The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-11-18

and shipped them out of the district
GOLD ore has been discovered on q
farm at Augusta, o.
FIRE burned four business blocks to
the ground at Bloomville. O., with a
loss of $75. OOO It was thought to be
Of incendiary origin.
AFTER five months idleness work
was resumed at the window-glass fac
tories at Alexandria, Ind. One thou
sand men will be given employment.
THE business portion of Altheimer,
Ark, was completely destroyed by fire.
were burned, entailing loss of about
$50, 600. No insurance.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw is an avowed
candidate for United States senator
from New York.
A PRAIRIE fire occurred in the Axe
land district, south of the Calamus, in
Nebraska, which destroyed thousands
of acres of winter range and thousands
of tons of hay put up for the stock
owned by the big cattle interests in
that section.
AT Pennington, Ia, the big horse
barn of There & Haglestange was
burned. Forty horses were in the
barn, but only three persisted. Hagle-
STANCE fell from the hayloft, breaking
antern, causing the fire.
BY a cavern at a gravel pit in Lafay-
cite. Ind, two men were killed and
two seriously injured.
THREE persons were burned to death
in a fire at Perry. Mich.
The Eighth cavalry sailed from Sa-
vannah, Ca, for Cuba on the 18th.
A SHOOTING ARRAY occurred in the
Trilby mine at Prescott, Ariz., in
which superintendent Murphy was
mortally wounded, a man named
Bruner killed and two others wounded.
The trouble was over boundary lines
of claims.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among prom
inent army officers who took part in
the recent war with Spain to have
President Mckinley appoint a strictly
military board to make history rec
ord of the war for the war depart ment
and to discover any mistakes made, so
that they can be prevented in the fu-
ture.
INDICATIONS strongly pointed on the
18th to settlement between the
striking miners and the Virden Qll.)
Coal company. Edward Cahill, presi-
dent of the miners union. left for
Chicago in response to a telegram from
T. c. Loucks, president of the coal
company.
A ST. LOUIS firm secured a govern
ment contract for 12, OO0 hospital tents.
THE big whaleback barge No. !O4,
| owned by the American Steel Barge
company, parted her tow line in Cleve-
land CO., harbor during gale and at
once drifted against the west break
water. All attempts to get a line to
her from the tugs were in vain and,
after pounding against the breakwater
for several hours. she finally went to
the bottom. Six men, composing the
| crew of the barge, were rescued by the
life-saving crew with much difficulty.
THIRTEEN murderers of American
missionaries were recently hanged at
Kwellu, Africa.
AN overturned kettle of grease
caught fire in the Great Western tin
plate company's mill at Joliet, Ill on
the 10th and owing to the hurricane
blowing the plant was in ashes in 80
minutes. The mill employed 275
skilled workmen. Loss, $3.50, 900; in
surance, $47. 600.
AT Rehobeth, s. c., five negroes laid
dead on the 10th along the roadside,
another was killed the previous day
and four others were thought to be
dead in the woods. One white man
was buried. three others were diving
and several more were wounded. 1t
was caused by trouble on election day
in which two white men were killed.
THE worlds ten-shot pistol record
was broken in Philadelphia on the 9th
by c. II. Taylor, of the Massachusetts,
Rifle association. He made the limit
score of 100 and placed ten consecutive
shots within 80 inches of the BULBS
eye at 5219 yards. The previous rec
ord, which has stood since 1888, was 80,
by E. J.. Darlington, of Wilmington.
Del.
COMPARATIVE quiet reigned at Will
mington, N. C.. on the 18th, but a move
ment was begun by the new white
municipal officers to rid the town of
turbulent negro leaders and several
were taken to the trains and sen It away
| with instructions not to return.
A COMPLIMENTARY banquet to Gen.
Miles was given at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, New York, on the night of the
18th. Leading politicians, military.
| naval and business men were present
to the number of TOO. Gen. Miles spoke
of the recent war with Spain.
ATTAIN on the Lehigh Valley road
crashed into another train going the