The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-07-22

NEWT WHITE and Sam Yarbrough,
two young men of Washita county,
Ok, fought duel with knives over
their sweetheart Both were engaged
to the girl They met at dance. q
quarrel ensued and the men agreed to
90 out in the road and settle their diff
ferencesL Yarbrough made q number
of gashes in Whites breast from which
he cannot live. Yarbrough's throat
was cut from ear to ear.
A SPECIAL from Georgetown. KY,
said that Clarence Vinegar. colored,
twice convicted and sentenced to hang
for killing his wife Is months ago, was
hanged there on the 18th.
OKLAHOMA is to have a company OF
rough riders consisting ofyoung wom-
en- who are called cowboys" Miss
Lizzie Delesderner, living at Colony,
who has acted the cowboy for years
and who can kill a sparrow while rid
ing at full speed, has organized a COM
pany of young girls who can ride and
shoot as well as she. Miss Delesderner
will offer the company to President
Mckinley.
AN Official dispatch to Madrid from
Porto Rico said $50 cases of ammuni-
ton exploded there, killing IA persons
and wounding many others.
JASPER SIMPSON while resisting
arrest shot and instantly killed j. B.
Grady and L. S. Hill, deputy United
narshals, near Jensen, Ark.
The Gibraltar correspondent of the
London Daily News said recently: A
private letter from Havana asserted
that a compact lad been concluded be-
tween Gen. Gomez and Capt. Gen.
Blanco. The writer of the letter said
that Blanco. after peace had been ar
ranged, will be elected president OF
Cuba.
The stars and stripes were hoisted
over Santiago at noon on the 18th
amid impressive ceremonies. The
Spanish troops had previously left
their trenches and marched into the
American lines. where the Spaniards
laid down their arms. The city had
been sacked by the Spaniards before
the arrival of the Americans.
The three regiments camped at
Charleston. S. c., were ordered out on
the 10th for ten-mile tramp in heavy
marching order. Before they returned
to camp some companies had lost near
ly half their men from exhaustion.
The trouble seemed to be that they
had not had proper food for some time
to sustain them in a march. All they
had had for breakfast on the 10Th was
bareback, coffee and tomatoes.
A BIG fire occurred on the 18th at the
sash and door factory of the Segelke-
Kolhaus company and the lumber yards
of the John Paul Lumber company at
La Crosse, Wis. The entire loss was
estimated at $3.50, 900.
The Cudahys at Omaha Neb., grant
ed the increase of wages demanded by
their striking packers.
SEVERAL counties in northern Texas
were recently swept by a terrific wind
and hailstorm and great damage was
done to the grain and cotton crops.
Several persons were also reported
killed.
AT the session of the Baptist Young
Peoples union at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the 10th resolutions were passed in.
dorsing President McKinley's war pol
icy, protesting against the army lean.
teen" and declaring opposition to the
liquor traffic.
Two laborers on the st. Louis &
Oklahoma railway were murdered near
the Sac and Fox agency in Oklahoma.
after being paid off, and robbed of all
their wages.
THE London Statist thinks the worlds
wheat crop for 1898 will be $4,000. OO(
quarters larger than the crop of 1897
reaching about 325. 600, 900 quarters.
RAILWAY officials report that the
heat on the Colorado desert has never
before been so intense as this summer
The thermometer has gone awV above
| 100 degrees. There have been numerou.
| fatalities Near Indio few days age
freight car on a side track caught
| fire from the heat of the sun and wa:
blazing before it was discovered anC
extinguished.
| THE Official Gazette at Madrid OF
the 18th published royal decree tenn
porarily suspending throughout Spai1
the rights of individuals as guaran
teed by the constitution. The publ
cation of the decree was generally &C
copied as convincing proof that Spain
was ready to sue for peace.
| ADvICEs from San Juan de Port.
Rico showed the inhabitants of tina
place were greatly alarmed. They ex
pected the port to be attacked by tn
Americans any time. The terrified in
habitants were fleeing into the int
rior and it was said the city and sub
urbs were practically deserted.
AT Pierceton, Ind, the other nigh
whitecaps marched to the residence o
| William Keller pulled him from hi