The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-08-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Knled by the Car.

next day young man who gave his
name as La Blanche appeared and
asked to see the dead man. When he
saw him he recognized the body rs
that of his dead brother and his grief
seemed great The mysterious action
and things found upon the parties led
to the belief that they were crooks
.Kansas on Wheels"
It is stated that the Grand Army Of
Kansas will send a train load of prod
ucts to the Louisville emcampment.
1t will be called the "foraging train"
1t will be deliberately decorated with
corn. wheat. oats and other grains and
grasses, ballasted with big potatoes,
cabbages and other vegetables, and
adorned with stuffed chickens and
load of fruits of every variety.
Delegates Appointed
The governor has appointed dele
gates to the meeting of the farmers
national congress at Chicago as fol-
lows: A. w. Smith, Mcpherson; A. P.
Forsythe, Liberty; Joshua Wheeler,
Nortonville: Col. c. D. Perry, Engle-
wood; George NJ. Munger. Eureka: T.
A. Hubbard. Rome; II. v. Grinstead,
Dighton; Maj Frank Holsinger. Rose
dale; James Shearer. Frankfort, and
Martin Mohler. Osborne.
A Crazy Man.
A Bonner Springs constable recently
took to the Wvandotte county Jail an
insane young man, who had been liv-
ing in the woods near that place for
several days. terrorizing the inhabi
ants. The man was captured at
farm near where he had gone to an
nounce himself as the second Christ.
He gave the name of c. A. Brighten
dali, of Brookfield.
A Veterans Suicide.
George f. Weber, veteran of the
Mexican war and the late civil war,
who lived near Topeka, went to Kan
sas City the other day where he sui
cided by taking poison. Before dying
he gave as his reason that he could not
get along with his family. He had
eleven children, the youngest being II
years of age.
Fourth Attempt at Suicide.
Mrs. Aquilla Dewing, a Wichita
boarding house keeper, went to the
Second street bridge in that town the
other day and was about to throw
herself into the Arkansas river when a
bystander seized her. She begged to
be permitted to drown herself. This
was her fourth attempt at suicide.
Pension. ..ranted.
Pensions were recently granted to
Charles E. Reemford, of st. Johns;
John Henderson. Burlingame: George
w. Lawrence, Thayer; George w. Skin
ner, Eskridre; Edwin II. Folger, Ma
tional Military Home; Thurman S. Ell
erton, Emporia: Thomas Gelding, Kan
sas City.
No Exhibit at Atlanta.
Col. Learned, president of the Kansas
commission appointed for the Atlanta
exposition, has announced that there
will be no exhibit from Kansas as a
state. owing to the inability of the ex-
position management to give room nee
essary for a Kansas display.
Safe Robbed
Expert cracksmen made profita bic
haul the other night in Armourdale.
The safe in the Armourdale office of
the National Oil Co. was blown open
and little over 500 in cash was Sc
cured by the robbers, besides Endorsed
checks for bout $50
Frolicsome Policemen.
A. K. Berkman and w. Z. Clark,
Kansas City. Kan, policemen, got frol-
icsome the other day, when Berkman
struck Clark on the hip discharging
Clark's pistol and wounding him in
the leg.
Minor State News.
Two prisoners escaped from Jail at
Wichita the other day while the guard
was deeply absorbed in a novel
Fire at Neodesha the other night de-
stroyed the Occidental hotel and other
property to the value of SIS, 900.
Bishop-elect Millspaugh. who has
been chosen bishop of the diocese Of
Kansas episcopal church) g succeed
the late Bishop Thomas. deceased. will
be consecrated at Topeka Septe-5er
10.
Clay Coburn. son of Secretary Co.
burn, of the state board of agriculture,
was slightly wounded in the leg by the
accidental discharge of a pistol while
recently .'roughing it, in the noun
tains of Colorado.
At the late encampment at Parsons
it is stated that ex-senator John :.
Ingalls, and Senator w. F. PETER for
the first time in their lives sat side by
side and addressed the same multitude
from the same rostrum.
Harry, the G-year-old son of J. H.
Purdy, travelling auditor of the Texas
& Pacific railroad, with headquarters
at Fort Worth, was recently missing
from his home at Wichita. A few
days later his body was found in
the Arllnsas river. twas supposed he
went to the river to see the flood and
that the bank caved in under him.
On the Sd Gov. Morrill, called for the
immediate resignation of the police
commissioners of Wichita, assigning
as a reason that the man he had Sc
lected to act as assistant attorney-gen-
eral for Wichita did not want to serve
with the present board. The commits
sioners declined and the Gov. promptly
removed them. and appointed a new
board.
August 5 was pension pay day at the
Topeka agency and an anonymous cir
cular was issued to the pensioners adj
vising them to demand gold for their
checks. Only two demands for gold
were made at the banks. One was a
regular customer and he got the yell