The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-06-03

MEMORIAL services in honor of the
soldier dead were held in all the prin.
cipal cities of the country on the 30th.
veterans of both federal and confeder-
ate armies marching together to the
cemeteries in order to decorate the
graves.
THE British steamer Restormel was
captured while trying to put into
Santiago de Cuba with cargo of coal.
She was taken to Key West, Fla.
A sAILBoAT with Is men on board
capsized near Seoul Choix point, Mich,
and four were drowned.
A MEETING of the championship ban
tamweight fighters, Jimmy Barry, of
Chicago, and Caspar Leon, of New
York, took place at the LenoX Athletic
club at New York on the 30th. They
were matched to go 20 rounds at ITO
pounds for good-sized purse and the
bantamweight championship of the
world. After 20 rounds of hard fight
ing the referee declared it a draw.
A DISPATCH to the London Daily
Telegram from Manila said that Rear
Admiral Dewey was losing men from
disease almost daily. Smallpox and
dysentery were said to be rife in the
American squadron.
Col. G. c. SMITH, deputy quarter
master general, received orders from
Washington instructing him to cease
purchasing mules until fur Their orders.
Twelve thousand mules have been pur-
chased in the ST. Louis market. The
average price was 500 per mule, max
ing a grand total of $1,000, 900 expend-
ed by Uncle Sam in that city alone for
the far-famed Missouri mule.
THE Universal Peace union has been
evicted from Independence hall, Phila-
delphia. After consultation with the
mayor it was decided that the unpatr;-
otto act of the society in sending a let
ter to the queen regent of Spain justi-
fed extreme measures.
THE camp canteens at Falls Church,
Va, were closed on the 2Sth by order
of Gen. Graham, who decided that the
large amount of beer which has been
since the camp was formed
was inimical to the health of the men.
WHAT will be the crack regiment of
all the United States regular and vol
unteer forces is being organized. 1t
will be composed entirely of sharp
shooters, and the best men from II
states and the District of Columbia
are to make up the IL full companies
composing the regiment. The enlist
ment is under the supervision of
of congressman and is to be
furnished and equipped by Mr.. Perry
Belmont, of New York city, who has
offered the regiment to the govern
ment without expense.
The sum of ST., 455, 400 represents the
money paid out by Lieut.. Col. G. c.
Smith, chief commissary, to st. Louis
and Missouri farmers for
supplies since war was declared up to
the eth. The three largest items are
ST $50. 900 for mules, $97, SOC for horses
and $45, 1000 for tents. In addition al
most as much has been paid out by the
department for subsist-
ence.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 27th
23i, according to Brad
streets commercial report. against 257
for the corresponding week of last
year.
A PASSENGER train on the Midland
Terminal railroad ran into a handcar
on a high trestle near Gillette, Col,
and four men who jumped from the
handcar were killed.
GARFIELD KING, negro, aged about
Is, was taken from the Jail at Sails
bury, Nd, by mob early the other
morning, hanged to a tree and shot to
pieces. He was awaiting trial on the
charge OF having deliberately shot
Herman Kenney, white boy, about
the same age as the negro.
THIRTEEN miners were killed by an
explosion of fire damp in coal mine
near Mons, Belgium.
MARY HoNORKA, a Bohemian cigar
maker, was shot in the nose and left
eve at her home in New York by her
husband, Jose, also a cigarmaker, who
then shot himself in the right eye.
He died soon afterwards. The woman
was also reported as in a dying condi
ton.
THERE were sinister predictions of
an impending revolution in Spain con-
tanned in special dispatch from Mad
rid on the Goth. I'm )eror Francis
Josef, of Austria, was said to have
strongly advised the queen regent to
prepare to fly, and her mother, who
was in Madrid, was reported to have
given her the same advice, but the
queen regent was determined to re-
main. 1t was regarded, however. as
only question of few days before
an outbreak occurred.