The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-05

A THROUGH freight train was passing
Bartells, ILL.,, when the rails spread.
The engine and II cars loaded with
merchandise left the track, which was
literally torn to pieces fo= q distance
of 100 yards A. A. Lester. Of St. Louis,
q brakeman, was injured and died soon
afterward.
GEORGE THOMPSON, colored, was
hanged at !:I5 a. m. on the 1st at st.
Louis The crime for which Thomson
died was the poisoning of Joseph Cum
bingham, the white sexton of St.
Peters Episcopal church, September
90. 1894.
FIVE persons attending the picnic of
the Cloak makers union at Columbia
park, Chicago. on the 31st were drowned
in the Desplaines river. Three row.
boats collided and the occupants were
spilled out
THERE was an epidemic of hog chol-
era in the country around Carlyle, Ill.
Nearly 1000 hogs died within two
weeks.
ADMIRAL CERvERA has written pa
thetic letter from Annapolis, Md, to
his countrymen at home begging that
peace be made before Spain is utterly
destroyed" There are also intimations
that some unpala ia BILE truths have been
told by the admiral that would sur
prise all Europe if the statements made
ever saw the light of day.
THE powder mill of F. T. johnson at
Troy, Pa, was blown up on the 2Sth
and the owner was killed.
News reached Alton, ILL.,. on the 2Sth
of the drowning Of two boys at Portage
des Sioux. Mo-. named William Hen
zleman. aged II, and Gus Echele. aged
II. The boys were bathing in the
Mississippi when Echele was seen to
be in danger of drowning. Henzleman
went to his assistance and both boys
were drowned.
News from the blockade along the
south coast of Cuba on the 2Sth con-
firmed the report that Tunas de casa
had been invested by the troops of
Gen. Gomez. The Cubans attacked the
place simultaneously with its bonn
bardment by the American mosquito
fleet.
ADMIRAL DEWEY NAV be called to
Washington soon to consult with the
administration as to the general stu
ton in the Philippines, the reforms
government of the islands and the To-
coaling station there.
THE war department posted the fol-
lowing dispatch received from Gen.
Shafter on the 2Stb, dated the previous
day: Total sick, 4, 122; total fever, g.
1873; new cases, S22; cases fever re-
turned to duty, 542. The report gave
the officials considerable concern and
Secretary Alger wants to remove the
soldiers at Santiago to Montauk point,
L. l., as soon as it can be safely done.
1mmunes will perform garrison duty
at ntiago.
THE president has issued a procla-
nation restoring the lands known as
the middle and western saline reserves
in the Cherokee outlet to the public
domain.
AN epidemic of rabies was reported
prevailing in the vicinity of Nauvoo.
ILL.,, and farmers were losing hogs and
cattle.
THE government at Madrid has re-
ceived a dispatch from Gen. Blanco in
timating that the regulars and volun-
teers at Havana have at length yielded
to his arguments not to involve the
mother country in ruin by insisting on
carrying on the struggle with the
United States, because the forces at
Havana have not been vanquished, and
they have withdrawn their opposition
to the mother country negotiating for
peace.
FIRE in a three-story frame build
ing the other night at San Francisco
caused the loss of five lives and badly
burned five other persons, one of whom
was not expected to live.
JAMES A. YOUNG, quartermaster SER
geant of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment, was ordered under arrest at San
Francisco on the 2Sth by Col. Funston,
charged with embezzling government
property. 1t was alleged he had sold
stores issued as food for the regiment
Young made the excuse that he had
done only what every other commits
sary of Camp Merritt has done all
along.
A CHORUS of 1.4OO voices sang at the
Coliseum at Davenport, Ia, at the
saengerfest on the Goth. The perform
ance was magnificent and the festi-
val was said to be the most successful
ever held in the northwest.
TYPHOID fever continues to spread
among the regiments at Camp Alger,
Notwithstanding the strenuous and
unceasing efforts of the medical Off
GERS on duty there. Ten new cases were
discovered on the goth, making a total
of So since the oath.
THE seventh annual session of the
National Irrigation congress has been