The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-05-12

Arthur on the 4th after strong resist
ance by the Filipino rebels. Col. Fun
ston, of the Twentieth Kansas, was
wounded in the hand. Gen. Lawton
captured $4,000 bushels of rice from
the rebels.
The powder mill plant located in the
Indian Run valley, near Pottsville, Pa.
blew up on the 7th, destroying Is tons
of powder. Fortunately no workmen
were about the plant at the time. A
gang of tramps, it was believed. set
| fire to the magazine.
A VIOLENT windstorm swept through
the western part of St. Louis on the
evening of the 7th and unroofed num-
Der of houses, blew down a circus tent
and delayed street car traffic.
A TORNADO Struck Chickasha, I. T.,
on the evening of the 9th demolishing
81 buildings and doing considerable
other damage. Most of the people es-
capped injury by taking refuge in storm
cellars, although IA persons were re-
ported as being more or less hurt. The
windstorm was preceded by hail and
followed by a flood of rain.
THE business failures in the United
bered 1854, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against 1874 in the
corresponding week a year ago.
WHITE river, from Chesterfield to An
derson, Ind, a distance of five miles,
was reported filed with dead and dy-
ing fish, killed by the dumping of the
refuse of the Yorktown straw board
plant.
JUDGE MCMAsTER, at Indianapolis,
Ind, has instructed the secretary of
the Order of the Iron Hall to pay the
final dividend-one-fifth of five per
cent. This will close the receivership
which has existed seven years and
which involved the collection and dis
tribution of $2,0OO,O00. OF the $4,000
members throughout the country 40, 900
proved their claims. The total dividend
has been 35 1-5 per cent.
The opening of that portion of the
Ute reservation located in Colorado oc-
CURED at noon on the 4th according to
the proclamation of President McKin-
ley. Buffalo" Jones appeared near
Ignacio with 800 followers from Guth-
RE, Ok, and was met by DIR. F. D. Allen,
who was prominent in the opening of
the famous Cherokee strip. They will
start town near Ignacio, to be called
Tabor.
THE first train over the South Park
into Dillon, Col, for four months ran
through solid walls of snow on the 4th
and steamed into the town amid the
blowing of whistles and the ringing of
bells. The snow blockade had been
broken.
THE federal authorities of the West
ern district of Texas have received in
formation that a gigantic plot is now
under way to smuggle Chinese into
this country from Mexico. A few
months ago the Mexican Central Rail-
way company imported about 1000
Chinese to work on extensions of that
line and soon after their arrival pro-
fessional American Chinese smuggler
got among them and they are making
their way toward the Rio Grande
frontier in small bands.
Two men were killed and one injured
while excavating for the foundation of
a new building in New York. A cave
in occurred and several other workmen
narrowly escaped.
TWENTY thousand barrels of oil have
been destroyed by fire from lightning
striking an oil tank near Morgantown,
w. Va, the other day. Loss, $50, 900.
BURIED treasure in the shape of II
81, 900 bonds, bearing unclipped coupons,
which add several thousand dollars to
their value, was found by Thomas Law
son negro laborer, while digging in
the cellar of a department store in Gin
cinnati. He claims it as a treasure
trove.
Four hundred United States troops
were on guard in the Ceur d'Alene
mining district and martial law was in
full force in Shoshone county, Ida, ON
the 18th. Gen. Merriam, who arrived
from Denver, decided, if possible, to
arrest all the striking miners impli-
Gated in blowing up the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mines.
MRS. EUNICE J. BROWN was burned
to death in her room at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 4th. She was ironing
and in lifting gallon can of gasoline
from a table the can, which was glass,
struck the gasoline stove and broke.
The liquid was ignited and enveloped
her in flames.
| dams, recently died of smallpox, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Guthrie,
\ Ok, on the 4th.
AT Mechanicsville, N. Y, James Will
liams, aged IS years, murdered his
| wife, with whom he had not lived for
years, and then mortally wounded him
| self.
| A PAPAL bull prOclaims holy jubilee