The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Emporia. He had been married only si1
months.
AT the solicitation of Congressman
Peters, an order was recently transmitted
to the President for his signature attach
ing the county of Ford and the west hal
of Hodgeman County to the Garden City
land Office.
PosT-oFFIcE changes in Kansas during
the week ended December Is, 1888: Post
masters appointed-Ashler, Chase County
James H Wright; Chase, Rice County, F
]. Griffith; Hollywood, Ellsworth County,
Frank Murray; Keimfield, Rush County
/ S. W. SuttonS Shady Bend, Lincoln County
Mrs. Emma r. Cox; Slate, Rocks County
! John Ruby; Stilson, Cherokee County, Nei
I Krous; Wakarusa, Shawnee County
I Lucius T. Franks.
! GEORGE CARTER recently mysteriously
/ disappeared from Russell County, and hi:
/ friends are anxious to know of his where
/ abouts.
PHILLIPS COUNTY paid S9,955.13 to hel
school teachers last year.
RECENTLY two prisoners who had beer
allowed to step out of the corridor of the
/ Jail, at Emporia, undertook to make their
/ escape, starting to run in different direc-
tions. The jailer started in pursuit of one
of them and commanded him to halt. He
refused to do so and the jailer fired on him.
the ball taking effect just behind the left
/ ear, and glancing downward lodged neal
the large artery in the neck. The wound
though serious, was not considered fatal
The other prisoner was captured and re
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THE President recently sent to the Senate
a message recommending such Legislation
as would authorize the reconstruction of
the bridge over the Republican River near
Fort Riley. Accompanying the message
was a statement from the Secretary of War
to the effect that the former structure fell
into the river through the negligence of the
company owning it. The question of its
replacement was one of great public i'm
portance, and more especially as effecting
the interests of the military service.
A YOUNG woman going from Wichita tC
Omaha was robbed on the Santa Fe road
the other morning. She had fallen asleep
after leaving Topeka, with her portman
teau, containing her watch and chain, sew.
eral articles of jewelry, her ticket and six
dollars in money, on the seat beside her.
On waking she found it gone, and imme-
diately made her loss known to other pas
sengers, who gave her a purse of six dol
lars with which to purchase a ticket to
Omaha. She was much grieved over seI
loss, which she claimed was about 500.
JENNIE WHALEY was found dead in her
room at the Farmers and Drovers' Hotel,
at Wichita tie other night. She was dis.
covered about nine O'Clock, and had been
dead two or three hours. She was on the
street during the day in apparently ordi-
nary health. Sac was about twenty years
of age, bright and good looking, and had
evidently taken her own life with poison.
GEORGE RAYsEE, of Le2venworth. who
some months ago found his wife in a Kan
sas City bawdy house and killed her, and
who had been i'll Jail i'll that city since COM
mitting the deed, was recently adjUdged
insane and will be sent to an asylum.
Should he recover he will be tried for the
murder.
G. ". BROADHURST, a young ma II twen'
ty-two years of age, engaged in the grain
business at Kansas City, recently took
$1,000 of the money of the firm and started
out into Kansas to purchase corn. He was
cautioned not to take so much money with
him but nevertheless did so. He boarded the
AtchiSon, Topeka s. Santa Fe train and went
as far as De Soto at which point he left the
train. He reported that at that place he
started out in the morning for the country
on foot 70 buy corn, not being able to Sc
cure conveyance. at point short dis
tance east of De Soto he came to the bridge
over Kill Creek, stopping there few min
utes to look at the stream. As he stood Oh
the bridge looking down at the water two
men, wearing masks over the lower portion
of their faces, approached with drawn pis'
tolls and ordered Mr.. Broadhurst TO hold
up his hands. He said he at once drew his
revolver and confronted his aSsailants.
They succeeded, however, in disarming
him, and took from his pocket large
leather book containing 80 GO, also his
watch, but as it contained his initials they
handed it back. One of the men, he al.
leges, then shot him in the leg below the
knee, inflicting flesh wound. Hereturned
to De Soto and men started in pursuit Of
the robbers; then went to Kansas City
and had his wounds attended 10.
One day recently a young man by the
name of Hammer, while at work at corn.
shelter, in Labette County, accidentally
got his right hand between the cogs of the
wheels, crushing all the fingers into jelly
Rev. W. T. Bowen, rector of the Episco
pal Church at Parsons, who has been al
ficted with malignant attack of asthma
for years, and who few weeks ago at
tempted suicide, was adjudged insane re-
Gently, and will be sent to the Asylum at
Topeka.
A PARTY of men at Leavenworth at.
tempted to cross the river in a skiff to
catch train, and when they landed about
four miles below, the train was about TWEEN.
ty miles in an opposite direction.
THE Secretary of State, Hon. F. T. Ere
linghuysen, has written Governor Click
that the Postmaster-General says he ha.
been informed by the German Postal Ad.
ministrator that no regulations exist in
Germany excluding from the mails publ.
cations representing the public lands Of
this country.
MAJOR HENRY HOPKINS, one of the Board
of Railroad Commissioners, died at Leaven-
worth on the 18th, after an illness of about
two weeks. He was appointed for three
years, under the act passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature creating the Board.
TWELVE hundred and thirty 1.-TWO children
attend school at Wichita.
AFTER Christmas, then winter.
THE Railroad Commissioners recently
received the reports of the Union Pacific |
Railroad Company and the Kansas Cen |
traI Railroad and letter from the Auditor
Of the Union Pacific. at Omaha, giving the (
reason for the delay in making the report
as required by law. These reports were I