The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-05
Minor State News.

Minor State News.
A Kansas farmer has figured out that
a hen is worth more than an acre OF
ground.
Mrs. Hannah f. Gilmore is under ar
rest at Atwood charged with murder
ing her husband.
An incendiary fire at Chanute de,
stroyed five store buildings known as
the Freeman block.
The faculty and students of Midland
college, at Atchison, will try to raise
$40. 900 for library.
The new board of penitentiary di-
rectors is composed of G. E. Allison,
Erie; NJ. L. Drake, Mcpherson, and A.
A. Newman, Clay Center.
A poll of the present state senate de-
velops the fact that but three members
favored straightout resubmission. A
number favor a constitutional conven-
ton.
AT Radical, Montgomery county, DIR.
Samuel Pegley, 20 years old. is under
arrest for attempting to kill his IA
year-old girl wife. He is thought to
b" insane.
Rev. II. E. Ballou, Christian
preacher, will be chaplain of the peni-
Tertiary under Warden Lands. He
was the fusion candidate for congress
in the First district.
Judge Myers, of the Leavenworth
district court, decided that when a
railroad company abandoned its train
service the right-of-way reverted to
the original owners.
Senator PETER announced from
Washington that he will devote his
time in future to the editorship of the
Topeka Advocate, and that he will op-
pose fusion with the democrats.
The College of Emporia conferred
the degree of A. NJ. upon Ewing Her
bert, of Hiawatha, and w. A. White,
of Emporia, who were formerly stu
dents of the college. Both are we'll
known young newspaper men.
G. w. Lanning. of Lyon county, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against Post Office Inspector Cochran
and w. o. Skaggs, who he claims had
him falsely imprisoned on the charge
If opening a letter addressed to
Skaggs.
who gave their notes for grain fur
nished by the state two years ago have
defaulted in their payments. The
counties stood sponsor for the pay.
ment of these notes, and they will have
to pay them. About $50, 600 is due.
Custer post No. 6, at Leavenworth
one of the largest G. A. r. posts in
Kansas, adopted resolutions condemn
| ing Gov. Smith, of the soldiers home
declaring that his administration OF
the home was tyrannical, and demand
| ing that congress summarily remove
him.
Labor Commissioner Bird has notified
all mayors of cities, towns and villages
in Kansas, and all police boards, that
! the eight-hour law in regard to labor
must be observed.
The house voted to kill the bill max.
| ing it misdemeanor to trespass. The
| bill was so rigid that a person who
even walked through another's or
| chard was subject to arrest.
1t is said Grant w. Harrington. OF
| the Hiawatha Democrat, will be Sen.
ator-elect Harris private secretary.
Charles Litchfield, aged sc and single
committed suicide near Sibley, Doug
las county, by hanging himself from q
threshing machine.
A warrant was recently issued al
Cherryvale for w. II. Linton, the pres
| idential elector who is accused of hav
ing been a deserter from the army
This time he is accused of adultery.
Edward ". Kellett, United State!
vice consul at Siam, on whose account
Uncle Sam has sent a gunboat there Il
protect our rights, was born and
reared in Wyandotte county, this state
Mrs B. F. Franklin, of Wamego, re
Gently gave birth to three girl babies
all vigorous and strong.
Hundreds of cattle were reported dy
I ing in Phillips county from diseas,
resembling the black tongue.