The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AiVCiCotcu Ill knowing IIlaI TIE plSiululn III
crease this year will be two hundred an
n1ty thousand dollars over the amounts re
eeved last year. The whole premiums TO
last year were 81 ,349. 800, to which sum thi
year will be added two hundred and fit
thousand dollars. This, of course, does no
include life premiums.
JAMES F. BOYD, former station agen
on the Union Pacific Road at Edwardsyille
died at the Sisters Hospital, Kansas City
the other hight. BOYD was the person VIII
got Oh Union Pacific engine at Edwards
vile short time since and rode along tn,
road fourteen miles TO Lenape, where h
fell off the engine and got one of his fee
cut off,
A DYNAMITE plot was reported recent,
in AtchisOn, fifty cartridges being left witt
Captain j. II. BeesOu, proprietor of tn
street railway and Chairman of the Demo
cratic County Committee. Another report
however, reduced the dynamite to a few
Sticks of giant powder which baggagemaI
had refused to take into his car and which
had been left in AtchisOn.
THE Atchison Globe gives an account OF
a youth of that city who is perfect livin;
skeleton. His name is Alfred Charlie,
Wake. Twelve years ago the lad, who wa.
as healthy as any boy of five years, was
stricken with spinal meningitis and since
that time he has never walked. His limbs
appeared to shrink instead of growing. In
stature he would seem to be about nine
] years of age, but his face looks old and
| emaciated. He is seventeen years of age,
and in every sense of the word human
skeleton. His legs at the calf could be
| easily Spanned with the thumb and fore
finger. not being more than an inch in di-
ameter. His arms are the same The
boys health is very bad, and the doctors
pronounce his constitution an exceptionally
strong one to live so long with the fatal
! disease
THE hurricane of the oath ravaged Shaw
nee County pretty badly. The storm was
accompanied by cyclone fifty yards wide,
which killed stock and destroyed trees and
| buildings. An eye witness gives the fol-
| lowing descriptions: 1.-THE cloud was of
inky blackness out of which the cyclone
| generated. The spout itself was some
| two hundred or three hundred feet long,
nearly perpendicular, leaning perhaps ten
| degrees SOutheaSterly at the top 1t was
apparently thirty or forty feet in diameter
at the top and fifteen or twenty at the bot
tom, and had striking resemblance to a
huge elephants trunk. dipping down at in
The spout turned against the SUM- per-
forming a revolution about every second"
Fl. MEIBERGER of Downs, sends a COM
plant to the Board of Railroad Commits
sioners, in which he says ''On August II
l received a car of coal from AtchiSOn, upon
which, after paying the regular freight
charges, had to pay mileage for the car it
came in. and also to return said car to AtcE-
iSon, which, l think, is gross injustice, as
they cannot very well get freight on car of
coal without furnishing car to load it in.
And then to charge for returning the car!
What need l care whether they take their
car back or leave it here They agree to
furnish my coal here at so much per hun
dred, and care not whether it is in carOr
whether the superintendent carries it here
on his back. | would rather have it the lat
ter way if have to pay extra. Please look
into this matter and have the railroad COM
pany reimburse me the amount, three dol
lars and twelve cents, if that is just in your
opinion"
TIE proposition to vote bonds in Turkey
Creek Township, Mcpherson County, to the
St Joe & Rio Grande Railroad was de-
feated by two to one.
AT Argentine, during the storm of the
oath, the house of Mrs. Nichols was
struck by lightning. Two little girls
were rendered insensible, but soon re-
covered.
A FREIGHT train on the Santa Fe road,
loaded with stock en- route to Kansas City,
was wrecked about mile east of Topeka
on the Goth. A brakeman went ahead to
throw the switch, but instead of doing so
he fell over on the grass and went to sleep.
When the rain pulled up it was going at
lively speed. The engine. No. 261, Arthur
lSlip engineer, and seven cars were dtched
and completely wrecked. Islip was badly
scalded and sustained a conclusion of the
left side of the head. Eleven head of
mules, fourteen hogs and twenty sheep
were killed.
POST-OFFICE changes in Kansas during the
week ended August %: Established
Dresden, Kingman County, George G..
SimOnsOn, postmaster; Egypt, Harvey
County, Robert w. Craig, postmaster; Juse,
WOodSOn County. Jesse Pickering, post
master; Ramsey, COmanche County, Girard
f. Ramsey. postmaster. PostmasterS ap-
pOinted-BaltimOre, Cowley County, G. b. |
Darlington; Bedford, Stafford County, An |
drew J. MtFrady; Crow, Phillips County. |
F. Dixon: Derry. Greenwood County, Lellan |
\. King; Giltillan, Bourbon County, Nor
gan VI. Jones; Harper. Doniphan County, |
Joseph c. Cloud; Martin Ellis County, |
f. E. Randall; Myrtle, Phillips County, |
William ID. Kelley; Stockton, Rocks County, |
George VI. Randall.
SINTY-FOUR citizens OF Castle Township. |
Mcpherson County, have sent petition to !
the Board of Railroad Commissioners de- |
the location and construction of a |
switch at Whitehead, connecting with the |
VI. & NJ. Railroad, branch of the Santa Fe
They claim that the business and the nsceS-
sites of trade at Whitehead require the
railroad company to put in and maintain a
switch at that point for the accommodation
of the public
LIST of patents granted to citizens OF
Kansas for the week ended August 49, 1884:
Brace James w. johnson, Ottawa; neck
yoke, Stephen ID. Mehew, Peabody; steam
boiler, Benjamin F. Wright, Oneida ma
chine for cutting corn, John o. West. Full
ton; buckle. Albert II. Mantey, Mound City;
steam generator. Charles o. Bankenbaker
and Edward n. Edmonds, Ottawa; chimney
cowl, Abram S. Capper, UdaIl.
In accordance with a request of Gov
ernor Click, DR.. HolcOmbe, the State
has prepared pamphlet for
distribution giving description OF the cat
lie diseases which have sprung up in this
State of late, viz: Texas or Spanish fever
md pleurO-pneumOnia, with such treatment
md suggestions as he might Offer The
export is concise, complete and of value to
every stock man and farmer in the State,
md should be read by them all.
HORSE thieves again in Wyandotte
CHARLEY WILSON, while foOling with
oaded pistol at Topeka recently, accidental
Y discharged the same. The ball passed
lose to his head without injuring him and
huS deserved funeral was POSTPONED