The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-08-25

at $4,000. No real property was held
by Ingersoll at the time of his death.
THE second day of the third week of
the second trial by court-martial of
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus on the charge of
treason began on the 21st at Rennes,
France. Maitre Labori, the defend
ants counsel, who was shot, was pres
emit. He drove to the court in a car
riage and the audience greeted him by
standing up and by general clapping
Of hands.
JACK O'BRIEN knocked out Jack
Downing in 20 rounds at Coney Island,
n. Y
THE Church Missionary society at
London received report stating that
40, 600 persons have died of famine on
the east coast of Africa.
New YORK is taking precautions to
keep out the bubonic plague.
MAJ. RUSSELL B. HARRISON, inspector
general, was reported critically i'll with
yellow fever at Santiago de Cuba.
A DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich, said
that five lives were lost by the capsiz-
ing off Pointe aux Barques, of the
schooner Hunter Savidge.
NEWPORT, r. l., is said to be wrought
up at the prospect of a ball that is to
be given on Sunday night, August q,
at the Newport Golf club house by
William K. Vanderbilt.
A SERIOUS break occurred in the Erie
canal at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 21st.
About 200 boats were delayed by the
break.
FIRE destroyed the roller mill and
the four big elevators of the Collins
County Milling company at Mckinley,
Tex. Over 200, 900 bushels of new wheat
were burned up Loss, $500, 1000.
WILLIAM ROBBINS, instructor of man
ual training in the schools of Passaic,
N. J., shot and instantly killed his
brother Ralph Robbins, aged 16, while
hunting in the Adirondacks. He mis-
took the read sweater worn by Ralph
for deer.
DIR. R. c. WARNE, surgeon of the
First Nebraska. was arrested at Ma
Mia for villifying his colonel, Alfred
s. Frost.
THE National Sociological conven-
ton opened at Lake Bluff, ILL.,, the
other day, students of sociology from
all parts of the country being present.
AT Brantley, Ala, Charles Hurt. a
negro who attempted to assault Mrs.
Stephen Battle, widow, was taken
from the Brantley Jail by mob of 100
men and shot to death in the woods
half mile away.
HALF hundred people were more or
less seriously injured and all Harlem
was shaken by the explosion of $50
pounds of giant powder in a vacant lot
on 135th street, New York, the other
night. The powder was stored in a
wooden box in the center of the lot.
Three small boys built fire on top of
the box and the explosion followed.
The boys were saved by policeman,
who, seeing the fire, warned them to
run for their lives.
The recent hot and dry weather has
affected the Oklahoma cotton crop.
A FIRE which started in North Fort
Worth, Tex, destroyed the stables and
portion of the pens of the Fort Worth
Packing and Provision company.
Some six or eight horses were burned
up, along with buggies. harness, feed,
etc. The fire was believed to have been
started by tramp.
GEN. CHARLES w. BLAIR, widely
known old-time Kansan, whose per-
sonal history has been intimately in
tertwined in that of his state for the
past 40 years, died at Coronado Beach,
near San Diego, on the Goth. He had
bean i'll for year and his Journey to
ering his health.
The Suffragio Universal at Havana
the other day said: ''When the United
States government makes Cuba a state
of the American union, then will be
fulfilled the solemn promise declaring
that the Cuban people ought to be free
and independent. This would be in
accordance with the American consti-
tuition, under which each state is, with
respect to its own affairs, independent
of the Others
News was brought to Jacksonville,
Fla, on the 18th that the town of Red
Bay, on the island of Andres, in the
West Indies, was swept away in the
recent tropical hurricane and about 800
lives were lost.
AN Omaha, Neb., dispatch of the 18th
stated that Gov. POINTER has abandoned
the project of providing special train
for the First Nebraska, and the dis
banded volunteers will be forced to use
the travelling allowance granted by the
government. The governor issued q
proclamation in which he stated that
he resorted to every possible measure
to secure the funds without result.
PLAcERvILLE, Ida, was wiped out by
q fire the other night, all the business
portion and most of the residences be.