The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-05-13

clally proclaimed may IA puOllc mol
iday in honor of the victory of Adm.
George Dewey, A mammoth celebra-
ton will take place at Forest park.
A SPECIAL to the San Francisco Ex-
aminer from Victoria. b. c., stated
that while throng of Klondikers,
hauling their laden sleds, were cross
ing a stream near Crater lake the ice
gave way and over score were car
'ried to death beneath the rivers frozen
coating.
THE Spanish fishing smacks Santiago
Apostal and the Fernandilo, and the
Spanish schooner Severe, captured by
were taken to Key West, Fla, on the
9Th.
The steamer Gussie, chartered by
the government, left Tampa, Fla, on
the 10th for some point in Cuba, loaded
with munitions of war and supplies
for the Cuban insurgents. company
of United States troops accompanied
the expedition.
IT was reported that a tornado had
recently devastated the country be-
tween Hagar and Clifton, Ok, destroy.
ing ten houses, badly wrecking as
many more and seriously injuring six
people.
The United States gunboat Vicks-
burg and the Morrill, were fired on by
Havana batteries on the 18th while
chasing a schooner. The Vicksburg
was hit in the rigging and the Morrill,
in the pilot house, but no one was in
jured. The prize escaped.
Four men found a can of nitro-glyc-
crime near the old powder mills out
side of Denver. Col. One man dropped
a stone on it and caused an explosion.
Fritz Smetzger was blown to atoms
and the other three men were badly
injured.
THE first congress of Cuba, elected
under the autonomist form of govern
ment. was formally opened at Havana
on the 5th by Capt. Gen. Blanco. There
was an imposing military display and
the captain general made speech, in
the course of which he said that if the
declarations of the United States had
been sincere its guns to-day ought to
be saluting the first Cuban parliament
instead of threatening the lives of it's
members.
The 5th inst was one of the most
exciting days ever known in the his
tory of the wheat market. May wheat
closed in Chicago at SIS Cash wheat
No. 2 soft advanced Is cents on the
Kansas City market, There was an
advance of seven cents in Liverpool
and an advance in every market in
continental Europe. The advance was
not due to the manipulations of spec
ulators, but because the supply in
many European countries had been
exhausted.
Two shoe factories at Cincinnati, be-
longing to Wolf Brothers and the
Manss company, were burned out by a
mysterious fire. Tie loss on stock by
each firm was about $50, 900. The dam
age to the building was $4,000 all
fully covered by insurance.
Two Spanish fishing schooners, the
Oriente and the Antonio Suarez, were
towed to Key West, Fla, on the 9th as
prizes, having been captured off Ha-
vana by United States gunboats.
THE powder magazines at Indian
head, Nd, the governments gun-test-
ing grounds on the Potomac river,
narrowly escaped destruction by the
proximity of fire started, it was be-
ieved, by Spanish spies in a large pile
of wood on the river front. For hours
thousands of cords of wood were
ablaze, but officers and men finally
subdued the fire.
A KEY WEST special to the New York
Evening Post dated on the 5th said that
the government tug Leyden success
fully landed scouts and ammunition in
Cuba for the insurgents under the guns
of the gunboat Wilmington. The Span
ish cavalry were repulsed three times.
GERMANY appealed to England to
join in a collective note to Spain urg-
ing the Spanish government to sue for
peace. The appeal stated that
whether England agreed or not it was
determined by Germany, Russia and
Austria to join in such a note.
ARMoUR's glue factory at Chicago
was in danger of being burned on the
4th. The flames were checked with
the destruction of the felt works and
curled hair building, entailing a loss
of probably $500 A panic among
the employees of the felt works result
ed in dozen persons jumping out of
the second-story windows. some being
badly bruised.
Gov. BLACK authorized the aqueduct
commissioners of New York to appoint
100 special deputies to guard the Croton
aqueduct so as to prevent any attempts
that might be made by Spanish spies
to blow it up and thereby cripple the
water supply of New York. The com.
missioners told the governor that
rumors were current that it was the
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