The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-06

Hon Jacob StOtler has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Wellington.
The president has appointed w. W.
Apperson, of Kansas, consul at Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
Hon j. L. Andrews, member of the
house from Cowley county, died at To-
peka on the 27th of diphtheria, after an
illness OF only d few days.
Chief Justice 4. II. Horton, of the
supreme court, was taken quite i'll with
pleurisy of the heart while attending
the funeral of Gen. Sherman at St.
Louis.
Policeman Yoost, of Leavenworth,
who some time ago entered the prem
fses of Carl Mueller, without warrant,
IN search of liquors and was driven
away by Mueller and his wife, was
subsequently fined $50 by Justice Plow-
man.
The alliance editors met at Hutchin-
son recently and organized the reform
press association of Kansas, with the
following officers; President, W. A.
PETER, of Topeka; vice-president, A. c.
Pattee, of Salina; secretary and treas
urer, s. McLaflin, of Topeka; executive
board, d. 7. Armstrong, of Great Bend;
c. Vincent, of Arkansas City, and \. H.
Harris, of lola
John Crawford, a negro, made a vi
cious criminal assault upon Mrs. Max
well, widow, in the suburbs of Wichi-
ia the other day, and her cries attracted
the attention of Charles BOusman, who
fastened to her assistance, when the
negro struck him with a spade, render
ing him insensible, and then fed. He
was subsequently captured and fully
identified.
Over twenty years ago Jules Robbins,
of Turner, WyandOtte county, was bit
ten by dog supposed to be mad. No
unfavOrable symptoms resulted until
very recently, when Mr.. Robbins was
taken i'll with every appearance of ny
drophobia- He had to be strapped to
his bed and expressed his fears that his
disease was the result of the bite he
ceived twenty years ago.
The ArmOurdale elevator and Kelley's
cooper shops at Kansas City, Kan,
We're destroyed by fire on the night of
the 9th, together with forty freight
cars, including twelve cars of flour.
two of ats, two of corn meal
and 5000 bushels of wheat. The
entire loss was estimated at S125, 600.
. The loss sustained by the elevator and
railroads was fully covered by insur-
ance.
The directors and depositors of the
Peoples Savings bank at AtchisOn,
which recently failed, have come to a
settlement. The directors will put up
cash enough to pay all depOsitors of $50
or under. and Will give bond to pay all
others within two and half years. The
and if the notes and mortgages can all
be collected the directors will lose moth
ing.
The agent of an English company
with an authorized capital of 81, 600, coo,
organized under the laws of New York,
was recently in AtchisOn for the pur-
pose of obtaining figures on defaulted
Kansas mortgages 1t is said the com
pany proposes to buy up all such mort
cages that can be obtained at a salts
factory discount and foreclose them.
Having secured the titles, the lands Will
be offered to actual settlers on ten or
twenty years time at low rate of in
terest.
In Sedgwick county the othe. Gay a
farmer killed some hogs and left them
hanging in his yard over night. Next
morning one carcass was missing and
Martin esPied some distance OFF what
seemed to be a man leaning against a
fence Going up to the man Martin
found James Durham dead with a
broken neck. his body on one side of the
fence and the hog hanging on the other.
The body was quite stiff Evidently
Durham, while trying TO cross the fence
had fallen, around his neck hung the
hogs carcass suspended by the gam brel
stick
Joe NIulhatten aud the ground hog
went into winter quarters Highland,
Doniphan county, and on ground hog
day both came out The ground hog
went back into his quarters. but Joe
staid out and Immediately commenced
sending his yarns to various papers
His first was that a farmer had found q
pot OF gold and silver tvery ancient
Spanish coins) valued at SIS, OOO, that had
been buried by pirates many years ago
This set all the farmers OF the vicinity
digging for gold, only to learn that the
story was a fake" The next story was
that. while a man was sea ted at the sup
per table meteor weighing fifteen hum
tlred pounds struck and demolished q
portion Of his house and buried itself in
the earth Both stories are pronounced
savIFy- fslsr-;rafious