The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-12
Miscellaneous.

miscellaneous.
A. ii. MARTIN, brother of the late
Governor Martin. was stricken with APP
! oplexy white at the supper table at
his homo in Atchison the other evening.
He was in a critical condition.
JOHN SINK, a farmer living eight
miles north of Salina, recently attempt
ed to kill his wife and then shoot him
self Ho fired two shots at her and
missed her, but she having fallen on
the floor he thought she was killed,
when he shot and killed himself. A
family quarrel was the cause.
THE complaint which was presented
to the State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners by the farmers concerning grain
rates to Missouri river points has been
formulated and sent to the Interstate
Commerce Commission
FRANK FLETCHER a colored boy thir-
teen years old. while recently crossing
the Union Pacific tracks at Lawrence,
was instantly killed by the cars.
ANDY BOWEN. ten years old. was re-
Gently killed by a freight train at Mer-
Ram Park. His father worked at the
park and the little fellow had boarded
freight train at Kansas City. it was
presumed to go and see his father, and
in trying to get off fell under the train
and was killed.
Mrs. MAGGIE CALHOUN, of Wichita.
tried to commit suicide the other day
by drinking extract of cactus. The
doctors saved her.
CHARLES FELL, - good. kind-hearted
Irishman" about thirty years old and
employed at Eudora recently filled up
too heavily with a compound known as
hard cider" and becoming boisterous
was locked up in the city Jail. When
| the marshal went to the calaboose next
morning Fell was dead.
THE canning factory at Emporia has
already canned this season over 90, 900
cans of peaches, 5000 cans of apples,
and 900 cans of tomatoes
AT a recent dance given to celebrate
the opening of a new hotel near the
stock yards at Wichita, two men named
McMahan and Schilling quarreled over
a girl. The latter drew a pistol and
shot McMahan through the stomach,
wounding him dangerously Schilling
was arrested.
PARK S WARREN, editor of the Min
neapolis Democrat. ha1 been nominated
for Congress by tho Democrats of the
! Fifth district
j A COFFEE, a farmer, drove his
wagon over a bluff overlooking the river
near Atchison at nine o'clock the other
night and, together with his outfit, was
precipitated distance of fifty feet He
will die.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 4th: Original, Frank Sloan. Win
field; Wilson Boughton, Phillipsburg;
Casper Friedli, Elmo; Alex Mcfarland,
Pleasanton. Increase Edward d.
Haynes, West Plains Reissue. William
ii. Cook, hatfield Green; William Fros-
sow, Woodbine; John Hall. Wichita.
Reissue and increase. Alexander Trott
Kansas City. Original, widows, etc,
Minors of George S. Marsh, Toronto.
CAROLINE JOHNSON co'ored, left her
home at Atchison some days ago to visit
friends in Kansas City, leaving Jesse
Johnson, her husband seventy years
old, who was sick and rheumatic, alone
in their hut Several days after the
neighbors missed the old man and po-
liceman who investigated the case found
him in a dying condition from neglect
and starvation. He had had nothing to
eat or drink for several days.
JUDGE GLENN, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Atchison, died of con-
gestive chill the other morning. Judge
Glenn was former law partner of Judge
Foster.
JAMES c. FBkEBoRN. an inmate of the
city hospital at Wichita, removed a
bandage from his head the other day,
while the attendant was sleeping, and
bled to death within an hour. He had
suffered a fracture of tho skull some
weeks ago near Guthrie and was recov-
ering rap. dly.
AN executive order has been issued
by the President to allot Pottawatomie
and Kickapoo Indian lands in Kansas
as soon as an allotting agent can be ap-
pointed
SOME boys attempted to steal water
melons from r. Sparks patch near
Girard the other night when he saw
them and, shotgun in hand, started
after them. When the boys attempted
to run he fired at them. hitting George
Haines and putting about twenty-five
shot in his face and neck, one going
through his nose and another through
his neck.
AN unknown young man was killed at
Leavenworth the other morning while
attempting to board Missouri Pacific
freight train. The only paper on his
person which tended to identify him
was a letter recommend Dg Ed Chatter
felt as brakeman.
FRED uAGGART, an active member of
the Farmers Alliance of Jewell County,
was found dead on the road with his
neck broken the other morning. He
had been attending an Alliance meeting
all day and the greater part of the pre-
Gus night and when he got on his
horse to ride home he said he guessed
he would go to sleep and the horse
would see him safely homo. 1t was
thought that he went to sleep and fell
off tho animal.
GOvERNoR HUMPHREY reviewed the
parade at Topeka on Labor Day.
The population of Topeka is 81. 500,
an increase in ten years of 16. 357.
WHILE recently assisting her father
thrash broom-corm eight miles north
east of Glasco. daughter of John W.
Bailey, about fourteen years old, was
caught in the tumbiing-rods and before
the machine could be stopped the left
arm was broken and torn completely
OF, .he right arm broken. both legs
bcohen and crushed. and the unfortu-
nate girl Otherwise terribly injured
FIRE at Hiawath4 on the night of the
I'd destroyed nearly three business
blocks and caused 3 loss of $3.50, 600.
-FRoN March IS to August IS over
sixty petitions for divorce were filed in
the district court of Wyandotss County.