The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

other morning Robert McNair and |
Frank Storey were probably fatally |
hurt A passing train frightened their |
horse, the buggy was upset and both |
men thrown under the animals heels
and badly trampIed on.
CHARLES EVERSoN and a friend. of
Lindsborg, were recently fooling with
a revolver which neither thought was
loaded. when it was discharged into
Everson's right lung.
JUDGE BENSON, in the district court
of Douglas County, has decided that the
city ordinance of Lawrence prohibiting
the sale of cider by the glass is valid
The other afternoon Rev. ]. r.
Rhoades, pastor of the NJ. E Church at
Girard, with his wife started for the
country in one-horse buggy to perform
a wedding ceremony. While crossing an
iron bridge, spanning Lightning creek,
the horse became unmanageable and
backed of the abutment, about twenty
feet. The horse fell upon Mr.. Rhoades.
who was so seriously injured that he
died in a few hours. Mrs. Rhoades
jumped out of the buggy before it went
over the embankment and was not hurt
The horse escaped without injury.
DIR. j. ]. MEDIICoTT who was charged
with poisoning l. NJ. Ruth at Lawrence
in 1871, tried and sentenced to be
hanged, but upon appeal to the Supreme
Court got new trial and was released,
died recently at Beaver Falls, Pa.
| IDA ID. BENNETT recently shot herself
with revolver at the residence of D.
II. Stone, in Emporia, where she had
been rooming. Miss Bennett was teach
ing in the art department of the PresBy-
terrain College the past year and failei
of reappo: ntment She claimed that
the revolver was accidentally discharged
while she was alone packing her trunk
preparatory for trip to Chicago. butitis
generally thought the act was inten-
tional. The doctors said she could not
live, the ball having entered the left
breast near the heart.
THE Missouri Pacific Railroad Cold-
pany has refused to put a passenger
train on the Leroy & Caney Valley
branch, as ordered by the Railroad Com
! missioners. The matter will probably
be tested in the courts.
: The petitioners of Riley County for
the removal of the county seat from
Manhattan could not secure within 200
names of the necessary number to Sc
cure an election.
SEVENTEEN years ago the graduating
class of the state University numbered
four students. At the recent COM
mencement sixty-three young ladies
} and gentlemen, representing the acad-
) emic and pharmaceutical departments,
received their diplomas. The number
+ of graduates this year exceeded the to-
tai enrolment of students in the first
university year.
' FRANK LA FAvER. of Rosedale, re-
Gently shot his wife and then shot him
> self. Neither received fatal wound.
/ The cause of the act was the infidelity
3 of the woman.
THE State Normal School at Emporia
/ mas closed very successful year. The
number enrolled in the normal depart
a ment was 90S, and in the model school
212, limited number only being adj
a mitted to the model school. Over 400
students held teachers certificates on
. entering. Seventy-ive held first grade
t and 900 second grade on entering. More
than 800 are over twenty-one years OF
/ age, 1Os being over twenty-five years of
age. The graduating class this year
f numbered fifty-three. The average age
g of the class is twenty-five years. the
n youngest being seventeen, the Oldest
l. thirty-five.
n FREEMAN BRAMBAUGH, a contractor OF
, Wichita, recently took laudanum be-
n cause of domestic troubles, and may
= die.
i EIGHTY-FoUR delegates met in con-
vention at Representative Hall in Tope-
a ka on the 18th and organized 1.-The Peo-
g pies party" Its convention to nominate
a State ticket will be called not later
e than August and straight ticket will
g be placed in the field in each of the
/ seven Congressional districts. The del
egates present represented the Farmers
n Alliance, Knights of Labor, Farmers
n Mutual Benefit Association, Patrons OF
n Husbandry and Single Tax clubs.
v WHEN the case of Major J. K. Hud.
son, of the Topeka Capital, was recently
l. called in the United States Circuit Court
l. at Leavenworth, in which he was in
n dicted for embezzlement in making
}. overcharges for publishing legal notices
II of the United States District Court, it
r was thrown out of court
g PROF. Snow was recently installed as
g Chancellor of the State University with
appropriate ceremonies. The trustees
l. of Princeton College have unanimously
k conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws
IS upon Chancellor Snow.
d F. +. HOPKINS was awarded 81, 500 in
5. the United States court at Leavenworth
u the other day against the st. Louis &
San Francisco railway for injuries re
ceived at lebanon, Mo-, while riding
in a caboose on pass.
Q THE total assessed valuation of Kansas
y railroads this yearis S57, 1868, 557.
THE acreage put to corn in Kansas
y this year is estimated at about 1000, 600
T. SECRETARY WINDOW recently sent a
communication to the House recon-
l. mending an appropriation of So, 900 for
y the heating apparatus and elevator and
% for the completion of the public build
ing at Wichita.
L A ]. DECKER. proprietor of two large
(. general merchandise stores in North
g Lawrence. assigned recently. Liabil
l. tiles, S23, 600; assets, $4,000. He had
l. been in business at Lawrence for about
g twenty years
4 AN addition has been made to tn,
7. number of educational institutions in
IS Topeka by the location there of the
20 University of Topeka, established b,
10 the Methodist Church of Kansas. Tit
IS building is to be three stories high, pa
feet long and 100 feet wide. The cost il
n to be $50, 600.
E. A RECENT fire that started in Long i
IN Wallis livery stable at Topeka destroyed
IS the stable, also Brooks & Miller's lum
ID Der yard. A. s Longs residence
y. Walters blacksmith shop Seevy 4
70 Morton's carriage shop and P. M
N Hughes paint shop. Twenty-Five horse.
K. were burned. The loss was SIS, 900; in
j. surance, $4,000.
~ THE county auditor of Sumner Count,