The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-12
TIE board of survey appoined to re-

THE board of survey appoined to re-
port upon the circumstances attending
the informal issuing at San Francisco
of blankets, shoes and clothing by
First Lieutenant L. c. Smith, regimen
tai ouartermaster of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment. reported that Lieut..
Smith should be held responsible for
the shortage and recommended that he
make good the value of the lost sup
plies, which is approximately $500.
CAPT. SIGsBEE, who commanded the
battleship Maine, which was blown
up insHavana harbor, has been placed
in command of the battleship Texas
BRIG. GEN. JOHN S. POLAND died at
Asheville. N. c.. of typhoid fever. aged
81. He was lieutenant at the battle
of Bull Run in 1851 and for gallant
services at Antietam and other battles
of the civil war was made brevet lieu
tenant colonel May IA, 1898, he was
appointed brigadier general.
FIRE destroyed the best portion OF
Bismarck. N. d., on the evening of the
Sth, licking up hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of property.
THERE were eight violent deaths and
one fatally injured in Chicago on the
sth.
INFORMATION was received at San
Francisco that II persons had persisted
in Alaska in party calling themselves
the Columbia Exploring company.
GEORGE WELLS. colored, was fatally
stabbed in the neck by William Grey,
also colored, during quarrel at st.
Louis over the misrepresentation by
Grey of a few cents belonging to
Wells.
n. B. SCOTT, commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, stated that the revenue
from the war tax appropriated ST.
600, 900 daily, but that there would be
no effort made to have the war reve-
nue. law repealed at the coming ses-
sion of congress, even if the war should
be over, as a bigger naval force and
larger standing army necessitated the
expenditure of millions more than
formerly by the government
Col. JAMES o. BROADHEAD, minister
to Switzerland under President Cleve-
land, died at St. Louis. At the break
ing out of the civil war he did much
to preserve Missouri to the union and
in the summer of 1861 he was appoint
ed provost marshal of that depart
ment.
CAPT. GEN. MACIAs, the Spanish COM
mander at San Juan, Porto Rico has
been instructed by the Madrid govern
ment not to force resistance to the ut
most, but to obtain terms like those
got by Gen. Toral at Santiago de
Cuba, or better, so as to save Spanish
honor as much as possible.
RIoTING was resumed by the striking
wood workers at Oshkosh, Wis, on the
5th on account of the sash and door
men trying to run their plants with
non-union labor. The strikers dubbed
and stoned the workmen trying to
reach the Morgan mill. Policemen
were dispatched to the scene and
fight occurred. The street was finally
cleared at the expense of many broken
heads and a score of arrests, including
nine of the women ringleaders.
The Americans have taken peaceable
possession of the eastern portion of the
island of Porto Rico. There seemed to
have been serious mistake as to the
rendezvous of the transports, for no
two ships got to the same place. Capt
Gen. Macias, the Spanish commander
at San Juan, has issued proclamation
and will probably resist to the utmost
Gen. Miles has changed his campaign
plans on account of receiving Informal
ton that the military road from Ponce
to San Juan has been mined by the
enemy.
ADvICEs have been received at Aus
tin, Tex, from number of points on
the Rio Grande border stating that
thousands of Mexicans were crossing
into Texas with their families with
the view of making that state their
Mexicans was caused by the law which
recently went into effect in Mexico,
compelling all ble-bodied citizens be-
tween the ages of 10 and 40 years to
serve five years in the army.
A TREMENDOUS sensation has oc-
CURED in the Sixth Massachusetts, reg
iment, which is in Gen. Garrettson's
brigade at Porto Rico. The friction
between the line officers and the Off
GERS of the brigade reached its climax
when Col. Woodward, Lieut.. Col Chat
fin, Maj. Taylor, Chaplain Dousseault
and Capt Goodell. of company K, re-
signed their commissions. By military
law to resign in face of the enemy
means court-martiaL
HARRY MCKEE was drowned while
bathing in Cedar river, near Washing
ton. Ia
WHEN the transport Breakwater re.
turned to New York from Santiapo the