The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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| ury s.
Nine members Of one family at KAN
| sas City, Kan. were recently down
. with Ia grippe at the same time
Frank J. Bellew. late deputy clerk
OF the district court at Wichita, has
been arrested charged with forgery
] The AtchisOn chamber of commerce
has been fully organized by the cleo
/ ton of ex-senator John J. Ingalls, as
president aud f. NJ Draper as secre-
tary.
W. H Willie was resentIy crossing
1 the railroad track near Belle Plain aud
was run down by a train His horses
/ were killed and he received fatal in
juries.
A Kansas City Czan-) prophecies de-
! clares that she has a revelation that
the world will be destroyed at i've
o'clock in the afternoon of Christmas
! day. All Christmas dinners should
therefore be eaten promptly ut noon
Mrs Charles NewsOme, the wife of q
Leavenworth boiler maker. was hor-
ribIy burned the other evening by her
clothes taking 6re from the stove. She
lived only two hours The unfortunate
/ woman leaves four children, the young
est less than year old.
Capt 3. j. +. Hannah, one Of the
pioneers OF Kansas, a prominent editor
and politician and \ mem Der of the
legislature from Trego county two
years ago, died at the residence Of his
son IN Washington City the other night
at the age of sixty-seven years
Frank P. Hills, farmer, who had
been divorced from his wife, was seen
quarreling with her on the porch of .
house where he had been rOom.n g at
Emporia the other day, and shortly
afterward a shot was heard, and he
was found lying On the porch with a
bullet hole through his head. He had
shot himself The love for liquor had
/ been his ruin.
It is stated that the attorney-genera
1 will take no immediate steps to further
prosecute the case against the Union
Pacific to compel it to relay the tracks
OF the Kansas Central railroad He Is
informed that the company has begun
the work ordered by the railroad com
missiOners, and that If it IS continued
it will be finished before the Judgment
from the supreme court could be OBJ
J tanned.
The Eve men who on October 20 en-
tered the express car of Central
Branch accomm Odation train at Lenora,
Norton county. and stole the messen-
gers safe, containing s., 600, have all
been arrested and are now in juiL
They are Charles O'Connor, of Atch-
r ison; o. J. Burweu and two sons, Jim
and Bill, of Norton county, and Alonzo
M Franks, who recently escaped from
% the Logan county jail
, Mrs Lew Hanback, and Mrs. Robert
: Mitchell, members of the state ladies'
l board of worlds fair commissioners,
l met a large mum Der of Lawrence ladies
the other day, and after explaining the
! object of the work being done an or
l 1 ganization was affected. 1t is proposed
| to hold Queen Isabella ball at Law
renee some time during the winter that
; will eclipse anything of the kind at
] tempted elsewhere
A Rock Island Locomotive Is gIlar.rFai
: with a destructive fire which recent
S ly destroyed a great quantity oi
g wheat corn, hay and several buildings
. near Haysville. One farmer lost his
: stables and granaries containing much
2 machinery, ], 900 bushels of corn and 8
i lot of wheat; others lost a considerable
e quantity OF wheat and their corn fields,
d still unhusked, were badly damaged
2 Thousands of tons OF hay are said &c
/ have been burned.
p @. a. Benson, under sentence OF
T death at LeavenwOrth for the murder
, of Mrs Teresa Mettman, made az
i unsuccessful attempt to escape from
q Jail the other night He had fixed
)! up a dummy that bore q remark
able resem blauce to a man and placed
it in his bed while he was hid in the
d cell of another prisoner who was to es-
a cape with him. It was only by acct
= dent that the scheme was discovered
| When he found that his scheme hac
failed Benson pretended that he wa!
only playing joke on the jailOr
The Kansas board of managers o.
the worlds fair met recently at Topeka
= and instructed the secretary to apply
: for 1000 feet of space in the horticult-
ural building; 5000 feet of space In the
agricultural building; ,, 500 feet Of space
], in the mines and mining building; 5Ol
Z feet of wall space and 900 feet OF hOOl
y space in the art palace; 5000 feet OF
space in manufacturers and liberal art
building; 200 feet of space in the dairy
= building; 500 feet of space in the
{ electrical buildingi ?, 900 feet OF space
in the transportation building, and /, OOl
= feet of space in the machinery hall
u The Encouragement has just re
u ceived notification of the end of a very
= important case in the United States
q supreme court which is of great inter
- est to Kansas Some time prior to No
q vember, 1856, the Pullman Palace Ca
Co. brought proceedings against tn
"A various county treasursrs of Kansas 4
U restrain the collection of taxes agains
-e their property. 1t came up in thu
l. United States circuit court and was de
IS cided November %, 1885. adverse to tn,
y plaintiffs The company at once aP
10 pealed the case to the United Statsl
q supreme court where the decision o
II the lower court was finally sustained
"a The Pullman company filed q motion
for a rehearing, which the court ha
= denied The matter is consequently
settled and the company will be re
= quired to pay the back taxes accrue,
q since the suit was instituted
3 The game of football played at Kan
u sas City, No. on the 5th. between tn
s. Kansas university aud the Iowa univer
e sity teams ended in row, when tn,
L Kansas boys were ahead, over a de
cision of the referee The Kanss
P team withdrew aud the game wa
le awarded to the Iowa team
D. A Kinney, OF the fruit commission
house Of A. Kinney & Bro. Chapman
q Kan, was found dead in bed at his he
e. tel in Omaha the other morning. II
u had blown out the gas
60 The president has nominated to tn
Is senate Hon Henry C. Siuss, of Kansas
d. as one of the associate justices Of tn
court of claims
y. u Near Troy the other evening som