The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-05-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Sherman Crockett was killed by the
cars at Fort Scott the other day while
it was supposed he was stealing "a ride
The Social Science club of kansas and
western Missouri viii hold its twelfth
annual meeting at Fort Scott May
and @.
John II. Ridenour, "a teamster aged
nineteen years, vass killed at Kansas
City, kan, the other day by the acci-
dental discharge of a shotgun
The federal grand jury at Topeka re-
Gently found indictments against sew
eraI officials of the Union Pacific railway
for violating the interstate commerce
law.
Mrs. C. NJ Adams and another lady
were recently struck by "a Rock Island
passenger train while crossing the rail-
road in a buggy at Clifton, and fatally
injured
The annual convention of the ladies
OF the C.. A. r. for the department OF
Kansas held its opening session at ETn-
poria on the 2Tth- Many prominent
ladies were present.
The second district republican con-
vention met at Lawrence ON the 2Sth and
re-nominated z. II. Funston for con-
grcss. The vote stood, Funston, 20;
Blue, 1Oi johnson, 0.
Miner b. Hupp, an aged citizen, went
to an Office in Wichita the other after
noon to be examined for soldiers pen
sion and dropped dead in the elevator
as it was descending.
Burglars entered the residence of
Mrs. Lines at Kansas City, Kan, while
the family was at church the other
evening and stole several dresses some
jewelry and 800 in cash.
Floyd Nichols, a fourteen-year-old
boy, was accidentally shot and fatally
wounded by his thirteen-year-oldc cousin,
the other day while the two We're play
ing with pistol at Armourdale.
John Withers and Samuel Love,
Bourbon county farmers, recently had q
quarrel about division fence and
while Love was passing Withcrs' house
the latter shot him twice from behind a
stone fence. Loves injuries We're
thought to be fatal. Withers escaped.
NVithcrs married Loves sister.
Senator Perkins has introduced a bill
for the relief of Henry Hicks, post
master at Cambridge, Cowley county.
In January, 1891, burglars broke into
his Office and stole all his stamps and
postal cards. The amount taken and
the amount expended by the postmaster
in the pursuit and arrest Of the burglar
was s2S7. He now asks congress to re-
irnburse him in that amount.
The state convention of dentists, re
Gently in session at Fort Scott, elected
the following officers: DIR. j. A. Roberts,
of Sabetha, president; DR.. C. Z. Esterly,
of Lawrence, first vice-presidenti Or. l..
n. Green, Of Junction City, second vice
president; DIR. j. p. Root, of Kansas
City, Kan, secretary; DIR. r. a. Wasson,
OF Ottawa, treasurer Topeka was
chosen as the place for the next annual
meeting
Hon. Z. +. Ware, of Fort Scott, be-
icves he has discovered in a homeless
child at Santa CatariHa. Mexico, the
orphan of Mr.. and Mrs Judge McComus,
who We're massacred in the Apache raid
near Silver City, n. NJ. in 1883. On
that occasion Charley AIcCumaS- three
years old was kidnapped by the savGg=s
and has never been heard of since, The
homeless child at Cutarina answers the
boys description, and Mr.. Ware his
uncle, viii attempt TO identify him.
The bill establishing a Uaited States
court at Fort Scott has passed congress
and been approved by the president
Court viii hereafter be held at Fort
Scott for the counties of Miami, Linn,
Bourbon, Crawford, Cherokee, Labstts,
NeoshO, Allen, Anderson. Coffee, Wood
son, Wilson, Montgomery, Chautauqual
! Elk and Greenwood. Two terms are to
be held annually, the FIRST in May next
If the court records can be transferred
/ in time, otherwise not until NOvcm ber-
Jessie j. Todd, the agent at Eingman
| for the Provident Investment Co, Kan
sas City, was arrested recently on
Z the charge of embezzlCment- The com
[ pany claim that as it's agent Todd coll
I lected about 81. 500 as rents from then
lands, which he fails to account Tor
Todd does not deny collecting the
money. but asserts that he started with
| it to Kansas City some time in February
and on the way he either lost the
money or it was taken from his pocket
The remnant of a gang of touEhs
hanging around Wallace, the other
night, chased several citizens to their
homes at the muzzle of pistols and as
the Kansas Pacific train pulled in Mt
11:15 o'clock the gang at the station de
munded the money box of the operator
/ but by suddenly cStinguishiug the light
and concealiug the cash he saved the
money though "a bullet went crashing
past his head The toughs turned their
attention to the passengers ON the train
but it pulled out. The fellows fed
south
The other afternoon four men belong
ing to a government surveying party
had a narrow escape from drowning in
the Missouri river at Leavenworth.
They were in a sl-iH and about to start
down stream, when it unexpectedly y
darted under a large boat and was
svamped instantly. An the men were
drawn uAl-sE tne Dig DDal ana Two OK
them were fortunate enough TO catch
on to "a corner of it on coming up. The
other two struggled in the river for sew
erai moments until they were rescued
by comrades in a slzifE.
The twO-year-old daughter Of exc
Sheriff Hays. of Wichita, found a match
on the door the other morning. She
ignited it and was soon euveloped iu
flames Before Mrs Hays who was at
tracted from the adjoining room 10y the
screams, could e0tingUisb the flames
the child had been burned so that its
death was hourly expected
Petitions from the people of Kansas
asking that the sale OF liquor at tho
soldiers home at Leavenworth be pro
hibi5ed are being presented in great
numbers to congress
Thomas Seip, who was the first mayor
Of Atchison. died in that city rhe other
day of paralysis sged 90 years
r. C. Hite, an OLD trappar, arrived az
Atehison the other day in s. small boat
He left Bozeman, Mont. in his frau
craft in September, 1899, and expects to