The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-02-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The executive committee of the Kan
sas repu bIican league has fixed March /
1, at Topeka, as the time and place of /
holding the annual state convention OF
the league
The state bar association recently /
held it's annual meeting at Topeka It
yaz the most successful one in the
history OF the association, one hundred
lawyers being in attendance
In making G. run to a fire at Topeka
the other day. Ben Carter, assistant
chief, was caught under the wheels of /
the reel AID killed instantly. Neis
Anderson another fireman, was also
badly injured.
Mrs. Margaret Palmer the young
woman who has won reputation all
over the country as the silk worm
woman, has been convicted OF obtain
ing money under false pretcuses in the
4 district court at Topeka.
The Baudana club. of Leaveuworth,
proposes to attend the democratic con-
vention at Chicago next June in style,
Z The club viii 60 ia unltorm-gray
Z Prince Albert coats, gray trousers and
| plug hats Of the same shade
w. W. HetheringtOn, president Of the
( Exchange National bank OF Atchisou,
[ died somewhat suddenly in that city
I the other day at the age of forty-oue
Z years He leaves a wife and four chill
( dren, all Of whom were away from
! home when he died.
/ The veteran Mason and grand treas
| urer of the Kansas grand lodge OF
/ Masous, Christian Beck, was found car
/ ly the other morning on the floor OF his
] room at Leavsu worth in t. critical CON
ditiou- Medical aid was summoned and
| he was resuscitated He is eighty-siz
years old.
Richard A. Messimer, of Atcbison,
/ was instantly killed by "a Missouri
Pacific freight engine at Paul, Neb-r
/ the other afternoon. Until a molth
| ago he was a member of the Atchlsou
fire department, when he quit and took
a position as brakeman lie was TWEEN
ty-thFee years of age
Mrs. Augustus Wilson, editor Of tho
| Wilsonton journal, has been app iuted
worlds fair press commissioner for
Kansas, representing the board of
lady Managers Mrs. Wilson is also
member of the advisory board OF the
worlds fair congress, and is devoting q
large portion of her time to the various
interests committed to her charge.
The preliminary examination of sam
AIintOu, BY Orner Roman Chase and
J. j. Leach charged with being mem
bers Of the mob which killed Sheriff
Dunn January D. was concluded at
Liberal on the 2sth. The first three
! were denied bail and were sent to the
Hutchinson jail for safe keeping.
Leach, being quite i'll, would probably
get bail.
Just after dark the other night George
] Cooper, a colored man of North Law
renee, was called out OF his LUuse,
seized by colOred men, all masked, cur
ried to the woods and beat almost to
| death He was left unconscious but
recovered later aud crawIed home. He
had given testimony against several
colOred men for stealing coal from the
Union Pacific yards. Several arrests
had been made.
gang of military prisoners were enc
gagged in cutting ice on the Missouri
river opposite Fort LsGvenwOrth the
! other morning, when a mutiny devel-
| oped among them and a determined eff
fort to escape was made by a large
number. All were rounded up" how
/ ever, except two who got into the tim
Der on the Missouri side, but were be-
ing vigorously pursued
The young crowd" of republicans
cele 5rated the thirty-6rst anniversary
I of the admission of Kansas into the
union with a banquet at Topeka on the
3 evening of the goth. Young men, aud
many whose hair was strealled with
gray, gathered from au parts of the
state. The speeches on the occasion
J were enliveuiug and the supper dez-
: cribed as being all that could be de-
? sired.
Benson, the murderer of Mrs. Nett
muu at Leavenworth, who was to have
. been hanged February $, has been
- granted an indefinite respite. This
makes the second respite granted him,
and is for the purpose of allowing the
United States supreme court to pass ON
certain points alleged to be irregular
during mis- trial When the news of "a
stay of execution was conveyed to him
he became very happy and predicted
? that he would never be hanged.
Val HOLSTER, a saloon keeper of
2 Hutchinson, had occasion to eject sam
T ] Weisler an obstreperous customer re-
5 Gently Weisier armiug himself with
% a revolver, returned, shooting HOLSTER
5 full of holes. After he fred three
shots, all OF which took effect in Hollis
ter's body, the latter secured the yveap-
s on and turned it upon WeisIer the
p bullet striking him just below the eve.
After firing Hollister fell, exhausted
Both men were reported to be mortaIIy
wounded.
2 Judge Johnson has rendered "a de-
: cision at Topeka OF importanc to
a those who hold Kansas mortgages aud
i notes The court holds that the notes
IL and mortgages constitute a single con.
= tract, and where, by the terms of the
e mortgage, the notes become due for
p non-paymeut of taxes or interest. that
: protest must be immediate, and thatau
AA-DAo1A can only De neLL liable on his
Endorsement when notice and protests
Q are had at the end Of three days grace
after the note becomes due
T. II. Smith, of Topeka, was found in
the cemetery at Waubunsee the other
day with a bullet ia his temple. A let
ter in his pocket told where he was
. from and with whom to communicate.
His yvifei 1t is stated, committed suicide
at Topeka over a year ago and was
e buried at Waubunsee- He could not
recover.
: James Brennan, the slayer of s. n.
Wood was released from the Hutchin,
J. son jail recently by order OF the sveus
county district court
g Thomas j.. GaFveys a prominent con.
tractor of Kansas City. kan, was re.
y Gently found dead in his hotel at Chi
cago-
o c. Van Lsuweu, of NortorvilIe, was
killed by an Atohison, Topeka 81 Santa
Fs train i've miles east of Atchisou the
= ] other day. He was sixty wears old av.f