The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-05-05


cendiaries,and burned. Thirty hands
were thrown out of employment.
FRED E. GoTsCH, a matchmaker, was
run over. and killed by. westbound
Missouri Pacific train at Valley park
near st. Louis. He jumped off before
the train stopped and his feet became
tangled in the steps of the platform,
throwing him under the train.
WILLIAM SEES, a negro, was lynched
at Osceola, Ark, for barn burning.
Four inches of snow fell at Salt Lake
City on the 1st.
THE house republican caucus COM
mittee, which met at Atlantic City, n.
j., to agree upon plan for monetary
reform, reached a unanimous agree
ment on the LIST and is ready to meet
the senate republican financial com
mittee to submit its views to joint
conference. Until such meeting its
views will not be made pu bic.
THE officials at New York were kept
busy in handling the horde of immi-
grants which arrived there on the Goth.
They numbered 4, ZOO.
The troubles between the Russian
government and the students have be-
come so acute that all the universities
in Russia have been closed and at the
present moment no less than $4,000
young men between the ages of 90 and
30 are cast adrift on the streets with
out occupation and they constitute a
grave danger to the throne.
A PRAIRIE fire swept over the north
ern tier of counties in Nebraska de-
stroying everything in it's path. A
great many cattle were burned and
Mrs. Livingstone and her son lost their
lives near Coleridge.
AT Mauch Chunk, Pa, by the prema-
ture discharge of a cannon used in the
celebration of Dewey day three per-
sons were badly injured. The cannon
was heavily loaded with powder and
stones.
AN earthquake shock was felt at
Louisville, KY, on the Goth.
Four employees of the Dupont powder
works near Woodbury., N. j., were
killed by an explosion the other after
noon. They were experimenting with
a torpedo when it exploded and demol-
ished the building.
THERE were 327 deaths in Kansas
City, Mo-, during April, SO being caused
by pneumonia and SO by meningitis, a
heavy increase over the usual mortu-
airy rate.
The treasury returns show the total
receipts for the month of April to be
41,611, 1868, while the expenditures were
$45, 700, 600, leaving a deficit for the
month of S4,Oss, 437. The expenditures
fa,. !, o,%roo %ho
neighborhood of $4,000, 900. If the
payment for the Spanish check of $780,
100000 for the Philippine islands should
be added to the expenditures for the
month the deficit would reach $24,-
0SS, 437.
E DR.. EMIL PREEToRIUs, editor of the
ST. Louis Westliche Post, stated on the
oSth that the guns of the German
American press are to be Systematically
directed against the governments pol
icy of expansion and will fight imperi-
alism, militarism and jingoism in the
republican party. If the demands of
the COMMUNICATIONS are not respect
ed they will form new political party.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sent mes
sage from Philadelphia, where he was
stopping on the 2Sth, to Gen. Otis in
Manila, .congratulating him on the
and the proposal by the insurgents for
suspension of hostilities pending ne
gotiations for the termination of the
war.
AN equestrian statue of Gen. Grant
was unveiled with appropriate cere-
monies at Philadelphia on the 9th by
Miss Rosemary Sartoris, granddaughter
of the dead hero, in the presence of
President Mckinley, members of his
cabinet, representatives of foreign
governments and a large gathering of
distinguished citizens and guests of
honor, including Mrs. Grant, widow of
the general.
MINISTERS from different sections of
the country were at St. Louis on the
27th attending the national triennial
convention of the German Evangelical
Lutheran synod which met for a ten
gates present, with IS guests, the latter
being presidents of colleges of the synod
and church dignitaries.
A TORNADO struck Kirksville, Mo-, at
GEO p. m. on the 27th and a path quar-
ter of mile wide was swept through
the eastern portion of the city. Two
hundred buildings were leveled to the
ground and up to the 2sth so dead
bodies had been taken from the ruins It
was confidently expected that the num-
Der of people killed would exceed 40
Fire also broke out in a dozen places,
but people were too busy in the work
IF rescue to attend to the confagra-