The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-07-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Orro BROCK a grading contractor of |
Kansas City, Kan, made disparaRing re-
marks about the mother of CharlesMeade
when the latter cut Brooks head open
with an axe. 1t was thought he would
die.
DR. R. NJ. BARNES. of Greensburg,
was found dead in his Office the other
day with bullet-hole in his left breast.
No revolver could be found, which evil
dences that it was not a case of suicide
The theory was that he had been assas-
sinated the night before by some enemy
who had followed him from Michigan,
from which State he came about four
years ago and where it was reported he
had had trouble and left for the West
as matter of safety.
Two burglars entered the residence of
l. B. Pellee, at Usage City, the other
night and when they reached the bed
room of Mr.. and Mrs Pellee the lady
awoke, and, shaking her husband, ex-
claimed: ''There is a man in the house;
shootP' The burglars commenced to
shoot, when Mr.. Pellee returned their
shots and they fed In a few minutes one
of them was found a short distance of
with bullet through his body and dying.
He gave the name of Irwin Curtis and
said that he was an outcast
PRESIDENT TRoUTMAN, of the State
Temperance Union, has issued a call for
State convention of Prohibitionists to
meet at Topeka July 10, for the purpose
of declaring their loyalty to prohibition
and take action concerning the attempts
to sell liquor in original packages. The
basis of representation will be as fol-
lows: Each county shall be entitled to
one delegate at large for every 1000 Of
its population, to be appointed in any
manner that the localities may find
most convenient. Every church, Sum
day school, temperance society or other
organization in sympathy with the pur-
pose of the convention is invited to elect
three delegates. Delegates should be
| appointed and reported Immediately.
All friends of the cause will be well
coined whether accredited delegates or
not.
THE remains of an unknown tramp,
who had been killed by the cars. were
found on the railroad track near Hum
boldt the other day.
o. c. FURMAN, a mail carrier at
Hutchinson, was recently arrested for
taking magazines from the mails to
read.
THE Santa Fe Railroad Company has
subscribed $500 and the Rock Island
$500 toward the expense of the Kansas
delegation to the National Grand Army
Encampment in Boston.
Two frame stores in Emporia, owned
by ]. c. Hood and John Eskridge. were
recently destroyed by fire with their
contents. Loss. $1,000.
HARRY MANSFIELD, manager of the
Topeka Coal Company, has skipped the
town short IS, 900 in his accounts. He
had held his position for the last three
years. His shortage covers a period of
more than year. He left his wife in
Topeka
CHARLES LA GRANGE appears to be do
ing a wholesale marriage business in
Southern Kansas. June 8 he was we'd
ded to Miss Emma Haun, of Sedgwick,
and on the 18th to Miss Melissa Thomas,
of Hutchinson. He is also said to have
wife and family in the East
A MEETING was recently held at To-
peka for the purpose of organizing a
State society to perpetuate the memo
ries of the war of National Independ-
ence and to cultivate an interest in the
study of the events of the Revolution
airy struggle. 1t is proposed that the
society shall be composed of persons
who are descendants of Revolutionary
soldiers
HASKELL INSTITUTE, at Lawrence,
graduated a class of nine this year.
Mrs. JOHN LANGAN and her six-year-
old daughter were frightfully burned
by gasoline stove at Topeka the other
day. The mother had left a can of gas
cline on the stove after lighting it,
which the child overturned, and it in
stantly blazed up and ignited her
clothes. In extinguishing the flames
the mothers arms and hands were ter
ribly burned.
ABOUT one o'clock the other morning
a meteor fell with terrific explosion
on a farm near Washington, scattering
rock in every direction. One piece
weighing nearly ton embedded itself
in the ground to depth of several feet.
The rock was of grayish color and
was intensely lot The shock of the
. explosion was felt for miles around,
many persons thinking it an earthquake.
/. p. MILLER, Missouri Pacific con-
ductor was recently shot and perhaps
fatally wounded at Osawatomie by ar
intoxicated man who mistook him fol
another man against whom he had q
,, grudge-
L. B. MYERS, while intoxicated, went
to the house of Benjamin Van Horn, in
, Kansas City, Kan, the other evening
about seven o'clock and demanded tt
see his wife, who had left him on &C
count of his abuse and taken refuge a
the house of Van Horn, her uncle. He
made an assault upon her with a pisto
and when Van Horn interfered Myer.
shot him and then going up stairs me-
: Miss Carrie Van Horn, the seventeen
: year-old daughter, and he shot her also
Myers then fed pursued by an Office
: and several others when he fred upor
' his pursuers and wounded a young maj
named Censor. He was finally cap
! tured. 1t was thought that the wound
a of Van Horn and his daughter would
, prove fatal.
Two children of Henry Wiedmeyer
Of Quindaro, aged four and two years
a recently ate quantity of green apple
and died the following day.
THREE children of John Lober, a wei
known farmer ten miles south of Wichita
were burned to death the other after
: noon Lober and his wife left then
locked up in their house while the,
went visiting neighbors. During thei
= absence the house took fire and tn,
little ones, unable to escape from tn,
n burning house. were consumed with it
K s. B. WICKENs, who has had som,
4 reputation as newspaper man and VIII,
d has been through the Western countr.
}. as a solicitor for several Eastern news
d papers, was recently arrested at Leav
d enworth for forging the name of a prom
:, inent clothing dealer to check for S24
Q and receiving the cash therefor