The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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/ Prof. Garfield, of the State University at
| Lawrence, and Rev. DR.. Bishop, of Salina,
/ were appointed delegates to the National
! Teachers Association at Madison, Wis,
next July. Senator ingalls, delivered
an address before the Association, his
/ subject being Garfield" The Principals
! Association met and elected the following
/ officers: President, D. c. Tillottson, Super
I intendent of the Topeka schools; Vice
/ President, T. W. Conway, President of the
/ Independence schools; Secretary, L. NJ.
Knowles, Principal of the Peabody schools;
/ Executive Committee, Prof. Wasso, of
/ Mound City. Prof. Sherry, of Valley Falls.
| and Prof. Chichester, of OswegO. The
/ County Superintendent then met and
passed a resolution requesting the State
I Superintendent or State Board of Educa-
( ton to prepare a course of study for cOun-
+ try schools. The State Superintendent
said a course of study would be issued in
eight weeks. a course of study a great
deal larger than the one muse at Institutes
could be published by him at 4 cost Of from
three TO five cents copy. These should be
distributed not only among teachers and
parents but among pupils, so that each boy
and girl might know exactly what was ex-
pected for each day. This would enable
pupils who missed a few weeks
10 keep their studies up at home.
a RUMoR was current in Topeka that the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe were about
to remove their Offices 10 Kansas City.
What gave color to the rumor was the fact
that the contractor of the new general
offices had been ordered to cease work
and send in to the Company a state
ment as to how much he would take to
throw up his contract. What this all
meant the future only can reveal.
GOVERNOR CLICK has decided that the
successor to Hon. D. C. Haskell should be
chosen by the old district which elected
him in 1882, and not by the new district in
which he was placed by the Legislature
after his election, and has called a special
election on March 1.
4. THURMAN, under $500 bonds for the
killing of Tom Smith some three months
ago, at Dodge City, the other night stabbed
George Miller, a railroad man, at that
place. Thurman would undoubtedly have
been killed had he not escaped. As it is,
he was terribly beaten and was afterward
put in jail. The difficulty was over a
woman.
A WELL-DREsSED young man supposed
to be named John Hensley, the other night
appeared at the depot at Cherryvale, and
said he wished to take the morning freight
for Winfield. The night operator per-
mitted him TO go into the Office and sit by
the stove. Suddenly he made a lunge at
his throat with a small penknife, with the
evident intention of committing suicide,
inaicting only slight wound. The opera
or grappled with him and succeeded in
getting the knife away and then ran out
for help. The man then seized the stove
with almost superhuman strength, turned
it over and then commenced a demolition
OF the Office desks, etc. He was finally
secured. He proved to be insane.
CAPTAIN II. D. BAKER, of Salina, fell from
the State House foundation, at Topeka, re-
Gently, a distance of fifteen feet, and was
seriously injured. After being taken to bis
MOTEL and examined by the physician it was
discovered that hereceived a conclusion of
he spinal column and one of his hips was
badly bruised. Il was thought that his in
iuries might prove fatal.
AT the time of rendering their late decis.
ion in the complaints from n wton and
other places against the Santa Fe Road, the
Railroad Commissioners adopted a schsdul
table of distance tariff rates on all classes
OF goods and stock in which the old prices
were reduced about fifteen per cent. This
ariif is based upon the Central Branch de-
ciSiOn.
The snide Insurance Company, which
some time ago had its headquarters at MINI
rod, in this State, and was dissolved by the
Attorney General, it is said, has come to
life again, this time with headquarters in
he State OF Georgia, and is sending circu-
.ars to its old policy-holders in Kansas,
Offering to take back its policies on
mules and cattle, in part payment for new
life insurance policies.
TIE Salina & Southwestern Railroad
Company made its annual report to the
Board of Commissioners recently, covering
thirty-five miles of road, which completes
the entire list OF lines in the State as hav-
ing reported. This road is branch of the
Union Pacific.
UNKNOWN parties entered the office OF
The Kansas Prob bitiOniSt, at Leavenw orth.
Inc other evening and pied forms and threw
half the type i'll the stove and melted it.
a MAN named John Byrne appeared be.
fore the United States Commissioner at
Leavenwo-th, the other day, and entered
complaint against himself for collision in
iefrauding the Government out of 800 while
a member Of the Nineteenth infantry,
United States army, in 1869. In his final
Cue him, and he and the company clerk
raised it to $1S2. 1t weighed on his con.
science, and he wanted to confess and get
pardon.
THE funeral of Mrs. Styles and daughter,
who persisted in their burning dwelling al
Atchison, was largely attended. The
charred remains were found under the
bathroom, the mother still clasping her
child in her arms.
a LATE fire in the Boyd building. il
Leavenworth, extended to the McKe,
bull iing; each being damaged to the extent
OF 3, eco, and the damage to goods, Offices
etc, in the buildings extended the total
loss to about $4,000, mostly covered by
insurance.
UNDER the new Post-cffice law the fol
lowing offices in Kansas have become Presi
Dental offices at the salary named: Frank
fort, salary 1920; Howard, S1.1O0; Linds
borg, $1,000; Harper, S1,4)0; Carbondale,.
$1,000; Usage Nilsson, 1900.
! BITTER cold New Years Day.
The United States Pension Office at To
peka, comprising in the district Missouri
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and the
Indian Territory, now has on its rolls IS,
J07 names. There were paid during the
year S,5S) vouchers. The total disburse
ments reached the sum of i, As, S1S4 80. Tn,