The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-10-21

| fng Omaha. Neb., have jointly agreed
| to reduce fares for exposition travel
to one-half cent q mile within a ra-
dius of 200 miles, beginning October
26 and continuing to the S1st.
The horse show opens at ST. Louis
on the 3ist
AT Chicago on the 18th the inclem.
emit weather caused the postponement
of the bicycle parade. President Nc
Kinley was escorted to the University
| of Chicago by cadets from the Culver
| military academy and the degree of
LII. d. was conferred upon him. Be.
fore the ceremonies took place Mr. Nc
Kinley mounted a stand with an um-
brella and reviewed long line of stu
dents. An informal reception was
given afterwards at the armory.
THE wind and rain at Chicago on the
18th played havoc with the peace jubi-
lee arches and decorations, six of the
former being blown down and street
car traffic blocked for hours by the
debris.
AN express train going mile min
ute came into collision with freight
train that was switching at Barnet
junction, IL miles north of London,
and there was bad wreck. Nine dead
and Is persons seriously injured were
recovered and there were others under
the debris.
Snow fell on the nth in Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
ALL the vessels arriving at St Johns,
N. F., on the Eth reported hurricanes
in the Atlantic and many ships were
badly battered by the waves.
AN explosion of gas started bad
fire in the coal company's shaft at
Pana, Ill
THREE steamers collided at Port
Huron, Mich, and one was sunk and
another was badly injured. The third
passed on and her injuries were not
known.
THEODORE Cox. a member of the New
York stock exchange, offered to bet
$4,000 even money that Roosevelt
would be elected governor of New
York. The news reached the demo-
cratic headquarters and in q short
time the bet was taken by the demo-
Gratis and the preliminaries settled
and the money put up.
A DISPATCH from Dominion City,
Can, stated that a Galician man and
his four children were found dead in a
house. The mans head was nearly
severed from his body by an ak and
the four children were more or less
mutilated. The wife of the man was
missing and was thought to have COM
mitted the crime.
A RAILWAY mail robbery occurred on
the night of the 18th near Alliance,
nj
known, but was said to he considera-
BILE. Two letter pouches were cut open
and all the registered matter and val
liable packages were taken.
The grand jury of Kansas City, Mo-,
has voted to indict Jesse James, Jr..
William w. Lowe, Andy Ryan, Charles
Polk. Caleb Stone and the mysterious
evans" for the robbery of the Mis-
souri, Pacific train near Kansas City
on the night of September %.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is
raging at Whipple Barracks, Ariz.
A STATEMENT issued by the Allan tic
Transport company on the 10th re-
garding the fate of those on board the
Mohegan, which was wrecked on the
l4th off the Lizard on the south coast
of England, indicated that 81 were
rescued and los persons persisted.
The Twentieth Kansas at San Fran.
cisco has been ordered to get ready to
60 to Manila.
SEVEN barges containing nearly II,
600, 900 pounds of napht tina were burned
at Astrakhan, Russia Three
persons lost their lives during the con-
aagration and several others were in
jured.
MURDERER JOHN MILLER, the bunch. |
back, was hanged at San Quentin,
CAL, on the 14th. He was nearly de. |
capitated by the rope.
The police at Alexandria, Egypt,
arrested nine Italian anarchists who !
had plotted to assassinate the emperor
OF Germany on his way to Jerusalem.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY was the guest
Of ST. Louis on the 18th. From the
time of his arrival until he left the
city he was accorded an almost con-
tinuous ovation. He reviewed the pa
rade and addressed a large crowd at
the Merchants exchange and drove
through the city. At night he spoke
at the Coliseum and left afterwards
for Terre Haute, Ind.
WHILE kicking about some dirt at the
;ity dump. at Leadville, Col. Frank
Burkhart unearthed cave, in which
ne found some very rich ore exposed.
The officers were at once notified, and +
,pon investigation found q robber
,ache, from which they extracted so
'acks of gold and silver ore, evidently
stolen from different mines It nroved