The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Seymour Thomas, Of Kansas City,
Kan, an engineer on the Rock Island
road, was killed BY d late wreck OF his
train at AIerton, lowe
John Murphy, a Santa Fe brakeman,
" as killed in the Newton yards at two
o'clock the other morning. He Leaves
C widow and three children
The president of the Kansas fedora
tion Of labor says vigorous campaign
viii be inaugurated against the .vio-
lators of the eight-hOur law
o. v Cook, a switchmun in the Santa
Fe yard at Topeka. was killed the
other night while uucoupliug cars lie
was dfty-two years old anc leaves
wife and two children.
The executive committee Of the peo-
ple's party state central com mittee re-
Gently met at Topeka and deciIed TO
establish permanent political head
quarters at Topeka
David Evans, a colored boy, was re-
Gently playing in a yard at Leaven-
worth where some horses were run
ming loose, when one OF them kicked
him, inficting fatal injuries.
At its late meeting at Topeka the
peoples party central committee re-
fused to accept the resignation OF Chair
man Dumbauld, but put the work into
the hands OF an executive committee
headed by =. w. Chase
The two-year-old son of J. Huggins,
an eNpressman OF Marysville. was re-
Gently burned to death by q patent
lighter. The oil became detached from
the handle aud in trying to eNtiuguish
the blaze the clothes of the child took
fire
On the night of the 27th Wichita had
three inCcndiary fires in as many barns
The fires We're in different quarters OF
the city. In the first three horses were
lost and another horse was destroyed
in the second. The loss aggregated
about e., 500
II. NJ Northrup, a leading banker
and business man of Kansas City,
Kan, was recently stricken with
paralysis aud was in critical Coudi-
ton lie is passed seventy-three years
OF age aud one Of the pioneers Of the
western frontier.
Lem johnson. colored, was shot the
other day while helping q ueighbor
butcher a hog, at Atchisou. The gun
/ with which the killing was TO be done
/ was accidentally discharged while In
! the hands of a man named Highbuugh.
and the load entered JOhuson's fore
/ head. He could not recover.
s. F. Burdette, grand scribe of the
| grand encampmeHt T. o. o. F., aud who
for twenty-seveu years held the Office
/ Of grand ecrstary, died at Leavsu-
worth on the 27th from the effect of a
/ paralytic stroke received about week
/ previous He was about seventy three
l years of age
Reuben Marshall, a railroad engineer,
/ and his fireman left Fort Scott the
other day for a hunt They had not
/ been gone long before the gun of the
| fireman was accidentally discharged
and the contents lodged in Marsbali's
/ breast and arms. The injury was
I thought not to be fatal
/ A poor woman with three small chill
/ ireu lately reached Fort Scott in search
/ of the husband, who had deserted his
/ family. His name is j. r. Stanley, a
| carpenter. The deserted wife found
| that he was living with another woman
/ who he had married When Stanley
/ discovered that his deserted wife was
| after him he Jumped on a train just
| leaving and escaped
! Valentine Vent, an assistant press
I man of the LcavenvForth Times, was
! recently killed by q shock OF electricity.
/ He was about to adjust lamp over a
! press when his hand came in contact
/ with wire thai was partially dead, "
/ the current having been turned of on
! account of a IRE il the city Suddenly
/ q full current was turned on that
/ passed through Vents body. He gave
/ one loud scream and fell to the floor
| lifeless
D
/ the registers of deeds in Gfty coun-
/ ties OF eastern and central Kansas
] show reduction for October In farm
and city mortgage inde ebtedness of
! S361, 600, of which $500, 600 was on farm
| lands. The same reports show a net
t reduction of 81. 800 600 in farm mort
/ gage indebtedness for a period of I've
I and oue-half months, and an excess OF
/ 25 per cent of farm mortgages released
I over those recorded 1t is also shown
Z that in the majority of cases where the
{ farmers remortgage it is for a reduced
| amount, but since land sales are becom-
ing more active the number of pur-
chase money mortgages is increasing
I from month to month
The last legislature enacted a law
| providing that no legal notice, adver-
. tisemeut or publication OF any kind re-
I quired or provided by any Of the laws
. Of the state OF Kansas to be published
[ IN newspaper shall have any effect as
such unless the same be published in q
. newspaper of the county having gem
sral circulation therein, and which
said newspaper has been continuously 3
and uniuterruptedly published In said
county duEing the perion Of fifty-two
consecutive weeks prior to the FIRST
publication OF the notice or advertise
ment- The omission Of publishers, in
making affidavit, to state that the
pa AlgA Aa-A Ag9AA lA-AAAaAAs7eA -a4a NaA ~
consecutive weeks in the county has
''lcnoclzed OUT a number Of cases in
court lately
! Miss Palmer who was recently cut
ting a wide svyEth ct Topeka in the E5&l
worm business and who induced Frani
bfcClelland, a capitalist, TO invest iu
the enterprise, has been held TO answer
the charge of obtaining money by false
pretsnse- The sacred silk worms OF
India" it Is said. were nothing but
I English mustard seed
Nay, the ssvsu-mOuths-old babe OF
Mr.. aud Mrs Joseph Fortune, of Kan
sas City. Kan. was burned 70 death
the other morning. The mother left
I her babe tied in a chair near the stove
with a four-year-old child 70 watch IL
while she went 20 the meat market and
BY some means its clothes took 6re-
just before daylight the ether morn
ing q burglar entered the hard ware
store OF W. 1fcLain at Valiant he
Lain had been robbed a few mouths