The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-05-13

| states government W 1urulSu lo,UOt
ponchas for the volunteer army. The
ponchas are light rubber blankets. 7s
by As inches. and are adapted to three
uses They can be used as blankets,
as capes, or four of them may be laced
together and made into a tent It is
| the intention of the government to
furnish all the volunteers with these
blankets, as they will be especially
serviceable in Cuba during the rainy
season.
Mrs. FRED HABEL and two children
were suffocated by fire that occurred
at their home at Seneca, n. Y, on the
9th Her husband, who occupied an
upstairs room, succeeded in saving the
three children who slept with him, but
was unable to save his wife and the
other children.
AT Almy, Tenn, mining town, a
crowd assembled to witness baptism,
when Jerry West and Reuben Phillips
engaged in an alteration about a girl
who accompanied Phillips and to whom
West had been paying attentions.
West pulled his pistol and began shoot
ing at Phillips, who returned the fire.
and both men fell mortally wounded.
Three men and two women were also
wounded, one of the men perhaps IA
| tally.
! THE advance in wheat went on with
renewed impetus on the 9th at Chica-
go, the opening sale of May being 81. IS.
The July price went up nearly IA cents
from the price on the nth to $1.2O, and
Septemb Der wheat, which had been
tagging behind, sold at "a cents, a rise
of seven cents since the nth.
The w. A. Michael Grain Commits.
sion company. one of the oldest com.
mission firms in Kansas City. Mo-, was
forced to the wall on the 9th by the
unprecedented rising wheat market.
The liabilities were variously esti
mated at from S25. 900 to $75, 900 in ex
cess of the assets.
The Third regiment of Missouri ma,
tional guards, who had been ordered
to move from Kansas City to St. Louis
to enlist in the volunteer service of the
United States, was given a rousing
farewell demonstration on the nth. AID
immense crowd was upon the streets
in the line of parade. Business men,
letter carriers, Sons of the American
Revolution, G. A. R. posts, firemen,
ETC., and the united bands of Kansas
City escorted the soldiers to the depot,
halt being made at the Star Office,
where a flag was presented to the regi-
ment by that paper. Maj. William
Warner making the speech.
BY the turning of switch at Column
bus, O., on the sth an excursion train
was wrecked, three cars being demol-
ished, one man killed and three others
injured.
REV. FATHER THOMAS SHERMAN, son
of the late Gen. William T. Sherman,
will be chaplain in the Fourth regi-
ment of the Missouri guards.
A BRITISH steam yacht was obliged
to leave Malaga, Spain, because she
was mobbed and stoned.
AT tribal meeting of the Kiowas
and Comanches held in the Indian ter
ritory resolutions were passed asking
congress to apportion the 1000, 900
acres of their reservation equally
among members of the tribes and to
give them the privilege of leasing all
lands to white farmers. A delegation
will go to Washington to urge the re-
quest.
The interstate debate between the
universities of Nebraska and Kansas
at Lincoln, Neb., was won by Kansas
by the decisive score of S0i to CSC. The
debaters for Kansas were J. B. Cheadle,
w. A. Layton and Pearl Decker.
FIFTY frame buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Duluth, Mimi, on
the Sth and 1000 people were made
homeless. The buildings were occu-
pied by very poor people.
In the bread riots at Milan, Italy,
several collisions occurred with the
troops. In one fight it was said 800
were killed and 1000 injured.
IT was stated that two expeditions,
composed of 5000 men each, would
leave San Francisco for Manila as soon
as possible to hold the Philippine is
lands The expeditions will comprise
| representatives from all branches of
the service, as the government feels
| sure that there will be considerable
fighting to be done.
The United States gunboat Annapo-
| lis captured the French liner La
Fayette, which tried to run the Cuban
| blockade. In addition to being a
French steamer it was said she is a
French naval reserve vessel, mounting
| guns Grave fears were felt at Wash
ington of a serious international COM
| plication over the seizure and she was
ordered to be conducted back to Ha-
vana under escort and released
| THREE war balloons are to be taken
| tn Cuha s,,ff;cioDt foroo of tho c;r