The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-09

THE Merritt Wrecking company, .
| dispatch FROM Norfolk, Va, on the 9Th
stated. will in q few days send to San
tiago. Cuba, an expedition to raise the
sunken Spanish cruiser Reina Merce-
| des.
The Lincoln theater at Chicago was
damaged by fire.
A CoRREsPo NDENr Of the London Tel
egraph on the 5th stated that Spain
was seething with sedition, born of
bankruptcy and ruin.
REPRESENTATIVE of the Delaware
Indians in the Indian territory left on
the 9Th for Sonora. Old Mexico. with a
view of negotiating for the purchase
of new home for the tribe.
The Cherokee Legislature at Table
,quah, l. T.. on the 5th passed the bill
to pay off the Cherokee Indebtedness,
| amounting to about 500. 600. A great
part of this paper is held by Kansas
City capitalists
A HUNDRED girls, inmates of the
Cleveland Female Orphan home at Yer
| sailles, KY, were in a precarious COM
dition on the night of the 5th. having
been poisoned. Physicians thought
they were poisoned from drinking
water standing in lead pipes. Some of
them may die through it.
FIRE damaged the inside of ST. Ap-
mes Catholic church. New York, $780,
600.
THE nitroglycerine house of the Hud-
son Powder company at Pinole, Cal,
blew up the other afternoon, killing
70, i =
four Chinese. the only workmen in the
building at the time. The explosion
was terrific one, four tons of nitro
glycerine blowing up. completely de-
molishing the building.
REV. AUGUST F. KoRFHAaE, who
preached to the Indians when their
wigwams stood on the banks of the
Mississippi river. died at Kansas City,
No., recently from general constitu-
| tional breakdown. He was born in
1919.
GEN. WHEELER left his command at
Huntsville. Ala, and went to Wash
ing ton, armed with a months leave of
absence. The general may resume his
seat in congress after conference
with the president
The attorney general of Iowa rem
dered an opinion that the use of gaso-
line for lighting purposes is unla wful
in that state.
A DOUBLE wreck occurred on the
Burlington at Bridge, Ia. A west
bound freight ran into switch and was
derailed. The engine and seven cars
were piled up. An eastbound freight
came along Immediately afterward.
rnnnin0 into tho nd AT
Hickey and Frank Common, brakemen,
were badly hurt Hickey probably
fatally.
HUNDREDS of persons were recently
reported dying of starvation in Ha-
vana province, and in the towns of.
Caslida, San Antonio. Rio Blanco, Jib-
acoa and Guanabacoa the situation is
pitifuL -.-@--
The Comal sailed from New York on
the 1st with 1900, 900 rations for the
destitute people of Cuba.
FIRE destroyed the ironclad ware
house on Pearl street, Dallas, Tex, in
which were stored 1000 bales of hay.
COMPLAINT has been made by au.
thorities at Copenhagen, Denmark, of
the unclean condition of the cargoes
of corn exported to that place by
American shippers. Broken grains,
crushed and crum bled cob and dust
and dirt in considerable quantities are
present in all consignments. The i'm
pure exports may have the effect of
stopping the trade.
The Guthrie, Langston & Downs
Railway company was organized to
construct a railway from Langston to
Guthrie and southwest to Downs, Ok.
The capital stock is So, 200, 600, and the
scheme is to build connecting link
to be taken up by some through line.
ACCORDING to private advices re-
ceived at Vienna from members of the
diplomatic corps stationed at Constan-
tinople, a strong impression prevailed
there that a revival of the Armenian
massacres of three years ago by the
Turks was imminent
THIRrY-sEvEN people were drowned
who were on board the British steam
er Clan Drummond, from the Clyde for
Cape of Good Hope, wrecked in the
bay of Biscay.
POSTMASTER CoRCoRAN, a hotel.
keeper at Duryea, Pa, was fatally shot
by masked men. who then blew his
safe open and robbed it of several hun
dred dollars
MRS. WILLIAM MANTELL, who killed
her husband and attempted suicide in
Alameda, Cal. will recover. She de-
clared that they quarreled and that he
knocked her down before she shot him.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the Cd num.