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

A PARTY OF boys playing Halloween
! FRANKS at Toledo, O., frightened Mrs.
Sanger SO badly that she died before
help could get to her.
| The American commissioners at
Paris on the 31st presented to the
Spanish commissioners q written ex-
preston of the purpose of the United
States to take the entire group of Phil
| ippine islands and to assume such pro-
portion of the Philippine debt as had
been spent for the benefit of the is
lands or their inhabitants, in public
| works, improvements or permanent
| bettermentS.
The receipts of cattle at Kansas CITY
during October were 23O. S45, the
largest monthly cattle receipts in the
history of the trade.
THE powder house of the Titanic
Smokeless Powder company at South
| Acton. Mass, was demolished by an
explosion on the 31st. The men for
tunately escaped injury.
AN earthquake shock was felt at
Norfolk, Va. at nine a. m. of the 31st.
A DYNAMITE explosion in the Sara
goza mine, Nueva Leon, Mex, killed
II miners and wounded a number of
others.
AN Akron, O., dispatch on the 31st
stated that the efforts to form glazed
stoneware trust has been successful
and 26 concerns were now interested
in the combine, representing about Is
per cent of the entire production in
the United States The trust has ad.
vanced prices.
A DISPATCH. stated that Gen. Blanco
would leave Havana November 30, as
he is averse to witnessing the closing
scenes of the evacuation of Cuba. He
will go to Spain before the American
flag is raised over the city.
A DISPATCH stated the German en-
peror arrived atJerusalem on the 29th.
CHICAGO is trying to get the general
conference of the Methodist church in
1900.
w. M. LEONARD, while standing near
the engine at Taylor's gin at Granger,
Tex, accidentally fell on the driving
belt. He was hurled with terrific
force against the side of the house and
instantly killed, nearly every bone in
his body being broken.
TELEGRAM from st. Petersburg
said that medical authorities admitted
that the epidemic prevailing in Lower
Russia was the plague. The death rate
was reported very high.
Two fires occurred the other night
at Corsicana. Tex, resulting in the to-
tai destruction of several residences
and one saloon and the loss of three
lives, William johnson and two small
children. johnson started the fatal
fire by using crude petroleum in his
kitchen stove.
THE steamer L. R. Doty, with crew
OF 15 men, was believed by marine men
to have been lost in the recent great
storm in midlake off Kenosha, Wis
Mentone, France, were destroyed by
terrific hailstorm on the 38th.
THE cruiser BROOKLYN has been or
dered to sail for Manila by way of the
Suez canal with recruits, ammunition
and supplies for Admiral Dewey's fleet.
AN earthquake shock recently passed
over Ottawa, Ont
HE Mascara, an asylum for the in
sane at Havana, Cuba, appears to have
been disgracefully managed. The rec
ords of the last Is months show there
were 632 deaths there out of 700 in
mates.
The strike of the federated wire
workers at the American wire mills at
Anderson, Ind, was declared off by
the strikers. A conference had been
held with the company's representa-
tives and concessions made.
THE principal part of the business
portion of Refugio, Tex, was burned,
including the Office of the Refugio
Register. Loss placed at $50, 900, with
small insurance.
The steamer II. A. Tuttle, grain
laden, from Chicago, was sunk in the
mouth of the river, near Michigan
City, Ind. The crew was taken off by
the life-savers after "a hours of eX-
treme peril.
The Second and Third battalions of
the Twentieth Kansas regiment en-
barked on the transport Indiana at
San Francisco for Manila. The two
battalions are commanded by Col
Frederick Funston.
The United States steam barge Lloyd
Porter, bound for Detroit, struck and
was sunk at st. Croix. about 80 miles
above Quebec, Can. The crew were
saved.
A RECENT storm battered Chicago's
lake front and the damage was esti-
mated at $s1, 500. Many clocks in the
upper floors of high buildings were
stopped by the vibration of the tall
structures.
In jealous rage, after quarreling
with his wife for half an hour the