The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS

WAAAS DetALAB IN inc 4s-=-S near man
haitian
Peavey & Co., Of Chicago, have leased
the Santa Ee elevator in AtchtsOn- The
elevator has capacity OF I75, 600 bush
els
The United States savings bank al
Topeka, which suspended some time
ago, has resumed business with ample
cash to pay all depositors-
Ira Jones, the fourteen-year-Old son
of J. D. Jones, a prominent cattlemau
of KiOwa, was struck and instantly
killed by lightning the other morning.
Gus Grassage, a man in charge Of a
load OF Mexican cattle, was knocked
from an early morning train by a low
bridge at EmPOria the other day and
fatally injured
Mrs Rautzahn is having hard work
securing bonds at Leavenworth- The
feeling is said to be strongly against
her, as she is believed to be guilty with
Benson in the killing of her mother,
Mrs. Mettman-
The close of the fiscal year shows in
Kansas 1, SI1 post Offices During the
year forty were established and sixty
seven discontinued This year Kansas
loses tyventy-seven Offices, while last
year the state gained twenty three.
The sheriff at Dodge City has in
formed shippers of cattle from New
lished a quarantine against their cattle
and will not permit them to be fed or
unlOaded at Dodge City The cattle
men, it is said, will appeal to the gov
ernor.
A destructive storm burst upon Ar
kansas City and vicinity at an early
hour on the morning of the Goth Hail
broke hundreds of windows, knocked
fruit from trees and riddled garden truck
and melons. The wind leveled thousands
of acres of grain and corn to the
ground.
John Spence, IS years old, premature
~ attempted to ceIeb rate the Fourth on
the first of July at Kansas City CZan. }
by firing a toy cannon. A package of
powder exploded badly burning his
hands and eyes and rendering him I'M
| conscious He will probably lose both
eyes
Charles Lease, the sixteeu-year-oI6
son of Mrs. NJ. z. Lease, the alliance
lecturer, was lately arrested at Wichita
on the charge of stealing a check and
gold watch, the property of an insur-
ance man named NJ. E. Corn The
youth was student in the county at
tOrney's Office.
A cOlored man named Wilson, whose
home is in Topeka, met with a bad ac-
cident at the Santa Fe depot in Leaven-
worth the other day. He attempted to
jump off a car while Il flying switch
was being made and got one foot on
| the track, which was crushed from the
knee down in a frightful manner. The
leg had to be amputated-
A fearful accident occurred in Ar
mOur's Touring mill at EmpOria the
other day. 5. NJ, Summers, the miller,
undertook to crawl over a huge wheel
while it was in motion, when his cloth
ing caught and he was spun rapidly
round few times and finally dashed
with great force against an upright
shaft. Both legs were broken and his
body made a mass of bruises Strange
to say hopes were entertained of his re-
cOvery.
Senator Plumb, while lately in Tope-
ka, was asked IN regard to the prospect
of the passage of a free silver coinage
act by the next congress, and replied
that the matter was predetermined 1t
was hard to foreteil what could be done
by the champions of the white metal
He said that the hard money advocates
were so very hard that they appeared
unwilling to listen to a com promise,
and the free silver men were not as yet
strong enough to knock down and
drag out"
The executive committee of the Farm
! ers' Alliance, with the state officers and
the congressional lecturers, met recent
The state will be divided into congress
siOnal, county and township Legislative
councils, of which the lecturer in charge
of the district viii be chairman. The
township chairman will report to the
county chairman, the latter TO the con-
gressiOnal chairman and the congress
siOnal chairman to the state lecturer,
Van B. Prather, who Will be subject to
the national council
Two Shawnee county farmers lately
had a lawsuit over the ownership of a
dog. One finally proposed to the other
that they fight il out in Sullivan Kill
rain style, which was agreed to. At
the appointed hour and place friends Of
the two were gathered to see the fight
The battle was for blood, and at the
end Of thirty minutes IL was declared a
draw. One man lost finger and two
teeth. the other lost part of an ear and
received a black eye. The principals
then took the train for Topeka to be
patched up.
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