The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-06
miscellaneous.

The LeavenwOrth police have finally
captured the Heigle murderers. Since tht
confession of Robert Davis, who is now IL
the penitentiary, they have been untiring
in their efforts, which were suddenly
brought to close the other day by the ar
rest of a colored man named John 7
Brown, who confirmed the officers in theil
suspicious against another man, also col
ored, named Love, who was in Jail al
Platte City, Mo. The police authorities
believe that there is no doubt about these
being the three men who murdered Heigle
and nearly severed his head from his body
one night last February, at his store il
that city.
CHARTERS were filed recently with the
Secretary of State for the Kansas-Missour
Loan and Trust Company, of WyandOtte
capital stock, $4,000, divided into one
| hundred dollar shares; the Fairview Gene
try Association, of Nemaha County; the L
/ o. o. F. Building Association of Severance
Doniphan County.
| HARRY HAM, twelve years old, was run
/ over and killed by train of freight cars
at Wyandotte, recently. He and number
! of other boys had been in the habit of jump
ing on cars when switching, and not hall
an hour before the accident had been for.
bidder to do so by an officer.
I THE temperance wave has struck Leav'
enworth. A committee of prominent citi.
zens recently filed complaints with the
County Attorney and requested him tC
bring suit against Colonel Jennison and
others for violation of the Prohibitory
law.
THE body of Patrick Tracy was found in
a cistern at Armstrong, the other day. A
man named John Ginty stated that he fell
into the ciStern at the same time. 1nveSti-
CATION led to the belief that the man had
been murdered and thrown in. Circum.
stances pointed so strongly to Ginty,
Thomas Vennor and Michael Donivan that
they were arrested.
AN unknown boy, about eighteen years
old, committed suicide in the hardware
store of Rowland & Bigwood at Parsons
recently. He went into the store and asked
to look at revolver. After examining it
he put cartridge in one of the chambers.
turned the muzzle to his head, and without
further warning fired and he fell on the
floor dead. He had nothing upon him by
which he could be identified, and no one
knew anything about him except that he
called at several places and asked for work.
statingth he was stranger and had come
from Illinois.
The State Board of Canvassers met re-
Gently at Topeka and canvassed the votes
for District Judges. The following were
the majorities: Third District-John Mar.
tin, 4,552. Sixth District-C. o. French,
2S5; Seventh District-Leander Stillwell,
l,T54. Eighth District-M. B. Nicholson,
80. Ninth District (vacancy)-L. Houke,
1858. Eighteenth District-Henry Sluss.
l,163.
AT Jonesburgh, in Chatauqua County,
recently, Thomas Mcclure was shot and
instantly killed by Emma Hendricks, who.
in company with her husband, c. B. Hen.
bricks, called Mcclure out of his house
and charged him with circulating a report
rejecting upon Mrs. Hendricks character.
and without further parley shot him down
in his own door yard. Hendricks and his
wife were arrested and while the former
was in custody of an officer at private
house some party unknown shot him
through the window, from the outside, infiict
ing injuries which the attendant physician
pronounced fatal. Mrs. Hendricks asserted
that her husband killed Mcclure, while he
maintained to the contrary.
INVESTIGATION by special agent and the
officers of the Wichita Land-office disclosed
the fact that there had been many fraudu.
lent land entries in the Wichita Land Dis
trict. More than two hundred fraudulent
entries have been unearthed. Papers have
been prepared and put in the hands of Uni
ted States Marshal Williams for service.
The offenders will be prosecuted for per-
jury.
JUNCTION CITY now has packing house
in full operation.
LEAvENwORTH has a temperance crusade
REV. W. I. BOWEN, rector of the Episco-
pal Church at Parsons, attempted to COM
NIT suicide the other night with a pair OF
shears. He had been a sufferer for years
from an aggravated attack of asthma, and
for some months the disease had been in.
creasing in maignancy, and his suffering
were very great, causing a temporary un-
balancing of his mind. 1t was thought his
wounds would prove fatal.
RECENTLY the divorced wife of DR.. Gu.
us, Oh McI UeTsOn, learning InaE tue OOCtOI
was to be married again, took morpLin-.
but was saved by the use OF the stonacr
pump.
JUDGE MCCRARY has appointed a 2e-
ceiver for the St. Joseph q Western Rail
road.
THE residence of Mrs. Gavin, in Law.
renee, was entered by burglars the other
night, who, after chloroforming the in
inmates, distracted from bureau drawer
seventy-five dollars, which had been sent
them by the Southern Brotherhood of TeIe-
Zraphers, to which organization her son,
Thomas Gavin, recently deceased, be-
longed.
THE other evening the safe of B. B. Wheat
8 Co., located in the rear end of their boot
and shoe store, at Parsons, was broken
open by burglars and fifty-seven dollars
stolen.
A FIRE at Mcpherson, the other night. |
burned Loomis' grocery store. Insured.