The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Robert Ferguson, an eleven-vea-oId
boy, was recently ov ercome BY heat
while going home from school At Kan
sas City, Kan he was found in q
bunch Of weeds in an unconscious CO
dition-
A general strike among the coal
miners at LeavsnVEorth was inauzura.t-
ed on the 18th The strike was for an
advance of half a cent per bushel for
mining coal Several hundred men
were out
Mayor Gluclr, Of Dodge City, was re-
Gently fined SiOO In the district court
and ousted from Office, being found
guilty Of having personal knowledge of
a saloon in his building aud not taking
any official action against it.
There Will be three sugar mills in
operation In Kansas this fall, one at
Topeka one at Fort Scott and one at
Medicine Lodge The mill at Topeka
was burned last year and has been re-
built with improved machinery.
Mrs Harlan, OF NortonviIIe, while
lately in Atchison stepped on g banana
peeling and fell upon the stone side
walk Her injuries were not believed
to be serious at first but she grew
worse after being taken home and
died.
The Kansas Woman's Press assocIa-
ton will meet in the hall of the house
Of represent natives at Topeka October Q
at three p m. In the evening the
meeting will be open to the public and
the music will be under the auspices Of
the Topeka Press club.
About twelve o'clock the other night
Miss Helen Tiefenbruu, q popular plan
ist of AtchisOn, shot and wounded a
burglar who was trying to enter her
room. The man escaped, however,
with the assistance of friends. He was
tracked several blocks by the blood on
the sidewalk.
Miss Matte Freezing, Of Leaven-
worth, recently committed suicide at
Kansas City Mo, by taking morphine
She had gone TO kansas City to take
position as clerk in a store, and the
morning after arriving was found dead
in bed. Mental arrangement is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Because she would not marry him.
Elijah Watts, drunken printer, shot
and mOrtaliy wounded Miss Kate Hal
lOran at Topeka the other morning, and
then blew out his own brains. Miss
Halloran was a printer engaged on the
Capital and at three o'clock in the
morning started home, accompanied by
another coInpositor in the office when
she was waylaid by Watts and shot
The assassin then ran about a block
when he shot and killed himself
The United States savings bank Of
Topeka, which failed March is last and
reOPened July 2, was again placed in
the hands Of a receiver the other morn
ing. William Sims. e11-state treasurer,
was appointed receiver by Judge Guth-
rie, upon complaint of a stoclzholder.
The complaint was that the bank was
in no condition to stand the rigid exam
nations of the new banking law and
that certain failure would follow If
the bank should try to continue to do
business.
The other evening eight showmen
travelling with Wallace's circus stopped
q Southern Kansas train at Dayton,
and covering the engineer and fireman
with revOlvers entered a coach, beat an
officer so severely that he has since
died, and rescued a cOmrade who was
under arrest They then escaped to
the strip. The sheriff of CowIey county
summoned a posse of fifty men, inter
cepted the circus train at Arkansas City
and captured the manager of the show
and the whole outfit. The guilty par
ties were picked ont and marched OF to
Jail.
A charter for the National Woman's
Alliance was fled with the secret ary
of state recently. The incorporatora
are the wife of Senator PETER, the wife
of Congressman Otis, the wife of Secre-
tary j. b. French, of the State Farm
CTS EAlAA1AASGB 4fAEa- u d1t-lsa
editor of the Topeka Farmers Wife,
and Mrs. Fannie Mccormick, worthy
foreman of the Knights of Labor. The
officers Of the association are: Mrs.
Fannie Mccormick, president; Mrs.
Emma D. Pack, secretary, and Mrs
Birras A Otis, treasurer, with vice
president from nearly every state.
About fifteen months ago Samuel
Fisher, a merchant of Oswego, died
E1aHHnwIv hfIa n lint
his wife. Less than two months ago
his widow married j. NJ. Hart, a stock
man residing near the town Early
the other morning Hart was found
lying in bed with his brains oozing out
of a bullet hole IN his forehead. He
was unconscious and lived about an
hour. Mrs Hart stated that she was
awakened by her husband throwing
his arm on her, that she then heard
him grooming and she found him In the
condition stated. His revolver, with
one chamber empty, was lying beside
him.
It is said that there will soon be some
interest ting developments under the
new banking law for some OF the con- |
Germs which the superintendent OF in
surance got after some time ago, and
which were thought to be deposit in
stitutions and so amenable to banking
laws, and are now filing statements
with the bank commissioner and ask .
ing to have their bond-selIiDg schemes !
dignifed by law as banking business
This Commissioner johnson is not dis |
posed to do. He informs them that
they must take out charters as banks |
and be pared to do business accord !
ing to the specifications of the first sec |
ton of the banking act before he can !
recognize them
AS w. L. Boswell, a Shawnee county !
farmer, was sitting on his porch with |
his family the other night he saw |
smoke apparently issuing from the |
barn The family rushed ont to save /
the stock, when the fire was discovered /
to be on the roof of a hog pen Upon |
returning to the house it was discoV-
cred that a thief had broken open a !
trunk and stolen over SO The thief /
evidently started the fire 10 get the /
family away from the house
Reece r. Price, OF Hutchinson, kan
sas worlds fair commissioner, has re- I
signed Gov. Humphrey appointed /
John r. Burton, Of Abilene, to ill the /
vacancy.