The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-07-21

b. GEN. d. 8. STANLEY, acting president
of the Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, has announced the next an
nual reunion at Detroit, Mich, Sep
TENDER 1921. The last annual meeting
was postponed because so many of the
prominent members of the society en-
tered the army with the war with Spain.
In attempting to board switch en-
CINE at the National stock yards at st.
Louis John v. Benito was run over and
killed.
A DISPATCH from Tulsa, 1. T., on the
18th stated that the execution of Will
liam Going, the Choctaw Indian, in de-
fiance of a writ of habeas corpus issued
by United States Judge John r.
Thomas, will be made the direct cause
for bringing those implicated to trial
for murder.
THE Germania state bank at st. Paul,
Mimi, has closed it doors.
WHILE attempting to alight from a
moving freight train at St. Louis an
unknown colored man fell beneath the
wheels and was ground to pieces.
WILLIAM CRU1KsHANK, a wealthy
farmer near Heyworth, ILL.,, was lead
ing pair of mules and while fastening
a gate threw the halters, tied together,
around his neck. The mules started
and ran, dragging Cruikshank and
breaking his neck.
The Colorado supreme court on the
18th decided that the eight-hour law
was unconstitutional.
A STATEMENT of newspaper CORE
spondents in the Philippines has been
r,r1h1io in, which fhoxy
against the censorship of the press by
the news is doctored and dispatches
from the Philippines give 4 wrong inn
preston of the situation in the islands.
THE United States district attorney
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warned
from Washington to look out for fill
clustering expeditions from the Florida
coast for Honduras, Nicaragua and
other Central American countries.
The American tin plate factory at
Elwood, Ind, has resumed, giving en-
ployment to 9, 900 persons.
A STRANGE insect is damaging the
| wheat in Clarke county, s. D.
THREE men and a woman playfully
jumped into a boat in tow of a naphtha
lunch at Cincinnati on the 10th when
it sank and only one man was saved.
THE Tompkins opera house block
at Gallatin, Tenn, was burned.
A HEAVY windstorm did considerable
damage at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
10th.
A STRIKE was inaugurated on all the
street car lines of Brooklyn on the 10th.
GREwsoME stories come from the Bra
EOS valley in Texas. Outbreaks of sick
ness were reported from many points,
and, owing to the scarcity of nour-
| ishing foods and medicines and the
impediments to transportation, it
was feared the mortality will be large.
John Carlisle, who owns large plan
tation at Chappell Hill, near Brennan,
reported four deaths among his people
since the food. The waters washed
the carcasses of $50 animals into the
! fence corners on his plantation and
| portions of his fields were 80 feet under
| water.
! WILLIAM GONG, whose Indian name
was Walla Tonaka, was shot at Alikchi,
I. T., on the 18th under sentence of
the Choctaw court for murder. The
execution was horribly sickening
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victims breast, just missing the right
| spot. Going fell backward and moaned
piteously for an hour before expiring
Water was poured down his throat a
number of times to hasten death by
strangulation.
| TwENTY-sEvEN business houses, the
pumping station of the waterworks,
the fire engine house and the Jail at
cambridge, Ga, were destroyed by fire
on the 10th.
| A FREIGHT train on the Chicago & Al
ton railroad was wrecked early on the
18th near Glendale, Mo. Ten persons
| were stealing ride in the cars and
three of them were killed and seven ter
ribly injured. 1t was believed the &C
cident was through a broken fange,
causing one of the cars to jump the
track and the indiscriminate piling up
of the other cars followed. The train
| consisted of ten cars of merchandise,
coal, hogs and cattle.
SEVERAL hundred wood carvers in
the factories at Shelbyville, Ind, went
on a strike the other day, demanding a
raise of wages of Is cents per hour.
They now receive 25 cents.
o. T. CoRsoN, of Columbus, O., was
elected president of the National Edu
cational association by a unanimous
vote at the meeting at Los Angeles
Cal. Mrs. CASTOR Boyd, of Kansas, was
chosen as one of the vice presidents
ONE thousand laborers were thrown
out of employment on the 18th by the
closing down of the Schwarzschild &
Sulzberger packing plant in Armour