The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-10-14

NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR HoBsoN has
abandoned his. attempt to save the
Spanish battleship Vizcaya at Santl-
ago.
GEN. BLANco has given orders that
all officers who have been in Cuba
more than five years must be ready to
embark on October 90. It was the
generals intention to sail on that day,
as he did not wish to be the one to sur
render the Spanish flag.
THE British steamer Weehawken, oil
laden, was burned in the Delaware
river, about 20 miles below Philadel-
phia, on the 10th. The Weehawken
cleared from Philadelphia for Venice
with a cargo of over 1000, 900 gallons
of oil The vessel was a total loss.
The crew escaped from the burning
vessel :
1T was estimated that the Illinois
Central railroad was losing $4,000
day on it's southern business as re-
suit of the stringent yellow fever
quarantine. Other railroads running
into New Orleans were hampered
much the same way.
A MOST heinous crime was committed
at La Tour. a station on the Iron
Mountain railroad. eight miles north
west of Helena, Ark. Frank Dubarry,
a prominent planter, was assassinated
in his own home by a trusted negro
employee, Charley Mum, for the pur-
pose of robbery. and the murderer,
after securing all the money about the
house, deliberately poured coal oil
over his victims body and about the
house and set fire to it to- cover his
crime. The murderer was landed in
Jail.
The total yield of this seasons pecan
crop in Texas was estimated at 5, O00,-
900 bushels.
DR.. NANCY GUILFORD, the midwife,
who is under arrest at London on the
charge of manslaughter in connection
with the death of Emma Gill at Bridge
port, Conn.,, was remanded for week
at the police courteon the 10th. Coun-
sell for the prisoner said his client did
not dispute her identity with the Mrs.
Guilford who is wanted by the Con-
necticut police.
THE other night Mckinney, Tex,
was thrown into frenzy of excite
ment by the announcement that the
seven prisoners confined in the county
Jail had escaped. Two of the prison
ers were charged with murder and the
others with minor offenses.
A PoTEAU, 1. T., dispatch said that
a deal was on foot by which all coal
lands in the territory will be leased
and held indefinitely until the COM
pany was ready to work the coal or
sell its leases. John D. Rockefeller
was to furnish the money, the dispatch
said.
MAL1EToA, king of Samoa, is dead of
typhoid fever.
The Coffee county courthouse was
burned to the ground at Willacoochee,
Ga, the other night. The charge was
made that the work was that of incen-
diary populists, whose motive was to
destroy the ballots deposited in the
building and bring on another cleo
ton, as they had recently been de-
feated by the democrats and were, in
consequence, bitter against them.
SEVENTEEN men killed and 81 casual
ties, all told, was the loss suffered by
the United States navy during the
recent war, according to the figures
just compiled at the navy department..
GEORGE d. SAXToN, a brother of
President McKinley's wife, was shot
dead on the street at Canton, O., on
the 18th and Mrs. Anna C. George was
placed under arrest on suspicion of the
murder. The murdered man had been
sued by the woman's husband for
alternating her affections and there
had been other unpleasantnes be-
tween SaXton and the woman.
GEN. GARCIA has started on his mis-
sion through Santiago province, act
ing as an agent of the American gov
eminent, to use his influence to induce
the peaceful disarming of the Cuban
soldiers and their return to civil life
The American officials prophesy good
results from his negotiations, believ-
ing that his efforts will be successful
in Kidding his province of the large
number of insurgent bands. who are
living on the country in a condition of
outlawry.
n. Il. WEATHERBY, commodore of the
Troy Yacht club, and three compan-
ions, Stephen S. Mallory. Mrs. William
]. Breslin and Miss Elizabeth Savage,
were drowned by the capsizing of a
yacht in the Hudson river, three miles
north of Troy, N. Y. the other night.
The accident was due to the swift cur
rent in the river.
In political and administrative cir
cles in Berlin the proba bility of war
between Germany and the United
States was being talked of. The trou-
BILE was in connection with the Philip
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