The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-04-08
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MAYOR CARNEY, of Shawneetown,
ILL.,. which was devastated by flood,
sent an appeal on the 4th to congress
and also to the governor of Illinois for
aid for the stricken people. In re-
Spouse Gov. Tanner Immediately is
| sued a proclamation, calling on the
people of the state to contribute for
| the relief of the sufferers 1t was esti-
mated by the mayor that 100 lives had
been lost.
The mayor and council of Atlanta,
Ga, have approved a plan for purchas-
| ing flags and within a short time the
stars and stripes will wave over every
public school in the city and scholars
| will be required to salute "Old Glory"
morning and afternoon.
INDICATIONS on the 4th pointed to a
general suspension of coal mining
along the Monongahela river in Penn
sylvania and it was expected that TO-
900 men would go on strike because
the operators would not acknowledge
| the interstate agreement.
ALL the Americans engaged on the
Maine wreck in Havana harbor have
received orders from the navy depart
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West, Fla, on the 4th.
THE story that Steve Brodie, the
Brooklyn bridge jumper, had died on
board train at Adrian, Mich. was a
hoax. He was afterwards reported to
be alive and we'll in New York.
The members of the Seventh regi-
ment, Illinois national guard, tore up
a Spanish flag Saturday night that
was among the wall decorations at
their armory at Chicago. The incident
occurred at an athletic entertainment
given by the regiment.
E. f. KARRICK, of Pueblo, Col, has
secured through New Mexico agents
40, 600 head of cattle, costing in the
neigh borhood of 81, OOO, 900.
A HEAD-END collision occurred on
the Western &, Atlantic railway near
Adairville, Ca, on the 3Oth between
train No. II and fast freight. Engi-
neer Elliott and his son Robert. fire.
man, were killed outright. Engineer
McDade sustained injuries from which
he died. Two brakemen were missing,
while four tramps who were on one of
the trains were not accounted for.
The locomotives and 40 freight cars
were total wreck. The accident was
caused by misunderstanding of or
ders.
Two violent earthquake shocks were
experienced in San Francisco at late
hour on the 3Oth. Houses were wrecked,
tall buildings rocked on their founda-
tions and the streets were thronged
with half-clad, panic stricken resi-
dents, who hurried from their homes,
bearing their children in their arms.
Mare Island also suffered much dam
age, the loss at the. navy yard being
estimated at not less than $50, 900. The
naval hospital was wrecked and the
government Sawmill blown down.
Many other places in California report
damage.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER MARIN,
judge advocate of the board of inquiry
into the Maine disaster, released from
the oath of secrecy in relation to the
blowing up of the battleship, had this
to say at New York the other day:
1--WE know that the Maine was blown
up by mine as surely as a physician
knows man was poisoned when he
finds him suffering from the effects
of poison"
AHLiH<A oh hiO0os q hCSTeSS, uleO re-
Gently at Hampstead, Tex. aged rs
Her age was properly authenticated.
She was blind, but was otherwise
sound. mentally and physically, till
death.
A DISPATCH from ST. Johns, n F., on
the 3Oth stated that the steamer
Mastiff was crushed in an icefioe off
Gross island and the crew spent As
hours on the ice Twelve men went in
sane from their sufferings.
Tue New York conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church decided on
the 1st in favor of equal representation
from each annual conference The
vote was 11S to 80.
Miss JULIA ANDERSON, living east OF
Guthrie, Ok. near Langston, was
burned to death by her clothes ignit-
ing from burning grass in field which
was being burned off to kill chinch.
bugs.
IT was said at the Cuban junta at
New York that the insurgents were
prepared to give material aid to the
United States should war with Spain
be declared. IF the United States
sent us arms and ammunition" an at
tache said, ''we could raise an army of
60. 900 men, march on Havana and rae
the city or storm the occupants into
submission.
LINCOLN. Neb., had big fire on the
night of the 1st. It originated in the
furniture house of A. NJ. Davis and
then destroyed the Richards block