The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-09-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The greater part Of the state was re-
heshed by welcomed rains during the
past week.

ne greater pATt VI enC SCdtc was IOs
heshed by welcomed rains during the
past week.
The residence of John P. Cole at To-
peka was burned the other morning,
together with contents.
During recent family quarrel Jake
JurHeons was shot in the shoulder and
seriously wounded by his brother-in-
law, Groat, at the 1atter's house near
Atwood
Shawnee county got away with. the
bulk of the premiums for best farm
products at the Nebraska state fair,
which recently closed at Lincoln. The
aggregate amount brought away in
premiums was 1855.
At colored dance at Tonganoxie the
other night two colored men quarreled
over a woman and Bill Ross picked up
q stone and Drained a companion. He
is wanted for murder. The name of
his victim could not be learned
Gov. Lewelling has offered a reward
of $500 each for the arrest of the
bandits who robbed train and killed
Express Messenger Chapman at Mound
Valley September 8, and the same re-
ward for those who held up Santa Fe
train at Cimarron June 10 and shot
Messenger Whittlesey.
Gov. Lewelling is reported as saying
that before he would call an extra ses-
sion of the legislature to appropriate
funds with which to purchase seed
wheat for destitute Western Kansas
farmers he must know that there is
general demand for such session and
that he will not act hastily in calling
one.
Jean Bonnetti, q Frenchman, was
arrested at Wichita by a deputy United
States marshal, charged with fraudu-
lently drawing pension for years by
impersonating dead brother, who
was a soldier. The fraud was given
away by his wife, with whom he had
a quarrel recently, which caused their
separation.
Two little children of Mrs Virgie
Wood, wife of young farmer near
Fort Scott. turned lamp over the
other night and their clothes caught
fire. The mother attempted to rescue
them and her dress was ignited. Be-
fore the flames could be extinguished
her flesh had been so badly burned
that she died soon afterwards.
Henry Gerber, a German gardener,
35 years of age, who lives alone in a
cottage on the county road half mile
beyond the western limits Of Kansas
City, Kan, had his skull laid open at
o'clock the other morning by a deadly
blow with a spade dealt by some un-
known person. The object was no
doubt robbery, as the house was found
to have been ransacked while he lay
unconscious.
The attorney-general has decided
against the issuing of charter to the
American Protective association. The
gist of the opinion is that the order
seeks to abridge the religious rights of
the citizen, and, as the constitution of
the state grants to all citizens full re-
ligious liberty, the state cannot sane
tion scheme which is intended to
create discord among the people of
every community.
DIR. Henry Wade Rogers, one of the
most prominent lawyers of the coun-
try, who has acquired national repu-
tation as an educator, author and prac.
titioner, formerly dean of the law de.
partment at Ann Arbor, and now presi-
dent of the Northwestern University Of
Chicago, will be the guest of the Kan
sas Bar association at its January
meeting, to be held at Topeka, and will
deliver an address.
After many postponements and long
delays, the preliminary trial of Levi
Wilson on the charge of embezzling
$4,000 from the Daniel Shire estate,
came off before Judge johnson at
Leavenworth and the defendant was
discharged on the ground that the suit
was not begun within the proper time
from the date alleged that the money
was embezzled. Wilson's bondsmen
will have to make good the amount he
took from the estate
The house of w. J. Owens, near Rad
fcal, was burned the other night and
Owens perished in the flames. His
wife and two hildren were away from
home and he was the only person in
the house at the time Developments
led to the belief that man who Owens
was instrumental in having sent to the
penitentiary some years ago had served
his time out and resorted to murder as
means of revenge and burned the
house to hide the crime.
Two unknown men entered the house
of C. w. Nicodemus in the center Of
Newton the other evening at o'clock
and gagged and bound Mrs. Nicodemus,
who was alone. Then they saturated
her clothing with coal oil and were
just about to set her on fire when Nico-
demus returned and the men made their
escape Two nights previous the same
men broke into the house and secured
s25. In departing Mrs Nicodemus shot
one OF them in the leg and he told her
that he had returned to burn her for
this
In tho case OF the state against Secre-
tary of State R. S. Osborn, charged
with libeling Cyrus Leland, the jury at
Topeka returned a verdict Of guilty.
The maximum penalty by law is 81, 600
fine and year in Jail, with the mini
mum at the discretion of the court.
The specific charge against Mr. Osborn
was that he told reporter. who pub
lished, it that Leland, in collusion with
George II. Case, ex-warden OF the peni-
tentiary, bought lump coal of the
prison as slack and sold it to Doniphan
county people at full price.
The contract for the building of an
addition to the asylum for imbeciles at
Winfield has been awarded by the
state board of public works to f. A.
Willard, of Argentine, for e1o,s ,sa4;
smaller addition to the same asylum to
Baker & R3rnes of ToDelSa for 81 ara