The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-03
THE Twenty-third Kansas volunteers

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left Cuba on the 2Sth to be mustered
out.
The trial of Senator Quay at Phila-
1elphia, for alleged misuse of bank
funds has been postponed to April 10
On motion of the prosecuting attorney.
Ten per cent. of the cattle were lost
by the recent billiards in Texas, &C
:ording to President Springer, of the
National Live Stock association.
CONGRESSMAN HURLEY, of New York,
lied at Hot Springs, Ark, on the Goth.
MAJ. RUSSELL HARRISON, with
guard of 25 American soldiers, caught
80 Cuoan soldiers stealing sugar cane
from a plantation near Marianao. He
arrested them and soon after about
500 Cubans threatened to rescue the
prisoners, but Maj. Harrison said if
they came any nearer he would order
his men to shoot. The prisoners were
delivered to Gen. Rodriguez. a Cuban
commander, and Mai Harrison was
given receipt for them.
ALL was quiet on the 26th around
Manila except near Caloocan, where
the enemy's sharpshooters continued
to annoy our troops at close range.
One man of the Invent tn Kansas was
killed in Ariquina village, which was
burned on the night of the 25th. and
four men belonging to other regiments
were wounded. In the list of wounded
reported by Gen. Otis appeared the
following: Tween tieth Kansas, COM
pany D, Privates Larry Jones, head,
serious; Campbell Scott, arm, severe.
REPORTS from Fort Worth. Tex, and
neigh boring country showed an alarm
ing situation on the Goth from an cpl.
demic of meningitis. Many schools
had been closed on account of the
ravages of the disease.
THE transport Roanoke sailed from
San Francisco on the Goth for Manila
with full cargo of supplies for the
troops.
A TUNNEL on the st. Louis & San
Francisco railway at Merrimac High
lands, is miles from st. Louis. caved
in on the night of the 25th two min.
utes after a passenger train had passed
through.
AGENT RYAN and Operator Wilson
at Mackinaw station, ILL.,, were
killed on the Big Four track near
fremont, Ill. They were returning
home from fremont on a railway
velocipede and were ran down by a
train.
WILLIAM REED was hanged in Jersey
City, N. j., on the 23d for the murder
of Andrew Henry in Hoboken last
May.
EMPLOYEES of the Tomas Iron com.
pany at Allentown, Pa, have had their
wages increased ten per cent.
DURING fire, which for two hours
on the Esd threatened to annihilate
the entire packing-house district of
the stock yards in Chicago, one fireman
was killed and three others severely
injured, one so seriously that it is be.
lieved he will d ie. The blaze de.
stroyed Swift & Co.'S. warehouse No.
Z, directly in the center OF the pack.
ing-house district and several of the
adjoining structures were slightly
damaged. The loss was estimated at
100000. The building, which was
eight stories high, was stored with
hams and bacon.
FIRE on the Esd destroyed the Lind
building, % to 80 Market street, Chi.
cago. one of the few buildings which
stood intact through the great fire
of 1871. The building, which was a
seven-story structure. was occupied by
a large number of firms, the majority
of them being machinists, printers and
engravers. The total loss is estimated
at 1925. 600. of this amount $75, 900 is on
the building.
THERE is a strong probability that
this season will see the 5000 or more
masons of Kansas City, Mo. in a Ma.
sonic temple built especially for them.
Negotiations to that end are now in
progress.
AT Coloma, Ind, a revivalist named
Swope brought about remarkable
state of affairs. He was said to have
exerted hypnotic power and the result
was series of astounding ''confes.
sions." One woman has become in.
sane and it was thought two others
will be. One young man confessed"
in public meeting that he had been
the cause of the ruin and death of two
young women and the ruin of a third.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the oath
numbered go, according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 1873
for the corresponding week of last
year.
FERD w. PECK, United States com.
missioner to the Paris exposition, has
decided that Samuel Kayser, director
of the Chicago Conservatory of Music,
shall have charge of the United States
department of musical exhibits at the
exposition.
GEN. BROOKE at Havana signed an