The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-09-23

SEVEN buildings in Elmwood, fou,
niles from Syracuse. NJ Y. were
burned to the ground on the 10th and
Gwo men. Frank Harvey and George
Stratus, were burned to death. The
men were guests of the Sheppard hotel
THE party of Missouri and Illinois
prospectors who started for far away
Kotzebue sound few months ago in
the schooner Merrill. has had serious
split-up and are now going up differ
ent rivers in the north. They left
Capt Louis. Bernhardt, who sailed
the schooner north, dangerously i'll in
his cabin. Reports of gold strikes 800
miles up the Kowak river in Alaska
caused him to be deserted in day.
The sovereign grand lodge, ]. o. O.
ton on the 10th.
SICKNESS among the troops of Gen.
Lawton's command at Santiago was
reported on the 10Th as increasing,
nearly one-sixth of his force being on
the sick list although the number OF
deaths was not great.
A SPECIAL from Defuniak, Fla.
stated that fire destroyed Is stores
and hotels at that place, besides many
smaller buildings.
THERE were over 100 typhoid feve,
patients in the division hospitals at
Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, on the
10th.
PRIVATE advices received in New
York stated that Lieut.. Peary had
made a most suspicious start on his
journey to the north pole. He was at
Etah, near the entrance to Smith sound,
on August Is and was planning to make
q winter camp far up on the northwest
ern coast of Greenland.
The horse show opened at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 18th with grand pa,
rade of animals.
The American bark George F. Mau
son, out 1876 days from Sydney, N. s.
w., for San Francisco, was thought to
have gone down in the great storm
which prevailed off the Australian
coast four months ago.
The queen regent prorogued the
Spanish cortes on the 14th, thus ending
a riotous session.
MINERS who arrived at Seattle.
WASH. reported typhoid epidemic
prevailing at Dawson, Alaska Hun
dreds of persons were said to be ill
and the deaths averaged about dozen
daily.
ALARMED by the spread of typhoid
fever in the Iowa camp. Surgeon Rof.
ter had all the tents of the Kansas
regiment at Camp Merriam, San Fran.
cisco, taken down, the floors moved
and everything disinfected.
ORLANDO QUICKER, surgeon in charge
of the yellow fever hospital at Santi-
ago. issued note thanking "the noble
men, women, boys and girls in the
United States who have contributed
to the relief of our poor sick in Cuba"
A MANILA dispatch on the 10th said
that isabelle Artacho, former rebel
chief. was leading an army of Is, 600
against Aguinaldo. A Jesuit priest
had been shot for persuading rebels to
desert Aguinaldo.
The steamer Gloucester collided with
the schooner Alice Jordan off Martha's
Vineyard, Mass, and nine of the Jor.
dams crew were drowned.
DETAILS Of the hurricane that visited
the West Indies recently show that it
was the worst of the century. In ST.
Vincent. out of population of Al, 900.
over 800 were killed and 20, 900 were
injured and rendered homeless. The
island has been absolutely Quilted.
The yacht Emily was struck and
sank by a squall in the narrows at
Mass, on the 18th and
two men out of the five on board were
drowned.
The attending physicians at Ded.
ham. Mass, on Thomas F. Bayard, ex-
United States ambassador to E ngland,
gave no hopes of his recovery on the
18th.
BRIG. GEN. JOSEPH T. HASKELL, a
hero of Ell Caney, dropped dead of
apoplexy soon after arriving at his
home in Columbus, O., with the Seven
tenth infantry.
AT his own urgent request Capt.
Robley D. Evans, of the battleship
Iowa, was relieved of command and
was assigned to duty on the naval in
spection board. The new commander
OF the Iowa is Capt. Silas Terry.
ALL free soup houses in Havana,
which had been feeding the needy over
10000 rations daily. were closed by
order of the governor general It was
predicted that additional distress
would follow tie closing.
In the Connecticut republican state
convention Gov. Lounsbury was re-
nominated by large majority over
his opponent, j. Addison Porter pri-
vate secretary to President Mckinley.
A CREAMERY company at Belvidere,
Ill, claims to have discovered a nro-