The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-09-16

NEWS brought from the steamer Cop
tic on the 18th annonnced that the ma
tives in the Caroline islands, a Spanish
possession in the Pacific ocean, had led
successful revolution against the
Spanish officers and were now un-
doubtedly in full possession of the is
lands
A LINCOLN, Neb., dispatch said Col
w. j. Bryan, of the Third Nebraska,
had wired the fusion state committee
time to take part in the fall campaign.
GEN. MILES on the 18th issued per-
emptory orders for the immediate
abandonment of Camp Wikoff, N. Y.
All regular troops will be sent to their
army posts
THE army regulations do not permit
the payment of hospital expenses for
men who are on furlough, but Presi-
dent Mckinley has decided that men
whose condition has required hospital
treatment will be treated as having
surrendered their furloughs and as be-
ing in active service.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ. COOLEY. the noted
jurist, died at Ann Arbot, Mich. For
weeks he had realized his mental and
physical weakness and often expressed
wish that death would come.
AT Chicago on the 18th all western
senger ra' es to go into effect Septem-
Der 81. This agreement will not in
terfere with the special reduction
agreed to by different roads on &C
count of the Omaha exposition.
A MADRID dispatch said the senate
had passed bill authorizing the con-
clusion of peace on the terms provided
in the protocol.
AT midnight on the 18th mob of IS
men entered the Jail at Liberty, Mo-,
secured Benjamin Jones. a man 70
years old, and hanged him to the por-
tico of the Clay county courthouse.
Jones had criminally assaulted Annie
Montgomery, ten years old.
The officers of the National w. C. T.
u, on behalf of the 900, 900 members of
the order in the United States, adj
dressed a letter to President Mckinley
urging him to have the battleship Illi-
nois christened with water instead of
Secretary of the Navy Long.
ADMIRAL CERvERA and his officers
and all other Spanish prisoners cap
tured at Santiago boarded the City of
Rome at Portsmouth, N. H., on the
18th to sail for Spain.
A DISPATCH from Atlanta, Ga. said
Gen. John B. Gordon would not serve
on the war Investigating committee,
owing to ill health.
The annual report at Cincinnati of
the national secretary of the Woman's
Relief corps showed an aggregate of
LA, 245 members and 1884 corps, maxi
ing a net gain of 1859 members and -
corps during the past year.
The Grand View hotel, the largest
hosiery at Highland lake, summer
resort near Williamsport, Pa, was
totally destroyed by fire. The hotel
and it was believed that the fire was
of incendiary origin.
GEN. CAssIUs M. CLAY, of Kentucky,
has been granted a divorce from his
girl wife.
The National Editorial association
elected j. B. McCabe, of East Boston,
Mass, president, and r. M. White, of
Mexico, Mo-, recording secretary. An
arrangement was made for a trip to
Paris in 1899.
BUSINESS failures in the. United
States for the week ended the 9th
numbered 142. according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 173
for the corresponding week of last
year.
NEW WESTMINSTER, Il. c., the chief
city of the Fraser river. was visited
by a large blaze on the 18th that de-
stroyed the entire business portion,
sntailing loss of 50, 500, 900.
AN aerolite fell at Richview, Ill, re-
Gently. It weighed over 81 pounds and
was composed principally of iron.
marble and granite. It was presented
to the high school at Nashville, Ill.
A FIRE occurred at Prescott, Ariz.,
the other day which resulted in the
death of two persons and the serious
injury of three others, the victims be.
ing suffocated.
PRIVATE GREENER and Private Harry
Coffey, company A, Fifteenth Penn.
sylvania. were drowned in the Poto-
mac river, near Washington. They
we're crossing the river in small
boat, when they were struck by q
squall and the boat capsized.
| AN unknown schooner, believed to
be a fishing vessel, foundered with all
her crew about a mile north of east
Point reef, Prince Edwards island.
A CABLR diSpatch from Homo KOno