The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-01-20

A BROKEN rail precipitated into a
ditch near Noble. Ill, two coaches and
a sleeper of a fast mail train on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail-
road. Many passengers were more or
less injured. but none fatally.
| A PETITION to the Illinois legislature
to do away with capital punishment
was being extensively signed at
Charleston and other towns in Illinois.
| SOUTHERN California is reported as
being overrun with tramps. The San
Diego, San Bernardino, Redlands and
other jails are filed to overlooking
with them. In many instances they
are vicious and threatening. going in to
| houses where women are alone and
| demanding food.
CAssIUs g. FOSTER. judge of the fed
eral court for the district of Kansas,
has sent in his resignation to take
effect March i.
A FIRE destroyed eight business
houses and one hotel at Edna, Tex.
1t was believed that the fire was of in
cendiary origin.
CUBANs recently stoned a Spanish
flag which had been hoisted over a
Havana hotel.
AN imperial trade has been issued at
onstantinople ordering the purchase
of 1862 Krupp field guns and 5000
schrapnel shells.
SHAWNEE. TENN, nearly had panic
the other day by five mad wild dogs
coming down from the noun tains and
rushing through the town. Three
children, a merchant. a lady and a
f,sotp h tfnn hxyf ho 1c
of the dogs were afterward killed. the
others escaped. Farmers around the
section were having their sheep. cattle
and hogs killed by the dogs. the noun
tains being full of the pests.
THE Prussian diet was opened at
Berlin on the 10Th with speech from
the throne by Emperor William. His
maj.st regarded the future with con-
idence.
A HEADEND collision occurred at
Angel, Ariz., between freight train
and water train. The engineer of
tie freight train was instantly killed
and three trainmen were seriously in
jured.
A HOTEL and sanitarium at Marlin,
Tex. was burned on the 18th.
MISS ANNA MARY HoEK SCHLEY, 25
years old, daughter of the late Col
William Louis Schlev, poet, lawyer
and veteran of two wars, and second
cousin of Rear Admiral Schley, COM
mitted suicide in her home at Balti-
more, Md. Since the death of her
father a month ago Miss Schley had
been inconsolable.
The bishop of Havana, recognizing
that under American rule the Catholic
church cannot be supported out of the
public revenues, issued a circular let
ter to the priests of the different par
ishes, directing that the church be
hereafter maintained by private con-
tributions.
TwENTY-sEvEN thousand Spaniards
still remained in the vicinity of Glen
fuegos, Cuba, on the 18th, and it is
improbable that the evacuation will
be completed much before the middle
of February. The Spanish troops
who are thickly CHARTERED in the ware
houses and along the wharves.
swarmed through the city day and
night. The soldiers were poorly fed
and have had no pay for months.
Ell PORvIENE at Santiago recently
published an extra giving cable mes
sage from DR.. Joaquin Castillo, then
in Washington with Gen. Wood in the
interest of the Santiago board of trade.
DR.. Castillo said that complete auton-
omy will be granted to the province.
The whole city was talking of demon
stration to celebrate the prospect.
A JURY at Fort Scott, Kan, found
that, under the Kansas law, a school,
teacher has no authority to lay hands
on pupil for the purpose of inf letting
corporal punishment. and Frank
Hedges was found guilty of assault
and battery on one of his pupils in the
Redfield schools for having punished
him.
Two negro murderers, Nolen and
Bias. who had been sentenced to hang
at noon on the 18th at Ardmore, 1. T.
were granted a STAY of execution until
next June. The scaffold had been built
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused at Lisbon. O., among stock
holders of the defunct First national
bank by notice from the comptroller
of the currency requiring them to pay
500 on every share held by them when
the failure occurred. Some of the
stockholders may be forced into bank.
| ruptcy. The bank will only pay depos-
itors from so to IS per cent
In the mist and darkness of the
night of the 18th south side elevated
train going at full speed crashed into
third street and Madison avenue. Chi.