The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-26

ADJr. GEN. CORBIN issued an order
on the 22d governing the mastering
out of volunteers Troops will be sent
home and mustered out at the state
rendezvous and ten days pay be al
lowed after departure from the gen.
eral camp.
JOHN 1. BLAIR, the banker and phi
lanthropist, cell brated his ninety-slxth
birthday on the 22d at his home IN
Blairstown, n. j. He is well known In
the section around Kansas City, MOI
NOTICES have been posted at the
Frankford arsenal at Philadelphia to
the effect that the services of all the
extra men who were put to work since
the outbreak of the war will be dis
pensed with on September 1. About
700 persons are affected by the order
PREMIER SAGAsTA's claim. as set
forth in Madrid dispatches, that Spain
will expect indemnity for all govern
ment property, barracks. fortified
tions, etc, in Cuba, Porto Rico and
elsewhere, has excited much comment
as showing the difficult question to be
treated by the military and peace
commissions. Cuba and Porto Rico
were not acquired strictly by con-
quest, but rather by agreement In
case of a conquest, no question could
arise as to the passing of all forts,
barracks, etc, along with the con-
quered territory.
GEN. MILES and staff left Ponce,
Porto Rico, for the United States on
the 22d, leaving Gen. Brooke in COM
mand.
SIXTEEN cases of prostration from
the heat were reported at Chicago on
the 22d.
CARTERvILLE. ILL.,. has again suffered
terrible loss by fire, estimated at
$50, 900. and at time when it was just
recovering from the fire of last year,
which destroyed one-half of the city.
No fatalities were reported, but eight
persons were seriously injured.
The tug Ira o. Smith caught fire
near Chicago and five of the men on
board we're severely burned.
THE plant of the High Falls Sulphite
Pulp & Mining company, located at
Pyrtes, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
The cause was not known. The loss
was placed at $500, 900; insurance, $780,
900.
A REAR-END collision occurred at
Sharon, Mass, on the N. Y, N. H. &
Fl. railroad on the 2ist and six persons
were killed and 81 injured.
EARLY the other morning the natives
burned the town of Coto, Porto Rico.
The Spanish residents fled for their
lives. A war of retaliation for the
horrible outrages committed by the
Spanish troops was threatened and
Spaniards were panic-stricken. The
trouble was fomented by those of the
lowest class.
The residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Egge-
stein near jackson, Mimi, was struck
by lightning and they were both
killed
DURING the recent voyage of the
Russian convict ship Angara from
Tieum to Tom, Siberia, 81 out of 500
prisoners were suffocated from over
crowding.
JOHN MAECKER shot and killed his
housekeeper at Louisville, KY, be-
cause she would not marry him. He
then killed himself.
A FIRE at Hot Springs. Ark, early
on the 10th destroyed the National
hotel, two cottages, the Kentucky
livery stable and the Windsor hotel
and cost at least three human lives.
The fire originated in the National
hotel and the guests in the sleeping
apartments found themselves in a
veritable death trap. the only escape
being by jumping from the windows.
TRAFFIC officials at Kansas City, Mo-,
are looking forward to lively fight
between eastern and gulf lines for the
new wheat crop which will soon be
ready to move. The close of the war
with Spain and the reopening of steam
ship service to and from gulf of Mexi-
co ports has brought the gulf roads
into the field as competitors for the
grain business, and they are making
active preparations to handle it.
In a speech at the big populist en-
campment at Greenville, Tex, Senator
Marion Butler. of North Carolina, ma
| tional chairman of the populist party,
declared that, as national chairman,
he would promise that there would be
| no trades or combines with either of
the old parties before the next nation-
al convention and that he would call
| that convention at least a month be-
fore the democratic or repub lican con-
ventions convened and thus prevent
any opportunity of fusion.
| The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 10th
were 1875. according to Bradstreets
commercial report, against gel for the
corresponding week in last year.
| AT Saratoga, N. Y, large audience
listened on the 18th to the address OF