The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-02

along the New England coast in the
recent storm and over 100 vessels were
driven ashore or sunk beneath the
waves.
| SPAIN on the 2Sth accepted the
United States offer of $40. 600, 600 at the
joint session of the peace commissions
at Paris and consented to relinquish
Cuba and to cede Porto Rico, Guam
and the Philippine islands.
| A MOVEMENT is on foot in Chicago to
form a milk trust.
FIRE at the Robert Keith Furniture
and Carpet company's store at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 2Sth, burned out the
sixth and seventh stories of the enor-
nous building and the remaining five
stories and basement were drenched
with water. Loss, estimated at $50. 900.
Crossed electric wires were Thought to
have been the cause of the fire.
MORE than 30 skaters narrowly
escaped death in the Semple avenue
pond, St Louis, the other afternoon.
Two modest heroes risked their lives
to save their fellowmen. One, a boy.
Joseph 81. Lang, paid the hazard with
his life and the companion whom he
died to save survived. The other. a
man of 80. dragged two drowning
strangers from imminent death and
lives. Both deeds followed the break
ing of thin ice beneath skating parties
A SEVERE earthquake shock recently
occurred at Patras, Greece, causing the
inhabitants to become panic-stricken.
| Soon after a second shock was expe-
rienced. No fatalities were reported.
THE infant daughter of Thomas
Moore, of Cass county, Ind, was
burned to death. She played about a
fire in the yard and her clothing was
ignited.
MATT DRINKwATER was fatally
burned at the plate glass factory at
Kokomo, Ind, the other day. He was
inside a boiler cleaning it when some
body turned steam in. He was liter
ally cooked, the flesh dropping off
when the body was removed.
| THE schooner John ]. Hill, bound for
Hillsboro. N. B., from New YorL,
which was anchored in the Nantucket
| Mass roads, was struck by a gale and
ran ashore. The crew was saved.
c. w. COULDOCK, the actor, died at
New York on the 9th of indigestion,
complicated by dropy of the heart,
| aged "a years.
A STREET fight occurred at Hughes
| Springs, on the line between Marrs
and Cass counties in Texas, in which
Constable Driver and his son were
killed and Ben Boone, prominent
resident, was mortally wounded. The
affair resulted from trivial matter.
THE Boston Anti-Imperialist league
has begun the preparation of a signed
protest against the extension of Amer
| lean sovereignty over the Philippine
| islands to be presented to the presi-
| dent and the congress of the United
States. The ''antis" said they expect
ed to secure 10000. 900 names to the
protest. A sort of endless chain ar
rangement was to be the method of
| work.
| national bank was blown open by
burglars and robbed of $4,000 in cash
and notes valued at 5000
AT Weatherford, Ok, on the 2sth
there were two banks ready for bust
ness, two newspapers, 40 or more bust
ness houses and 9. 900 people where four
months ago there was cornfield.
REPORTS reached Meridian, Miss, on
| the 27th that three negroes had been
| lynched in Newton county, Miss, and
the farmers of that section were on
the trail OF others implicated in an as
sault on a white man. The trouble
arose over the ownership of hog.
| THERE was a report in circulation in
| Havana that Gen. Maxine Gomez had
died. but it was not credited in Cuban
cirles.
| The Hutchinson & Southern railroad
will be extended from Blackwell, Ok.
| to Ponca-
WILLIAM CATO was hanged at Eddy.
Vile, KY, on the 25th for murder.
| The triennial conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church for 1900
will be held in Chicago
GEN. CAsTELLANOs succeeded Gen.
Blanco as captain general of Cuba
clared publicly at Valparaiso that
there would not be another dollar of
paper money issued in that country.
| A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was ten
dered to Rear Admiral Schley in the
Brooklyn club at New York on the 25th.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 25th
numbered IT'S. according to Brad
streets commercial report against 233
for the corresponding week last year
A TRAIN was derailed on the Bur
lington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road
while rounding a curve near Burling.
ton, Ia. The day coach. containing 90
passengers, rolled over twice and land