The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

JAcoB SoLrsxIK, . German who was
employed in the Santa Fe car shops at
Topeka. was fatally injured the other
day by having a screw-driver driven into
him. SoltSelk was at work with
screw-driyor near q shafting, when the
tool was caught in the machinery and
In some way forced between his ribs.
]. Z. SPENDLovE, convicted at Topeka
about year ago of the murder OF
Gustav Werner and sentenced to life
imprisonment was released the other
day on bonds to await the action of the
Supreme Court. to warichF he has taken
an appeal. Under the law passed by
the last Legislature he is entitled to
this privilege. and it was granted to him
several weeks ago but he did not find
bonds until recently.
THE other morning Peter Letter was
found dead in his chair in his room, al
most howell, at Kansas City, Kan,
with a bullet hole in his head. He had
been dead several days and a note left
by him showed that he had committed
the deed himself He was seventy years
old and one of the oldest residents of
the city. He was a miser and seldom
was seen in COMPANY. He had kept a
small store for years and was only
known as ''Old Pete" In the note
written just before he committed the
deed he told where a pot of gold con-
tanning $500 could be found by digging
under the floor, which the coroner found
as stated He left will bequeathing
81, 600 in Government bonds to each of
four relatives in Germany and $500 to a
friend to take charge of his estate. The
alc ha Il CHI
ing good amount to his credit and
81, 600 in Government bonds. The old
miser bequeathed all of his property,
except left as above stated, to the Y.
NJ. G. A.
DURING the storm at Leavenworth on
the evening of the Sd the residence of a
Mrs Borgerser was struck by lightning
and considerably damaged. A large
barn on the premises of John Berry,
market gardener near the city, was
struck and entirely consumed, with its
contents
AT the little mining town of Brighton
about six miles southwest of Leaven-
worth, Tim Isam, popular and well-to-
do colored man, was lately found dead in
bed by Paul Hitter, his nephew, and
neighbor. His two children were sleep
ing quietly on each side of him. He had
been murdered with an axe. Young
Hitter was arrested on suspicion. The
boy implicated the parents of Isam's de-
ceased wife in the crime.
THE Republicans of the Second dis
trict met in convention at Chelsea Park
(Kansas City, KAN on the 5th and re-
nominated Hon. f. II. Funston for Con-
gress by reclamation
Coz ~, 10, II ,=Ir.o,,
eral order announcing that the State re-
union of the G. A. R. will be held at To-
peka October 4, s, 8 and 10, and a meet
ing of the Council of Administered ton is
called for September 3 at 7:30 p. M, at
the Copeland Hotel, Topeka, for the
purpose of making arrangements for the
reunion and the transaction of other
business.
THE bonded debt of Kansas in 1880
was 81, 1S1, 975; in 1890 it is $sO1, 600.
There was no floating debt either in
1880 or in 1890. The cash and funds on
hand in 1880 were 50, 465, SIS; in 1890,
SIS, 1872 572. The excess of assets over
debts in 1880 was 81. 2S3, 533; in, 1890,
81, 92f, 572
In 1861 Thomas F. Williams, of Atchi-
son County, entered the army as a
regiment, and at the battle of Wilson'S
creek received wound disabling him
for life, for which he receives a pension
of $7e month. By some oversight he
was not mustered out until about one
year ago. He put in claim for ser.
vices, but there was no law to cover his
case. A special act, however, has been
passed, and the other day he received
information from the Treasury Depart
ment that draft for $36, sos would be
forwarded in a few days.
b. H. CLOVER, president of the Farm
ers' Alliance, has been nominated for
Congress in the Third district
The other afternoon about four o'clock
tramp appeared at the residence of
Ezekiel Cooper, farmer of Clay Coun-
| ty, and committed an assault on his
pineteen-year old daughter at the point
of revolver. He then departed, telling
the young lady that he would take her
| life if she informed any one of the
direction he took. No one was in the
house at the time excepting the young
lady.
ALL of the original package houses in
| Topeka closed their doors at midnight
on the Sth. The passage of the Wilson
bill found a number of the agents with
a supply of beer and whisky on hand,
| but as it would become law the mo-
ment the President attached his sig
nature the agents were afraid to do any
| business.
THE Governor has appointed William
Fairchild a police commissioner of
Leavenworth to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of j. L Abe rnath y.
| W. W. ROACH and his ten-year-old
daughter were recently killed by light
ming while standing under tree at the
family residence in Pomona
PENSIONS were granted on the sth to
the following Kansas Veterans: Emily
T. Potter, of Hays City; John P. Kirby,
of Auburn; Benjamin Thomas, of Lyons;
John Stadlish, of Chalkmound; Samuel
R. Stillman, of Council Grove; Jere-
miah Simkins. of Reading; Luther NJ.
Summers, of Armourdale; David w.
Tate, of Kincaid; Jesse T. Underwood,
of Florence; Mary w. Roberts. of King
man, and Mary w. Quinby, of Formosa.
Two boys who had run away from
home in the central part of the State
were recently captured at Wichita and
returned to the parental homes to GO
! through the usual woodshed interviews
and be put in their little beds One of
the youngsters had provided himself
with Ss5 in money by carrying away his
fathers pocket-book. The urchins had
imbibed the sanguinary desire to kill
Indians from reading cheap novels
YOUNG man near Wichita was re-
Gently rejected by young lady, and be
circulated Infamous reports about her.
The young woman horsewhipped him