The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-11-04

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building.
| THE St Louis horse show opened on
| the 31st.
| The farmers of Frio and La Sale
counties, Tex, are going to try the ex-
| pertinent of raising watermelons for
northern markets. on an extensive
scale this coming year. They have or
ganized the Pearsall Watermelon
Growers association and are preparing
| to put in 1000 acres in watermelons.
Sic. CANovARO. the secretary of state
of the Italian cabinet at Rome, has is
| sued a call to all The powers of the
world to send representatives to that
city for the purpose of discussing and
adopting plans for the suppression of
| anarchists, and to adopt such means
| as will effectually put an end to the
crimes committed upon high officials.
MAJ. ALMA and Capt. Page advised
the burning of the quarters and camps
| occupied by the Spanish soldiers at
Cienfuegos, Cuba, as they found them
infected with yellow fever and other
disease germs.
THE commercial club of Kansas City,
Mo-. will set actively to work to get
Convention hall some time next fall
and annually thereafter. The show is
intended to bring forcibly to the at
tention of the people a knowledge of
what is produced in the great terri
tory tributary to Kansas City.
The steamer Portland, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 3Oth from st.
MichaePs. brought important news of
the Arctic whaling fleet. The catch
up to October 10 was 1853 whales, one
of the largest on record, and repre-
sented in round numbers about ST.
600, 900.
Col. GEORGE E. WARING, Jr., died of
yellow fever at New York on the goth,
aged 81 years. He had just come home
from Havana, where he had been sent
by President Mckinley to investigate
the sanitary conditions
CHARLES T. YERKEs, the Chicago
street railway magnate, was said to
have insured his life on the Goth for
81, 900. 600.
The peace jubilee at Philadelphia
on the 2Sth was purely of civil
with the rededication of old 1nde-
pendence hall, patriotic exercises be.
ing held at the historic building, the
anthem, MY Country, IT'S of Thee"
being sung by 5000 school children.
The mammoth trades display or civic
parade afterwards had $50, 900 men in
line, besides $50 floats and 10 bands of
music.
THE boiler in the Calumet and Hecla
boiler-house at Lake Linden, Mich,
exploded and killed three men.
OSCAR GARDER. the "Omaha Kid"
knocked out Sammy Kelly at New
York in the fourteenth round of what
was to have been 25-round bout
The Tonkin River boiler and engine
works in Oswego, N. Y. were destroyed
by fire. Loss. $lO5, 900. The night
Waterman persisted in the building.
AARON BARTON, of Columbus, O.,
while mentally deranged, shot and
dangerously wounded his wife and
then killed himself.
BUSINESS failures in the United States
for the week ended the 2Sth numbered
2!9, according to Bradstreet's CONNER
cial report. against 21s in the CORE
spending week of last year.
AN affidavit for registration was re-
ceived at Canton, O., on the 2sth from
President Mckinley. In answering
the usual questions as to age, resi-
dence, etc, Mr.. Mckinley states that
his temporary residence is in Wash
ington. but gives No. s15 West Tuscan
awas street as his real residence. This
is the old Mckinley homestead.
A PARIS dispatch to the New York
Evening Post on the 2sth said it was
rumored that the democratic member
of the American peace commission.
Senator Gray, of Delaware. may re-
sign.
A WAR has broken out in Cleburne
county, Ark, between the moonshin-
ers and informers.
By direction of Gen. j. B. Gordon,
commanding the United Confederate
Veterans, Adjt Gen. Morgan. at New
Orleans, has issued general order an
nouncing that the next reunion will
be held at Charleston, S. c., May 1918,
1899.
LONDON fears an epidemic of influ-
enEa.
THE corps surgeon at Savannah, Ga,
reported on the 2sth that Col William
j. Bryan was suffering from light
form of typhoid fever.
A FIRE at Tuskegee. Ala, destroyed
nearly the entire business portion of
the town, including Is stores, the tele-
phone exchange and the opera house.
Loss, $50. 600; insurance only 81, 900.
WILLIAM HYDE, at one time manag-
ing editor of the st. Louis Republic