The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-03-25

brought ashore to Key West, Fla. on
The e1st and were delivered to Adm.
Sicard, who Immediately examined
them. The report will be forwarded
to Washington without loss of time,
extraordinary precautions being taken
to prevent the findings from being
xnown until the president has re-
viewed them.
AN explosion in a mine at Pratt
CITY, Ala, resulted in the death of six
men. The men were state convicts
and were working 200 feet below the
surface. The explosion was caused
either by fire damp or powder.
EUGENE DEBs was said to be figuring
On starting his first socialist colony in
Kansas. In an interview in the east
recently he said he thought Kansas
was the most hopeful state in the
union for the furtherance of his work.
THE cruiser Amazonas. built by the
Armstrong; for Brazil and purchased
for the United States, was formally
transferred from the Brazilian flag tc
the stars and stripes at Gravesend,
Eng, on the 18th.
In Massac county, ILL.,, Miss Mary
Wade and John Lammert were sweet
hearts, but their parents opposed theil
marriage. In a fit of dependency the
young lady took poison and died
When the young man learned of it he
became a raving maniac.
ELEVEN illicit distillers from Con.
way county, Ark. recently surren-
dered to the United States district at
torney at Little Rock and, on their
obligating themselves to aid in sup
pressing the illicit traffic, they were
allowed to go home, sentence being
suspended during good behavior.
Forty other moonshiners from Pope
county want to surrender on the same
terms. This will wipe out moonshin.
ing in those sections of Arkansas.
EARNEST o. CHAMBERLAIN. managing
editor of the New York Evening World,
has had his reason completely shat
tered through the strain imposed by
the present war excitement
j. w. BLAKE. chairman of the demo.
cratic state committee of Texas, will
make the race against Gov. Culberson
for United States senator.
A TERRIBLE explosion took place on
the 18th in the Santa Isabel mine at
Belmaz, Spain. Seventy corpses were
recovered, five miners have since died
and many others were unaccounted for.
WHILE playing in his fathers barn.
GEAR Montpelier, Ind. 12-year-old Her
bert Stanley pretended to hang him.
self and was so successful that he died
q few minutes after his mother found
him and took him down.
TOMAS ESTRADA PALMA, head of the
Cuban junta at New York, issued a
proclamation to the American people,
stating that the Cuban insurgents
would not listen to proposals for au.
tonomy; that they wanted absolute
independence; that Spain had proven
impotent to compel them to accept au-
tonomy and wanted the aid of tbs
United States to force it on them. but
rather than entertain the proposal
they would fight on. even if American
bayonets were turned against them.
They wanted Independence or death. y
MAJ. GEN. NELSON A. MILES, head OF
the United States army, recently made
a detailed examination of the fortified.
tions on Long Island sound and he
stated that New York was absolutely
safe from foreign invasion.
A RECENT ClaremOre, l. T., dispatch
stated that the full-bloOds of the Cher
okee nation were making preparations
to send a number of their most promi.
nent leaders to Mexico to see the lands
offered them in the states of Chihua.
hua and Sonora. These men will visit
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they can arrange for a tribal form OF
government which will be recognized
by the Mexican states.
= REPORTS from all sections of Cali.
fornia on the 10th showed that the
crops throughout the state were in a
critical condition. A heavy rain
within a few days might. however, it
was said, save thousands of acres OF
wheat and barley in some places.
A sEMI-OFFICIAL statement was given
out at Madrid that a demand for in.
demnity based on Spanish responsible.
ity for the Maine explosion would be
Indignantly repealed by Spain.
BLANCHE X. BRUCE, register of the
treasury, died on the 18th at Washing.
ton of a complication of stomach trou.
bles. aged 81 years. Bruce was born a
slave.
JEFFERSON TAYLOR, a well-to-do
farmer at Alton, Ark, who has for
some time been mentally unbalanced,
found an old pistol. and shot his grown
daughter. killing her instantly. Then
he killed himself
JOHN S FEAR. city auditor of Bur.
lington, Ia, disappeared, leaving a
statement that he is $4,000 short in his
accounts. 1t was believed he lost the
money through speculation