The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-05-27

Ark, Oy a destructive rain anu HALL
storm on the 23d. The railroads suf
fered from the washouts.
THE opera house, masonic building
and several other places at Texarkana,
Ark, were destroyed by fire on the
23d.
FRANK PHILLIPS, a gardener. was
run over on the 23d by two Missouri Pa
cific trains, a passenger and freight,
near Helms brewery at Kansas City.
Mo. He was badly mutilated and died
eight hours after.
The Red Cross ship. State of Texas,
with Miss Clara Barton, representa-
tive of the National Red Cross society
of America. and a corps of surgeons
and trained nurses, arrived at Port
Tampa, Fla, on the 23d. The vessel
will follow the troops into Cuba
The Friends, at their annual meet.
ing in New York city, in keeping with
their old-time ideas, protested against
the war now going on between the
United States and Spain.
In a collision between a construc
ton train and a special on the Van.
dalia on the 21st near st. Louis four
men were killed and several injured.
PATRICK FORD, of Omaha, Neb., q
survivor of the Maine wreck, now Cd
the Marblehead, who escaped from the
Nebraska penitentiary while under a
15-year sentence, was pardoned on the
21st by Gov. Holcomb.
AS result of the explosion of pow.
der at the Economical Smokeless Pow
der company near Hammond, Ind.
Arthur E. Booth was killed, three
other employees were seriously injured
and the main building totally wrecked.
1t was believed that the explosion was
not an accident, but was caused by
some suspicious characters that had
been seen near the works.
DURING a celebration at Lorain, O.,
of the falsely reported naval victory
in which II of the enemy's ships were
said to have been sunk hose cart ran
over two men causing their deaths.
EDWARD BELLAMY, the author and
humanitarian, died at his home in
Chicopee Falls, Mass, recently, aged 40.
The national convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
at ST. Louis defeated by vote of 2O5
to 900 the proposition to federate with
other railway labor organizations.
ARCHIE SHOEMAKER, a baker, was
jerked from a street car while round
ing a curve at Fifth and Central
streets, Kansas City, Mo-, and died
soon after he was picked up.
WHILE chasing pigeon with some
other boys at st. Louis, little ten-year-
old Willie Have passed a dangling
wire and caught hold of it. There was
Sizing sound and the boy screamed
and spun round and round. Finally
his two companions seized his coat and
pulled him away from the wire, but he
fell down and was dead in few min
utes.
Four children were drowned in Fish.
ing lake, short distance above New
Martinsville, w. Va A party of nine
children attempted to cross the lake
in a John boat" and it capsized with
the above result.
A BIG fire broke out at Dow & Snelrs
wholesale grocery at Toledo, o., and
ragged for six hours on the Goth before
the firemen were able to get it under
control. The building adjoined the
Toledo Blade and the newspaper plant
had a close call. AS it was, the dam
age by water made it impossible to
operate the newspaper plant for a week
or two. The loss on the grocery plant
was estimated at $500, 900, the building
was worth $50, 900; all we'll insured.
A DISPATCH to London from Mon
treal, Can, on the 10Th stated that
Senior Polo Y Bernabe had secured by
cable coal depot near st. Pierre.
Miquelon, the French colony on the
south coast of Newfoundland, at
which the Cadiz squadron will coal
previous to attacking the Atlantic sea.
board of the United States, while the
Cape Verde squadron commanded by
Admiral Cervera draws off the squad.
rons commanded by Admiral Sampson
and Commodore Schley.
A STRICT censorship has been estab-
lished at Tampa, Fla. and absolutely
nothing pertaining to military or
naval movements from that port will
be permitted to be sent out. 1t was
intimated that this censorship would
continue until after the final move
ment of troops to Cuba had taken
place, it being the purpose of the gov.
eminent to keep the Spanish govern
ment in ignorance so far as possible of
our plans for the invasion of Cuba.
NEGOTIATIONS looking to the bring
ing about of peace between the United
States and Spain were said to be under
way, according to Paris dispatch.
and the suggested terms will take
definite form in a short time 1t was
reported that Spain was willing to