The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-09-01

new Coliseum building being erected
on the site of the old Libby prison at
Sixteenth street and Wabash avenue,
Chicago, collapsed on the 2Sth. Nine
persons were reported killed and a
large number injured.
| GEN. DAVIS cabled from Porto Rico
that 81. 500, 600 worth of food would be
required to tide hurricane sufferers
over the period until a new supply OF
fruits and vegetables are grown. He
repeated the former request of 1000
tons of food weekly until further no.
tice.
| The agents of the state department
in Europe have failed to note any prog
ress of Aguinaldo' agents toward Sc
curing recognition of the belligerent
rights of the Filipinos. Aguinaldo, it
will be recalled, called on the Filipinos
to hold on until August 81, at which
| time he was to announce that the Fill
pinos would be recognized as belliger-
entS.
THE Tenth Pennsylvania regiment
was welcomed home at Pittsburgh on
the 2Sth by an enthusiastic crowd of
half million people and there was a
great demonstration of patti iotism.
President Mckinley reviewed the troops
and made speech.
THE National Farmers congress will
meet in Boston October to 6. The
congress is made up of delegates from
| the different states and the governors
are now making the appointments.
Ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, is presi-
dent of the congress and John M.
Stahl, of Chicago, is secretary.
THE crypt in which the cryptic ma
sons of Ellsworth, Kan, buried their
records has been completed and sealed
on the summit of Pixies peak in Colo
RADIO. 1t is cut in solid gray granite at
the north end of the cog railroad, over
looking the bottomless pit, 1000 feet
below, and in full view of all the plains
to the Kansas line on the east, New
Mexico on the south, the snowy range
On the west and Wyoming on the north.
GREAT forest fire ragged on the 25th
at Rothiemurchies. Invernesshire,
Scotland, miles of superb woods around
Lake ELLEN being involved.
EIGHT miles west of Muncie, Ind.
Engineer w. H. Mccarthy, of the Lake
Erie & Western freight train, was shot
and killed with bullet supposed to
have been a stray shot from some hunt
er in the woods through which the
train was rushing.
FAILURES for the week ended August
IS were 1913 in the United States, against
179 last year, and 16 in Canada, against
26 last year.
WHILE the heirs of Mrs. Owen Ward,
Of Shipman, Ill, deceased, were in.
ho -,
her dwelling they found over SIS, 900 in
gold and silver coin secreted in closet.
This sum represented the savings of
lifetime, of which her relatives were
unaware.
REV. DAVIS F. FRY, a missionary Bap-
fist preacher, and Miss Katie M. Blan-
ton. daughter of prominent citizen
living near Mount Vernon, ILL.,, eloped
the other night. While her parents
were absent Miss Blanton left home,
walking eight miles to meet the
preacher.
INFORMATION from Para announces
that the inhabitants of Acre, the terri
tory claimed by Brazil and Bolivia,
have proclaimed their independence
and constituted new South American
commonwealth.
Reports from southern Russia saw
that a current belief on the approach
ing end of the world is causing a panic
among the uneducated classes.
CORRESPONDENT cabled to London
on the 25th that an indescribable state
of anarchy prevailed in Manila; that
Americans only occupied small radius
outside of the towns they held, the rest
of the country being in the hands of
the Filipinos.
A BIG live stock commission COM
pany, to include 100 shippers and feed
ers in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and
the Indian territory, has been planned
by eX-Congressman M. S. Peters at
Kansas City.
UNITED STATES officers now have con-
troll of Manila's school system. There
are Is school districts in the city, in
GLIDING normal school. Tuition is
free, aud the teaching of the English
branches is compulsory.
MAJ. WooDsoN, acting Indian agent
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
at Darlington, Ok, has resigned. It
was rumored that Gen. Charles King
would succeed him.
AT the mill of the Marguerite Mining
company near Carterville, Mo-, Henry
Gilbert was preparing a blast when a
stick of dynamite he held exploded.
The conclusion exploded box of dyna-
mite which stood near and in an in.
slant the big concentrating plant was
destroyed and the five men working in
it were blown to pieces. The shock