The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-06-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Prohibition,sts nominated Hon. I. O.
Pickering, of johnson county. for gov.
ernor.
The populists of the Sixth district
have nominated Congressman Baker
for reelection.
Rev. Samuel Warren delivered the
annual address before the students of
the Kansas Wesleyan university.
c. C. Osborn, who shot and killed
Lawyer Handle at Holton, has been
taken to Topeka for safe keeping.
It is said that Hon. John j. Ingalls,
has received an offer to become editor
in-chief of an important magazine pub
lished in New York.
Superintendent Snider, of the insur-
ance department., has been notified
that the Guardian Fire & Insurance
Co., of London, which recently with
drew from business in America. has re-
insured all its risks in the state with
the Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Mrs. B. II. Phelps, has commenced a
singular suit at Atchison in which she
asks for a judgment for $4,000 against
the city and county for allowing
saloons to be operated therein, thereby
maintaining places where her husband
buys whisky and becomes drunk.
E. L. Chapman, ex-receiver of the
United States land office at Larned and
president of the first national bank at
Great Bend, committed suicide at the
latter place the other evening by shoot
ing himself through the head. He was
Respondent over i'll health of himself
and wife
The first regular meeting of the ex.
ecutive committee of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial union
was to have been held at Topeka, June
IA, but the only member of the COM
mittee to appear was I. E. Dean, OF
New York, and the meeting was in
definitely postponed.
While Mrs. Hadley and two daugh-
ters, Hattie and Lille, were fording
the Saline river south of Plainville
the other Sunday, the wagon was cap
sized and Mrs. Hadley and Hattie
drowned. Lille saved her life by cling.
ing to bushes. The party was en- route
to Sunday school. Recent rains had
s,s1denly swollen the river.
Charles B. Hamble, "a lawyer, was shot
and instantly killed at Holton the other
evening by Clinton Osborn, a saddler.
Osborn, armed with a shotgun, met
Hamble on the street and, 1t is stated,
accused him of betraying his Osborn 81
daughter, who had been working in
the law Office of deceased, which the
latter denied, when Osborn shot him.
A notice was posted at the Santa Fe
shops in Topeka announcing that the
shops would be closed Friday, June Is.
The men feared that this was fore
runner of regular lay off each Friday,
which would cut down their hours to
thirty-two a week, or four days out Of
the seven. The general manager,
however, stated that no further reduc-
tion had been decided upon than two
Fridays in the month.
A member Of the soldiers home re-
Gently brought habeas corpus proceed
ings in the United States court against
Gov. Smith for illegally confining him
at the home, retaining his pension
money and compelling him to take the
Kelley treatment and pay for same,
under duress of imprisonment. Gov.
Smith Immediately gave Williams his
freedom and pension money upon be-
ing served with notice of the legal pro-
ceedings.
Pensions recently granted Kansas
veterans: Original, William Dellinger,
Dodge City; James ]. Dunkee, Wichita.
Additional, Marshall Mcknight, Ma
tional Military Home. Supplemental,
Edward Il. Webb, Randall Restora-
ton, James L. Mcclure, Emporia. Re-
newal, Benjamin Sweet, Reubens. In
crease, Joseph L. Conklin, Topeka
Reissue, John w. Cullimore. Washing
ton; Caroline King, Numa; Celia Stre-
vel (mother), Fort Scott.
Joseph Jacobs, a jeweler of Atchison,
left home the other morning for the
purpose of hunting, and, not returning,
a search was instituted for him. His
clothing was found on the bank of
creek about miles south of the city,
and the body of the dead man was tax
en- out of the stream a short time after
ward. A dog which Jacobs took with
him was lying on his masters clothes
when found. A son of Jacobs was
drowned in the same creek about a
year ago.
The crop bulletin issued from the
weather bureau Office at Topeka for
the week ended June II stated that
late rains had materially improved all
crops. Corn is good stand, clean and
of good color and is growing rapidly.
Wheat is being harvested in the south.
The rye and fax are good, barley and
oats fair. Pastures and meadows gen.
orally good, clover and alfalfa good,
except in the bottoms along the Ar
kansas. Timothy is short. Cherries
and early potatoes abundant. Apples
promising.
Arthur Winner and Joseph W. Nc
Mutt were released from the peniten-
tiary on the 9th, after serving twenty
years. When quite young men they
murdered a tramp at Wichita and
burned his body in building. McNutt
had insured his life for 1000 in favor
of Winner. The scheme was to make
it appear that the dead man was Nc
Mutt and Winner was to collect the
money. McNutt disappeared, but the
plot was discovered and both arrested,
tried and sentenced to be hanged. One
of the last acts of Gov. Humphrey was
to commute their sentence to twenty
Eve years, which for good behavior was
reduced to twenty wears.