The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-03-08
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
A. O. q. W. Grand Lodge.

A. O. q. W. Grand Lodge.
The Kansas grand lodge, A. o. q.
W., held at Leavenworth last week
voted to hold the 1902 session at Fort
Scott. George 81. Lamb, Of Yates
Center, was elected grand master
workman; NJ. B. Light, of Winfield,
grand receiver; E. NJ. Forde Of EN-
Brown, Of Chanute, grand medical ex-
aminer. The grand master work
man was authorized to expend $1,000
for the printing of leaflets to furnish
Information to persons not members
of the order, as to the benefits fol-
lowing membership therein. The
good of the order committee recon-
mended the holding of annual county
A. o. U. w. picnics and the forming
of associations of county lodges Tor
such purposes.
Forbes Married q Negro Girl.
JOHN w. Forbes, brother of Will
liam G. Forbes, who applied the
match to the pile that burned to
death the negro, Fred Alexander, at
Leavenworth a short time ago, mar
rined Tennessee Holt, negro girl, at
LeavenworthA last week. It was the
niece of the groom, Pearl Forbes, who
was found murdered one morning.
For this crime, as well as several
others, Alexander was burned at the
stake. John w. Forbes did not aid
in the burning.
To Fight for the British.
w. B. Leicester, of Manhattan, re-
ceived a commission in the English
army through authorities at Cape
Town and left Immediately for the
Transvaal, where he will be captain
of troop of irregular cavalry. Maj
Leicester was in the Twenty-second
Kansas in the Spanish-American war
and is now major of the First regi-
ment, K. N. G. He has been granted
years leave of absence to cross the
water for Cape Colony service.
Growth of the State Grange.
The recent meeting of the Kansas
State Grange developed that there
were A oranges in the state, with a
membership of 1884; cash balance in
the treasury, s1,125.3o. The largest
grange in the state is at Cadmus,
Linn county, with 237 members, and
Hurricane grange, Usage county,
made the largest gain during the last
year, towit, 60 members.-Topeka Mail
and Breeze.
Wholesale Liquor Dealer Quits.
AS a result of the prohibition agi-
tation in Kansas, J. C. Stevens, of
Salina, one of the big wholesale deal
ers in the state, announces that he
will close out his present business and
open a wholesale drug house in Sa-
lima. All attempts to enforce the pro-
hibitory law against Stevens in the
past have been unsuccessful.
Albaugh Names His Deputies.
Morton Albaugh, who succeeds John
w. Breidenthal as state bank commits
sioner, has named his assistants as
follows: Field deputies, S. C Crum-
mer, of Republic, and Eugene Davis,
of Johnson; office deputies, Capt. w.
S. Albright, of Leavenworth and S.
p. Moore, of Douglas; sstenographer,
Miss Anna Speck, of Lyon.
Married at Long Range.
Mrs. NJ. E. Peterson and John Rus
sell, quarantined in the formers
house at Parsons on account of small
pox, decided to get married and called
q preacher He ''tied the knot" while
standing so feet away from the cou-
pie, who stood at an open window,
shouting the ceremony from the side
walk.
No Prosecution In Hudson Case.
At the inquest over the body of Mrs.
Rosa Hudson, who was killed in the
joint raid at Wildwood, Leavenworth
county, the jury returned a verdict
that the shot was fired by persons
unknown to them. No attempt was
made to bring out who the raiders
were.
Killed Her SOn-in-Law.
Mrs. John Campbell, wife of g
wealthy farmer of Smith county,
killed her son-in-law, Hubert Day. as
he was entering her house after she
had warned him not to. Day mar
ried Mrs. Campbell's only daughter a
year ago but they separated several
weeks ago.
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Gov. Stanley's new private secre-
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