The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-07-28

VINO were leaning on wire railing at
the Charlottenburg cycle track in Ger
many were struck by lightning.
Three were killed and 90 were severely
injured.
THE plague is increasing in Proona.
India.
The convention of the Harrison
family of gypsies. which was to have
been held near Scotch Plains, N. J., on
the 23d was postponed until the SOth.
The convention is to choose a successor
to Snake Mary, the present queen.
Mary is now So years old. but as spry
and active as a woman of so.
THE Chicago, Hamilton & Dayton
elevator at East Toledo, O., was de.
stroyed by fire the other night The
loss was estimated at nearly 81, 600, 600.
AN explosion on board the torpedo
boat destroyer Bullfnch, off the Eng
lish coast, killed seven and injured IL
of those on board.
Gov. PINGREE gave to the Associated
press prepared, signed statement on
the 21st containing what the governor
asserted to be facts which are absolute
ly reliable, bearing upon the relations
between Gen. Alger and President Nc
Kinley. The governor of Michigan de-
nounced the course pursued by the
president in the matter as little less
than cowardly. The governor said that
Alger's sacrifice" was compelled by
the demands of New York politicians,
backed by the '"unscrupulous and heart
less press.
ROBERT G. INGERsoLL, the noted ag.
nostic and lecturer, suddenly died at
his summer home in Dobbs Ferry, N.
Y, of apoplexy on the 21st.
WHILE making soap at her residence
at Avondale, Tex, Mrs. C. B. Cauthorn
was burned to death. AS she stood
with her back to the fire the wind swept
her skirts into the blaze and in an in
slant she was mass of flames.
GEORGE CULLEY was hanged in the
Jail yard at Muscogee. I. T., on the 21st.
He was desperate and confessed to
having killed two persons.
The opening of the Dreyfus trial in
France has been fixed for August II.
ALICE SMITH was fatally burned at
Killeen, Tex, in trying to light fire
with coal oil.
The board of equalization s report on
the assessment of Oklahoma counties for
the present year shows total valua-
ton, including railroad property, of
$42, 49,, 414, gain of So, 1858, 59S over last
year.
THE Western Electric Cable COM
pany's establishment at Woolwich,
Eng, was burned the other morning.
The loss was ESQ, ZOO. An American
plant recently fitted up at the works
was totally destroyed.
CLAY FORD, a negro, was hanged at La
Grange, Tex. for the murder of his wife.
The sub-com mittee on the mines OF
the United States industrial commits
sion closed its labors at Denver, Col.
Ex-senator Hill, in his testimony
before it, declared his strong opposi-
ton to trusts of all kinds. He thought
they were detrimental to the public
welfare. He said he favored labor or
CARNATIONS as means of maintaining
wages.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CLAY, Clerk Tay.
lor and Sheriff Wolfe had hearing be-
fore Commissioner Hackett at Antlers,
1. T., on the charge of murder in allow
ing the execution of William Going.
The defendants were discharged, the
court holding that the case was begun
In the Choctaw courts prior to the pas
sage of law by congress comforting
jurisdiction on United States authori-
ties and the United States had no iu-
risdiction in the matter.
FRANK EMBREE, a negro charged with
criminal assault, was taken from the
officers on a train at Steinmetz, Mo-,
by mob, whipped for half an hour
and then hanged.
A REVOLUTIONARY party has been es-
tablished, with headquarters in Ha-
vana, to excite Cubans throughout the
entire country. This party has agents
in every large city, and also a junta in
Mexico. All this is perfectly well
known to the American authorities,
but it is generally considered that it
would work harm to arrest the leaders
of the movement, who would undoubt-
edly pose as martyrs, which is SEEM
ingly their desire.
GEORGE WRIGHT shot and killed Mrs.
Joseph Crippen at Muscatine, Ia, on
the 23d and then attempted to kill her
husband, but was overpowered. The
act was due to jealousy.
Four thousand people crowded into
the Auditorium at Chicago on the goth,
to attend the political meeting given
under the auspices of the Chicago plat
form democrats. 1t was from first to
last silver meeting, an Altgeld meet
ing, an antitrust and anti-expansion
meeting. All of the speakers save ex-
Gov. Stone, of Missouri, who was ill.