The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-05-06
REcENr adyices from Rome indicated

The entire business district of
Northport, WASH, was burned at day
light on the I'd. More than 40 build.
ings were destroyed.
THE Parnellites in the British house
of commons sent dispatch to Presi.
dent Mckinley on the I'd congratulate
ing him on the brilliant victory of the
United States feet over the Spaniards
at the Philippine islands
So great has been the demand for
corn and wheat from Nebraska to
supply eastern markets. an Omaha
dispatch stated, that shippers were
obliged to market their cattle because
they could get nothing to feed them
On. Prices of all grains and hay have
doubled during the past month.
r. n. GRAHAM. of Fort Worth, Tex,
bought 10, 900 yearling steers of Capt
W. Maud. paying s25O,OOO for them
LARGE barn, with one horse, one
cow and calf, large lot of corn, hay
and farming implements, on the Stock
we'll farm, near Evansville, Ind. was
destroyed by fire and Mary kohmes-
cher was arrested and admitted that
she set fire to the barn.
Vile captured the Spanish steamer
Argonauta- She had on board several
Spanish officers and privates and car
ried large cargo of arms. The steam
err was sent to Key West and the Span
iards held as prisoners of war.
WILL BAYNHAM, a boolSkeeper, and
Louis Leopold, cigar dealer, were
drowned at the wharf at Paducah, KY,
recently, and Joe Douglass, their COM
panion, received painful injuries, his
escape from death being almost mirac-
ulous. The men had started for a skif
ride, but were sucked under a passing
steamer by the current.
MOBEETIE, Tex, was almost totally
deStroyed by tornado the other morn
ing. Four people were killed, three
fatally injured and many painfully
hurt. All county buildings were
wrecked.
THE New York correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette cabled his paper that
he learned from an especially trust
worthy source that agreements
already exist between the United
States and Great Britain which, if the
present British cabinet continues in
office, must lead in the future course
of events to an alliance"
A RECENT dispatch from Montreal,
Can. stated that Spain had arranged
for the use of spies and that there were
a large number at all the seaports and
principal cities in the United States,
the men being experts in sketching
plans and getting information. The
spies forwarded their reports to per-
sons in Canada and Mexico, who, in
turn, sent the reports to Madrid
A CYCLONE passed near Elk Point, S.
D., on the 3Oth and John johnson, who
was working on house five miles from
town, was killed, the house being de-
molished and much other damage done
ACCORDING to dispatches on the 1st
the first battle of the disappointment
can war was fought by Adm. Dewey's
squadron and the Spanish fleet at the
Philippine islands, off Manila, and vic
tory was with the stars and stripes
The account of the engagement came
by the way of Madrid which said the
Castillo and the Maria Christina were
burned, the Don Juan de Austria was
blown up and several other vessels
from getting them. No account of the
loss of life was given. News had not
been received at Washington how
Adm. Dewey Jared, but there was great
rejoicing over his apparently great
victory.
Gov. LEEDY received message from
the war department on the 1st that
guns and other equipments could not
be furnished the Kansas volunteers
for at least ten days.
: The flagship New York. with eight
well-directed shells from a six.inch
gun, completely silenced and rendered
useless for both men or guns two Span
ish forts at Port Cabanas, 25 miles
from Havana. The Spaniards pro-
voked the attack by firing the first shot.
DISPATCHES on the 1st reported Sc
we're storms in Iowa and the Indian
territory on the previous evening. In
Iowa the towns of Primghar, Hart
ley and Curlew were badly wrecked,
Hartley being almost completely de-
stroyed. Several people were reported
killed. Macedonia, near Council Bluffs,
was also badly wrecked, but no loss
OF life was reported there. Other
places also suffered. Duncan, l. T.,
was nearly wiped out. A child was
killed and ten persons hurt, some
fatally.
The westbound Southern Pacific
passenger train was taken in charge
by four masked men at Comstock,
Tex, at midnight on the goth and two
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