The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-05-30
Miscellaneous.

A rAUrER named Snyder, who was an
inmate OF the Saline County poor farm,
committed suicide the other morning by
hanging. lie was seventy years of age
and wcak-mindcd.
Howard IIARrZELI, a telegraph oper-
ator at the Wichita stock-yards, shot
himself the other morning. lie deliber-
ately descended to the cellar under his
office with n shotgun, emptied barrel
into his breast just above the heart, re-
turned to the Office. exclaimed, 81 have
shot myself" and fell over His wound
was considered fatal.
THE Grand Commandery of knights
Templar, recently in conclave at To-
polka, elected the following officers:
George w. Port, of Beloit, grand COM
mandcr; w. $. Corbett of Wichita,
deputy grand commander; f. C. Culp, of
Salina, grand gencralissimo; Clark
Gray, of Larned, captain general; I. C.
! Topper, of Leavenworth, grand prelate;
Christian Beck, of Leavenworth, grand
treasurer; John III. Brown, of Kansas
| City, Kan, grand recorder; Alexander
Robb, of Mcpherson, senior warden; J.
Il. Hoober, of Independence, junior
warden.
Mrs. BENSON, of Leavenworth, wife of
the suspect Charles A. Benson, has filed
4 petition for divorce and for decree
investing her with the title of the Ben
son home. She married Benson Feb
ruary /, 1870, in Germany.
TIE Grand Army investigation of the
Soldiers Home at Leavenworth result
cd in proving the charges of mismanage-
mont to be groundless. The men who
made the complaints failed to present
themselves.
TIE Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias,
in session at Topeka, elected officers as
follows: Past grand chancellor, Nor.
gan Caraway, Great Bend; grand chan
color, n. L. IIallowell, Kingman; grand
vice-chancellor, w. II. Walker, Yelling
ton; grand prelaLe, Tully Scott, Ober-
lin: grand master of exchequer, L. ID.
| Sprague, Usage City; grand keeper of
records and seals Gus j. Neubert, Kan
sas City; grand mastcr-at-arms, I. Cope
land. Lexington; grand inner guard,
Joseph McGrath. Einwood; grand outer
guard, Charles Garrctson. Manhattan.
A FARMER named Charles Gottschalk,
residing near Wichita, recently fell from
hay rake under his horses heels and
was kicked to death.
TUE barn of Louis LEM, near Wame-
go. was burned recently. together with
six horses
IT is stated that nearly all the sugar
mills that were operated last year in
Southern Kansas will stand idle this
year.
A FACTORY is to DO erected at Hutch
inson for the manufacture of beet sugar,
the plant TO cost Sl5O,0O0.
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old, who was living with his aunt at To-
creek, in the suburbs of that city, the
other day.
GUsrAVE MALL. aged nineteen years,
shot himself at the residence of his
father. eight miles from Olathe, tho
other day. lie died instantly. Ills act
was supposed to have been the result of
insanity caused by an attack of la
grippe several months ago.
NJ. CONN, proprietor of the Eldredge,
House at Lawrence, pleaded guilty in
the district court tho other day to the
charge of selling liquor in violation of
the law. He was sentenced about noon
to thirty days in Jail and 10 pay finc of
500. Several prominent citizens took
the noon train for Topeka and at four
o'clock returned with pardon from the
Governor
L. t. FEHRILI, q prominent citizen of
Wichita, was attacked by a bull the
other morning on his ranch in the cast
ern part OF Sedwick County and fatally
injured.
THE people of Hutchinson have voted
$50, 600 bonds for a new school building.
A PALACE horse car. which had been
standing for few days on the Union
Pacific side track at Junction City, was
found to be on fire the other morning.
When the flames were ext:nguishcd the
body of an unknown man was pulled out
of the car, dead from suffocation. Let,
tiers were found in a coat pocket from
Emma Vogt, Grape Creek, Ill, addressed
to John Vogt at Denver and Manitou,
Col.
]. o. WELLS, an active Salvation
Army worker at Nevada. Mo-. has been
arrested and taken to Olathe on a charge
of forgery committed over year ago.
He confessed and went without requi-
sition-
JOHN HARRISON was recently convicted
at Emporia of classifying the census re-
turns of that city and Lyon County for
the purpose of obtaining larger salary.
No sentence was passed and an appeal
will be taken
WILLIAM C. FULLER, who represented
} himself to be the son of a leading
banker at Pratt. had check cashed al
a cigar stand at Wichita the other even
ing for SIS. Mrs James Erwin. who
owns the stand soon afterward sus-
pected that the check had been forged
and started to find Fuller. She ran
across him coming out of q joint. seized
bin. forced him TO the pavement and
; awaited the arrival of an officer Fulles
! admitted that the check was forged