The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-09-08

LONDON dlSpatch on the 4th stated
that Senator Hanna, rejuvenated by q
course of treatment at German baths
and a summer visit to Europe, had re-
turned to London for few days rest,
previous to sailing for the United
States to participate in the opening of
the republican campaign at Akron, o.
THE charges made by w. Il. Justice
that over 600 wheelbarrow loads of
broken brick, broken tile and chips
had been used in the filing in the floors
of the new Kansas City federal build
ing instead of cement and cinders have
fallen fat.
Africa were in the fiscal year 1899 more
than five times as great as they were
in 1889. The total exports from the
United States to all of Africa in the
fiscal year 1889 were but s., 496, sos, and
in 1899 they were $1s, 594, 424.
HERMAN HUNDHAUsEN and Richard
Honeck, who were arrested for MUIR
dering their former schoolmate, Rich
ard Koeller, in a Chicago rooming-
house, confessed to the crime and said
they did it for revenge. All three of
the young men were from Hermann,
Mo.
IT is said that the 500 families of full
blood Usage Indians in Oklahoma owe
on an average $3.50, 900, or about 81 500
to the family. Some of them owe S.
600. The condition of the Osages, it is
said, was brought about by extrava-
CANT buying and the paying of exorbi-
tant prices to the Indian traders for
goods.
A LARGE majority of the members of
the Iowa legislature have agreed to
meet in extra session to vote $40, 900 to
transport the Fifty-frst Iowa volun-
teers from San Francisco to Des Moines.
H1NCoNNINa village, 20 miles north of
Bay City, Mich, was visited by dis
astrous fire on the Sd, Is business
houses and IS residences being de-
stroyed.
ESCAPED Spanish prisoners stated
that the Filipino rebels were short of
food.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN JERRY SIMPSON, of
Kansas, talked from an open barouche
to a gathering at Chicago on the Sd on
single tax as the solution of all politi-
cal and economic questions of the day.
Georges writings the textbooks of
their political faith.
The thirty-third animal encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
convened at Philadelphia on the 4th.
Admiral Sampson with his feet of
fighting ships arrived on the Sd. and
this event marked the beginning of the
weeks celebration.
BECAUSE his son married girl who
posed as a living picture on the exposi.
ton midway, A. M. Free, a wealthy
citizen of Omaha, Neb., filed suit to an
null the marriage. Miss Dora Farr is
the young lady in the case. She is very
handsome and has been one of the liv-
ing pictures in the artists studio on
the midway for some time. She says
of his liberty.
SENATOR MORGAN (dem.), of Alabama,
prophesies expansion will be the sal
walton of cotton, and is about to start
a crusade in the south to spread the
new gospel. In his prophetic vision he
sees Manila the great cotton market of
the world instead of Liverpool. In
stead of paying toll to British brokers,
spinners and ship owners, he predicts
the time is coming when Americans in
an American city, in the Pacific isles,
will handle two-thirds Of the cotton of
the world and save billions to the cot
ton growers of America.
FATHER CLUsE, the German-Ameri-
can priest appointed rector of st. Pat
rick's Roman Catholic church in East
St. Louis, ILL.,, despite the protests of
its members, has resigned and Bishop
Jansen has appointed Father Harkins
administrator of st. Patrick's. This
was said to be back down on the part
of Bishop Jansen, who persisted in
appointing a German priest over an
Irish parish.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE has made an
elaborate report on prevailing condi-
tions in the territory in Cuba under his
jurisdiction, and takes strong ground
for an independent government for the
Cubans under an American protecto-
rate. He recommends an independent
republican government, with a presi-
dent, vice president and q congress
He would have this established soon
and advises the holding of a general
election for the selection of those off,
GERS.
AT the conclusion of the Dewey cele-
bration at New York, Admiral Samp-
son will be relieved of the command of
the North Atlantic squadron. This &C
ton is to be taken at the request of
the admiral, who has already much
more than his portion of sea service in