The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| KANSAS STATE NEWS.
| William Page, farmer, was recently
killed by the cars at Sugar Lake.
h. J. Dennis, state librarian since
1881, died at Topeka the other day,
aged SO years.
The Capital thinks that the people OF
Topeka are sadly in need of some foot
ball edueatiba.
Marshal Nealy has appointed L. F.
Ashton, of Leayenworth, chief deputy
United States marshal.
The thirty-fifth annual meeting Of
recently held at Winfield.
! The Leavenworth board of health
officially declares that smallpox has
been stamped out in that city.
All the union tailors employed BY
three of the leading esta blishments in
Leavenworth struck because the bosses
made new schedule Of prices that
they objected to.
The Lutheran synod of Kansas, which
includes the Lutheran churches of
Kansas City and st. Joseph, Mo-, held
its twenty-seventh annual convention
at Topeka last week.
A Topeka man has subsisted on milk
alone for the past nineteen months,
and proposes to keep it up the re-
mainder of his life. He drinks an av-
erage of eight quarts daily.
Burton Smith, the treasurer of Lo-
gan county, who was $4,000 short in
his accounts, but who claimed it was
from some error in bookkeeping, is said
to have departed to some other cline.
The dead body of George Barrett, of
Topeka, was found by the railroad
tracks near Perryville the other morn
ing. 1t was supposed he fell from a
train while returning from Kansas
City. He was SO rears of age ana mar
ried.
Daisy Hart, II years old, was killed
by the caving in of sand bank at
Kansas City, Kan, the other day. The
girl was playing in an opening that
had been dug out in getting sand, when
it caved in and buried her to the depth
of feet.
While recently examining a hot box
on a freight car at Salina John
Kraenchi. ear inspector for the Union
Pacific, was struck by train on an adj
joining track and killed instantly.
Kraenchi was As years old and had a
wife and four children.
During a late storm the barn of
r; Franzell, s miles southwest of Atchi-
son, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. 1t contained
Franzelrs entire crop for this year, in
~, 80
There was nd insurance.
At recent meeting the Kansas live
stock sanitary board decided to ask
Secretary Morton to send representa-
tive of the government to the great
south and west cattle country to in
vestigate the condition of the cattle
being offered to shippers and upon the
market.
Following are the officers chosen
by the Baptist state convention, lately
in session at Winfield: President, Rev.
j. +. futile, OF Clay Center; vice presi-
dent. w. c. Simpson, of Emporia; re-
cording secretary, Rev. L. III. Holt, of
Emporia; treasurer, John Z. Mulvane,
Of Topeka.
The Friends, during their recent
yearly meeting at Lawrence, for
warded petition to Gov. Lewelling,
signed by several hundred people,
praying for the removal of the Kansas
City, Kan; board of police commission
ers for countenaneing violations of the
prohibitory and other laws.
About midnight the other night the
feed warehouse of Worth & Boyd in
KANSAS City, Kan; near the state line,
was destroyed by fire. Twenty car
loads Of hay, five carloads of oats and
four carloads of corn were consumed.
The grain warehouse of Baker & Cor
bin was also damaged and a cottage
residence destroyed. Loss, about So
500.
The management of the soldiers
home at Leavenworth lately issued an
order that hereafter disabled soldiers
will not be admitted to the home I'M
less they present an order of admission
signed by member Of the board of
managers. The address of the local
manager of the western branch is Col.
Sidney G: Cooke, Herington, Kan, to
whom applications for admission should
be addressed.
| At the late annual meeting of the
Baptist convention of the state, held at
Winfield, Rev. I. D. Newell, mission
ary secretary reported forty-one mis-
sionaries Under appointment. The
membership of their churches is 3,151.
Total money secured by them for
benevolence. 81, 1902 total for all pur-
poses, $14, 1870; value of church prop
erty on mission fields, S126,2 2O; collect.
ed for convention work, SO, 4O7.69; Sc
cured pledges, S226.69. There has been
raised in the state S., 126.79.
The election commission board, in
session at Topeka, decided that the
names of Jerry Simpson, David Rath-
bone and A. d. Gilkeson would APP
pear upon the official ballot, but the
referendum ticket was declared not
legal and was therefore knocked out.
Immediately after the decisions were
filed an injunction issued by Judge Ha-
zen, of the Shawnee county district
court, was served against the secretary
of state restraining him from placing
Simpsons name on the official ballot as
the nominee of the democrats in the
Seventh district. Rathbone and Gilke-
son are candidates for judge in the
Twenty.third district, the former on the
| free silver ticket and the latter by Pc