The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-09-30
A. DISPATCH from Asbury Park, N. j.,
said that the Corbett- Mccoy fight is OF

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said that the Corbett-McCoy fight is OF
AT meeting of the French caoine,
on the 26th, all the ministers being
present, a decision was taken in favor
of a revision of the trial of Capt Drey.
fus and the documents in the case will
be sent to the court of cessation.
A FREIGHT train on the Mobile &
Ohio railroad was wrecked just below
Hodges park, near Cairo, Ill. and
Ernest Collie, a bridge carpenter, was
kille. and three of the train crew in
iured. The caboose of the train
jumped the track and three cars were
derailed.
ADvfcEs from Shanghai state that
300 missionaries in central China are
greatly stirred up over the marriage OF
Miss johnson, an American missionary,
to a Chinaman whom she had con-
verted.
AT Malone, N. Y, Gordon Williams
was instantly killed by coming in con-
tact with q live wire and three other
men who went to his assistance were
transfixed in deadly grasp, but by
great efforts were pulled of.
ToNAwANDA, n. Y, was struck by
tornado on the Goth and many build
ings were unroofed and barns blown
to pieces Several persons were in
jured, but none fatally.
FANNY DAvENPoBT Mrs. Melbourne
MeDowelD, the famous actress, died at
her summer home, Melbourne hall,
Duxbury, Mass, on the Goth, of en-
largement of the heart, aged 4S years.
A TORNADO struck Merriton, Ont, on
the 26th, killing five persons and in.
juring others. Many buildings were
unroofed, including the public school
A RECEIVER was appointed at New
York for the New England Loan &
Trus. company. It, has a branch at
Kansas City and was large lender OF
money on western mortgages.
THERE were 2.244 immigrants adj
mitted at New York onethe Oath.
LIEUT.. HoBsoN succeeded in floating
the wrecked Spanish warship Maria
Teresa and towing her to guantanamo
bay amid the blowing of whistles and
the firing of salutes.
The champion wingshot, Jim Elliott,
of Kansas City. met his old rival, Fred
Gilbert, of Iowa, in a 100 bird race at
Chicago on the cath for the Dupont
trophy. but the Iowa man successfully
defended the trophy, killing 81 birds
out of 100 to Elliott's o.
FIVE men were drowned in st. Mary's
river near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, on
the 25th by the laundering of the light
err Monitor.
JOHN PERRY, of Kansas City, Mo-.
has given $25, 900 to the boy orphans
home in Westport for the purpose of
erecting a new building on the tract
now occupied by the home. He has
done this in memory of his wife and
four children, who were drowned by
the sinking of the French steamer La
Bourgogne.
THE London Daily .Telegraph's Hong
Kong correspondent on the 25th said
chat although there was no positive
confirmation, all the evidence tended
to the conviction that the emperor OF
China was dead. A private dispatch
said he died on September 81. directly
he issued the edict giving the dowager
the regency.
HEAVY storms recently prevailed IN
the Baltic sea and 100 fishermen were
drowned between Polangen and Libau,
seaport towns of the province of Cour-
land, Russia.
ABOUT 500 applications for pensions
arising out of the war with Spain have
been filed at the pension Office. Com
missioner Evans will create new di-
vision to adjudicate these claims.
The Missouri Pacific passenger train,
which left Kansas City, Mo-, at 9:l5 p
m. on the 23d, was held up by seven
masked men few miles out and the
express car shattered by dynamite and
robbed. 1t was said the bandits got
very little for their trouble.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, the "Daughte,
of the Confederacy." was burieds al
Richmond, Va, on the esd. An i'm
mense number of people followed the
body to the grave.
TWELVE hundred miners quit worl
on the 23d in the Dillon and Long Ruf
mines at Bridgeport, O.. because thk
operators would not concede certain
demands of the men.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the Esd mum.
bered ,s2. according to Bradstreet':
commercial report. against 237 in thu
corresponding week of last year.
The new colored Territorial Agri
cultural and Normal university ha.
been dedicated. It is a handsom,
structure, located at Langston, Ok.
ana will give the negroes of the terri
tory every advantage of higher edu
cation.
ADvICEs from Matanzas stated tina
between January 1 and September 1!