The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

a telegram was received in Atehison /
recently from Colorado Springs an I
nouncing the death of Father Ambrose /
Rank, prOcurator of St BenediCt's col /
legs Of that city He had been a suf- /
ferer from an affection of the throat 1
FOR several years and went to Colorado /
Springs in hope OF regaining his health. |
One hundred delegates, representing
every organization which claims al
to the peoples party, met at |
Topeka on the 2Oth and organized the
alliance commercial convention. 4
organization was effected by [
electing Noah Allen, of Wichita chair
man, and Fred Bailey, of Wichita, secre- /
tary.
a storm on the 21st did great damage
to crops in eastern and northeastern
Kansas In Wyandotte county the hail
was particularly destructive, corn
vegetables and fruit in many places be-
several houses were blown down. The
damage in Atchison county was report
ed to be $50, 600.
While attending the normal institute
at Wichita the other day J. j. Curtis,
principal of the Derby schools, and one
of the leaders of the institute, was ar
rested upon the charge of adultery with
Mrs Lille Albert wife of Clark Albert
The institute had been in session sew
eral weeks and Curtis had been board
ing with the Alberts, The woman CON
fessed and Curtis was sent to jail
a committee from Wichita waited
upon Gov. Humphrey the other day and
asked that change be made in ths
board of police commissioners of that
city. The committee represented the
ministers and temperance people OF
Wichita, and charged that the pro
hibitOry law was violated in that city
with the knowledge OF the police COM
missioners and that the only steps
taken to prevent it was a system of
fines
Warren Ring, who deluded Miss Kate
Callahan, an orphan of Cincinnati, into
the belief that he was going to marry
her and then got away with the whole
of her small fortune and Who when
confronted by her assaulted her, had
his trial at Wichita the other day for
assault before a justice of the peace
and was sentenced to six months in
Jail. Miss Callahan, will further prose
cute him for obtaining money by false
pretenses
Contracts between the AnglO-Amer-
lean Cotton Milling Co. and property
owners of Kansas City, Kan, have been
signed, which insures the ere ction of "a
gigantic cotton mill in that city. The
I Anglo Cotton Milling Co. has
/ a capital stock of 81, $50, 600 paid up
]
/ The company is chartered under the
/ laws of Kansas The entire plant viii
cover about 65Ox450 feet, and will cost
/ when completed in the neighborhood
of S1,25O, 900
1 Henry White, a single man, went to
! the house of James Slisher, about three
| miles north Of Emporia, the other
( night and called Mr.. 5fishGr mp, stating
/ that he had a message for him While
. Slisher was lighting a lamp White shot
him in the side. Slisher grappled with
his assaiiant and put him out but while
. trying to shut the door White fired
through the door. the ball passing
( through Sisher's neck. White hed,
but was subsequently arrested
Ann Green, twenty-one years Of age,
poisoned herself with strychniHe at
Topeka the other afternoon She came
to Topeka the previous week from New
Boston, III, in search of VIII lam Gala
han, the father of her child, who sue
ceeded in eHecting a settlement with
her and secured her signature TO a con
! tract absOiving him from all RESPONSE
biIity upon the payment of S1OO. He
l appeared at the house where the girl
was stopping shortly after she had
taken the fatal dose and the girl died
in his arms The money paid her the
girl inclosed in an envelope to heI
mother.
ne 4OBEAAd GaDALlL SHOWS from
ports of registers of deeds a remarsza BILE
record of farm mortgage releases in
sixty counties of Kansas foE the moEtf
of July. This compilation, which doe.
not include any proceeds from the years
bOuntifu1 crop, shows that while july
was not a debt-paying month, the ne
reductions in sixty counties was S3sl,
45S. The total excess of farm mort
cages released in forty-eight counties
for the period averaging three and q
third mouths prior to August 1, 1891
was 81, 1914 0STs or 205z per cent 1t IL
believed that there viii be a release o.
SO, O0O, 600 OF money of farm mortgag,
indebtedness in Kansas before the enc
of the present year.
The Order of Immaculates, a colore,
organization, recently held their aunu
al meeting at Atshison- The followin,
officers were chosen: c. ). johnson
general master, Topeka; E s. Smelling
deputy grand master, Memphis, Tenn.
T. II. TTaynor, grand treasurer, Mem
phis; G. b TUrbins grand financial sec
retary, Topeka; r A Dareth, grand re
cOrding secretary, Memphis; Elijal
Green, assistant grand recording secre
, tary, Atchisoni C. C. Laws, grand secrs
tary, Atchison; W l. Hudspeth, gran
marshal, Valley Falls; william Wathall
grand messenger, Hiawathai W. A
Wade, grand herald, Oklahoma City
3 GGoAHG GAG4aEQa1ls OUTSIDE guards LQ
pekas William Davis inside guarl
Memphis L Smith, grand nationa
! deputy, Topeka
} Near Turner the other day a tear
! belonging 70 George Mick. q farulel
took fright at q Santa Fe train and "a
away A young man and Nellie 1Iicl
the seven-year-oid daughter OF th
farmer, were ia the wagon, which wa
. stEnclE by the train and the girl instun
= " killed
, George Grant. a merchant was 2,
= l Gently killed by lightning at Pratt
: The annual reunion of JsHerso
I county old soldiers took place q
! Osewlis on the 18th with over g. ol
I people in attendance The speaker
were Depsrt-uent Commander Tin n.
Carthy, Adj. Gen Campbell and Judq
! SPeeE
: The general western branch of ia
> I English and American Mortgage Co. &
3 / LonGoa. Eng, located 80 Kansas Cit
, Kaa-s Was recently attached by III
p United States r1arsha1 70 sa6sfy ia
p claims OF credftozA-