The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


den City. recently com mitted suicide by
taking strychnine. Her father, at the
time, was in jail at Garden City for
burglary, and will doubtless 60 to the
penitentiary. and about nine months
ago her mother died OF heart disease.
while in Jail awaiting the action OF the
district court. for having inhumanly
treated her daughters child
IN free fight in John McCiuny's sa-
loon at Clearwater the other day, John
Hanlon was struck over the head with
lighted lamp aud 50 badly cut and
burned that he will die Half a dozen
men were badly injured
THE President has committed to two
years actual imprisonment the sentence
OF i've years imposed in tho case of B.
H. Jones. convicted of making false en-
tries in tho books of tho National Bank
of Stafford.
A MAN about thirty-five years old, who
gave the name of Thomas Rogers. was
found by colored man lying on the
Missouri Pacific track at Kansas CITY,
Kan, the other night. with leg and
arm cut off He died soon after. 1t
was supposed that he was run over by
the east-bouud evening Missouri Pacific
passenger train
As train on the Rock Island road
left Burton the other day at full speed.
when it approached a road crossing the
engineer noticed a little girl between
four and five years of age on the track,
the engine being only twenty feet dis
tant The bar above the cow-catcher
struck the child on the head, crushing
it and throwing her in the air about
thirty feet, causing instant death The
high weeds concealed the child from
view until the engine was nearly upon
it.
THE old soldiers of the State will hold
their reunion at Topeka, October T. s,
and 10.
FULLY SCOTT has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth
district.
FRED JONES, fourteen-year-old boy,
was found dead at the end of a rope in
an clubhouse on his uncle's premises ut
Wichita the other light A short time
ago his mother died and ne grieved
much and had been heard say he would
rather be dead than alive His father
was in Colorado at the time looking
after his mining in terests.
Rosa CHAw, a seven-year-old girl, was
taken suddenly i'll at the Harrison street
school. in Topeka, the other day and
died in a few minutes. She had been
ailing with n severe cold, but was not
considered sick. The physicians pro-
nounced the case heart failure, induced
by over exertion while at play.
LON ELLIS, young farmer living
y
at Hutchinson the other afternoon. He
was attending an Alliance picnic at the
fair grounds, and while standing near a
party of friends who were examining q
revolver, the weapon was discharged,
the ball striking him in the left breast
penetrating the lung, cutting an artery
and inflicting what was thought to be a
fatal wound.
SHORT time ago a citizen of Atchison
called at a restaurant in that town and
got a bill changed by Miss Clark, a
young lady in charge of the cash. Later
he returned and presented a lead dollar,
which he declared she had given him,
and demanded a good dollar for it. Misa
Clark was positive she had given him
no such coin and refused to redeem ii.
For this he had her arrested and taken
to Leavenworth for examination upon
the charge OF passing counterfeit money.
When the case come before United
States Commissioner Clough he prompt
ly discharged Miss Clark without hear
ing any evidence for the defense.
A TOPEKA dispatch says that it has
developed that a large number of the
wheat buyers of the State are loaded
up with wheat While the wheat mar
ket was rising this fall many merchants
bought heavily and are now left with a
high-priced stock on hand to dispose of.
But small proportion of the wheat had
been marketed, a large reserve being
held for higher prices. Kansas wheat
this year has not only yielded SPLEEN
did crop, but of excellent quality. The
greater part of the wheat taken in has
tested over sixty pounds. while some
weighed sixty-five.
TIE Judgment of SIS, S24 so recent ly is
sued by the Supreme Court of the State
in favor of the plaintiff in the case of L.
A. Smith against s. c. Pomeroy dates back
to 1873. Smith was proprie tor OF the
old Tefft House in Topeka, where
Pomeroy made his celebrated unsuccess-
full attempt to be reelected United States
Senator. Pomeroy quartered his political
friends at the Tefft House during tho
campaign, creating a hotel bill of SIC.
324 so. After his defeat Pomeroy paid
Smith 81 600, claiming that was enough.
Smith thereupon instituted proceedings
in the district court of Atchison County
for the balance. The debt, including
interest and costs, now amounts to
about $4,000.
GEORGE PAXTON was recently arrest ted
at Mound City for arson He is charged
with setting fire to the Methodist
Church at Harrisonvillc, Mo, three
years ago and up to the time of his ar
rest had eluded the officers.
THE report of Acknowledgement Rob-
erts shows that the State militia ut
present comprises IA officers and /, 1913
enlisted men. The report says that
the troops are now fully armed with the
regular service rifles carried by the
United States regular army; are we'll
uniformed in the United States military
fatigue dress. and in other respects quite
well equipped
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Mortar mixer, James H. Poor
baugh, Burton; rope or twine hook.
James X. Miller. Emporia; stifening
for collars. etc, Lizzie T. Hadley, Kan
sas City; cuff holder, William D. Ell
well, Marysville; button setting ma
chine, Derrick J. Bushorr, Lincoln;
washing machine, Paris Il. Benbow,
Wichita
EUGESE CARR, Rock Island freight
brakeman, was recently killed a. Arka-
Ion, small station west of Hutchin-
SON. He was riding on top of the ca
boose and as the train was passing a wa
ter tank he was struck by spout and
instantly killed
Mis- SUSAN R. RrNGo died suddenly
at Atchison the other day at the age of
ninety-one years Her husband. who
survives her, is ninety-two years of age
The other day Christopher Elesmit.