The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
miscellaneous.

| Miscellaneous.
CITIZENS of Atchison recently organized
Law and Order League with the follow
ing officers: w. w. Guthrie, President;
DR.. W. L. Challiss, e. B. White, DR.. j. Nj.
Linley and H. N. Jewett, Vice-Presidents;
j. T. Allensworth, Secretary; c. Weber,
Treasurer; and the President and Secre-
tary, H. NJ. CLANCY, John Pagan and E. V.
Fowler, Executive Committee. The or
ganization resolved ''that we, the Prohibi-
tionists and law-abiding citizens of Atchi-
son, do hereby declare our unalterable de-
termination to uphold the laws of our State,
and now and hereafter to use everylhonor-
able means to compel those who are violat-
ing to obey them.
THE School Fund Commissioners report
the following investments of funds up to
January %: Permanent School Fund, 81
! IA, 643.16; University Permanent Fund,
| 81, 80; Normal School Permanent
Fund, $54,575. The funds under control of
the Commissioners are fully invested and
| they will, therefore, not be able to make
further purchases prior to July 1, 1884,
when they expect large additional pay
ments from principal on land sales, and
from bonds now held, maturing June and
July 1. In the meantime the County SUI
perintendent will be duly notified when the
Commissioners are ready to make further
investments.
HENRY AUGSTEIN, who murdered his
uncle and cousin and seriously wounded
his aunt and another cousin, near Laporte,
Ind, on the night of December 81, 1881, was
recently arrested on farm in Northwest
ern Kansas and taken back to Indiana.
He had been traced for three years by
detectives, but had been in Kansas only
about three months, coming to this State
from Iowa. He had previously been in
California and the Western Territories,
where he went by the name of William
Strothers. He was finally traced through
his correspondence with woman at Ne
ponset. ILL., There seemed to be no doubt
Of his guilt.
THE Kansas Unitarian Conference COM
menced its first session on the S0th, at To-
peka.
CHARTERS fled with the Secretary of
State the other day: The Newton Water
Company; the Western Security Company,
of Ottawa; the Farmers and Drovers'
Bank, of Kingman; the State Bank, of st.
John, Stafford County, and Circleville Post
G. A. R., No. 146, of Circleville.
In pursuance to the call of the National
Committee for a National Convention at
Pittsburgh, Pa, May 81, the National Pro-
hibition Protection party is being organ
lied in several counties of the State, and it
is proposed to extend the organization to
other counties. 1t is also proposed to send
delegates to the Pittsburgh Convention.
The State Historical Society at Topeka
is DESTROYS of receiving copies of all Kan
sas publications of every description
books, pamphlets, circulars, city direc-
tories, city ordinances, school reports,
school and college catalogues, reports of
societies of all kinds, sermons, orations
and addresses-everything which relates to
Kansas, of recent issue, or of old date.
In quarrel over the right to enter a
shanty owned by n. D. Stark, at Topeka,
negro man named Bonner was recently
shot i'll the leg by Stark. Bonner retired,
but returned to the conflict and made an
assault upon the door with an an ak when !
Stark routed his enemy without firing
gun.
CHARLES SIMMONS, who was recently |
killed in Shawnee County, by falling from a
load of hay, was an Englishman, twenty
three years old, and said to have been the |
last member of the family, on his fathers |
side, so that the lineage is now extinct. |
His widowed mother and her sister, who |
are both old and childless, are said to be |
the only survivors of their family, so that |
on their death two families will become ex-
tinct.
FROM letters received by the friends !
of J. G. Osgood, the Topeka merchant who |
was found dead in his hotel some time |
since, it is evident he committed suicide. /
The day before his death Osgood wrote |
two letters to Eastern parties, one to the
firm for whom he was working and another /
to a lady at Boston, who is keeping his lit /
tie girl, telling them that he had long con-
templated suicide, and that the time had
come for him to commit the deed.
IMMIGRATION has already commenced.
THE following Kansas Postmasters were
recently appointed: Benjamin McElroy,
Frankfort; n. A. Yeager, Augusta; George
Hayck, Ellsworth.
THE Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern
Kansas Railroad was opened for business
W POi Ia Ou 4hO AS" AOu0S
forms a short line from Kansas City and
Lawrence to Emporia, and passes through
Ottawa, Pomona, Quenemo, Melvern, Zebo
and Neosho Rapids.
MOSES TAYLOR, (colored), of Wyandotte,
recently beat his wife so severely that she
subsequently died. He then left but was
afterwards ARRESTED.
IT seemed to be settled that Judge Nc
Crazy, the new Solicitor of the Santa Fe
Road, would have his Office at Kansas City.
CHAMPION VAUGHAN, once one of tia
most brilliant newspaper men OF Kansas,
and editor of one of the Leavenwortb
dailies, died recently in Denver, Colo, in
abject restitution. He at one time was
man of much promise but had been reduced
to penury by the use of intoxicating
drinks and morphine.
THE Leavenworth Gun Club, Green Lawn
Cemetery of Dickinson County, the Wyan-
dotte News Company and the Knights Of
Labor Assembly, of Junction City, filed
charters with the Secretary OF State re-
Gently.
THE Grand Opera House at Topeka was
recently scld at Sherif's sale.