The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-04-21

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Delinting company and the Aurora
Castor Oil Manufacturing company at
Little Rock, Ark, was destroyed by
FIRE the other night The cause of the
FIRE was unknown.
In fit of jealousy at Cleveland, O.,
William Beatty shot and killed John
Madden and sent bullet through the
forehead of Mabel Day, over whom the
men had quarreled. The woman will
recover.
GEN. LAwToN's expedition has been
recalled to Manila and all the towns
captured from the Filipinos have been
abandoned. The general stated that
it would require 100. 600 men to subdue
the islands. He could force his way
from one end of the islands to the
other. but leaving garrisons at the
places captured would eat up his
whole force.
THE engineering department of the
Burlington has completed plans for
the seasons work along the road.
Thirty-five miles of double track will
be laid in Iowa and a new line will be
built from Grant City to Albany, Mo.
A new bridge will also be built across
the Des Moines river.
HARRISON FLETCHER's sawmill at o.
tumwa, Ia, was blown to pieces by
boiler explosion on the 18th. The pro-
prietors son was killed and several
employees were injured.
DISPATCH from Niobrara, Neb., on
the 18th stated that the Missouri river
was out of its banks in that section
and lowlands were submerged.
THREE fishermen who left Deseronto,
Ont, in a small boat for their home
near Howless ferry have been
ing bottom upward.
L. w. GRINsTEAD, cashier of the bank
in Humboldt, Neb., committed suicide.
He was short in his accounts.
The Chicago platform dinner for
democrats at New York on the 18th
was a success. The speeches indicated
that the policy for 1900 would be a
campaign against trusts. William J.
Bryan declared he stood by the Chi
cago platform, denounced the policy
of the administration in the Philip
pines and urged the need of an income
tax.
ELI THAYER, member of congress in
1S5660 and originator of the Kansas
crusade, died at Worcester, Mass, on
the 18th. He organized the Emigrant
Aid society. to send abolitionists to
Kansas. and it was under this society
that Topeka. Lawrence, Manhattan
and Osawatomie were settled.
TEXAS was visited by terrific wind
and hailstorm on the 10th. At Lytle
a building on the x. L. ranch was de-
molished and a cowboy killed. At Wei
mer the house of City Marshal Insall
was blown down and his wife and two
children were injured. At Medina the
schoolhouse was overturned and the
teacher and two pupils seriously hurt.
The coast country around Rockport
and Corpus Christi was also flooded
and damage reported at other places.
ELEVATORS Nos. / and of the Hay
exchange at st. Louis were destroyed
by fire on the 10Th. Loss. $50, 000
WILL Tut, a negro, who murdered
his wife, expiated the crime at May
field, KY, on the gallows.
Tom MARSHALL, mayor of Keithsburg.
ILL.,, for the second time won the Grand
American handicap at Elkwood park,
N. j., beating out 1853 competitors for
the wing-shot championship honors of
America Seven men were tied for
first place with "a straight kills, each,
but in the shoot-off Marshall was the
only one of the seven who shot 80
straight
JOHN SHAW and Andrew Yancy quar-
relied at Buffalo, Tex, over farm mat
tiers and the latter was shot and killed
and the former was dangerously
stabbed with knife.
GEN. PoLAvIEJA, the Spanish minis
the Spanish commander in the Philip
pines. to evacuate the archipelago i'm
mediately. now that the notifications
of the treaty of peace have been ex-
changed.
GEN. LAwToN was continuing his
march north and arrived at the town
of Longas on the 14th but found it de-
serted. At sunset the American troops
entered San Antonio without meeting
any resistance.
A TRAGEDY took place at Deview,
Ark, between a number of citizens of
that place. in which B. C. Ashburn
was instantly killed; A. ]. Black and
his son, Lee, were fatally wounded.
and several others were more or less
seriously wounded. The trouble arose
over perjury trial
CAPT. NATHANIEL w. PARKER, the
oldest river man and pilot in the west,
died at the residence of his daughter
in St. Louis, aged 81 years. He is sur
vived nv seven children % prandchil.