The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-09

DURING fierce snow and windstorm
the breaker of the Enterprise colliery
| at Shamokin, Pa, was blown down,
causing 500. 900 damage.
THE greatest snow and windstorm
ever known at Detroit, Mich, kept
communication by wire from that city
practically at a standstill recently
Street car traffic was blocked almost
completely and general business was
demoralized.
THE Spanish Transatlantic company
has chartered the North German Lloyd
Steamship company's vessels Darn
stadt and Munchen in order to expe.
dite the repatriation of the Spanish
troops in Cuba
The county commissioners at a meet.
ing at Wilkesbarre, Pa, the other
afternoon offered a reward of SIS, 900
for the arrest and conviction of the
murderers of ex-Postmaster NJ F. Cor.
coran, of Duryea-
FIVE bodies have been picked up on
the beach between Florence and Carl
ner, Ore. They were supposed to be
the bodies of the sailors from the
wrecked Atalanta.
THERE is said to be a great scarcity
of school-teachers in New York city.
ELLIS B. CHILDERs, ex-treasurer OF
the Creek nation, was convicted at
Muscogee, L T.. for completely in the
sos, 900 Creek warrant fraud.
A STEAM pipe exploded on board the
steamer Alamo. of the Mallory line,
at New York, killing the engineer and
five of the firemen and badly injuring
a passenger. A panic followed the
explosion among the passengers and
many jumped to the pier.
The massive block of skyscrapers,
Nos. 253 and $50 Broadway, New York,
was almost totally destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 9Th. The
fire began in Rogers, Peet & Co.'S.
building. then spread to the Home
Life Insurance company's building,
which was 16 stories high. and after.
wards to the Postal Telegraph COM
pany's building, a stories. The loss
was estimated at over S.. ZOO, 600.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of Eufaula, I. T., has been burned.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, is preparing for
the A. F. of L. convention on the 18th
TH1RTY-oNE men started in six-day
bicycle race in Madison Square garden
at 1905 a. m. on the 5th.
A LANDSLIDE caused a bad wreck on
the New York, Susquehanna & West
ern railroad near Smartwood, N. j.
Three trainmen were badly injured
and the road blocked for hours.
A DUEL to the death with revolvers
took place at Jackson. KY, on the
night of the 4th between c. c. Runyon,
marshal of jackson county, Kv., and
Alfred Allen. a well-known character.
They fought over an old diff Guilty and
both were killed.
The Baptist association of Oklahoma
and the Indian territory, by a unani.
nous vote, agreed to divide into two
separate organizations, one for each
territory.
THREE men were killed by boiler
explosion in the sawmill of the Colo.
RADIO Cooperative company, social
istic organization near Montrose, Col.
The supreme court of Minnesota has
decided against the old settlers law,
which provided that veterans should
receive preference in all public APP
poin tments.
FIRE destroyed eight business houses
at Hamburg, Ark, entailing loss Of
nearly 10000.
THE Sixth Missouri volunteers, in
camp at Savannah. Ga. have been or
dered to EN- bark for Cuba.
The National Municipal league
closed its session at Indianapolis. Ind,
on the I'd by adopting a resolution
favoring competition in asphalt street
paving. Mayor Jones, of Toledo, O.,
spoke against granting franchises to
individuals or corporations to minister
to city's social necessities and
thought it was wrong in scientific
theory.
GEN. MILES has prepared the draft of
bill providing for a regular standing
army of LOG. 900 men.
The recent election in Macon, Ga,
to decide the question of prohibition
was won by the ''antis."
Col. r. T. VAN HORN and his wife
celebrated the golden anniversary of
their marriage at their beautiful home
near Kansas City, Mo-, on the Sd. The
colonel has represented the Kansas
City district in congress and is an old
time newspaper man.
The home of Hiram Biggs, a farmer
living near Perry, Ok, caught fire and
Biggs, his wife and three children
were burned to death.
A PRICE has been placed on the head
of every footpad in Kansas City, Mo.
The edict has gone forth that any po-
liceman who brings in highwayman,
dead or alive will he DrOmOted This