The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS

/
/ Of Kansas viii meet at Kansas City
/ tKan) October 9, and be ia session
| three days It is expected that about
/ 875 delegates viii be in attendance
! Gov, Humphrey has offered a reward
I OF 500 for the apprehension of William
/ "ottord, alias William LogNood, COLI
/ oreds who killed William Norris, coll
| Ored, OF Leayenworth county. on Au-
/ gust 20.
/ Miss Clara DeRussey, of Fort Leav-
! enworth, q student in Bethany college
/ at Topeka, committed suicide the other
{ day by taking stryehnine. She was
| twenty years old. Hard study had un-
balanced her mind
E. C. Prather recently informed the
I Oakley Graphic that he had a Geld OF
! alfalfa, three years old, from which he
I had already this year cut three crops of
I about three tons to the acre each, and
that it was then ready TO cut again.
Two large ice houses belonging to
/ Charles Pullen, at Atchisou, were re-
[ Gently destroyed by fire, causing a loss
/ OF IS, O0O Partially insured Two
/ barns in the same block also burned
with horse and buggy in one of them.
A wealthy Wyandotte county man
! cele brated the thirticth anniversary of
his marriage by knocking his wife
down and otherwise abusing her, and
/ she has sued him for divorce, aiirnony
The other afternoon Mrs. a. ri
. COyne, while out riding at Clay Center,
/ was thrown from her buggy and seri-
Ously injured Her horse broke from
her control and she was thrown out,
( breaking a leg, thigh, arm and other
wise injurinE her.
The other night a Rock Island freight
and Union Pacific construction train
collided near Muncie, and although
there were forty men on the c0ustruc-
ton train and dozen ears were
1 ditched nobody was hurt The loss to
the railroads was heavy.
Everett Ray, the tyvelve-year-o son
OF Martin Ray head briclrlaysr for the
I Armour Packing Co, was run over by
a Northwestern freight train at Kansas
City, Kan, the other day and killed.
] He attempted to jump on the moving
train and fell under the wheels
Miss Stella Covert, seventeen years
old, was drowned while recently bath
ing at Claassen's mill, near Newton.
She was a good swimmer, but the water
was quite cold and she remained in too
long. A young man who was with the
party had nearly succeeded in saving
her, when she caught him by the arms
and pulled him under. He succeeded
in freeing himself, but she sank and he
could not find her.
The body of Miss Flora Roberts,
young woman who lately disappeared
from her home at ArmourdaIe, was re-
Gently found in the Missouri river,
several miles below Kansas City, Mo.
She was eighteen years old and after
dark one evening left home to visit a
neigh Dor and was never seen alive
again by the family The supPosition
was that she had been assaulted and
then thrown into tine river.
The state board Of railroad commits
siOners recently received a complaint
from the miners at Pittsburgh against
the st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Co, claiming that the company viii not
accept shipments of coal to the interior
towns upon the schedule issued in No
vember, 1889. The company charges
in addition to the regular rates switch
ing charges of three dollars, which it is
claimed is a violation of the long and
short haul clause of the law governing
freight rates.
4 The maudamus case against State
Treasurer Slower TO compel him to
honor warrants drawn by the board Of
/ regents uEuiuBb the normal interest
fund, was argued in the supreme court
at Topeka on the LIST. 1t has been the
custom of the treasurer to pay these
warrants without question for years,
but Attorney General Ives recently
/ rendered an opinion that no fund in the
hands of the state treasurer could be
drawn upon except under a special act
| be rendered before October.
The driver of a hotel bus at Gueda
Springs was shot by Edward Clancy, a
cowboy, the other day. Clancy was
stopping at q hotel and wanted to leave
on the evening train, but was slow in
getting ready, and as it was train time
the driver started Off without him
Clancy drew his revolver and shot at
the omnibus three times The first
shot wounded the driver badly There
were several women and children in
the bus, and the indignant citizens
came near lyuChing CLANCY before he
was hustled OF to jail
At the close of the western confer
encs of the NJ. Z. Church South, lately
held at Hiilsdale, Miami county, the
following Kansas appointments were
made by Bishop Hargrave; Atchison
I district j. W. Payne, presiding elder;
Atchison station, w. ii. Conner Efiug-
ham, j. T. Smith Holton, j. Iilleryi
J Waterville, w. II. INincaid3 Leaven-
worth, H. l. Miller; Kiclzapoo. to be
supplied; OskalOosa, A. II. Moore
Wyandotte, r. A. Parlzers Kansas City
station, Frank Siler; Shawneetown, H.
D. Hogan; Hilsdale, A. j. Eolestiuei
Bucyrus and SHlIweu, T. C. Downs.
/ Council Grove district, J. w. Eaubion4
presiding elder Council Grove station,
[ Il. A. White; Council Grove circuit j.
d. Austin; Strong City, to be supplied;
Labette. to be supplieds Bronson j. F.
Wick; Winfield, s. B. Graves; Yelling
ton. W. r, Owen; Mount Hope, to be
supplied; Kiusley, to be sUppliedi Ha-
zleton, w. e. Broadhurst-
Three colored girls held up and
rob bed a young negro man at Topeka
the other night One of them was ar
rested and when the man identified her
in police court as one OF the three who
robbed him she stepped up to him and
slapped his face She said that he gave
I1T the money ana Il1aV sue never
/ thought of TO bling him
1t was recently reported in Topeka
that ex-ConEressman Harrison Kelley,
who few weeks ago deserted the re-
publican party and went over to the all
lance, has closed a contract with the
managers OF the peoples party in Ohio,
and that he will at once take the stump
/ in that state against Mckinley.