The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

so badly mangled that he only lived
about two hours after being taken out
The Howell Lumber Co. of Atchison.
has failed The company had cOnnec-
tions at Chicago, Omaha, JeftersOnyille,
Tex, and other places The assets are
reported at 81, eco, GOO. Liabilities not
given
The preachers of Topeka recently
held a meeting in the interest of pro
hibition and to adopt measures TO sup
press the illegal sale of liquor by drug
stores, which they aver have taken the
places of saloons
Joseph Hecklin, a ten-year-old bOys
was killed the other night at crossing
on the Missouri Pacific some distance
north of Wichita The boy and his
father were crossing the track with
reaper and were caught by a train
Despite threatening anonymous let
tiers of death in twenty-four hours and
many other terrible things unless hs
refused the Office, Thomas = Irwin
took charge of the office OF secretary
OF the board of education of Wichita,
and still lives.
Laura Bogard attempted to commit
suicide at Kansas City, Kan, the other
day by letting herself down from the
Central avenue bridge into the Kansas
river, but was rescued by two men who
noticed her actions and watched her.
Inhuman treatment by her husband
the cause.
When the Missouri Pacific railway
was built to Arkansas City the city
gave the company a bonus of $50, coo in
bonds Since then the city has refused
to pay the bonds The other day suit
was begun in the United States court
by the holders OF the bonds for $50, 900
and interest.
The doors Of the Firt National bank
of Kansas City, Kan, were closed the
other afternoon at 2:I5 o'clOck-the
hour for clearing. The bank was IN
able to meet a large check drawn
against city deposits and therefore
closed. 1t was thought all liabilities
would be paid in full.
The trial of Rev. A. II. Tevis, pastor
of the Washington Street Methodist
church of Kansas City, Kan, resulted
in the finding of the defendant guilty,
as charged, of falsehood and hypocrisy
and his suspension from the ministry.
The result was a split in the church.
one of the oldest in the state. DR..
Tevis is talking of organizing a new
church.
L. S. Cook, representing the Phoenix
Savings Investment Trust Co., of Kan
sas City, No, was recently arrested at
Ossawatomie on the charge OF oh blaming
money under false pretenses. He had
obtained advance fees from a number
of persons, aggrega ting several hun
dred dollars, under pretense of lOaning
money at six per cent, and the money
was never forthcoming.
Nelson George, a highly connected
young fellow, who used to be deputy
postmaster at Wichita, and was more
recently head of the registered letter
department in the post office at Ogden,
Utah, is under arrest charged with en-
bezzling S., coo from the Ogden Office.
He appropriated a registered letter con
tanning a large sum of money.
The other morning as the Missouri
Pacific train from Kansas City started
vest to Wichita and stopped at the Mis-
ssouri, Kansas & Texas crossing at the
city limits of Fort Scott, freight train
on the latter road struck the Missouri
Pacific chair ear, knocked it off the reaE
trucks and turned it on its side. The
locomotive of the freight train was de-
rallied and badly smashed Several pas
sengers were injured.
A call has been issued by the various
heads of reform organizations in Tope-
ka for a cooperative convention in To
pelEa, August 20 next IT was fOrmu la-
ted by Fred. P. Bailey, of Wichita, gen
eral manager of the Mutual Protective
association, an organization for staying
executions under mortgage foreclosure
Among the names signed to the cali are
those of Senator PETER, w. F. Right
mire, secretary of the Citizens Alliance;
S. McLallin. editor of the Advocates; J.
3. French, secretary Of the alliance.
and Fred P. Bailey.
President Frank McGrath, of the
Farmers Alliance. says that the esti-
mates of Secretary MOhler that the
wheat crop of Kansas would be about
81. 600, 600 bushels are altogether too
high From reports received by
him from nearly every county in
the state he estimates that. the
yield win not exceed 80, GOO, coo and pos
sibly not more than IS, GOO. 600. The
counties which have heretofore pro-
duced the largest crop have. according
to him, suffered partial failure this
year. He believes, however, that the
corn crop viii be unusually large
The state supreme court has decided
against the petitioners in the case OF
the three insurance agents who were
trying to be released from custody at