The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

a lew days ago whose mother is outV
sixteen years old the grandmother,
who was present is thirty-tvFo, and the
great-grandmOther,w who was also pres
ent. is fftY-tyvO-
Bishop Fink, Of LeavenVFortb has,
by direction of the pope, removed his
episcopal residence to Kansas City,
Kan, and the name Of the diocese has
been changed to Kansas City. A hand
some residence has been purchased FOR
the bishop and n site for schools Sc
cured
The reform press association recent
4y held a meeting at Salina and elected
officers as follows: President A. C.
Pattee, Of the Salina Union vice-presi-
dent W. s. Wait, OF the Lincoln Beacons |
secretary, s. McLailin, of the Topeka
| Advocate Arrangements were made
for an excursion to the Rocky mount
aims
The state Farmers Alliance at Sn-
lima elected w. H Biddle, of Butler
county, president; Mrs Fannie R.
Vicl1ery, vice-president; J. B. French.
| secretary; A. C. Easter, treasurer; s.
| NJ Scott, lecturer and Mrs Fannie
Mccormick, assistant lecturer. Frank
/ McGrath declined nomination for re-
election as president
Benson, under sentence Of death at
Leavenworth for the murder of Mrs
| Mettman, was recently discovered stor-
| ing away material for the purpose OF
i cheating the galloyys- He had by some
means secured knife and was also ac-
/ cumulating poison by soaking the
heads of matches He will be hanged
| November 5 unless the president inter
venes-
| The Encouragement has filed with
/ the supreme court an application and
! affidavit for a mandamus in the case of
/ the state Of Kansas against the Kansas
| Central Railroad Co. and the Union Pa
cific Railroad Co, defendants. This is
l the beginning of an action to compel
| the Kansas Central road to relay its
/ track with steel rails, according to the
/ order of the railroad commissioner.
President Cross, of the Missouri, Kan
! sas & Texas railroad, having said that
the offices would be removed to Par
! sons at once in compliance with the
charter under which the road is oper-
ated, the Encouragement said recent
/ ly that if the road is making these
! statements in good faith the matter
| will be dropped, but If they do not re-
move the offices to some Kansas point
they may expect trouble.
/ Following are the names OF tho
/ United States Senators who have
served from Kansas: James H. Lane,
! 1861 to 1866; Samuel c. POmeroy, l86I
1 to 1873; Edmund q. Ross, 1866 to 1871;
| Alexander Caldwell. 1871 to 1874; Rob
/ ert Crozier, 1878 to 1874; John J. Ingalls,,
4 1873 to 1891; James NJ. Harvey, 1874 to
| 1877 Preston b Plumb, elected in 1877.
| still in the senate; William A. PETER,
| elected to serve from March 4, 1891,
/ takes his seat in Decem Der next
The Office of the Missouri river stone
company at Atchisou was blown to
pieces the other morning with giant
/ powder. Twenty men working in q
| quarry near by were covered with
| debris, but no one was seriously hurt
! A part of the building was carried into
/ the river. A magazine ten feet from
/ the Office, containing thirty kegs Of
powder, did not explode. As no powder
was kept in the office, the explosion
/ was thought to have been the work of
/ discharged employees.
A late wreck on the Santa Fe road
! ten miles south of Wichita, resulted in
! the instantaneous death of two men,
| fatal injuries to another and the fragt-
/ uring and scalding of two more. The
men were on an engine sent down to
| the relief of a stock train ditched near
{ Derby and which jumped the track.
/ The killed were Frank Mulvey, yard
| MASTER Thomas Wade, fireman. Fa-
! tally injured, Phil Reimer, engineer,
/ both legs fractured and terribly burned.
| Badly hurt, Frank Young, leg bro ken,
/ and Jim Martin, fractured leg and ribs
! All resided at Wichita
Gov. Humphrey has addressed a let
] ter to the Encouragement, informing
| him that the governor is unOfhcially iu-
formed that the Missouri Kansas &
/ Texas railway has not yet obeyed the
| order to remove their headquarters
/ from SedRlias No, to Kansas, in com
! pliance with the Kansas law, which
! requires corporations chartered in Kan
/ sas TO maintain headquarters in the
/ state The governor directs the at
! torney-general to ascertain II his in
| formation is correct and, If it is so
] T-vauaE 70 E,a n fFrnrunaH lat
proceedings to revoke the railway
/ eomPany's charter.
At the seventh biennial concIave of
the grand legion OF Select Knights A.
/ o. u. w, of Kansas, recently held at
! Armourdale, the following officers were
chosen: Grand commander, Ed Wheel
/ er, Colony; grand Vice-cOmmander, w.
T. Bancroft, Kansas City, grand leu
! tenant-commander.D D. S. Cassell. Belle
! vile; grand recorder, Z. NJ Forde,
EmpOriai grand treasurer, A j. Hun
! tOOn, Topeka; grand standard-bearer,
Henry Wolf, Parsons; grand senior
/ workman, H v Nelson, McPhersOui
| grand junior workman, S. II. Neon
nell, williamsburg grand guard, L. p.
Shelly. Kingman; grand medical direct
or, ]. B. Hibbiu. Topeka grand trustee,
G. z Gilmore, Independence; supreme
representative, j. A Regneu, McPhsr-
soui George W. Reed, Topeka, and E.
I NJ. FOrde, EmpoFia.
A Rock Island freight train parted
/ few miles east of Lawrence the other
I night The rear section crashed into
the forward part and W. 4 Rice, of
| Horton, head brakeman, was pinned
/ between two cars. He was badly in
jursd His left leg was Amputated and
he may recover. Eleven freight cars
/ were ditched
Mrs Samuel Bunch, of Argentine,
! met agOHizing death IN southern
! Missouri the other dav. She was camp
ing with a party OF friends near Butler
and while preparing dinner over .
/ campfire her dress took IRE and she
was burned to death before assistance
reached her.
August Shumire, nineteen years of
age and employed at the Kansas City,
Kan, stock ward, had aleg cut OF BY q
Union Pacific switch engine the other
day