The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

twice. this trial LISTING a week
The other morning a train on the
| Rock Island cOliided with a rapid tran
/ sit train at crossing near Leaven-
worth, by which both engines were
! disabled and two men badly but not
/ fatally injured
The annual encampment of veterans
I at Ellsworth was attended by about
70, 900 old soldiers Most OF the C. 4. R
! posts were represented Addresses
l were made by Lew Hanback,. Senator
Plumb. Commander Mccarthy and
/ others.
/ william Harris of Kansas City, Kan,
/ took his family to witness the Priests Of
/ Pal.as parade at Kansas City, No, and
I left a lamp burning in his house. Upon
returning he found his property de-
/ strOyed By FIRE, the lamp having eX-
/ plOded- The loss was 81, 600; insured
/ The Wood Monument association, of
/ WOOdsdale, filed its charter with tho
/ secretary of state the other day TIe
! object of this association is to raise
| funds for suitable monument for Col
! S. n. Wood, and the capital stock is
I placed at $40. 600. 1t is proposed that
! the money shall be raised by tcu-ceut
subscriptions.
/ At an early hour the other morning
/ an old veteran named John Williams,
stationed at the soldiers home was
/ run over and instantly killed by an en-
/ CINE on the Kansas City, Wyaudotte *
/ Northwestern railroad. He is sup
! posed to have been under the influence
| OF liquor, and is said to have been lying
/ across the track asleep.
At Medicine Lodge the other day
/ Judge Mckay sentenced Cora BENNETT
/ who killed Billie Morris at EiOwa
/ few weeks ago, to six months in the
! county Jail Morris was the jointist
/ king of southern Kansas and during
/ the last eight years he had accumulated
] $50, coo. Cora Bennett had been his
mistress for the last three years and
| shot him for casting her off for another
woman
/ Clyde Maddox was the other evening
| found guilty in the federal court
/ at Wichita of the murder of
l John Mullen. in Oklahoma City,
/ in Decem Der, 1889. Mullen was
shot dead while standing at his
own door. Maddox was tried at the
| last term of the court for the murder
/ Of Deputy United States Marshal How
/ ard in Oklahoma City, but was &C
| quilted
/ John Woods, Of Oklahoma City, was
/ found guilty of munsluughter in the
| United States court at Wichita the
other day. The jury was out three
| and a-half days Two years ago Woods
shot and killed a building contractor
] uatAAGG 1AALAIh az SA41AADAAA1 NAgFu
the last term of the United States court
he was tried for murder and the jury
! failed to agree This time the indict-
ment was modified to manslaughter.
Some time ago when D. w. Wilder
/ held the office of insurance commits
| siouer assessmeu insurance companies
/ attempted to secure licenses to do busi-
ness in Kansas, and the commissioner
. refused to grant them the authority,
| 4 few weeks ago the question as
| brought to the attention of the commits
sioner, this time through the aPPiica-
ton OF the Bankers Life association OF
! Des Moiues. Superintendent Mcbride
| refused to grant the license, thereby
sustaining his predecessors ruling.
j. II hurry was found dead in bed
| at the Continental hotel in Leaven-
. worth about four o'clock the other
afternoon He registered at the hotel
/ the previous night as from Kansas City
and was at once shown TO his room
/ Not making an appearance his room
/ was entered, when he was found dead
BY his side was small piece of writing
paper, upon which was plainly written
with a lead pencil the following: 81 am
/ afraid have taken too large a dose OF
morphine; If anything happens to me
| wire Hicks, Gephart s. Co, bankers, at
/ Valley Falls, Kan. They will pay all -"
The statute of 1891 concerning the
issuing of city, school district and
| other bonds has already interfsred with
the in provemeut by bond business in
Kansas. The former law res tricted the
| issuance of bonds to ten per cent Of
the valuation of property, but the last
legislature reduced the limit TO six per
cent. thereof Arkansas City is the
I first corporation to run against the new
statute. Before the law was passed it
had issued in bonds more than six per
cent of its property valuation, and
now it sends to the auditor of state for
registration $40, 600 in waterworlcs
bonds and they cannot be registered OF
course.
Detectives recently arrested Amos
Avery, of Fort Scott charging him
with the murder of n travelling man
famed j. A. Miles, near the town OF
Arcadia. A few days previous Niles
body was found in hay stack with a
bullet hole Ia his head The murdered
man and a companion were travelling in
a cart, and the companion, horse aud
cart were missing after the night on
which the crime was committed Avery
was found at work in the Galeun min
ing district When arrested he had on
the suit OF clothes and hat worn by
the murdered man The hat had the
name of j. A. Miles in it The horse
had been sold and the cart was found
near GaIeua- The prisoner was taken
TO Lamar, Mo, and lodged in jail He
is only twenty years old, but mas all
ready served a term in the Peniten-
tiary
Melbourne, the wizard rainmaker.
has had a hard time zPerimsnting at
Goodland. Every time he got ready to
bring rain he had to postpone it on
account of the weather" 1t raiued be-
! fore he was ready
| Alexander Cooley, colOrcd, shot hiuI-
self dead at Wichita the other morning,
, He was in good circumstance and no
J one is able to account for his suicide
A theory of murder has been advanced,
but II seemed improbable
william Lauing was found dead 10y
his wife in the barn lot south invest oi
Topeka the other day Hogs were de
vouring his body and IL was thought hS
, had been killed by a vicious bull
/ Ex-senator Ingaus has received O
. personal invitation from Mai. McKin-
ley TO make several speeches in Ohic
and has accepted.