The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-10-07

play of horses. cattle; poultry and
farm machinery and the usual side at
fractions. In floral hall the display of
flowers, plants, vegetables and fruits
was excellent The day was children's
day and the schools were closed to en-
able the pupils to attend and more
than 90. 600 turned out
FRED GER tried to light fire with
alcohol at Hokah, Mimi. and was
burned to death.
Bismarck N. D.. was burned. Loss,
$50, O00
Gov. STEPHENS. Police Commissioners
Halves and Chief of Police Campbell
have inaugurated a war on the usnrers
of St Louis For years employees oof
the telegraph companies, railroad and
other concerns in that city have suf-
fered from the exorbitant interest
charges made by the so-called money
sharks" for loans, and more than one
man has given up trying opay accu-
INFLATED interests and committed sui
eide.
The 1000 miners that struck at Dill
lonvale, o., won their strike.
AT the exhibition of the Sparks cir
Gus at Franklin, Va, the lion-tamer
put his head in the lions mouth and
it was promptly bitten off. The lions
mate then sprang upon the mans body
and tore it to pieces
A FIRE at Colorado Springs, Col,
started probably from the sparks from
an engine. exploded a carload of pow
der and pieces were hurled through
the air distance of ~ blocks into
lumber yard and set fire to it A
strong wind carried the flames to
another lumber yard and then took
the Antlers hotel. Before the fire was
subdued the c., R. /. & P. and the D. &
r. G. freight and passenger depots,
flour mill, grain warehouses, a dozen
restaurants, 20 blacksmiths' shops, six
or eight clothing stores. etc, alto
gether between $50 and 200 buildings,
were burned and over $1,000, 900 worth
of property destroyed.
A MAN named John Hollingsworth,
of Cannon county. Tenn, killed man
by the name of Higgins about year
ago. Suit was brought against Hol.
lingsworth by the Higgins family and
judgment was rendered for SIS, 900
and there was to be an auction sale of
his property to satisfy the Judgment.
When the time arrived for the auction
Hollingsworth and few friends con.
cealed themselves in barn and after.
wards fred upon the people assembled,
killing five men, and then escaped.
SALT LAKE CITY had heavy snow
storm on the LIST.
The people of Pana, ILL.,, had ter
rorizing time the other night In some
cases the residents of block spent the
night in one house, expecting an at
tack to be made on them by Alabama
negroes, imported to take the place of
striking white miners The train con-
veying the imported negroes was, how
ever, held up by the strikers and the
negroes at the point of guns were
taken from the train and afterwards
diana. The militia were sent to Pana
by Gov. Tanner.
The democratic state convention at
Syracuse, N. Y. on the goth nominated
Augustus Van Wyck, a brother of
Greater New York's mayor, for gov.
ernor and Elliott Danforth for lieu
tenant governor. The platform at
tackled the conduct of the war, but
otherwise confined itself to state is
sues, no mention heing made of the
Chicago platform or Of the financial
question.
GEN. GOMEZ, in an interview at Camp
Rojas, Santa Clara province, is quoted
as saying that the Cuban insurgents
would disband and apply themselves
to farm labor as soon as the Spanish
troops evacuated the island. q
The Dawes commission has issued
orders that all intermarried white
men were intruders and would have to
leave the Indian territory. The orders
have created q sensation and will af-
feet 30, 900 white men. Indian Agent
Wisdom will comply with the orders
of the commission. His mounted DO
lice are under orders to eject the in
truders.
By the explosion of gasoline stove
at 17os South Broadway, St Louis,
Mrs. Josephine Biedermann, Mrs. Phil
lippine Flory and Rosa Flory were
dangerously burned and Mrs Eliza
beth Doerr and Mrs Kate Flory were
seriously injured.
requested that attention be called in
the United States to the fact that the
Russian government had decided to
hold great international poultry ex-
hi bition in May, 1899, at st. Peters
burg. Official invitations are being
addressed to foreign governments
through the customary diplomatic
channe1S