The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-26
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London news agent said that while q
regiment was crossing pontoon
bridge over the river Maros, near Hoad,
the bridge collapsed. Three hundred
men were immersed, and it was feared
that so were drowned.
In the work of tearing out the tun-
mel of the CHARTERS division of the
Panhandle railroad at Carnegie, Pa,
an unexpected amount of earth and
rock was loosened by an explosion and
seven men lost their lives.
THERE was report at Dayton, O.,
on the 22d that John r. Mclean would
succeed Russell A. Alger as secretary
of war in McKinley's cabinet
A GRAND war concert for the first
three nights will be one of the unu-
sual features of the national G. A. r.
encampment at Cincinnati on Sept
to 10.
THE national conference on the for
eign policy of the United States at
Saratoga, n. Y, after listening for
some days to speeches for and against
expansion, adopted resolutions against
expansion, stating that, as soon as the
islands surrendered to us by Spain
could be trusted to govern themselves
they should be allowed to do so, the
United States retaining only necessary
naval stations.
HUNDREDS of thousands of people
along the banks of the Hudson river
at New York and thousands of river
craft gave an enthusiastic welcome to
Admiral SIMPSONS feet on the Goth.
All along the line, from Castle Will
liam, Governors island. where the
first salute was fred. to Grants tomb.
which marked the beginning of the
return of the squadron, where a ma
tional salute of 81 guns was fired, the
same enthusiastic welcome was &C
corded the returned naval heroes The
parade of the vessels occupied two
hours and 35 minutes.
ADDIE CHRISTENSEN, balloon per-
former, was killed at Berger Beach, n.
Y, by the parachute failing to open.
JOHN and Wiley Mattox, brothers,
were overcome by gas while digging a
well at Chocolocco, Ala, and died.
THE wood workers strike, which has
been in progress at Oshkosh, Wis, for
three months, was practically ended
on the 18th, the manufacturers prom
ising a slight advance in wages.
MEAN t9AeFladH, Ark, Hlop LOOK
Amos Nicely, negro rapist, from the
officers and shot him, killing him in
stantly.
A CLoUDBURsT up Sawmill run, Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the 9th caused a tidal
wave in that stream, endangering the
lives of dozen persons. Five chill
| dren were reported missing and were
supposed to have been drowned. The
great body of water did much damage.
GEN. WOOD has ordered the sale of
whisky. beer and wines stopped every
where in Santiago. He provided Sc
| we're penalties for infractions of the
| rule. Restaurant keepers were greatly
depressedsby the order which confined
their sale of drinks to coffee and lem
onade.
ADvICEs from Skalat. in Galicia, Aus
tria, reported that 800 houses were
| destroyed and 1880 persons made
homeless by fire there.
STAR POINTER made an effort on the
18th at Joliet. ILL.,, to lower the worlds
| and his own record. A fast track IA
| vored him. but cool breeze on the
back stretch was a handicap and made
the time. 1898, a truly marvellous per-
Torrance. He passed the quarter in
| 304 seconds and the half in 1:OO1 At
the three-quarters the watches clicked
| 1:29I and the great bay came under
the wire in 1:591a.
The barn of Peter Fay, ten miles
north Of Independence, Ia. was struck
by lightning the other night. Five
sons, the oldest being 16, were Sleep
ing in the NOW and were burned to
| death.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
filed for the Oklahoma Central railway
company, with capital stock of $15,-
900, 900. The road will run from Okla
homa City northwest through Cana
dian Kingfsher, Blaine, D and Woods
| counties.
| A SENSATION was created in the Third
Missouri camp at Thoroughfare Gap,
| Va, when the officers discovered that
nearly every man in the regiment had
signed petition to have the regiment
mustered out The petition stated
that the men enlisted to fight, not for
garrison duty, that the war was over
and that their families needed them at
home.
Two American ships, which sailed
from the Pacific coast early in the
spring, arrived at New York on the
18th, having been all the intervening
time on the sea, without being re-
ported and oblivious to the fact of the
war waged between this country and
Spain, making their capture as prizes
of war possible. The war began and