alvin
cha also paraded the streets and gath
cred before the American consulate in
that city, shouting their threats and
showing their animosity to America
on account of the passage of the Cuban
resolution by the United States senate.
Active preparations were being made
In Spain for a possible war with the
United States
Much damage was done throughout
Connecticut by a continuous rain. The
Connecticut river was swollen to three
times its normal proportions The
Coppermine dam in Bristol broke and
people living along the banks of the
Pequaback river lost everything they
possessed and were obliged to leave
their homes in the darkness. Many
bridges were washed away. In New
York state three dams at Schuylerville
and the large fume Of the Champlain
silk mills were swept away and also
many bridges.
THE Chicago Review, Catholic pa
per, published recently an important
decree of the Roman propaganda,
which considerably modities the one
previously issued condemning the Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Sons
of Temperance. Catholics who be-
longed to those societies before the
condemnation decree are now allowed
to leave their names upon the rolls
and to pay their dues and assessments,
but not to take part in the proceedings
of the societies.
The New York Journal has called
attention to a decision of the federal
supreme court in the case of Laing VS..
Rigney and asserts that persons under
the ban of divorce in one state, who
have married in another state are
criminals and can be arrested for
bigamy, and that the decision illegiti-
matizes children born of such unions
FRED STUENKEL, a farmer near Chi
cago, and two of his daughters were
found dead and the mother and four
other children were reported as dying
from the effects of gas escaping from
the stove in the night
THE Baltimore & Ohio railway, one
of the Oldest and most extensive trans.
portation systems in the United States,
and until recently one of the most
profita BILE, has gone into the hands of
receivers.
AT Jersey City, N. j., John Mackin, a
shiftless fellow, shot and killed his
wife, his mother-in-law, his father-in-
law. and then attem pied suicide.
The steamer Miowera brought news
of great suffering and loss of property
in Australia by the extraordinary cli-
matte conditions. There was unprece-
dented heat on land and 80 corpses
were buried in Sydney in one day from
sunstroke. Terrific storms prevailed
and crops in a great many localities
were ruined. Herds of stock were
starving and dying for want of water,
and there was a distressing array of
marine casualties reported. The town
of Murrurundi was almost entirely de-
stroyed by an electric windstorm.
On the night of the Goth mob of sew.
eral thousand persons battered down
the Jail doors at Wichita Falls, Tex,
and got possession of the two prisoners
who robbed the bank and killed the
cashier in that city the previous day.
An improvised scaffold was erected and
both robbers were strung up. THE
Kid" the first one hanged, said that
his name was Younger Lewis and his
parents resided at Neosho. Mo. He
died cursing and jeering. The other
robber had to be given whisky before
he was hanged.
Two children, aged three and five,
belonging to. Mrs. Hotchkiss, were
burned to death in a tenement house
fire at Brooklyn on the 26th.
FIRE broke out on the 1st on the
British steamship Capella at New
Orleans. She was loading for Liver
pool and had on board 5, 900 bales of
cotton, 600 tons of oil cake, 300 tons of
cottonseed and about 100 tons of SUM-
dries. The damage was estimated at
S25, 900: insured.
The failures for the week ended Feb
ruary % Oun's report) were 27s in the
United States, against $50 last year,
and So in Canada, against 80 last year.
PRUITT TURNER, colored, was hanged
at Van Buren,, Ark, on the 2sth. He
declared his innocence on the scaffold,
read a chapter from the Bible, sang
two hymns and offered d prayer.
DISPATCHES from Budapest on the
2sth stated that several moving trains
on the Austria Hungarian railway and
many villages had been completely
buried under the sand. Many fatal.
ties had resulted around the country,
the dead in some of the villages reach.
ing into the hundreds. The loss of
cattle and other property was reported
to be enormous
RoLLA o. HEIKEs, Of Dayton. O.,
champion target shot of the world,
made a sensational record at Indian.
apolis, Ind, on the Goth. He broke 100
targets continuous shooting in min.
utes, 20 seconds, which makes a new
worlds record.
AT Chicago the foundry of Kuntz &
Buhrer was burned, entailin2 a loss of
S135, 600
AN official of the Pacific Steamship
Co, at Seattle, WASH, recently made
the statement that bodies of human
beings were Systematically snatched
from the cemeteries of that city and
sent as surgery subjects and for scien-
tifc purposes to medical colleges in
San Francisco on the vessels Of the
company. The bodies were enclosed
in rough wooden boxes and labeled
merchandise.
STANTON ABBOTT. of England, and
Tom Moriarity, of Holyoke, Mass,
fought 20 rounds to a draw at Holyoke.
AT Smithton. Pa, John A Wolfe,
farmer, attempted to drive across the
Monongahela river in a buggy with
his six-year-old daughter. When in
the middle of the stream the horse
yvas swent from its feet and the hr,Opv