The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-04-29

address to Senior CASTELAR, Onerln& MIN
their support if he proclaims repub-
lie in Spain.
AsUMMER resort owned by Peter Stein
on Lake Laura. Wis, was burned, to-
gether with all the adjacent cottages,
and Mrs. Stein and her four children
were burned to death. The cause of
the fire was unknown.
LIEUT.. RAMON DE CARRANZA, of the
Spanish royal navy. until recently
naval attache of the Spanish legation
at Washington, has challenged Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee and Capt. Sigsbee to
fight duels because they stated before
congressional committees that, in their
belief. Spanish naval officers were re.
sponsible for the blowing up of the
Maine.
A RECENT Key West, Fla, dispatch
said that the first pinch of the block
ade was felt in Havana. Prices of
food had gone up so per cent above
normal-2O per cent. since the block
ade was esta blished. Food was so
scarce that even at these high prices
it was almost understandable. The si-
lent pressure of the Gordon of Ameri-
can warships weighed heavily on the
Spaniards. The fate of the reconcen.
trados threatened them. Hunger had
appeared among the poorer classes.
IN the EagleBooie feud at Lonoke.
Ark, w. X. Booze and his two sons
were shot to death by the Eagle family.
IT was reported by way of Kingston,
Jamaica. that the Spanish troops in
Cuba were concentrating in the prin-
cipal seacoast cities, abandoning all
the interior towns and plantations and
in many cases burning them
The Spanish steamer, Catalina.
laden with slaves, was captured by
the Detroit near Havana; the revenue
cutter Winona captured the Spanish
steamer Saturnina at Ship Island,
Miss, and the gunboat Helena cap
tured the Spanish steamer Michael
Jover, laden with cotton and slaves
The four-story building occupied by
the Great Western Printing company
at st. Louis was Quilted by fire, the loss
amounting to $50, 900, with $4,000 in
surance.
A CYCLONE occurred near Atlanta
Tex, tearing the home of William
Wall to pieces and seriously injuring
his wife. The farm house of George
Jackson was also demolished and Jack
son and his wife were killed and boy
badly hurt.
AN incendiary set fire to the coal tip
Piles at the Brazil mines, belonging to
the Sloss Iron & Steel company at
Birmingham, Ala, and the tipples and
five railroad cars loaded with coal were
destroyed.
A RUMOR was current in London on
the 22d that the United States cruiser
Topeka had been sunk in a collision
with the Albatross.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire swept over
practically the whole of the Rose bud
Indian reservation in South Dakota,
destroying hundreds if not thousands
of head of cattle and horses. So far as
known no Indians lost their lives.
TWENTY-FIVE negro soldiers of the
Twenty fifth infantry went to the Jail
at Key West; Fla, at 1:3O o'clock the
other morning, armed and ordered the
sheriff to release Sergt. Williams. who
had been arrested the previous night
for having a revolver strapped to his
side. When the sheriff hesitated they
gave him an ultima tum with a FIVE
minute limit, whereupon the sheriff
turned the prisoner over.
THE Spanish freighter, Pedro, was
captured by the battleship New York
off the coast of Cuba. A prize crew
was put on board and she was sent to
Key West, Fla.
THERE were 224 business failures re-
ported in the United States for the
week ended the ed, according to Brad
streets report, against 216 for the cor
responding week last year
CHRIS MERRY, convicted of the murder
of his wife, was hanged in the county
Jail at Chicago on the 22d.
UNITED STATES MINISTER WooDFoRD
is now safe on neutral territory, but
in getting to France he came near
losing his life. Spanish mobs gathered
around the train at Valladolid and
threw stones at the minister's carriage.
Thousands of excited people attempted
to invade the railroad station. and 20
civil guards. who accompanied the
train, were compelled to form in front
of Gen. Woodford's carriage with
drawn swords.
THERE We're said on the 2;st to be
strong indications that if the Spanish
government persisted in the present
announced policy of commissioning
privateers to prey on commerce, effec-
tive influences would be brought to
bear on her by several great CONNER
cial powers, particularly Great Britain
and Germany, to stop it.
SAM HARPER was attacked and man.
gled on the 2ist by horse which was