The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-09-02

been settled Col Funston mas re-
ceiyed a telegram from Adjt Gen. Cor
bin to the effect that Gov. Leedy had
full power to appoint whomsoever he
pleased as officers of his regiment
THREE miles east of Alva, Ok. there
was a collision between westbound
train and the eastbound passenger on
the Panhandle branch of the Santa t'e.
Eighteen or 90 people were injured, but
none seriously. Both engines were
badly damaged and the mail cars in
jured some.
OWING to the failure of the harvests
in seven districts of the government OF
Kazan and in the provinces of Sa-
maria, Saratof, Simbirik, Viatka and
almost worthless, the government is
adopting measures to relieve the suf-
ferers. The peasants are denudlng
their cottages of thatches in order to
feed their stock. In spite of all that
can be done cattle and horses are dying
in great numbers and the peasants are
exhausted from lack of food.
THE car of Russia has caused to be
handed to the foreign diplomats at st.
Petersburg note proposing an inter-
national conference of all nations for
the reduction of excessive ornaments
and to inaugurate an era OF universal
peace. The note is likely to produce
profound impression.
The court-martial in the case of DIR.
Duncan, of the Twenty-second Kansas
regiment, found him guilty of desc
Grating the grave of confederate Off
Ger at the Bull Run battlefield in Vir-
ginia and he was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment.
THE First and Fifth Missouri regi-
ments at Chickamauga, Ga, and the
Third Missouri, at Middletown, Pa,
have been ordered to Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo-, to be mustered out.
IT was reported that Gen. Merritt
would leave Manila on the 3Oth and
sail for Paris to attend the peace con-
ference and give his views about the
Philippine islands
Six persons were badly injured by
an explosion of fireworks in the manu-
featuring plant of George w. Potter
at Minneapolis, MINI.
A NINE-HoUR workday was the sub
ject of warm debate by the United
Typothetae of America, in session at
Milwaukee, and resolution was
passed that it was deemed impractical
BILE at the present time to recommend
any change in the hours which consti-
tute days work.
THE supreme lodge of Knights of
Pythias, at the session on the Goth at
Indianapolis, Ind, elected Thomas G.
Sample, of Allegheny, Pa, supreme
NJ II Eofh ~
Wisconsin, supreme vice chancellor
AN epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out among the troopers of the
First Illinois cavalry who arrived at
Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, from Chickamauga.
There were over 80 cases, many of
them very serious. The physicians
laid the blame on the unsanitary con-
ditions at Chickamauga.
A DISPATCH from Manila said that
Gen. Aguinaldo, interviewed at Bacoor,
declared that he was anxious to sup
port the authority of the United States
in the islands and that he had per-
suaded the other rebel leaders to &C.
cept his views. 1t was his desire that
the insurgent army be disbanded and
returned to the provinces.
BATTERY A, Missouri light artillery,
now in Porto Rico, has been ordered
mustered out of the service.
In accordance with the determine
ton of the administration, the Comal
sailed from Tampa to Havana on the
25th with 1000, 900 rations for distribu-
ton to the starving people of Cuba.
Supplies will be furnished to other
provinces in the island under the
jurisdiction of officers of the army as
emergency may demand.
A SEVERE windstorm the other night
levelled ten tobacco barns in Suffield,
Conn.,, blew down many trees and
crippled electric lights.
OVER 800 delegates attended the
United Typothetae convent ton at Mil
waukee.
The Twenty-second Kansas and the
Fourth and Fifth Missouri are among
the infantry regiments that are slated
to be mustered out
Ice CREAM prepared with lemon ex-
tract caused the death of three per
sons, and q score of others were sick
and more fatalities were expected
They constituted nearly all the sum.
mer guests at Arthur Jones' cottage a,
Greenfield, N. Y, and the proprietor's
parents and family. A doctor was
summoned and he diagnosed the case.
as ptomaine poisoning. He believed
that six more deaths would occur.
DENNIS FLYNN was again nominated
for delegate to congress by the repub
lican convention at Ell Reno, Ok, OF
the Oath