The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-04-08
THE residence of James Michaels


the door and discovered Mrs. Michaels
and her two-year-old daughter on the
loor almost burned to a crisp. Foul
play was suspected. Michaels could
not be found.
THE World Herald at Omaha, Neb.,
will make the banner shipment from
the west for the relief of Cuba. The
paper has gathered subscriptions of
cash, provisions. clothing, medicines
and other supplies, until on the 4th it
had $40, 25S in cash and Is carloads of
all sorts
MINISTERS of Kansas City, Mo-. are
working to have Sunday funerals done
away with.
CLAIMS against Spain aggregating
SIG, 900, 900 for injury and loss incident
with the state department by citizens
Of the United States residing in that
country.
Soon after shutdown on the 4th the
tattered United States flag was taken
from the gait of the wrecked Maine in
Havana harbor and the wreckers left
for the United States.
A DECREE at Toledo, O., in the Glover
Leaf railway litigation finds S12, O2s,-
800 to be due on first mortgage bonds
and orders the sale of the road at an
upset price of 81. 800, 900.
ACCORDING to New York dispatch
Tammany will send Sc regiments to
fight Spain if they are needed.
THE first big match at three-cushion
carom billiards was brought off at
Chicago on the 4th and Jacob Schacfer
defeated Frank Ives by score of 125
to los.
THE steamer City of Macon, bound
from Boston to Savannah, Ga, caught
fire near Tybee, Ga, the other night.
She was run ashore and the vessel was
saved, but the cargo was a total loss.
All the passengers were rescued.
The levee at Shawneetown, Ill,
broke at six o'clock on the evening of
the Sd and the water shot through the
opening, sweeping everything before
it. Houses were tossed about like
boxes and 200 people were said to be
drowned and it was feared the mum Der
would reach to nearly 1000. The
water stood from 30 to 80 feet all over
the town and there were no lights or
fires after the catastrophe and it was
to get definite information
during the night.
TELEGRAPHIC orders have been sent
to the commanders of army posts east
of Denver, Col, directing them to have
troops, guns and camp equipage pre-
pared for immediate transportation.
THE schooner ST. Elmo, of Rockland,
Me-, was wrecked off Nantucket, Mass,
and four lives were lost.
GEN. WOoDFORD, United States min.
lister to Spain, made a statement at
Madrid to the Associated press that he
was sent to Spain to secure peace in
Cuba and he had never lost faith that
it would be secured. Enough blood
had been shed in Cuba already, he
said. and he could not believe that the
closing hours of the nineteenth cen.
fury would be Redeemed by a conflict
between Spain and the United States.
THE autonomist cabinet at Havana
has addressed an appeal to the Cuban
insurgents, asking for the arrange
ment of an armistice for the purpose
of arriving at terms of peace. The
appeal stated that Spain was willing
to enlarge the present scope of auton-
omy.
NEGRO was recently captured and
lynched by a mob near Amite City, La.
for being one of a gang that MUIR
dered the Cotton family in Tangipahoa
parish in the fall of 1896. Two of the
gang were lynched some time ago by
being dragged through a fire, hanged
and then shot to death.
FRANCE has rendered the aid of its
good offices in preserving peace. but
the offer has been declined by the
United States.
w. c. BRANN, editor of Brann's
lconoclast, killed Thomas Davis, real
estate man, and was himself fatally
shot at Dallas, Tex. on the 1st. The
tragedy grew out of the recent mob
bling of Brann and the old Baylor uni
versity feud.
A HoRRIFYING discovery was made
at Rosedale cemetery, in Pardeeville,
Wis, when the grave of Mrs. Sarah
Smith was unearthed for the purpose
of removing the remains. On opening
the coffin it was found that she had
been buried while in trance. The
body was partly turned over and the
right hand was drawn up to the face.
The fingers indicated they had been
bitten by the woman on finding herself
inferred alive.
THE total receipts of the United
States government for March were
$50. 95s. $50 and the expenditures aggre-
gated SS1, $50, Al
A SPECIAL from Campbellsville, KY,