The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-09-30

threatened to burn and destroy the
bridges and other property of the
Great Northern railway because the
road crosses their reservation and be-
cause the United States marshals ar
rested some of the Indians for selling
whisky to their tribe There was said
to be considerable uneasiness among
the white settlers in the neighborhood.
THE train carrying Sells Bros s.
|Forepaugh's circus was wrecked at
Wilsondalc, w. Va, end James Doyle,
of Philadelphia. and Harrison Kipps,
of Virginia, were fatally injured.
Pat Forepaugh was also seriously
hurt A car of elephants rolled down
an embankment and. the animals were
injured, but none killed.
BY a rush of coal in No. shaft at
Nanticoke, Pa, three men were en-
tombed and probably instantly killed.
A DISPATCH to the New York Herald
on the 24th from Manila stated that
the sanitary conditions there were of
the most menacing character, many Of
the soldiers, both Spanish and Amer
ican.. were suffering from typhoid fever
and dysentery and conditions were
likely to grow worse.
SECRETARY ALGER and party, con-
sisting of Surgeon General Stern berg,
Quartermaster General Ludington and
others spent the 25th in Jacksonville,
Fla, inspecting the Seventh army corps
under Gen. Lee. The secretary of war
expressed himself as being highly de-
lighted with the conditions existing
in the camp and hospitals.
The first conven ton of the socialist
labor party of Texas was held at San
Antonio on the gath. The national So
cialist platform was Endorsed. g. II.
Royal, of Lampasas, was Endorsed for
governor and Edward Bellinger, of
San Antonio, for lieutenant governor.
REPORTS from various parts of Wyo-
ming on the 18th stated that serious
forest fires were burning there in
many places and that hundreds of
acres Of valuable timber had been de-
stroyed.
AT a meeting of ingram carpet yarn
spinners held in Philadelphia on the
33d an absolute shutdown of the mills
represented was decided upon. This
action was taken because of the over
production of yarn. The shutdown
will be indefinite.
SOCIETY women took charge of all the
street car systems at Peoria, Ill, for
day and devoted the proceeds to chari-
ty. A rain prevailed all day, making
travel good on the cars, but having a
disastrous effect on the pretty dresses
and carefully curled hair of the fair
conductors.
WILLIAM EATON. formerly United
States senator, died at Hartford, Conn.,,
on the 21st from stroke of paralysis,
aged 80 years.
SEVENTY men were entombed in the
Empire coal mine at Brownsville. Pa.
on the Esd by an explosion of gas.
Eight miners were taken out dead,
| three others were more or less injured
and the balance fortunately escaped
by traversing "a miles of underground
passages. The scene at the mouth Of
the mine was heartrending, caused by
the women shrieking and the children
wailing for their loved ones.
| CAPT CHARLES A. WoRDEN, of COM
pany H, Seventh United States in
fantry, who died from the effects of
malariai fever contracted in the cam
paign before Santiago, was buried On
the 22d at Paramount cemetery, Dem
Vel, OOA's "AeA obituary uOuOrS. TlcuuS
of the deceased, it was said, believe he
would have recovered had he received
proper care during his ten DAYS deten.
ton in quarantine at Tampa, Fla,
after his arrival from Santiago.
| OCTOBER 10 has been agreed on for
Missouri and st. Louis day at the
Transmississippi exposition at Omaha
Neb., with one cent a rnile from all
points in Missouri.
For selling or pawning his shoes at
a saloon at San Francisco, Private
John d. Sampson, Twentieth Kansas,
4 was tried by court-martial for stealing
government property and sentenced to
80 days confinement and to forfeit $40.
Gen. Miller, however, was disguised at
the Gghtness of the sentence. de-
nounced the court disapproved the
proceedings and ordered Sampson re-
turned to duty.
GEN. MILES stated that the regimen Is
which were discohtented and demon
allied would be soon mustered out and
also that all the volunteers who were
found to be u1fit for service would he
weeded out
The southern part ofeSpain has been
visited by terrible foods. At Herrera
4 80 persons have been drowned. A
great number of cattle have persisted
and the olive harvest was lost, espe-
cially in Seville and Granada There
have been many deaths in other parts
of the flooded districts. o
AT the recent reunion of the Nine