The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-16

| L T., terrible explosion took place
soon after nine o'clock on the night of
the 18th by which five men lost their
lives and about % others were buried
in the shaft. The ignition of coal dust
caused the explosion and the mine took
fire and there seemed to be little hope
of rescuing the entombed miners
NATURAL gas exploded in the shoe
store of Henry Lukens at Connorsville,
Ind. instantly killing two men and in.
juring several others.
AT school exhibition near Poca, w.
Va, some young men created a dis
turbance when the teacher tried to
eject them and a general fight took
place resulting in one man being
killed and several others fatally
wounded.
The status of several thousand negro
citizens of the Cherokee nation is at
tracing great attention at Tahlequah,
I. T. The Cherokee Shareholders did
not define the position of these slaves
when they became free and many
blacks are now seeking the best allot-
ments and are also demanding their
pro rata of the invested fund of several
millions
THE recent cold snap badly damaged
the orange groves near New Orleans.
THE United States peace commits
sioners gave banquet on the evening
of the 18th to the United States am
bassador at Paris. The banqueting
room was festooned gaily with Amer
lean flags The company included
Gen. and Mrs. Porter and all the peace
commissioners and their wives.
GEN. LEE and staff sailed from Sa-
vannah, Ga. on the 18th for Gu ba on
the transport Panama. He will land
at Marianao and remain there until he
enters Havana
THE great six-day, or rather 142-hour,
bicycle race at Madison Square
garden. New York. came to an end on
the night of the 10th. The score was
as follows: Miller. 2.O07 miles; Waller.
1855; Pierce. I.9O6; Albert, 1929;
Gimm, 1.7S2; Lawson. LIST; Aaronson.
1899; Nawn. 1.721; Forster, 1868;
Stevens, 1.5i9; Hale. 1902; julius. 1. 166
THE peace treaty, tween Spain and
the United States was signed by the
commissions representing the two ma
tions at Paris on the night of the 10th.
The Americans were in a jubilant mood
and the Spaniards extremely downcast-
The treaty in full makes II articles.
Col. WILLIAM j. BRYAN has resigned
his command at Savannah, Ga.
WILLIAM BLACK. the novelist, died in
London on the 10th.
The main building of the foundry at
Kutztown, Pa, was burned. Loss, $70,
900.
By fierce fire which occurred in
fat in Brooklyn three persons met
their death on the 18th and the firemen
were searching the ruins for others.
WILLIAM HITCHINGs. while cutting
wood near Free Toll. Mich. killed John
Hunt, his brother-in- law. Thomas Hay
ward, a. hired man. and Mrs. Hunt He
then cut his own throat.
WHILE sewer was being constructed
in Barcelona, Spain, the brick work
collapsed, burying many of the work.
men. Eighteen bodies were recovered.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the
Con tinental Tobacco company were
fled with the secretary of state at
Trenton. n. j.. The capital stock is
SIS, OO0, 600.
ROBERT MOORE, farmer living five
miles east of Hazleton, Pa, shot and
mortally wounded Charles and Paris
door on the night of the 18th. The
trouble arose over the question of fenc-
ing the church property.
THREE corn shelters and !. 200 bush.
els of corn, of Mertens, Brandon &
Blums, were destroyed by fire in Hill
county, Tex.
The French government was report
ed to have resolved to take up the case
of the French holders of Cuban bonds
and it was believed France would
declare that the reputation of the
bonds was the result. of the treaty
which the victorious nation imposed
upon Spain. They argue, it was
stated. that through the treaty respon.
sibility has been shifted upon America
and therefore the French government
the payment or guarantee of the bonds.
The schooner Ganges was reported
frozen fast in a great field of ice off
Bar point, Lake Erie, on the 9th.
THE hat factory of John w. Green &
Co., one of the largest in Danbury.
Conn.,. was completely destroyed by
fire the other night. Loss. S125. 600;
insurance, 100000. Four hundred
men were thrown out of employment
The United States transport New.
port. bearing the Twentieth Kansas
regiment, under Lieut. Col. Little,
with the Wyoming light battery.
which left San Francisco November 8,
arrived at Manila on the 9TH.
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