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KANSAS STATE NEWS. A. H. Martin, formerly business manager of, the Champion, and a brother of the late Gov. Martin, died at Atchison the other day. The Friends College association of Kansas, which proposes to build a college in the state, was incorporated the other day. The officers are: President, E. Stanley, Lawrence; secretary, John Kirby, Tonganoxie; treasurer, John D. Mills, Lawrence. In accordance with the decision of the last convention of the Kansas state federation of labor the next meeting of the federation will be held at Hutchinson Monday, January 4, 1892. All railroads will give a holiday rate-one fare for the round trip. At the Kansas City, Kan., opera house the other night during a performance a pistol dropped from the pocket of Deputy Sheriff Bowling, which was discharged. the ball striking Lizzie Burdette, a colored woman, in the hip, which resulted in her death two days later. After a week of excruciating pain and suffering J. N. Deering, a well known resident of Bourbon county, died the other day. Mr. Deering deliberately poisoned himself by taking a dose of laudanum and followed it up with a dose of morphine. No cause for the act could be assigned. He left a wife and ten children. Mrs. Frank Cigrand, of Argentine, went out a few days before Christmas to do some holiday shopping, leaving several children in the house. During her absence the children set fire to the house by some means and her fouryear-old child was burned to death. Charlie Boeker, an eight-year-old boy, was also badly burned. The Second Regiment, Kansas National Guard Columbia association, which proposes to accumulate funds for use and maintenance to attend the Columbian exposition at Chicago, has been incorporated. The capital stock is placed at $12,500 and the incorporators are the officers of the various companies of the regiment. The large frame dwelling house belonging to the estate of the late Hon. D. G. Campbell, of Merriam. was burned to the ground the other night with most of its contents. Ten barrels of fine cider were stored in the basement of a portion of the house. The loss will reach several thousand dollars with but $1,000 insurance. While recently clearing some timber on the farm of James Dougan, in the southern part of Atchison county, James Saunders found a petrified human body, which the successive rains had evidently unearthed. The petrifaction is almost perfect in form, one hand alone being missing. Old settlers say it is the body of "Willow Twig," a notorious Kickapoo Indian, who made his home with a Frenchman named Pensinau, and who was minus a hand. The following Kansas banks went into voluntary liquidation during the past year: First national of Hill City, First national of Frankfort, West Side national of Wichita, Anthony national of Anthony. National bank of El Do. rado, Citizens' national of Medicine Lodge, United States national of Atchison, First national of Ashland and First national of Burr Oak. Four Kansas banks obtained an extension of their corporate existence during the year. At Augusta the other day W. A. Rhoades shot his divorced wife and then sent a bullet through his brain, killing him instantly. Mrs. Rhoades received a bullet in the neck, and may recover. Last summer Rhodes secured a divorce in Nevada. His wife brought suit against his mother in the district court for alienating his affection and had just received a verdict of $1,000 damages On the morning of the shooting Rhoades asked his divorced wife to remarry him and the tragedy followed her refusal The Kansas Poultry association, at its late session in Topeka, elected the following officers: President, S. P. Robinson; vice-presidents, John G Hewitt, J. W. Werner and G. C Wilkins; secretary, J. P. Lucas, of To peka; assistant secretary, Mrs. J. P Lucas, of Topeka; treasurer, C. H Rhodes, of North Topeka. It was de cided that the association be incor porated under the state laws of Kan sas, and that the next annual show be held in Topeka the same week as the Fine Stock association, in January 1893. The following Kansas veterans were made happy the day before Christmas by having their pensions granted Richard A. Hoffman, Thomas Cotter Michael Zoller, Eugene M. Eldred, Al bert Coles, Nobles H. Heaton, John Trezise, Daniel G. Hahn, James H Trimble, Jacob H. Brown, Jacob R
