The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-01-13

SEVENTY miners and citizens charged
with riot were arraigned in court at
Pana, I'LL, on the 9th. States Attor-
ney Humphreys nolled 50 OF the cases,
while IL pleaded guilty and were given
sentences. Pneumonia continued to
rage among the colored non-unio1
miners, deaths occurring daily.
BILLY DECKER, colored. was put to
death by electricity in Sing Sing prison,
New York, on the 9th for the murder
of his white wife at Tottenville. The
current was turned on at 11:22 and at
i1:27 he was pronounced dead.
THE business portion of West Branch,
Mich, was burned on the 9th.
THE Singapore Free Press said that
Spencer Pratt, consul general for the
United States. has sent to Gen. Otis.
United States military governor at
Manila, a proposal that a memorial
should be erected at Manila to the
memory of all Americans who fell in
the capture or died of disease during
the campaign and that all Americans
now resident in the east should be in
vited to contribute toward this object.
A BIG boiler being tested in Hewitt's
burst and the experimenting engineer
and eight men were killed. About 40
persons were injured, some fatally.
The bodies of the injured were fright
fully mutilated. The whole ship
building works were wrecked.
A FREIGHT train crashed into a pas.
senger train near Elk Valley, Tenn,
and four trainmen were killed, two
others badly injured and about $780,
300 damage done to property. No pas
sengers were hurt
AN epidemic of grip has broken out
among the horses at Lexington, Ky.
GEN. OTIS received word at Manila
that the Filipino insurgents had bar
ricaded Iloilo and 'kerosened" the
principal buildings and threatened to
burn the town if attacked by the
Americans.
SEVERAL days ago box arrived at
the Air line depot at Evansville. Ind,
from st. Louis addressed to E. l..
Thurman. After all efforts to find
Mr.. Thurman had failed the employees
opened the box and found it to con-
tain a human body. apparently wom-
ans, cut into small pieces. 1t was be-
lieved a murder mad been committed.
The Hotel Main at Washington, Pa,
and the Levins building adjoining were
destroyed by fire. Loss, $1OO, 900; in
surance, $s5. 900. The fire started in
the rear of the Hotel Main and burned
so rapidly that many of the occupants
narrowly escaped.
THE outside doors of the vault of the
Phenix (R. IL national bank were
blown out by dynamite about one
o'clock the other morning, but the
three men who attempted to rob the
bank were frightened away before
they could gain access to the interior
apartments, where the money. securi-
ties and other valuables were kept.
GEN. POLAvIEJA, the former governor
general of Gu ba and the Philippine is.
lands. and Senior Silvela, the conserva-
tive leader, have agreed upon the for
nation of new Spanish cabinet and
have been summoned by the queen re-
gent The early advent of the con-
servatives to power was regarded as
GER tain at Madrid.
SEVERAL mon this ago Judge Tarvin,
of Covington, KY, sent several coun.
cilmen to Jail for con tempt of court in
disobeying an order of court to furnish
supplies. Now the five councilmen i'm
prisoned have sued the Judge collective
ly for $40, 900 for false imprisonment.
MRS. FLORENCE Richie, a member
of Frank Daniels company. tainted
while taking a bath at her hotel at
Denver, COL, on the 9th and was
drowned.
By an explosion of gasoline the hard
ware store of Keil & Son at Pember-
vile, O., was badly wrecked and Au-
gustus Keil, the junior partner. so bad
ly injured that he died in an hour.
JOHN EDWARDS, a farmer living near
Corning, Ia, was caught between his
wagon and a barbed wire fence and
cut up by the barbs of the wire. He
bled to death before help could reach
him.
AT the jackson banquet of the Duck
worth club at Cincinnati William j.
Bryan made a speech which was re-
garded as the formal opening of his
anti-expansion fight
PRESIDENT STILwELL has compile ted
arrangements for an entrance into
Chicago of the Pittsburg & Gulf rail-
road and within four months he will
control line of rails from Lake Mich.
igan to the Gulf of Mexico.
! ADvICEs from Holyoke. Mass on the
posed writing paper combination had
been effected. The capitalization was
said to be $40. 600. 900.
AFARMER living near Brighton, Col.
named A. K Willis, was robbed of