The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-04-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

John Thorp was recently killed by
the cars at Atchison.
Frank S. Thomas has been appointed
postmaster at Topeka.
has resigned and II. S. Snider has been
appointed to succeed him.
The town of Beaumont, in Butler
county, was one of the victims of last
weeks storm Many Buildings were
wrecked:
The. reported destruction of the towns
of Willis, Powhatan and Baker, in
Brown county, by the late storm
proved to be untrue. although the storm
was quite severe. Owen Peltcp, Of
Robinson. was reported killed.
A late fire at Mulvane destroy ed tine
Union hotel. the State bank, Hawkes..
grocery. Mrs. SINNERS millinery, Fitz-
simmons hardware store, Tague's
bakery. Williams dry goods store and
eight or ten smaller establishments of
various kinds.
The late storm played havoc with the.
little town of Parker, in southern Kan:
sas. About a dozen buildings were
completely wrecked. No one was killed,
but David Cottle had an arm broken.
The Graphic and Pilot newspaper offices
were wrecked.
The examination of the negro Hud.
son, at Salina, charged with the assault
upon Mrs. Frost, resulted in the man
establishing his innocence, although
Mrs. Frost declared him to be the gull
| ty party. Hudson had narrow escape
from death by a mob.
The Lansing post Office was broken
into the other night and robbed of the
stamps and much of the mail matter.
The office is located in . general mer-
chandise store, which was also ram
sacked. The robbery is supposed to
have been committed by two recently
discharged convicts..
The recent storm did great deal of
damage along the Central Branch road,
west of Atchison. At Muscotah a num-
Der of houses and barns were unroofed.
The house of John Baum was unroofed
| and Mrs. Baum and her baby were seri-
| ously injured and a laborer named Nef
had a leg broken. Others were injured
by falling timbers.
1t is stated that the government is
thinking" of establishing an eXperi-
| ment station of the weather service in
the university at Lawrence. There are
only four stations of this kind in the
United States-at Harvard, Cornell,
Washington and the Rose Polytechnic
| institute. Each station is in charge of
| government officer.
| Rev. d. C. Miner has issued card to
IN fnrn nf
gesting that the twelfth anniversary
of prohibition MAY y be celebrated by
| special meetings in all parts of the
state, at which demands shall be made
| for more complete enforcing of the
| law, mot only against lawless liquor
dealers, but also against perjured Off
| Gals"
In the case of Senator Martin, whose
| right to seat in the senate is contested
| by J. w. Ady, the senate committee on
| privileges and elections has decided to
| report favorably resolution author
| izing the committee to sit during the
| recess by subcommittee or otherwise
| and look into the claim of Mr.. Ady to
the seat, to go to Kansas if necessary
and to send for persons and papers.
Grar Whirlow, living at Vinland,
six mil S south of Lawrence, committed
| suicide in a horrible manner the other
night. The deed was deliberately done.
He took a shotgun, loaded it and
placed it on chair, the muZZle point
ing toward his head, and pulled the
trigger by means of a string, blowing
his head off. lie was 23 years of age
and no cause for the deed is known.
! The board of regents of the state
university met. recently at Lawrence
and reorganized by electing Gov. Rob
inson vice president, Charles f. Scott,
secretary, and c. r. Mitchell, auditor.
Chancellor Snow is president of the
board. Prof. f. NJ. Hopkins and Prof.
F. H. Holder were raised to full pro-
fessorships, and w. C. Stevens and ".
L. Kellogg to associate professorships.
Horace Burk, of Willis; IA years old,
was lately the subject of a very bad ac-
cident. He was driving sulky plow,
and the team becoming frightened the
boy in attempting to jump off the plow
was caught in the lines, that were
wrapped around his body, and dragged
around over the field until every vestige
of clothing, except his shirt, was torn
from him. His condition was danger
| Gus.
Justice Allen, Of the supreme court,
has filed his dissenting opinion in the
Gum habeas corpus case by which the
legality of the house of representatives
was determined. At the time of the
decision, Justice Allen delivered an oral
dissent and announced that he would
file a more extended opinion in the
future. The opinion filed by him is
the larges that has ever been written
by a judge of the supreme court. 1t
covers seventy pages of typewriter
copy.
Martin Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture. from personal OBJ
servations in northwestern Kansas, re-
ports that the wheat is generally look
ing very bad, and that unless there is a
good rain within short time the crop
| will prove almost total failure. There
| is smaN belt through Saline county
where the wheat crop is in good condi-
ton, but both east and west of there
bad reports have not been exaggerated.
He looks for a very large corn crop,
however, as it has always been the rule
in Kansas that dry springs are followed
by wet summers.
Bulletins received at the Office of the
state board of agriculture on the 11th
and crop intelligence from other sources
continued to be discouraging. The
wheat prospects were no better in the
west and many farmers were plowing
their fields preparatory to putting in
corn.
The Santa Fe strike situation at To
pelxa showed no change on the 18th.
The company had taken no steps to
make peace with the men, and the men
had settled down to wait until the re-
pair shops must have their help. The
general manager issued circular Civ
ing the men one more day to return to