The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-02-24

THOMAS ONEIL, butcher employed
| at Swift's packing house in St Joseph.
Mo-, was literally cut to pieces by his
! two younger brothers, Edward and
Jack. They had a dispute over money
matters. when Edward and Jack at
tackled Thomas with butcher knives
The dead man was stabbed twice in
the heart Both brothers were ar
rested.
MORTALITY in Havana and Santiago
is increasing rapidly, it is reported.
PHILIP d. ARMOUR has given $3.50, 0Ot
more to the endowment fund of the
Armour institute of Chicago. This
makes his total gift to the institute
So, $50. 900.
A SPECIAL from South McAlester, L
T., on the Goth stated that smallpox
was spreading in the Creek nation and
quite q number of persons were dying
from the disease. Nearly all of the
railroad towns had quarantine
against anything coming or going &c
the infected district
In the six-day bicycle race at San
Francisco, which ended on the 10Th.
the score was: Miller, 2,192 miles;
Aaronson. ALAG; Fredericks, 2,O9O;
Hale, 2,062; Gimm, 1900; Nawn, 2,0l2:
Alberts, 1.s2s Barnaby. !, 1872; Pilking.
ton, !, 729; Lawson, 1,635; Julius, 1901;
Ashinger, 1900.
DAMAGE to the extent of 500, 900 was
done by a fire on the Goth in the build.
ings on Broadway, New York. occu
pied by the spool silk manufacturing
firm of Bedding Bros & Co., the Postal
Telegraph company and others.
A TREMENDOUS snowslide came down
the side of Yellow noun tain, near
Ophir, Col, on the 10th and killed one
man and practically destroyed the
Caribou concentrating plant
MRS. CHARLES FAHRENKAMP, h err two
children and an unknown woman were
found dead in the formers home at
Philadelphia They were asphyxiated
by the gas being turned on.
The United States army transport
Sheridan pulled out from New York
on the 10Th for Manila, by way of the
Suez canal. having nearly 2, 900 regula,
soldiers on board.
The contract for the construction
of an irrigation canal has been let II
will be 30 miles long and will peue.
trate the country that is tributary to
Albuquerque, N. M. The canal will
receive its water from the Rio Grande
and will open up for cultivation thou.
sands of acres that are now an arid
waste.
GoNzALO DE QUEsADA arrived at New
York from Cuba, whittier he went a
few weeks ago. He spoke enthusiast
tically of the present condition of the
island.
sonville, Fla. from all sections of the
orange belt stated that the cold snar
did not do near SO much damage as al
first reported.
WHILE dozen firemen were at work
on the 18th in the ruins of the store OF
the Emerson Shoe company at Phila-
delphia, which was burned the pre-
vious night, a mass of iron and stone
crashed down from the upper floors,
burying the men beneath it Three
OF the fremen were killed and five
others were injured.
A FIRE started in the cloak and suit
department of Joachim & Finkelstein,
at New York, and spread to several
other concerns, doing damage esti.
mated at $4,000.
ALL the surviving captains of the
Spanish warships destroyed in the
naval battles off Santiago de Cuba and
in Manila bay by the American fleets
will be court-martialed.
AN express train crashed into an.
other train standing at station near
Brussels and 80 persons were killed
outright and so injured. The COLI.
sion was owing to a fog and was
terrific and several cars were smashed
to pieces.
SENIOR AGoNCILLo, the Filipino com.
missioner, in an interview at Mont.
real, Can, said there would be no let
up in the efforts of the Filipinos to
force the Americans from their coun.
try. He said he was not at all surprised
that Iloilo had fallen, as the Ameri.
cans had the advantage of a fleet.
''But wait till they get in the int.
rior," he said, ''and then they will
have more than their work cut out"
CRACKsMEN gained an entrance in to
the vault of the Oberlin CO., Banking
company by shattering the walls with
powder. but did not secure any money,
as they failed to get into the big safe,
evidently from lack of time.
The Arkansas state board of health
is active in the appointment of sani.
tary boards in various parts of the
state where smallpox is prevalent
hoping thereby to do much toward the
effective stamping out of the disease.
THE national convention of the
Woodmen of the World convened at