The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-05

In a quarrel at Kansas City, Mo-,
over a stove transaction, involving 81.
John Falk, an employee of the Metro
politan Cable company, was struck
with pick and killed by Capt w. b.
Reed. a secondhand dealer at $50 East
Eighteenth street.
NEAR Scottsville, Ala. on the new
Blocton branch of the Mobile & Ohio
railroad, car load of lumber tumbled
down while freight train was in mo-
ton and wrecked several cars Con-
ductor B. J. Tinsley and Brakeman
William Washington were caught I'M
der the falling lumber and crushed to
death.
EPHRAIM w. SELLS, the elder of the
Sells brothers. well-known circus men,
died at Columbus, O., on the 1st of
Bright's disease.
MARTIN THoRNE was put to death in
the prison at Sing Sing, N. Y, on the
LIST for the murder of William Gulden-
suppe.
A FREIGHT wreck in which two men
were killed and five injured, three per-
haps fatally, occurred on the Central
road at Fort Mcpherson. Ga, on the
1st- A train bearing soldiers was run
into. Both engines and trains were
badly damaged, cars being piled on
top of one another.
THE American troops have reached
Coamo, 16 miles northeast of Ponce,
Porto Rico, on the road to San Juan.
Juan Diaz has been occupied and the
American flag raised over the city.
The Spanish power was reported as
rapidly crumbIing in the island, al
though resistance was expected to be
made at San Juan.
CHIEF MAYEs, of the Cherozees, has
issued a proclamation at Wagner. 1.
T., calling an extra session of the
Cherokee national council August 3, to
consider several important matters
brought up by the passage of the Cur
tbs bill by congress.
THE director of music at the Omaha
exhibition is arranging the details of
the choral congress, which is exciting
great interest among the choral soci-
cites of transmissouri cities. The plan
contemplates the gathering together
of the singing societies, which will be
assigned separately to numbers on the
programme and will also be massed on
the closing day for grand chorus.
ACCORDING to Madrid dispatch on
the 1st Gen. Merritt and Admiral
Dewey had demanded the uncondi-
tional surrender of Manila, but Capt.
Gen. August, the Spanish commander
in the Philippines, had refused to com.
ply with the demand and would resist
to the utmost.
GUESTS of the Berwyn hotel, Chicago,
were reused early on the 1st to find the
building on fire. So rapidly did the
blaze spread that men and women
found themselves cut off from escape
by the stairs. Three lives were lost
and a number of people were MANNED
and bruised by jumping from high
windows to the pavement.
A DRAW was the decision rendered at
the Greater New York Athletic club,
Coney. island, after Tommy White, of
Chicago, and Solly Smith. of Los An
geles, had fought 25 rounds to decide
the featherweight championship of the
world.
The farm home of John Gramble,
near Tonkawa, Ok, was burned. Two
little children persisted in the flames
and third was fatally burned.
PRINCE BISMARCK, ex-chancellor of
the German empire, died at his home
at Friedrichsruhe, Germany, on the
night of the 3Oth. He was born April
1, 1915.
Ten young people were seriously in
jured by the overturning of tally-ho
at the foot of Ogden avenue viaduct,
Chicago, on the 31st. The horses be-
came manageable and the vehicle
was smashed to pieces.
GEN. KING informed Col. Funston
that the Twentieth Kansas would leave
Camp Merritt at San Francisco and
sail on August for Manila.
REPORTS reached Key West, Fla.
that Nuevitas, on the north coast of
the province of Puerto Principe, Cuba.
was bonn barded by the blockading
squadron, evacuated by the Spanish
and subsequently burned.
TwENTY-NINE fresh cases of typhoid
fever were reported at Camp Alger.
Va, on the 30th.
GIBARA, the only city Of any impor
lance remaining under the Spaniards
in the province of Santiago was evacu-
ated by the troops and surrendered to
euc AiueTlcdu navy on Cne uenduO OIL
the gunboat Nashville.
SENIOR R. D. DIAZ DE CoRTINA, the
American representative of Don Carlos
at New York. received a letter from
his chief stating that, Immediately
after treaty of peace between Spain
and the United States is signed, Don
Carlos will proclaim himself king of
Spain and take active steps to secure