The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-06-02

ilton county, Neb., on the 27th and
destroyed property to the amount of
about 100000.
THE Texas legislature adjourned sine
die on the 27th.
LOUIS E. BERT, farmer of Oxford
township, O., was killed by lightning
the other night at barn warming
near his home. About 80 persons were
in the barn and all were Frustrated.
AMID the booming of cannon and the
screaming of steam whistles the Span
ish cruiser Reina Mercedes arrived at
Portsmouth, Va, on the 27th. She
was accompanied by fiotilla of tugs,
profusely decorated. Thousands wit
harbOr.
RECENT advices from Moscow were
to the effect that the starving peasants
Nm Russia mum bered 20, 600, 900. No pos
sible estimate of the mum Der of deaths
could be made.
DIR. RICHMOND CORNWALL committed
suicide at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
2sth, financial reverses being the cause.
The doctor had led an eventful life. He
killed his brother two years ago in ST.
Louis and his name was connected with
the mysterious disappearance of Miss
Maud Belle Bonesteel, Kansas City
girl.
A SPECIAL from Muscogee, I. T., said
that the Creek Indians had ratified the
Dawes treaty by majority of 4s5 votes
and that Chief Isparhecher had selected
his allotment.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the Goth num-
bered 15S, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against 231 for the
corresponding week in last year.
AT the international Y. M. C. A. con-
ference at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the
Goth Anthony Comstock, made an ad-
dress in the interest of his work for the
suppression of immoral literature.
Mrs. RUTH HOWARD has been sub
penaed by Mr.. Moss to appear before
the Mazet committee at New York.
The committee will direct it's attention
to the Tombs prison. Mrs. Howard
was released the other day after having
spent several months in the Tombs
She told story of happenings in the
Tombs which Mr.. Moss said would
stir the people of New York as few
cities have been stirred since Charles
Dickens revealed the shames and out
RACES suffered in London prisons.
TWENTY acres in the heart of Coney
island, N. Y, the summer resort, were
swept by flames on the Goth. In all
there were 200 buildings burned, in
Guiding the Hygeia hotel, theaters,
concert halls, dancing pavilions, etc.
The fire made shelterless for a time
about $500 persons. The value of the
property burned was estimated at near
~ 81, OO0,0O
The Samoan commission arrived at
Apia the other day and held sitting
Nothing was disclosed regarding the
deliberations, but it was reported that
they upheld the action of Admiral
Kautz, the American naval commander
THE fertilizing plant of Walker,
Etratman & Co., at Pittsburgh, Pa,
was destroyed by fire. Edward Probst,
an emp1oye, was missing and it was
feared that he was burned to death.
The loss was about 100000.
SENIOR Don EMILIO CASTELAR,, the dis
Spanish republican orator
and statesman, who had been suffering
from an attack of pulmonary catarrh
last winter, is dead. He
was 81 years old.
TWENTY Thousand people attended
the sham battle at the state G. A. r.
at Terre Haute, Ind, the
other day. Six companies of state
militia and two light batteries partici-
pated. A fort had been constructed
and a part of the militia were ordered
to defend it. They were supposed to
be Spaniards. The invading forces
the breastworks and tore the
Spanish flag from the fort, while the
Did veterans shouted themselves hoarse.
The tuberculosis congress opened at
Berlin on the Gath with 1000 members
present, of whom 200 were delegates
from Germany and foreign govern
ments. Surgeon Boyd, who represents
the medical corps of the United States
navy at the congress, made an address
and was elected chairman of the Amer
can delegation.
JOHN T. ROACH, of Montreal, Can,
was arrested at Boston on the charge
Of being implicated in the robbery of
the Dominion bank, Napanee, Ont, on
August %, 1897, when So, 900 in cash
and notes were taken.
QUEEN VICTORIA's eightieth birth
day was celebrated throughout the
dent Mckinley was among those who
sent her congratulatory kilograms.
The Mexican Central depot. which