The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| .MAJOHN. n. ADAMS has commenced suit
for damages in the United States Court at
! Topeka against Fraser & 0sburn, of Kansas
City, who on June 2Sth, last, sold him
the diseased cattle that he shipped to his
ranch in Riley County. They were fine
looking animals, but unfortunately had
become affected with the Span
ish or Texas fever. and before he
i got them to Manhattan they began
! to get sick and die. Out of the
bunch he lost 125 head. The balance of
/ the original herd were taken on to Chicago
I and by reason of the disease among them
created a great sensation all along the road.
and also after they arrived at the Chicago
I stock yards. Major Adams has brought
( his suit for $4,000, setting forth in the
| complaint that Fraser 6G Oburn knew the
| cattle were diseased when they sold them
/ to him.
a MAN who was represented as we'll
dressed, an dhaying beautiful wife, fiashily
/ attlred, recently stopped at Topeka and
! worked the turn as book agent and on adj
vertiSing schemes, when he left to pursue
| his vocation at other places. 1t Is now
| thought he is the forerunner of gang of
burglars and thieves, and that this is his
method of getting into the confidence of
| people, examining their premises and re-
/ porting % his pals, who follow and COM
! plete the job. One of the fellows was lately
captured at Topeka
AUGUST FORNEY, James FOrney and
William Mound, the three men arrested at
Topeka on suspicion of having been impli-
Gated in the attempt to wreck passenger
train on the Santa Fe Road near EmpOria,
have been released for want of sufficient
evidence to justify holding them any
longer.
THE Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows met in annual session
In the Senate Chamber at Topeka Oh the
I4th with large representation from the
various subordinate lodges of the State.
At the first days session resolution was
adopted directing the Grand Master to ap-
point committee to report next year upon
the feasibility of the lodge erecting home
for INDECENT members. The committee was
appointed, consisting of /. b. Sharpe. of
| Council Grove; S. F. Burdette, of Leaven-
worth, and John NJ. Price, of Atchison.
THE other afternoon William Trum. a
clerk in KreZdOan'S grocer store at Leaven-
worth, accidently shot and killed SOrrell,
Reed, a colOred man. Young Trum had
just cleaned out small room in the rear of
the store, which Reed was to whitewash,
|
corner picked it up with the barrels pointed
at Reed. He then undertook to cock it,
and in doing so his thumb slipped from the
hammer, which flew back, discharging the
gun in Reeds face, tearing away the whole
under part of the left jaw. The man died
in less than an hour after being shot.
CHARLES VICKERs on Cahola Creek,
northwest of Americus, recently lost by fire
/ he lorna horn q thnnSlnA buShnlc of
corn, quantity of hay and many other
things usually kept about a barn. His
horses, though ScOrched, were rescued also
his buggy and harness. The fire was sup.
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
A SPECIAL from Atchison states that Bill
| Norris the notorious train and highway
robbpr and associate of Polk Wells, was
convicted at OskalOOsa of burglariZing the
store Of of Mccarthy IL LaysOn at Norton
vile on the night of May so, 1881, and
promptly sentenced by the Court to twenty
one years imprisonment in the penitentiary
at LeavenwOrth at hard labor. A few min
uteS after the sentence had been pronounced,
and when the Sheriff was getting ready to
take his prisoner to LeavenwOrth, Norris
attempted suicide by cutting an artery of
the arm. \ physician was hastily sum-
mOned who succeeded in staunching the flow
of blood, but not until he was very much
exhausted. His partner in crime, Polk
Wells, is serving life sentence at Fort
Madison, Ia.
JUDGE ADAMS, of the State Historical
Society, recently received from Edward a.
Lorentz of West Point, \. Y, several
Revolutionary relics from the battle field of
West Point; among them brick from the
wall Of old Fort Putnam, and large piece
of wooden flagstaff. Besides these We're a
piece of wood, two cannon balls and some
scraps of iron. The wood was from a gum
carriage which was fiShed up from the
Hudson River by an anchor, as was also
the iron. The gun was supposed to have
been sunk at the time General BurgOyne
was making his way to the head of the
Hudson. The cannon ball was picked up
where an excavation was being made at
West Point by the soldiers in 1882. Also
an arrow point from the field Of the mas
sacre at Wyoming, LuZene County, Pa, in
IT'S.
AT the late meeting of Grand Lodge !.
O. 0. F., at Topeka, the following officers
were elected and installed for the ensuing
year: G. w. Jones, Grand Master; j. A.
Campbell, Deputy Grand Master; j. G.
Welch, Grand Warden; S. F. Burdette,
Grand Secretary; Louis Mayo, Grand Treas
urer; Charles Krebbs, Grand Representa-
tive; DR.. w. Ii. Morgan, Medical Director.
The Grand Master made the following ap-
pointmentS: Rev. j. \. Bright, Grand Chap
lain; w. A. Germany, Grand Conductor;
f. B. Reed Grand Guardian; A. r. Walkin,
Grand Marshal; II. Z. Hubbell. Grand
Herald; George S. Hail. Grand Messenger;
John VI. Price Grand Instructor. Deputy
Grand Instructors-First District II. NJ.
Waller; Second District l.. S. Cambern;
Third District Levi Empie: Fourth District,
G. A. Mcmillan; Fifth District, II. c. Hib-
bard; Sixth District William Matthewson.
EDWARD HARRIS, a colored teamster for
the Lawrence Transfer Company. was fatally
hurt the other day by bar of iron falling
upon him from a wagon which he was un-
loading.
THE Fort Scott Sc Gulf Railroad recently
completed the purchase of the Pleasant Hill
branch of the Santa Fe Road. This branch
is thirty-One miles in length, and extends
from De Soto, Kan, to Pleasant Hill Mo-,
and its purchase, it is said, will obviate the
necessity of building that portion of the
Kansas City, Clinton IL Springfield (now be-
ing constructed) between Harrisonville and
Ochiltree. The action of the directors will
enable the. Fort Scott to reach HarriSOnville
with the new road within three months,
the route taken being over the Santa Fe
branch from Olathe to Pleasant Hill, and
thence to HarriSonville, Mo-, a distance of
ten miles.
CRIB the corn.
W. i. PAYNE, son of B. F. Payne. of
North Topeka, was recently shot and killed
at Deer Trail, Col, by a man named Per-
kinson. The deceased owned sheep ranch
in Colorado. and was married, his wife
being the daughter of l.. Norton, of To