The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

been elected to the lower house of the
Kansas legislature.
The president has refused pardon
to Jacob Pecor, sentenced in Kansas
to ten years for manslaughter.
The store of Ottoman & Darragh at
Independence was entered by burglars
the other night and robbed of about
$500 worth of goods.
The three-year-old daughter of
George Hoss, of Topeka, was recently
frightfully burned by gasoline stove
explosion and died soon after.
The trial of the case of Nelson F.
Acers against Senator Martin for
criminal libel, growing out of the Pete
Kline af6davits, has been postponed to
the March term of the Allen county
court.
Mrs. H. F. Steinburg, residing near
Silver Lake, was thrown from buggy
in a runaway accident in North Tope-
ka the other morning and badly hurt.
Her head struck a telegraph pole, rem
dering her unconscious, and she was
injured internally.
A painter named Parkes, hailing
from Kansas City, while employed near
the top of the headquarters building at
the Leavenworth soldiers home, fell to
the ground the other afternoon, break
ing his right arm and receiving other
severe injuries internally.
In the United States court at Topeka
Judge Foster vacated the temporary
order restraining the old Santa Fe
organization from proceeding with an
election except under the cumulative
plan of voting, and declared that the
cumulative system did not apply.
C. M. Greenman and Charles D. Yer
non, travelling statesmen, one from st.
Louis and the other from Kansas City,
got into fight at Fort Scott about the
election, when Greenman slashed Yer
non terribly with a razor. Greenman
was arrested upon the charge of assault
with intent to kill.
The latest returns received at Topeka
up to November 1Ogave the republicans
90 members of the lower house of the
legislature and the peoples party 80.
The senate, which holds over, is % pop
ulists, Is republicans and democrats,
giving the republicans an ample ma
jority on joint ballot.
A. NJ. Engle, farmer living 6 miles
northeast of Abilene, was burned out
the other night. Residence, barns,
five horses, cows, hogs and everything
except portion of his household goods
were destroyed. Loss, $1,000; insured
for $1,000. The origin of the fire was
supposed to have been incendiary:
Col. Veale, of Topeka, republican
member elect of the legislatu re, is re.
ported as saving that he will canvass the
legislature on the question of result mit-
ting the prohibitory amendment, and
if he finds any considerable number
friendly to the movement, he will in
troduce joint resolution to that effect.
w. NJ. Remley, who had a real estate
and intelligence Office at Topeka, start
ed in a single buggy for Anderson
county, and some time after was found
in dying condition on the road near
Tecumseh. He lived but short time
after being found. There were marks
of blows on the head and the indica-
tions were that he had been kicked by
his horse.
The elegant silk flag which the popu-
lists carried at the head of their pro-.
cession at the big ratification meeting
in 1892 in Topeka, was presented to the
republicans to be carried in their pro-
cession at similar demonstration on
the Tuesday night following the late
election. In his note to Chairman Lee
land, rendering the flag, Chairman
Breidenthal said: 'Give it back to us
in 1896"
Pensions lately issued to Kansas vet
Grams: Original, Hubert G. Rose, Wich-
ita.. Sedgwick county; John II.
Throughman, Myra, Woodson county,;
Merrifield Vicery, Dover, Shawnee
county. Increase, John Prescott, To-
peka, Shawnee county. Reissue, Arte-
mus c. Mckinney, Haddam, Washing
ington county; John w. Reynolds,
Sedgwick, Harvey county. Original
widows. ETC., Amy j. Mcbride, An
thony, Harper county.
In 1872 a man named w. H. Bauer
disappeared from Wichita, and later
body was found which friends
identified as that of the missing man,
and it was buried. A few days ago let
ter was received from Bauer, dated at
Port Lavaca, Tex, addressed to the
sheriff and making inquiries about GER
Ud1Q property pcTSOuS DducT Sdlu
nothing about his mysterious disap-
pearance nearly a quarter of century
ago.
A handsome young woman about 20
years old, from Eldorado, few days
ago stopped at the Lockwood hotel at
Fort Scott. She refused to give her
name. She disappeared and few days
later was found in an unoccupied room
at the hotel unconscious on the bed.
Beside her was an empty chloroform
bottle and some morphine pills. She
was restored by two physicians, who
were called, but refused to give any
reason for her action.
Five of the toughest characters in
the Douglas county jail at Lawrence
escaped the other night by saving
their way through the iron bars over
the windows. 1t was discovered when
the jailer went to lock the men up for
the night. The escaped prisoners
were: Matt Ryan, Bill Dooley, Fred
Miller, for burglary and larceny; Tom
Hunter and John Austin, for assault
with intent to kill. In escaping the
men stole four horses, but abandoned
them at daybreak.
An exchange says that bill OF
goods furnished to a Douglas county
pauper and allowed recently were
seven tobacco items, six oyster items,
two bird seed items, two sardine items.