The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-07-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS

democrats of the Fifth district.
johnson & johnson, retail dry goods
merchants of Topeka, have made an as
alignment for the benefit OF creditors
The state prohibition convention nom
mated three preachers for congress and
the majority Of the state central coHn-
Tnittse are preachers
A specimen of flour ground bya womb
an mill owner at QuenenO from wheat
grown by Trego county woman viii
be one of the Kansas exhibits at the
worlds fair,
At d recent meeting of the republican
state central committee in Topeka, J.
NJ. Simpson, of Mcpherson, was chosen
chairman and Frank Brown, of Ander-
son county, secretary.
Story of a country town: The Atchi-
son Globe has been sued by Mrs. Rot
tenger, IA fortune teller. for sL5. 600 dam
ages The offense charged is that the
paper misrePresented her in a police
court item
State Veterinarian W. II. Going was
out TO Eeosho county recently to look
after some diseased cattle. He found
them suffering from contagious dis
ease known as big jaw, but did not
order them killed
A coIored boy while lately fishing at
Leayenworth attempted to land"
big fish but was himself landed in
the water and would have been drowned
=
EasSer by who fished the boy out
The first car of new W heat from Kan
sas was received by a Kansas City COM
mission house on the 18th. 1t scaled
ssixty-three full pounds to the bushel,
the heaviest carload received in Kansas
: city IN the memory Of any of the OLD
timers.
The Central Christian church, Kansas
City, kan, was struck by lightning at
sa early hour the other morning. Tho
sPire and roof We're slightly damaged,
while considerable amount OF plaster
ing was torn from the walls in the su-
ditorium.
David Rtchey has been nominated by
she peoples party judicial convention
Tor the Fourteenth district, composed
of Ellsworth, Lincoln and Russell
counties Judge Eastlaud was nomi-
mated for reelection at Russell by the
republicans.
The post offices at Bonner Springs
WyandGtte county; MOntrOse, Jewell
county; Boxbury, Mcpherson county;
Brewster, Thomas county; Goodrich
Linn county, Cove, Cove county, and
Harris, Anderson county, have been
made money order Offices
The Kansas Methodist, edited by Rev.
James Lawrence, has been removed
from Manhattan TO Topeka, where it
will hereafter be published, the editor
says, 'in the temporal, intellectual and
spiritual interests OF the IS, 600 Method
lists in the state of Kansas"
The board of county commi ssioners
of Saline county have made an apprO-
priation covering their portion OF funds
for the Kansas exhibit at the CClum-
biaH exposition and sent in S546, being
80 per cent of their allotment to the
treasurer of the board of managers
Neal Jackson, the man who murdered
Alex Holden in Fort Scott about three
closet in his mothers house, in that city
the other day and arrested. After the
murder Jackson fled to Memphis, Tenn.
but could not remain away from home,
DR.. Stemen, of Kansas City, Kan, a
brother of the police surgeon of that
city, was the victim of q stroke OF
lightning during a late storm He was
sitting near a window at his residence
when lightning struck house on an
adjoining lot, the stroke prOstratiug the
doctor and rendering him unconscious
for some time.
Secretary AIohIer, of the state boare
CT Agriculture, stated recently that IL
the majority of counties through the
central wheat belt harvest hands were
busy Sunday tthe 10th) and that hands
were changed and worked through tht
night. ''The farmers could not have
asked for finer weather" said he, ''anC
don't feel alarmed about their ability
to take care OF the crops"
Jesse Goodau was shot at Saiina ths
other day by Frank Croft and though
to be fatally wounded. He was iealou:
of attentions which Croft had paid Mrs
Goodall and learning that his wife wa.
at Croft's house he went to the place
and demanded admittance. He was re
fused at first, but after securing an a.
and threatening to break the door b,
was admitted and began to attaci
Croft, when Croft shot him
The governor has approved the recon
mendatiOn of the board of pardons ant
commuted the sentence of o. /. Nc
Lain sent to the penitentiary for four
teen years, to five years McLain wa
a soldier IN the Sixteenth Illinois cav
airy from 1862 to 1865, was in thirt.
battles, and was for several months
prisoner at Richmond and Anderson
vile. He finally escaped After tn
war he located in Kansas and engages
10 the real estate business. Financia
troubles caused him to commit a FOR
gerry, which he repeated to avoid GeteC
ton. When arrested he pleaded guilt,
and was sentenced on each count ii
has served nearly four years His pal
don was recommended by the G. A. R
a host of friends and many prominen
men in the state, because OF his previOu
good record and the severity OF the sen
tence-
Michael Roman, night foreman OF tn
sand house OF the Missouri Pacific, wa
ran over by = car under the James stree
viadUct, Kansas City, Kan, and killed
He was ss y ears old
The livery barn OF yYes- AttezberFy
At Usage City, was burned the othe
morning Three horses and many bug
Eies and carriages burned.
Henry AttiE, q teaTnstsF, died at kan
sas City, Kan, the other day from il
juries received by falling from hi
wagon, which passed over him
Jacob Nessbaumer. q farmer OF Atcil
son county, was run over and Instant
killed the other night at ParneiI by a
east bound Santa Fe passenger train.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Cor
cordia WIS destroyed by ire on th
1sth. also q passenger coach and son
freight
OF sixty two men that got on th
train 1t Hays City recently al were 2
work In the harvest field inside Of a