The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-07-08

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On the 30th showed that the receipts
during June aggregated about $751;
500, 600 and for the present fiscal year
about S304, 500. 600. Up to June 80
the actual cash expenditures on &C
count of the war amounted to about
300. 600, 600.
A BRIDGE crossing the Mohican river
at Shelby, O.. fell on the Fourth with
1000 people. Four were killed out
right and 100 injured, some of them
seriously. A public wedding was be-
ing celebrated on the bridge as one of
the features of the celebration. Just
as the ceremony had been completed
the bridge went down with a crash.
precipitating the people a distance of
Is feet The panic which ensued wcs
indescri bile.
URGENT dispatches have been sent
by the authorities at Washington to
Admiral Sampson off Santiago de Cuba
to have the Iowa and Oregon fully
coaled and equipped and other vessels
ready for Commodore Watson's squad
ron, SO that his feet can start soon to
raid the Spanish coast and carry the
war home to Spain.
Two men were crushed to death at
the heavy artillery camp at Tampa,
Fla, on the Fourth, while attempting
to stop two heavily loaded cars.
The First army corps, at Chicka-
manga Park, Ga, which includes the
Twenty-irst Kansas and Second Mis-
souri, regiments, received orders on
the Sd to pack all extra baggage for
shipment home and prepare to move
to Santiago de Cuba.
The express companies at Kansas
City, Mo-, in regard to the payment of
the war revenue tax of one cent Oh
every package shipped. have an
nounced that they will bear the burden
themselves and there will be no in
crease in transportation charges.
The immense plant of the Globe Re
6ning company at Louisville, KY, was
destroyed by fire on the sd entailing
a loss of 100000. The origin of the
blaze was attributed to spontaneous
com bustion.
The intercollegiate boat race was
rowed over the three-mile course at
Saratoga, N. Y, on the I'd and was
won by Pennsylvania by AZ lengths
from Cornell, Wisconsin being a close
third and Columbia last. Time: Penn
sylvania, i5:5i1a; Cornell, 1901; Wis
consin, 1907; Columbia, 1921. In the
freshmen's race, which was rowed over
the two-mile course before the uni
versity event, Cornell won by "a
lengths, in 1881; Columbia second, in
1912, and Pennsylvania third, in 11:13.
ALBERT MOSCOW, a German, was
drowned in the river the other night
at st. Louis while bathing. He got
the cramps.
A SPECIAL from Sherman, Tex, on
the LIST said that the first bale of cot
ton of this seasons growth had been
ginned at Pearsall, Frio county. 1t
was sold at auction at San Antonio
and will be shipped to President Nc
Kinley to be made into gun-cotton for
the battleship Texas.
Amos Lynch and Floyd Della fought a
duel in the highway near Corydon,
Ind, and Della was fatally wounded.
A FIRE was started at Philadelphia
by the ignition of coal oil with which
Mrs. Flannery was bathing her arm to
relieve rheumatic pain. The flames
spread rapidly and child was burned
to death before it could be rescued and
Mr.. Flannery was fatally burned. Mrs.
Flannery became crazed by the loss
of her child and, while wandering
| through the streets. was struck by a
trolley car and was thought to be ia.
tally injured.
The First Rhode Island brigade al
| Camp Alger, Va, which includes the
Third Missouri regiment, has received
orders to hold itself in readiness tc
move to Santiago.
| MRS. DORA KLEIN, widow aged g.
was found dead in we'll on the 3Ott
at st. Louis. Ever since her boy vol
unteered and left with the Missouri
troops Mrs. Klein has been grievine
and it was believed that in a momen1
| of temporary alteration of mind sh,
committed suicide.
MAIL advices from Japan stated tina
the tax on tea imposed by the United
States will cause 5000 tea frers in ia
pan to be thrown out of employment
A terrible storm visited the distric
surrounding Yokohama, washing ava.
hundreds of houses, drowning severa
persons and damaging the wheat AM
millet crops.
The International Temperance con
gress was convened at Prohibition
park, Staten island, n. Y, on the 3Ot
and was to continue in session on
week.
WHILE Mrs. Sarah Cole was passin
through her house, at Devers, Tex.
during a thunderstorm, a bolt of light
ming came through the center, KILN