The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-06-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

the body were identified as belonging
to Christopher Mittlebach, a Leaven.
worth tailor who disappeared May 3
while on a spree.
John West, who was arrested at Kan
sas City, Kan, upon the charge of ar
son upon the confession Of the man
deed, has been released, the insurance
company refusing to swear out war
rant against him.
John Black, Polish saloon keeper
Of Leavenworth, attempted to eject
some striking miners the other night,
who had raised disturbance in his
place, when they set upon and brutally
XII cked him, from the effects of which
he died. One man was arrested for the
crime
The laying off of two firemen by Su-
perintendent Young, of Swift & Co..
packing house in Kansas City, Kan,
the other night precipitated small
strike at that plant. All of the men,
boiler room, quit work. Their places
were quickly filed, however.
A school of instruction and observa-
tion for the officers of the Kansas ma
tional guard will be held during the
month of September at Fort Leaven-
worth. Transportation will be fur
nished each commissioned officer of tho
guard to Fort Leavenworth and return
by the nearest practical route.
James Malloy, veteran from the
soldiers home, was arrested at Leav-
enworth the other day while in the act
Of destroying a mail box with stone.
He had succeeded in breaking piece
out of it. Asked why he did it, he said
he wanted to go to the penitentiary
now that he could not get his pension.
Belle Bigsby, young woman %
years old, daughter of a Douglas county
far1ner, was arrested the other day for
collecting 1925 on note of her fathers
due from Lawrence butcher. She
would get the money ostensibly for
her father, in sums OF SIS to $50, and
appropriate it to her own use. Upon
her promise to behave in future she
was released.
DAVE TOMPKINs, desperate negro
ex-convict, notorious thief and burg
lar, was shot twice while defying a
squad of policemen at the home of his
brother-in-law in Kansas City, Kan,
the other morning. One bullet pene-
trated the abdomen and the other took
effect in the left thigh. The wounded
man was taken to St. Margaret's hos
pital, where he died.
The annual meeting of the United
Commercial Travellers of the state was
lately held at Wichita. The grand
council elected officers as follows for
the ensuing term: Senior grand coun-
cillor, w. T. Tuttle, Concordia; junior
grand councillor, J. v. Morgan, Con.
cordia; grand treasurer, C. ]. Duvall,
Hutchinson; grand conductor, E. E..
Beech, Wichita; grand page, w. s..
Weaver, Topeka; grand sentinel, ]. P.
Jienkle, Independence.
The board of pension examiners for
Shawnee county recently discovered
among the list of applicants victim Of
dexdrocordia. The applicant was a
colored man named Simmons, who re-
sides in jefferson county. His heart is
on the right side, instead of on the left,
and his liver and other organs are
similarly transposed. With the eXcep-
tion of a severe gunshot wound in the
hip, which almost incapacitates Sim
mons for manual labor, he is in good
health.
After numerous threats of self-mur-
| der Frederick Seeger, an Austrian
tailor, aged 60, hanged himself the
other night in his little frame cottage
on Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kan.
He was the husband of Theresa Seeger,
demented and almost totally blind
woman, who, in the same house nine
teen months ago, shot her 4-year-old
grandson, frankie Pauckner, and then
killed herself. Seeger was an habitual
drinl>er, and his dissipated habits had
much to do with the tragedies which
annihilated his family.
The Christian Endeavor convention,
lately in session at Topeka, elected
officers as follows: President, Prof D.
s. Kelly, of Emporia; first vice presi-
dent, Rev. w. L. Bysrs, Topeka; second
vice president, Rev. j. s. Davis, Kansas
City; secretary, Miss Bessie E. Shelton,
Kansas City; treasurer, George C. Fos-
ter, Lawrence; superintendent junior,
Miss Ruth Nash, Topeka. Directors
for two years, L. L. Roby, Topeka;
Rev. w. L. Garges, Sterling, and Lieut..
E. F. Catlin, U. s. A, Fort Riley. L.
L. Roby was elected delegate to the
united convention to be held at Cleve-
land in July, and Wichita chosen as the
place for holding the next convention.
John West was arrested at Kansas
City, Kan, the other day upon the
charge of arson. A few nights previous
Vests residence was burned during
the absence of the family. The fire
originated from a gasoline explosion,
and neighbors alleged that man was
seen running from the building with
his clothing on fire. A few days later
Simon Biggerstaff was found at his
home almost in dying condition from
burns and was taken to a hospital.
He declared that West had offered him
$50 to fire the building while his FAM
lily was absent and that he did so and
the exposion of a gasoline can caused
his burns. There was a heavy fnsur-
ance on the house and furniture and
Biggerstahf's story was that West
wanted to get rid of his property and
receive the insurance.
!. The Missouri striking miners who
marched to Leavenworth to influence
the miners there to strike, and who
were escorted out Of town by the sher-
if, but returned in squads, finally gave
up the job and returned home without
accomplishing their purpose.
TIE 9-year-old son of W. A. Seay, re.