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

COL w. j. BRYAN and the Third Ne
braska volunteer infantry started from
Omaha for Jacksonville, Fla, ON the
18th.
A DISPATCH from Gleiwitz, Prussian
Silesia, on the 18th said that "a per-
sons were killed by cage accident at
the Paulus colliery, near Morgenrot.
IT was stated that as the German
cruiser Irene was passing off Manila
the other day the United States gun
boat Hugh McCulloch was sent after
her to ask her to stop. The Irene re-
fused to obey and shell was sent
across her bows. The German admiral
protested that his vessel had right
to enter the harbor. but Admiral
Dewey refused to recognize the claim.
AT Cypress, Tex, a negro, named
Peter Burton. murdered Henry Meyer,
a white farmer, his wife and infant
child. Robbery was thought to have
been the motive. The crime was COM
mitted with a Ratchet. Posses were
out after the murderer.
A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Evansville & st. Louis Air line col
lided with an engine near Georgetown,
Ind, and the engineer and two tramps
were killed.
STATE presidents of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
in executive session at Chicago, dec -
ed to wash their hands of the Tempe
building enterprise and recommended
that no further call be made on local
unions to pay for the temple.
LIEUT.. BLANDIN, who was officer of
the deck on the night the battleship
Maine was blown up in Havana har-
Dor, died on the 10th in the hospital at
Baltimore, Md, from meningitis, the
result of the shock from the Names
destruction.
SAMUEL II. TAYLOR, travelling sales
man, shot B. j. Sandys to death on the
street at st. Louis for abducting his
child. Taylor had separated from his
wife and placed his child in an orphans
home. Recently the mother and Sandys
had met the child on the street and
had got away with it.
THE bodies of ten victims of the
water works tunnel disaster at Cleve.
land, O., were found by rescuing
party on the 18th. The bodies were
brought to the shore end, about 6, 600
feet from the tunnel head, in hand
car. The scene when they arrived at
the surface, where an enormous crowd
| had assembled, among whom were
many relatives and friends of the VIC
Tins, was INDISPENSABLE. The police
had all they could do to control the al
most frantic people.
The City of Puebla and the Peru, car
rying the fourth military expedition to
| Manila, left San Francisco on the 18th.
Gen. Otis was ( i board the City Of
| Puebla.
The National League of Republican
ck,bs convened at Omaha, Neb, on the
| 18th and President Crawford delivered
| his annual address.
FIRE destroyed seven business houses
| in Murfreesboro. Tenn, the other day,
causing losses estimated at more than
$1,000
THE transport Seneca left Siboney,
Cuba, on the 18th for Fort Monroe
She had on board IS sick and wounded
American soldiers.
HON. A. S. MCKENNoN, of the Dawes
commission, has gone to Wewoka, L.
T., for the purpose of completing the
census of the Seminole Indians. When
this work is completed the Seminoles
will be ready to have their lands al
| lotted.
| JAMES B. KEAToN, the democratic
congressional nominee. was declared
the nominee of the democratic, popu-
list and free silver republicans in their
joint convention at Oklahoma City on
the sevent y fourth ballot, after the
most stub born political convent ton
ever held in Oklahoma. The result OF
the last ballot stood: Keaton, 242; Cal.
lahan, 70.
GEN. ToRAL formally surrendered
Santiago de Cuba to the American
troops under Gen. Shafter at three
o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th on
the understanding that his troops
were to be transported to Spain by the
United States government.
THE marble and granite dealers OF
Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas and South Dakota at the con-
vention at Council Bluffs, Ia, organ.
lied the National Marble and Granite
Dealers Association of the United
States, with James A. Graham, of Des
Moines. Ia. president and ]. N. Kill
dew, of York, Neb., secretary and
treasurer.
A RECENT special from Mansfield, O.,
stated that As prisoners in the state re
formatory were strung up by theil
thumbs in dungeons and given only
one scant meal day, having gone or
a strike because their tobacco sup
ply was cut off. There were 25 others
implicated but they returned to work
when informed what the punishment