The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-07-29
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake were

/ VIOLENT SuOChS "a C9H u0AS wei
felt on the night of the Gath at Con-
cepcion, Chilli. Many houses were de-
stroyed and the Inhabitants were
terrified.
| The armed tug Uncas brought to
Key West, Fla, the Spanish sloop Acui-
dita, captured by the cruiser Mangrove
off Cardenas- The sloop was we'll in
shore when seen by the Mangrove,
which manned a small boat with eight
armed men who effected the capture.
| Upon the approach of the Americans
the crew of the sloop jumped over
board and swan ashore.
| The United States troops were re-
ported landing on the south coast OF
Porto Rico, near Ponce, on the 18th.
| A DISPATCH from Rome on the 25tb
stated that the pope had communi-
Gated to the powers peace proposals
that he considered would be accepta-
BILE to both Spain and the United States.
| A PITIFUL appeal was addressed to
Admiral Sampson by Cubans at Glen
tuegos, beseeching him to come to
their aid, as many of them were dying
of starvation. Nothing. however, can
be done for them until the place is
| captured.
PUGwAsH. N. s.. a town of 1,2OO in.
habitants, was wiped out by fire on
the 25th, 200 dwellings, five churches,
20 stores, three hotels and several
mills being destroyed. The fire was
started by lamp exploding.
Four children of Elmer Mailman, a
farmer near Beatrice, Neb., were
| burned to death in the absence of their
parents.
CLYDE DAVIS, mail carrier of Bea-
| trice, Neb., was recently drowned
while swimming in the river there.
PROF. G. F. SEYMoRE. for 80 years q
professor in the st. Louis high school
| and author of works on mathematics
| and bookkeeping in the schools of
Kansas and Missouri, died at Ann
| Arbor, Mich, recently.
A DROUGHT existed at Lincoln, ILL.,,
| and farmers were greatly alarmed at
| the outlook for a crop of Indian corn.
Logan is the banner corngrowing
county of Illinois, but estimates from
! a bushel over the actual needs of home
consumption will be raised this year
| unless rain came soon.
A FIGHT over a woman at festival
the other night at Elko. mining vii
lage near Macarthur, O., resulted in
five being seriously wounded and many
slightly injured. Warrants were is
| sued for the arrest of 25 who partici-
pated in the drunken carousal.
The large sales barns owned by Al
Ramp at Bement, ILL.,, were des troyed
by fire. together with 16 horses. The
fire was caused by combustion in new
| clover hay.
A BLUE ISLAND grip car rushed into
race track special trolley car at
Twelfth street, Chicago, on the 25th.
Fifty people were shaken up and
bruised and there were a number of
| almost miraculous escapes from death.
j. S. TODD, of the Indian territory,
recently sold to p. S. Witherspoon, of
Gainesville, Tex, 5000 three and four
year-old steers to be delivered in the
fall
The United States government is
dispatching large fleet of tug boats
and other small craft. carrying a few
rapid-fre guns. to Cuban waters. to
relieve the big cruisers now that there
is no Spanish feet there.
THE Red Cross physicians now in
Cuba are experimenting with pow
| der which they believe will prove a
preventive and a possible cure for yell
| low fever.
THE Beach hotel at Dallas, Tex,
was burned the other day. The loss
amounted to about $500. 900, with only
$25, 900 insurance on the building. The
| cause was said to have been defective
| wire.
| WHILE playing on the river bank at
Dayton, O., Harmon Nicholas, aged
eight, fell into the water. His brother
Louis, aged II, jumped in to save him,
when Harmon clutched him so tightly
that both were drowned
| BATTERY A, of Missouri, commanded
by Capt. F. M. Humboldt, left the
camp at Chickamauga Park, Ga, on
the Gath en- route to Porto Rico.
| The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 22d num-
bered 1ss, according to Bradstreet's
report against 22O for the correspond
ing week in last year.
| ATLANTA, Ga, was decorated with
endless miles of bunting for the con-
federate parade on the 22d. Mrs.
Stonewall Jackson, Miss Winnie Davis,
Mrs John B. Gordon and Mrs Cab
belle Currie, president of the Daugh-
ters OF the Confederacy, were among
those who occupied carriages. A reso-
luton was passed to substitute for
1.-THE war of the the rebellion" the ex-
preston 1.-THE civil war between the