The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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delegates to the river convention TO be !
held at Kansas City, No, December IS
and ID
The superintendent OF insurance is
bringing q number Of insurance COM
panies to time that have heretofore
failed to comply with the insurance
law.
In the United States district court ct
Topeka Judge Philips sentenced
Charles Rowe to the Penitentiary for
two years for perPetratiuE fraud
in securing a pension
Two boys while recently hunting
near EmPoria discovered the skeleton
of q humaa being lying by a valise.
They were 50 frightened that they ran
away and left it for Others 90 investi-
gate
Fire at Ozage City recently destroyed
StaelrhOuse & CObb's livery barn, eight
cen head of horses and many carriages
Loss Sc, 600 insurance $1,000 A num-
Der of other business houses also
burned
Clara HawIey, a young woman em-
ployed at the Byram hotel in Atchison,
was run over and killed by a Missouri
Pacific switch engine while walking on
the track at a crossing in that city the
other afternoon. She was nineteen
years old.
Quo warrantO proceedings have been
instituted by Attorney General Ives in
the state supreme court which may
lead to the Reorganization Of Kansas
City, Kan, and its return to the old
corporations of WyaddOtta. Armour
dale and Kansas City. ArmourdaIe is
seeking the divorce.
DR. D. w Hamlin, of Kansas City,
Kan, was arrested the other night On
complaint of his mother-iu-law, who
charged him with abductiug his wife
and child 4au14fu rrruu7afad
about two years ago to a LeavenwOrth
young woman, and recently decided her
mis- property, as he was involved 6nan-
cially. The matter was adjusted.
The board of managers of the worlds
fair has found it necessary to incorpO-
rate. The member from each congress
siOnal district will organize his terri
tory to work supplementary 70 the
state board, and espe cially to take care
of the county organization. which has
assumed great proportion Indication
of a fitting Kansas exhibit at Chicago
could not be better.
Three judgments were recently
allowed in the United States court at
Topeka against the county commission
ers of DOniPhan county on the coupons
of the old bonds issued in aid of the
St Joseph & Western railway twenty
years ago The awards were to the
following persons in the amount
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James Thompson, 81, 76a %, and Ed
ward Bingham, So, G2L.33.
Inthe United States district court at
| Topeka the other morning Michael
Willard pleaded guilty to rObbing the
post Office at Armourdale and was
sentenced to one years imprisonment
| The robbery was committed on the
/ night of December 2. 1890. Willard Sc
| cured postage stamps to the amount of
/ $500. man who assisted him in
| spending the proceeds from the sale of
/ the stamps gave the information which
led to Wizards arrest
A letter lately received a. Atchison
stated that Bernard Schmitz, a prosper
! Gus farmer of that county, who went
! back to Germany two months ago to
| visit his old home after an absence OF
| twenty-three years, was arrested Es a
! desertsr from the German army, and
! is now serving as a soldier. Schmitz's
| family will take immediate steps to-
/ ward securing his release. They say
| that he became citizen of the United
| States nearly twenty years ago
/ Oscar Gordon, said to be from New
/ York, was recently arrested at Wichita
| having on his person about 81, 600 in
! counterfeit greenbaclzs, besides a large
! amount of good money. evidently taken
/ in exchange for queer, as mum Der of
| merchants to k in bad notes the day
before. lie was lodged in the city
! prison Tor several hours and when the
/ officers went for the purpose of trans
/ ferring him to the county Jail he was
| missing, having evidently been re-
/ leased by confederetes on the outside.
The Kansas sanitary copven ton, un-
| der the auspices of the state board OF
health, recently held a two days ses-
| sion at Salina- Chancellor Snow de-
! livered an address, explaining in detail
the work he is accomplishing on the
chinch bugs He is preparing his first
| annual report from the chinch bug exc
| pertinent station and in it he will pub
lish nearly 1000 reports from farmers
who have used the sXtermiuatOrs and
500 OF them are highly favorable. The
! farmers have each estimated the value
of the grain saved by Prof. Shows exc
| pertinent and he says the total esti-
mate, at Z low figure, is $500, 600.
The other day daring robbery, ac-
companied by an attempt to kill, was
| perPetrated by two unknown men at
the residence of w. W. Thompson, a
wealthy farmer living just outside the
city limits of Wichita Mrs Thomp-
son and her little daughter were alone
/ in the house when the two thieves en-
tered and drew revOlvers One re-
marked that they would have to tie
Mrs Thompson and started towards
her with a rope, whereupon she fed
towards the door, but was stopped by
q Dullet winch passed through her
dress and grazed the skin Of her shout
der. The murderous villains then
bound and gagged her and went
through the house, securing $500 in
cash and lot OF trinkets and silver
ware.
Charles Calvert, OF AfuscOtah, Atch-
isOn county, was shot through the right
temple and instantly killed at EmPoFis
the other evening by David l. Stanley,
Of Colbert. Lincoln county. Both were
students ia the state normal school,
and the kiliiag was accidental.
Harry Shortridge, aged eighteen
years, and son of a fruit-gFoVver living
near Leavenworth. was accidentally
shot and killed the other evening while
ont hunting with g party of young
friends.
| o wing to the necessity OF settling the
late GOV. John A Martins estate. the