The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-09
" KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The military authorities at Fort
Lcavenworth are cleaning up the quar-
ters in order to head on the cholera
The statement published that Span
ish fever had broken out among the
cattle in Greenwood county is positively
denied.
The report that Spanish fever was
prevalent among cattle has caused
some uueasiness in several southwestern
counties
Perry King, wanted in Crawford
county for the murder of a man named
Page in 1883, is under arrest at Baker
City, Ore.
John Boone, deserter, was shot and
killed by sentinel at Fort Leaveu-
worth the other morning while trying
20 make his escape He was doing duty
as "a convict at the time
While boating on the Delaware, near
Thompsonville, the other day Grant
Evans and his sister Bertha and Miss
1 Maggie Worthingtou, the betrothed of
| young Evans, were drowned by the
/ cupsizing of their boat.
Maggie Jonas, IS years old, fired
/ shot at her sweetheart, William swartz,
/ at Kansas City, Kan, the other even
/ ing and then shot and killed herself,
! because, as she stated in note left,
1 that her love for young Swartz was not
Z returned.
Thomas Deviue, who worked in the
. butterine department of Swift's pack
I ing house, was accidentally drowned iu
. the Kaw river just below the Union
! Pacific bridge at Kunsus City Kan, the
o.her day He was boat riding while
intoxicated
Kansas got away with the three lead
Ing prizes at the knights of Erthlaz
drill at Kansas City Mystic division
of Girard, won the prize of $1,000
Galaxy division, of Pittsburg, carried
Off the second prize of 81 200, ana Erie
division took the third prize, $1,000.
A gasoline stove explosion caused
FIRE in the bottoms at Kansas City. Kan.
THE other night that burned Daniel S.
Comforts livery stable and about q
dozen horses, several gambling houses
near the state line and number OF
smaller buildings, covering am entire
square. The loss was over $50. 600.
The other night the residence of Eli
Potter and the adjourniug residence
of City Clerk Albright at Kansas
City, Kan, were burned The Pot
ter residence was the most sin -ular
structure ia the west and was built and
furnished at an expense of =T5, 600. Tt
was insured for $4,000. Mr.. Albright
placed his loss at $4,000 insurance, ST.
COO.
At the late Third district Christian
Endeavor convention, held in Lawrence,
president for the ensuing year; W. T..
Haslrett, of Marion; Etis Parker, OF
Olathe; George Foster, of Douglas
county; Maud Sayers, of Franklin couu-
ty; vice presidents; Maud Suyers, of
Franklin county secretary and treas
urer.
a car load of vvatermelous shipped
from Texas to a firm in Topeka, upon
which the shipper had prepaid 59i %
freight, was stolen from the Santa ic
yar1s IN that CITY the other nj EhL
There Were 921 fine melons iu the ear,
and who got them Us tGe question the
Santa Ec officials are interested ia learn
ing, as the company viii have t2 stand
the loss
The tenth state fair win be held at
Topeka September 10, I3, il, %, 10 ami
I II; and no meeting is of more imp1r-
tauce to the people the state than this
fair. There are offered this year some
$4,000 in premiums, purses aua spec
, lals- An extraordinary effort has been
made to help place Kansas where she
belongs, at the head of the worlds fair,
by Offering the largest premiums for
cereals and grasses that have ever been
offered in the west
As the north-bouud passenger train
On the Joplin branch of the Memphis
road reached Neutral station the other
day some ncigHhor boys reported that
they saw several persons lay ties and
rails across the track at "a bridge short
distance north of the station for the
b purpose of vreclzing the train The
train approached the place cautiously
and the distractions were removed but
the miscreants had He'd The train was
/ full of passengers returning from the
reunion at Baxter Springs.
The grand lodge of the colored Ma
sons, recently in session in AtChisau,
. elected the following officers: Grand
s master, Benjamin Wilsoa, Wichita
! senior grand warden, j. NJ. stewart
lola; Junior grand warden, j. NJ Glass
Lcaveuworth; grand treasurer, j. B
Moore, Lawrence; grand secretary, II
IT, Curtis, Baxter Springs; commission
z ers TO the Worlds Masonic assembl 3
which meets in Chicago in 1885, e. w
! Smith C. H. Langston, H. IL Curtis
B w b. Townsend and Joseph Jones
The weather report of Chancellor
Snow, of the state university for Au
D gust shows that it was an average Au
gust. The temperature was very lJtLl
! below the average although the frs
I week was hot, the mean temperaturs %
2 that week being 50 degrees. The rain
S fall was a fraction of an inch IoyvCl
than the average The humidity wal
somewhat greater than usual. 4
= / marked increase Is noticed in thl
4 miles OF wind Travelled, the whole NUM-
! her being 9,2SO miles, $50 more thar
/ the August average. There was NO
an entirely cloudy day in the month
While returning home in a yvago1
= from republican rally the 0the
, dag two young men, John Hale and
! Walter Scott, residing an the northeEl
Z part of Bourbon county, anil VINO hal
: always been the best of friends, en-
gagged in a dispute which finally devel
! oped into a rough and tumble fight 1l
! the wagon Hale knocked Scott dow
! and was severely pummelinr him vFhei
/ Scott drew q knife and stcb l=1 Hale I'd
! the left breast Hale flug lt until los
OF blood rendered him PROSTATE, an,
, he was then left at O. fariu house iu TIN
: ueighborhood Of the fight re coul
not live Scott was arrested. Botl
Iasn had been drinking.
The livery stable Of james Eeefe o.
Lawrence was destroyed by IRE th
e other evening Mr. Eeefe was quit
severely burned about the face an,
q hands in trying 70 rescue three hacl
horses which were in the stable at tn
Z time One very valuable horse wa