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

shot Belle McElheney, his common
Jaw wife. and then sent bullet
| through his own chest The woman
| is dead, but the man has q chance to
recover.
The first day of the national en-
campment of the G. A. r. opened at
| Cincinnati on the 5th. Commander
in-Chief Goblin visited Camp Sherman
and the camp was formally turned
| over to him. The National Association
by Directing to the arrangements
made for them. They wanted quar-
tiers in a boat, instead of in a building,
| and threatened to withdraw.
A RECENT hailstorm around Webster
City, Ia, did much damage by break
ing windows and destroying corn.
LABOR day at Kansas City, Mo-, was
| great success Over 10000 men
marched through the streets and 81
labor unions were represented. After
the parade workingmen and their fam
| lilies went to Paramount park, where
there was diversified programme of
athletic contests, games, dancing and
speaking.
THERE were Is deaths reported from
| the heat in New York between one a.
m. up to noon on the 5th.
Jim" CoRBErT and kid" Mccoy met
New York on the Sd and agreed to
fight 90 rounds at Buffalo, N. Y, on
October Is.
GEN. BoYNToN has received an open
letter from staff officer at Camp
Thomas at Chattanooga, Tenn, in re-
ply to his report vindicating the sani-
tary conditions in the camp. The let
ter states that instead of conditions
being Exceedingly favorable" the
state of affairs was simply awful
The writer of the letter was thought
to be Judge Theodosius Botkin, of
Kansas.
LONDON advices to New York report
ed that the Anglo-Egyptian forces had
captured Khartoum, their loss being
200 men, while that of the dervishes
was placed at thousands.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, on the 4th estab-
| listed rigid quarantine against the
entire country on account of yellow
fever.
AT Speegleville, Tex, the three
young daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
Prather were burned to death in
| smokehouse.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans on the
Sd stated that the government steam
boat John j. Meigs was totally de-
stroyed by an explosion at St Philip.
She had aboard a party engaged in re-
moving the torpedoes laid in the Mis-
sissippi river. Six persons were
killed and three injured.
DURING the voyage of the transport
Catania from Santiago to Montauk,
N. Y, the engineers of the vessel found
the coal in the after hold to be on fire.
| The matches were closed and the fire
was kept under control until the
steamer reached Montauk and dis
charged her sick troops, when the
chief engineer reported the coal again
on fire. The transport was then Or
dered to proceed to New York to un-
load the burning coal. She had ON
board also 800 cases of cartridges.
COL FUNSTON. of the Twentieth
Kansas volun teers, has written let
ter to a Kansas City newspaper de-
Tending himself from aspersions cast
upon his service in the Cuban army
and stating the facts in the case.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at
| oCAhCSNiAiC3 AuO.s III WA1Ch AOuI hCA
were instantly killed by dynamite
explosion and several others were seri-
ously injured.
| A DISPATCH from Erie, Pa, on the
I'd stated that by the accidental jib-
bing of the sail of a pleasure yacht on
Pressure isle bay four young women
were swept off into the water and
drowned.
THE list of the dead in the army at
TENDER 1 numbered 33s. Of the 33S
deaths 17s occurred during the month
of August.
Miss MARY CROWLEY, IS years of age,
in fit of insanity, the other morning
set fire to ST. Johns Roman Catholic
church, at Peoria, ILL.,, and then got a
revolver and started for the parochial
residence, threatening to kill Rev. j.
P. Quinn, the priest. n
The anti-fusion popdlists and free
silver republicans of Oklahoma terri
tory met at Guthrie and nominated A.
S. Hawkins, of Woods county, for con-
gress.
FIRE was discovered in the five-story
brick building at St Louis occupied
by the A. Geisel Manufacturing COM
pany, which manufactured supplies
for wholesale timers, and before the
flames had been extinguished the
building and its entire contents were
practically destroyed. Loss estimated
at $3.50, 900.
THOMAS A. BAYARD, secretary Of
tot s.