The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-05-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

regular mill between a Philadnlphia
pug" and a local champion for purse
of 81, 900.
The recent heavy rains seemed to
have little effect on dampening the
ardor Of aspiring politicians through
ont the state.
John Edwards, a colored burglar, was
given tvVenty-six years in the Peniteu-
tiary by Judge CrOzier at Leavenworth
p the other day.
Trilley Case, aged eighteen years,
daughter Of a poor widow at Mankabo
committed suicide the other morning
by taking carbOlic acid.
Kansas pharmacists recently held a
three days convention at Chelsea park, |
Kansas City, Kan The next meeting
will be held at Wichita.
The people of Topeka gave Charlie
Curtis a royal welcome when he re-
turned from EmpOria with the honors
OF a congressional nomination
The young son of Ira Thomas, of Kan
sas City, Kan, while lately out hunting
was accidentally shot by an older
brother and perhaps fatally wounded
Lieut.-Gov. 4. J. Felt has purchased
the Atchison Champion, the late Gov.
Martins paper, and VIII take possession
about June 20 The price paid was said
70 be $50, GOO.
train on sne Central Branch road
containing Riugling's circus, was re-
Gently wrecked near ConcOrdia by run
ming into a wash-out. Two showmen
were killed and four seriously injured.
1t IS announced that Mrs Frank T.
Lynch will succeed her husband in the
management of the Leavenworth Stan
dard- She has been elected director
and secretary of the Standard Publish
ing Co.
The ''drummers' were given royal
entertainment by the people of EN-
lot
city. They were banquetted and one
of the ministers of the city preached to
them at the opera house.
E C. Smith, a fireman on the Missouri
Pacific road, was held up in Kansas
City, Kan, the other night and robbed
of S137 and a gold watch. Smith said
he recognized two of the men who
robbed him rs gamblers in the bot
toms"
Irvine and Ella Osborn, brother and
sister, lost their lives in the Whitewater
near Ebling, Butler county, the other
night. They attempted to cross the
swollen creek in a buggy, and were
swept down by the current and
drowned.
A witness testified against woman
in Il divorce suit at Wichita the other
day, that she had received attentions
from n prominent business man, not her
husband, and when ne left the witness
"a
blow in the face,
At the Kansas state oratorica1 contest
in Fort Scott, p. p. Schueler, of Mid
land college, Atchison, won first hOnOrsi
]. A. Orr, of the Kansas Normal college,
Fort Scott, second hOnOrs. The subject
of the former was, ''Our Nations Debt
to Posterity;' the latter, ''The Brother
hood of Man" There were four con-
testants-
Near Fall Leaf the other morning a
Rock Island freight train ran into the
rear of a Union Pacific freight In a
few moments another freight ran into
the rear OF the Rock Island train Sew
ersl box cars and a caboose were
vrec clSed.. A hoy was injured, but not
seriously.
The first district conference of the
Young Mems Christian associntions.
comprising Doniphan, AtchisOn, jack
SON Nemeha, LeavcnwCrth, Potta-
vvatolnie, johnson, Douglas, jefferson,
Shawnee and Wnbaunsee counties, met
at Atchison on the Goth with sixty dele
gates present.
Hon John A. Anderson, who for
twelve years was congressman from
Kansas. and who was appointed a year
ago consul general to Cairo, Egypt
died at Liverpool on the 18th while on
his return hBme- He leaves three sons
his wife having died about five year.
ago. He was hfty-eight years old.
The Fort Scott Monitor has been sold
to n stock company composed of Fort
Scott men. The price was $4,000. The
paper will be conducted as republican
Journal, but will radically oppose pro
hibition. W. r. Biddle Will have charg,
OF the editorial department, and tht
management viii be in charge of r P
Rice and II. G. Louclzs.
The celebrated Hilman case has com,
to the front again, the insurance com
panies having succeeded in securing NJ
order from the supreme court of thu
United States for a new trial
This is q case of alleged attemp
to svyindIe the insurance companies GU
of a large amount of money by palm
ing off the body of one man TO
that of another on whose life Their
were large policies. Hillman ha'
policies aggregating s25.O00 on hi
life in three companies and whel
his death was announced not
great while after the Issuance Of tn
policies the companies became sus
picious of fraud and refused to pay tn
amount of the policies to Sallie Z. Hill
man. Death, it was asserted, re
a. suited through an accident Afte
the coroner's inquest the insuranc
companies succeeded in having tn
l,odV e,<humed, contested the sui
brought by Mrs Hillman, settin
,sp the claim that the body wus that o
n man named. Walters The lower cour
gave Judgment for Mrs Hillman, an
this Judgment has been reversed on tn
.'Rround OF error in the trial
The eoroner's jury in the case Of th
two showmen killed on the Centrs
Branch road near COneordia, brought /
a verdict that the accident was th
direct result of extreme negligence O
the part Of the Missouri Pacific Raj
road Co
GOV. Ira p. Chase, of Indiana, a
tended the state convention of tn
Christian church recently held I
Lawrence. On the evening Of the 1st
he leotured to a large audience at Il
CONGREGATIONAL church in that city.
Melville C. Vinegar, who was pos
master ut Atchison under PresideI
% Arthur, died recently in the osawatom
insane asylum
Pherson's livery barn at Newtc