The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-09-10

ing hundreds of Spanish soldiers in
the vicinity Of Havana
MOBILE, Ala, has been quarantined
on account Of yellow fever. At Ocean
Springs, Miss, ten persons had died
from the malady. New Orleans also
has been quarantined.
STAHLHUf & HoBEIN's general mer-
chandise store at Nebraska City, Neb..
was destroyed by fire on the 9Th. Loss.
$40, 600.
THREE unknown tramps persisted in
the Jail at Conway, n. D., which was
set on fire by unknown persons.
AT Niles, Mich, Foo Lee, a Chinese
laundryman, easily won an exciting
bicycle race from several fast wheel
men.
THE attorney-gener of Missouri has
begun quo warranto proceedings in
the supreme court against 26 fire in
surance companies of the state, alleg-
ing that they are parties to pooling
trust
CLARENCE KING, ex-chief of the
United States geological survey, says
the country is on the verge of great
mining era. He says the time is not
far distant when a man can start from
Denver and travel to Klondike, stop
ping every night at mining camp.
A WASHINGTON dispatch said there
had been a greatly increased demand
for American meat abroad, and as a
consequence more meat inspectors are
needed at Kansas City and other west
ern points
LABOR day was universally cele-
| brated throughout the United States
on the 9th. At Kansas City the crowd
was the largest ever seen there on a
similar occasion. Gov. Leedy and 9th
ers spoke. At St Louis w. ]. Bryan
spoke to a crowd of 1000 people.
AT Nashville, Tenn, Fred Moore
charged with assaulting a six-year-old
girl, was threatened with mob. Three
deputy sheriffs lowered the negro from
| Jail 100 feet by means of a rope and
crossing the river by boat got him
| safely away.
NEAR Stevens Point, Wis, Mike and
August Majewsk, while playing hide
and SEEK along the Wisconsin rivers
bank got too near the waters edge and
both were drowned.
MANY Presbyterian colleges will be
| financially embarrassed through the de-
falcation of Charles NJ. Charnley, of
Chicago, treasurer of the Presbyterian
board to aid colleges Among the col
leges affected are; Bellevue and Hast
ings, Neb., Highland, Oswego and
Wichita. Kan.
GEORGE LYNCH, a well-known young
| man of Rockford, ILL.,, has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against Harry
| and II. H. Shumway, alleging that they
dosed a glass of cider which they gave
him as joke, since which time he has
lost so pounds in flesh.
Dock KELLEY, negro, was publicly
hanged at Snow Hill, N. c., for assault
ing Mrs. Merritt. a middle-aged white
woman. The gallows was in the pub
lie square of the town, and 5000 people
were spectators. His victim was seated
within few feet of the gallows.
CLARENCE REITH, the 15-year-old son
of Edward B. Reith, cashier of the
Adam Roth Grocery Co. at st. Louis,
fell from the third floor of the build
ing down the elevator shaft and was
instantly killed.
| On the Sd the national exc cutive
board of the United Mine Workers
| agreed to recommend to the striking
miners proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for straight price of
IS cents ton, to continue in force
until the end of the year, and a circu-
lar has been issued to that effect, call
| ing for a delegate convention of all
miners who have suspended work to
meet at Columbus, o., September s.
This proposition. it was thought, will
| end the coal strike.
| A CALL for a convention of all labor
organizations has been issued to meet
at Chicago on September 27. This was
made in pursuance of the action of the
recent labor conference at ST. Louis.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER has sent to the
American Baptist Missionary union
and the American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary society, at Boston. his check for
the balance of the $25O,OO promised
by him on condition that the two So
cieties would raise 1886, 900.
THERE were 1873 business failures re-
ported in the United States by Brad
streets for the week ended the Sd,
against 1856 in the same week last
year.
AN explosion of coal dust in the Sun
shine mine near Glenwood, Col, caused
the death of at least 12 men, their
bodies being recovered in a horribly
mangled condition.
The last Minnesota legislature
passed law allowing taxpayers until
the middle of next year to pay their
taxes for the current year, and as a re-
suit there is such stringency at Duluth
that one-third of the police force has
been dismissed, park and other i'm
provements are stopped, five fire en-
| CINE houses will be boarded up and
those municipal employees who retain
| their places will be paid in orders for
many pay days.
THE principal point brought out in
the trial on the I'd of Luetgert. the
Chicago sausage-maker accused of
making away with his wife in one of
his watts, was his Indifference at her
disappearance and his not having re-
ported anything to the police or as
sisted them in any way in clearing up
the mystery.
THE surface of the Mississinewa
river at Somerset, Ind. was reported
to be covered with dead fish, the
stencil from which was almost unen-
durable. The mortality among the
fish was supposed to be due to paper
mill refuse dumped into. the stream
above.
DIEHLE & LORDS wholesale beer.
| cider and soda works at Nashville