The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-12-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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I 2Oiuted postmlztress at Baldwin City
The state encsmpment 6. A r. VIII
be held at Fitts5urE February 81, -
I and %.
C. a. Benson, in the LeavenwurtH
| Jail under sentence OF death for the
murder of Mrs bIettmans stabbed his
| guard the other day and then killed
/ himself
| The Newton National bank has closed
l its doors The bank was closed No
| vember 81, Is9J. a1d in July, 1891, it
I was reopeued under an agreement with
/ the old derositors-
| John SPeer, the weu known kansas
( pioneer and newspaper man, VIII COM
I plete his 10th year on the 2TLh of This
month. One-haif of his lifetime has
] been spent 10 Kansas
/ A call has been issued by the chair-
| man of the state prohibition committee
I TO all friends of prohibition TO maet for
! "a temperance reunion at the court
\ house, Topeka ON December @Ss at
/ p M.
! The Dopuiist committee at Tlpelsa de-
/ cided TO have no inaugural ball at the
/ induction of Gov Leweliiug into olnces
/ but there will be "a grand reception on
| January to which all the people OF
| the state are invited
The ticket Office OF the Missouri Pa
] ciGc depot at Devon, Bourbon county
on t.lE 4.-fL4Antl'r eA1taA7tAa- A- A-afHNA-aA
division, was entered by a tramp the
other morning during the absence of
! the agent and robbed of all the money
contained in tine ticket department
A late Topeka dispatch stated that
| definite charges are to be preferred
. against a. j. Smith, governor of the
soldiers home, near Leaveuworth- FOE
several weeks past the Western Veteran,
OF Topeka, has been making war on
[ Smith and charges against him have
been ella borated.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial as
/ sOciation met at Topeka on the 10Th.
About fifty newspapers were repre-
| sentsd Resolutions ou the death of
/ the late Frank Lynch, of the Lcaveu-
/ worth Standard, We're adopted Tt was
decided to hold another meeting in To-
pelca, January H.
An old and distinguished citizen OF
Leavenworth, John Burr aged % years,
died at his home in that city the other
day. He located in the city in 1855
where he has since resided and filed
many positions of trust Air Burr was
a great hortiCulturist and devoted much
attention to Strawberries and grapes.
w. C. Weight, a carpenter working
on the Etteuson building at Leaveu-
/ worth, was standing on a scah0ld-
ing the other evening, when it
gave way and he fell twenty feet
striking on some beams He re-
ceived internal injuries from which he
died next day. He leaves vile and
child poorly provided for
Lizzie Williams, an eigbtsen-year-old
negro girl whose home is at Kansas
City, shot and killed Ell Parks, a negro
lad about the same age at Coiteyviile,
recently. Parks was her sweetheart and
was visiting her at her boarding place
l when the fatal shot was fred The
shooting was accidental as they were
playing with revolver and IL was acci-
dentally discharged
W. H Hussey, county clerk of Has
3 lzell county, declare in a recent inter
view that the mistake in transmitting
the returns for member of the legisla-
ture from his county, and W nlch showed
that Stubbs instead OF RosenthaI was
elected. was the result of the hurry in
making them out, and that he Will do
all in his power to remedy the wrong
| done MT Roseuthal, who is clearly enc
titled to the certificate.
The clerks of Wilson and Sed-wiclg
counties appeared before the state
board of canvassers on the 10th and
testified that the returns sent from
those counties which gave the name Of
Campbell" instead of ''Cabbel" for
| presidential elector were improperly
/ certified through mistake and the board
] issued certificate TO Cabbells the
Weaver elector, and withdrew the GER
| h-L4Ia L- 20 Lew ms gives LLAH aGIN-A
| electoral vote of Kansas TO Weaver.
A. w. Stubbz, the republican caudi-
I date to whom the state canvassiug
board issued the certificate of election
as member from Haskell county, cE-
pressed his surprise at learning that
| he had been awarded the certificate of
| election as represen entatiye from his
county, and declined to act IN that ca
pucity. He says he believes Mr. Rosen-
thai was elected, aud he is ready and
. willing TO do him Justice He does not
believe the county clerk Intentionally
transposed the figures which brought
about such a state of affairs
The supreme cOurt has decided that it
/ is not necessary for county attorney
I to be "a lawyer as long as he is recog-
I ! nized by the judge of the district court
/ of his county as the county attorney.
The decision is made in a case from Of
. tawa county where E. A. Haldermau
! was elected county attorney aud had
, not been admitted to the bar. One
, Smith was convicted OF murder under
his prosecution and appealed to the
supreme court on the ground that the
I county attorney. not having been o.
regularly admitted attorney at the bar,
had no right TO practice in the district
{ court The supreme court in deciding
the case says that where the county at
/ I boruey has been regularly elected to
, that office by the people and is so recog-
uized by the district court and has reg-
ular legal assistance the supreme court
cannot but sustain the decision of the
I lower court ia cases appealed on that
/ ground.
Albert Burgess a farmer living near
Manchester, committed suicide the
{ other night lie was last seen the
! evening before when he borrowed "a re-
volver of a neighbor. He went to the
barn, wrapped himself in blanket,
ana shot three holes IN his head and
neck. He was found dead the next
morning Ffeariuess with living alone
[ induced the deed.
Nearly 5000 was paid 10 Eiuney
county farmers one day lately for cattle
60 be shipped east
The snow storm OF the 18th was the
[ heaviest NJ some points that had been
Tor years AT Emporia fully a loot OF
snow fell.
The deEot at Whitewater was entered
by two masked men early the other
. ! r7r~7-uiurs and uuders the ruuZzLe of fuur