The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-09-02

No orders for the mastering ont Of
troops at Camp Merriam, at San Fran
cisco, have been received by Gen Mil
Ter nor any intimation of the war de-
partment to do SO in the near future.
A FIRE at New Kensington, Pa. de-
stroyed the opera house, Barmo's block,
Jacobin's block and a number of
dwellings The Central hotel was
badly damaged.
CAPT. LOUIS c. DUNCAN, surgeon OF
the Twenty-second Kansas regiment.
was arrested by the sheriff of Fairfax
county, Va, to answer an Indictment
charging him with desecrating con-
federate graves at Bull Run. near
Manassas. His previous courtmartial
sentence was lighter than reported.
He got only two months confinement
in camp instead five years in the peni-
Tertiary.
ONE thousand miners struck at the
Coloraine collieries at Beaver Meadow.
Pa. on the Goth. The cause of the
strike was alleged to be the discharge
of Hungarian laborer.
SEVERAL company commanders at
Camp Hamilton. Lexington, KY.
recently polled their organizations
with surprising results. The men
were not in favor of leaving the army.
Two weeks before 80 per cent. of them
demanded it They realized after
that they were out of employment,
which few of them had when they en-
listed.
A REMARKABLE suit at law is about to
be brought for a large tract of land in
Texas that was given to the Cherokees
by President Sam Houston. At the
close of the civil war most of the In
dian colonists on the land went to the
Cherokee nation and remained there.
The land is now covered with farms
and is worth millions of dollars.
THE Rathbone Sisters at their ses-
sion at Indianapolis, Ind, elected Mrs.
Kan, supreme chief and Mrs. M. D.
Woods, Kansas City, Mo-, supreme sec
rotary.
Ex-Gov. CLAUDE MATTHEWS, of In
diana, died at the Meharry homestead
in that state on the 2sth of stroke of
paralysis, aged So years.
Two young colored girls were
drowned at Kansas City. Mo-, the other
day while bathing in Jersey creek.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for gigantic combination to control
the fish and oyster business of the
United States and Canada.
j. G. GLENDENINa was killed in the
mines at Hartshorn, l. T., by a run
away train of cars knocking the props
and timbers on him.
SUPERINTENDENT CASE, of the Pacific
Express company, has notified the state
officials at Fort Worth, Tex, that his
company will pay the war tax on ex-
press matter destined to points in
Texas.
The strike of the wire drawers at
the American wire works at Cleveland,
O., which for some time threatened to
extend to every mill Of the American
Steel & Wire company. will soon be a
thin of the past, something along
the line of a settlement being brewed,
but both the strikers and the company
officials were noncommittal on the
matter.
The Spanish transports San Fran
cisco, San Augustin and Colon left
Santiago on the goth for Spain with
4,65S Spaniards, including Is officers
and their families and four priests.
Eight men died on the way to the
ships. Their corpses were checked
off, as passengers, the transportation
company thus being enabled to collect
the passage money.
The negroes of Montgomery county,
N. c., who constitute majority of the
republican voters there, have nomi-
mated ticket for the election in No
vember composed entirely of negro
candidates for all the various county
Offices and members of the legislature.
A SPAN in the Mason City & Fort
Dodge railway bridge at Lehigh. Ia,
which was being repaired, fell under
the weight of a train. The engine
and four loaded coal cars dropped 40
feet into the Des Moines river En-
gineer White was injured in the back
Fireman Kalde stayed in his seat and
was uninjured. Their escape from in
slant death was miraculous.
A PLEASURE party of Is was struck
by train at Ware, Mass, the other
morning and four were killed outright
and all the others injured. The party
was going to picnic in buck oard
and crossed the track just as the train
came along.
| WHILE attending an old settlers
picnic near Lafayette, Ind, ex-Gov.
Claude Matthews was stricken with
paralysis. His condition was regard
ed as serious.
stands along the wharves near South
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