The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS

managed by W. Hahn, IS ia the hands
of e receiver. The failure was caused
by the disappearauce Of Hahn. He left
a letter to hiz wife which led many to
believe that he meditabsd suicide.
About midnight recently the express
car on the Central Branch road was
robbed while the messenger was assist
ing in switching the cars at Lenora-
The safe was carried OF aud rihed of
about s.. 600 No clew 70 the robbers
Ex-President AIcGrath. of the Farm
ers' Alliance, decl ares the published in
terview, in which he was quoted as
saying that the alliance had fallen of
in one year from 40, OG0 70 less than
60, 600 members, 70 be ''uuautheutic and
false in fact"
One cottage and four siz-room dwell
ings located at Fifteenth street and
Stewart avenue, Kansas City, Kan,
were burned to the ground at two
o'clock the other morning under cir
cumstances that led to the belief that
a 6rebug did the work
On the 18th of October W C. Phipps
and Theodore Gardner were convicted
at OswsgO of violating the Kansas trust
law. Recently a motion was made for
a new trial, but was overrulsd by the
court, the judge hning each of them
SIOO and costs. They will take an ap-
peal
4OBChE- lAGIA Tue L1DaH GgEA0Aa AALG AAA
the night of the 25th that had visited
that city for over year. The FIRE
burned two livery stables. a lumber
yard and ex-GOV. Crawford's hve-story
building. Thirteen horses perished in
the fire and SO, 600 worth OF property
was destroyed. Partially insured.
The Kansas worlds fair board of
managers have decided to incorporate
at once. They have prepared an adj
- arN
money. 4. w. Smith, w. Ii. Smith
and Col. A. S. Johnson have been
appointed a committee to go to Chicago
at once and select a site for the Kansas
building.
A second attempt was made the other
night to hold up the conductor of a
street car at the terminus of the electric
road on the QuindarO boulevard, Kan
sas City. Kan, but the conductor (Bas-
sett) drew his pistol and commenced
firing at the two masked men, whom
they beat a hasty retreat
While two men were recently shoot
ing craps in n livery stable at Hamlin,
Brown county, one of them dropped a
match into the hay, setting it on FIRE.
The flames spread at once and the
stable, ten head of horses and other
property destroyed. The loss was
heavy add insurance light
While W. R Sharp and wife were
driving recently across the Santa Ee
tracks at Pittsburgh, they were struck
by a switch engine, which destroyed
the buggy and threw the old couple
out Mrs. Sharp was pitched on to tho
ends of the cross ties aud her skull
fractured, her right shoulder broken
and other internal injuries inflicted.
MICHAEL. WILKINS, one of the oldest
and vvealthiest farmers IN the county,
was killed by a Santa Fe train a mile
west of AtchisOn the other afternoon
He and his wife had been trading in
Atchison and in returning home at
tempted to drive across the railroad
tracks when the wagon was struck by
an engine. He was reported to be
worth SIS. GOO.
Fire at Lenexa the other night de
stroyed the large store building occu'
pied by Z. L. Swift S5 Co, dealers in
general merchandise, with the entire
contents, also Guietts blacksmith shop
aud contents and a vacant building ad-
joining. Swift & Co. IS loss was 81, 600 to
SO, OOO, with S3, 600 insurance The
| loss to Gulett would reach $1,000 to
s.. OOG, with no insurance.
The Farmers Alliance completed the
! election of officers at Sslina by select
/ ing H Bowman Burton insurance COM
missioner, to have charge OF all busi-
ness under the cooperative system A
| judiciary committee was also elected
| The resolutions adopted recommended
the reelection of j. Z. Willis as ma
/ tiOnaI alliance lecturer; advised liberal
/ appropriations for making irrigation
| tests in western Kansas, and insisted
| that all necessary means be taken 70
preserve the purity of the ballot.
A gentleman who recently returned
| from the western part of the state 20
| Atchison reported that ''unthreshed
. f. H-v..rsaH
| 25 to so per cent on account of wet
/ weather and poor stacking The grain
| has already commenced to grow, and
/ many of the stacks are green A good
| deal Of wheat still remains in the
/ shock This is ruined Farmers are
/ busily engaged in threshing the crops,
/ but will not get through before the
| first of the year. The acreage of wheat
| put in this fall will not be as large as
last fall "
Rudolph Muller, an old bachelor. was
found dead in bed in his house at Wich-
/ ita the other evening. II was supposed
/ to be case OF suicide by poison In
/ the bed was found a note to the effect
that the writer was old and unable
| longer to earn a living and he was bet
| ter dead 4 post mortem examination
| revealed arsenic in the stomach, but
| nothing could be found about the room
which had contained arsenic The
note also bore evidence OF being a
/ forgery and there was strong suspicion
[ that the old German had been muir
dered for money supposed to be secreted
about the premises
A citizen of Kansas City (Kaul was
awakened the other night and saw a
man standing by his bedside He
/ called out to the intruder and the fell
I low walked deliberately ont of the
front door moment later he sP-
/ pearsd at a side window aud coolly
/ bidding the citizen good night disap-
| pesrsd-
The Topeka sugar works have shut
l down and the proprietors are involve
I in considerable litigation The farm
( srs who had contracted with the lessez
1 OF the sugar works have employed ar
/ attorney to enter suit both for the cane
/ already delivered to the mill and Eo1
| that left standing in the field
Andrew Bowers. OF La8rsnce. wal
I accidentally shot BY his brother, neal
j Reading while they vere in q Wagon
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