The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Frank MeKoon. aged Is years, wko
lived at Fontana, was run over and
killed by freight engine on the Gulf
road at that place the other day
The United States Savings bank at
Topeka has made an assignment for
the benefit OF its creditors The presi-
dent, ". c. Knox, is a son OF John D.
Knox, who also failed some time since
The Kansas delegation to the third
party conference to be held in Cincin-
natl May 20 will leave Topeka May Ia.
Two Pullman cars have been engaged
for the accommodation OF those who
viii attend from this state.
William B. MunsOn, agent in Kansas
City, Kan, of the Royal Insurance Co.
of Liverpool, the Northern of London
and the Hamburg-Bremen of Germany,
has been arrested charged with the en-
bezzling of 81, 400 belonging to the vari-
Gus companies. The money was lost in
gam bling.
Reports received at the agricultural
department from 90 of the 100 counties
in the state bring encouraging news re
gardiug the wheat outlook In four
hfths of the counties reporting the crop
is better than ever before reported in
the history of the state.
careful examination of the condi-
ton of the wheat in Clay county showed
the county. The acreage of last fall
was % cent. more than that of any pre-
ceding year, and, coupled with the eS
ceiIent condition of the plant makes
the prospect for heavy crop most en-
cOuraging.
The receipts of live stock at the Kan
sas City, Kan, stock yards for the week
ended March Is, We're 1850 cattle, 263
calves, II, ~ hogs, 6,261 sheep and 657
horses and mules. Twenty head of
choice beef cattle from LeavenwOrth
county, weighing on an average 1000
pounds, were sold at $40, the highest
for many months
Marshall t Frame, PrOmi nent law
yer of Atchison, died the other night
from the effects of injuries received in
a runaway accident about week pre-
viOus. The accident was caused by an
unknown farmer, who refused to give
part of the road and crowded Mr..
Frames buggy into a narrow place,
where a collision resulted and the horse
took fright
While the session of the legislature
just closed was not remarkable for the
large number of general laws passed,
yet great many local measures passed
that body. Of these there were more
than twice as many as any previous ses-
sion enacted The numbe of bills in
trOduced during the session was 1,274,
42O in the senate Less than One-fifth
of the bills introduced became laws.
Ben Grant, a Top ,lSa negro, shot and
instantly killed his white wife the other
afternoon. The only witness was the
woman's little daughter four years of
age, the child of . former marriage.
The report to the police was not made
until an hour after the killing occurred
and by that time Grant had made his
| escape Jealousy was unquestionably
the cause of the murder Grant is rep
resented as being a desperate negro.
| He speaks Spanish and it is though will
attempt TO reach Mexico, where he
lived once.
Tt two-year-old daughter of Samuel
Sells, of Lawrence, was fatally burned
| the other day. The father had made a
bonfire of rubbish and leaves in the
yard and had gone to the barn, when
the little child wandered out OF the
| house and fell into the fire It's cries
| called the mother to the rescue, but
the little one was one sheet of flame.
/ The mother tore the burning garments
| from the child and finally succeeded in
| eNtinguishiRg the flames. but not until
| it had been horribly burned. The
mother was terribly burned also.
Murder in the second degree was the
verdict recently returned by the jury
at Wichita, after being out all night,
/ in the case of the Mexican tomaIa man,
Camello LOpes- The murder was com
mitted in January. 4 colOred woman.
into whose room LOpcs had broken and
whom he attempted to assault, escaped
and sought protection with a neigh Dor
named DObbs and his wife. Lopes fol-
lowed and with a butcher knife at
tackled all three Unfortunately kill
| ing DObbs on the spot and horribly
mutilating the two women. Much in
| dignatiOn was expressed at the verdict.
Pensions We're granted the following
| kansans on the 18th; Elias Reever,
| William II. Low, Barney Mills Leander
Porter. Seneca Tyler, Daniel Mckinley,
| John NJ Wolf, George DauIn, Hiram
/ Wing, John c. Milton, Jonathan E
Jones, David J. Kelley, Clark Randall,
John Larney, John c. Cooper, John 3.
/ Hess, Law Hellawel, Louis G. Com
| paret, Frank l. Pound, George w
/ Cory, Robert Reynolds, Silas Cooper.
4 Adam Fries, Samuel A. Dillman,
/ Christian Raft, William J. Davis,
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