The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-15
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PRIVATE FELIX O'RoURKE, Company 1,
Twentieth Infantry, was run over by Kan
sas Central train, near Leavenworth, one
night recently, and almost instantly killed,
the train cutting off his right leg and hand
at the wrist He was intoxicated and went
! to sleep'On the track.
SOME days ago w. E. Chapman, of New
ton, filed complaint with the State Board
of Commissioners against the Santa Fe
road, in which he sets forth that he had
been charged an exorbitant freight rate OH
shipment of goods from Kansas City to
Newton, paying S1.13E per hundred pounds,
while the rate OH first class goods is only
seventy-fivd cents, but it seems that he
shipped at OwnreS risk, therefore the Board
finds that the charge was made on the regu-
lar tariff rate on classification made upon
lawful basis, and there was no Overcharge.
JULIUS HERMAN, a former resident of
LeavenwOrth, who swindled and robbed
victims from LeavenwOrth to Colorado,
down to Texas, with drafts or bonds that
were no good, has turned up i'm Hampstead,
Tex, where he received fifty dollars on a
draft drawn OH l.. Kiper & Sons. He had
secured about $4,000 in that manner since
Christmas.
A BRAKEMAN named Holiday at Topeka
collected two dollar fares from two young
men going to Wellington recently. He eX-
pected to steal some checks and thus pass
them through, but his game was discovered,
and he was bounced off the train then and
there. 1t was his first trip.
GEORGE BALL, well known nurseryman
of AtchiSOn County, fell from load of lum-
Der near his farm the other evening. The
wheel of the wagon passed over his chest
and killed him instantly. Deceased was an
Englishman by birth, and has been a resi-
dent of the county about twenty-five years,
and was about fifty years old. He leaves a
wife and eight children.
THE suit of Mrs. r. w. Willis, COM
menced in the Sedgwick County District
Court, against the Atchison, Topeka d
Santa Fe, has been compromised, the COM
pany giving her liberal compensation.
Her husband was in the employ of the COM
pany and was killed by the cars on the
Caldwell branch last fall.
Miss JENNIE JONES, of Atchison, was a
recent convert received into the Jewish
Synagogue at ST. Joseph, Mo. The follow
ing evening she was married to Mr.. Isaac
SOwenberg. merchant of AtchisOn.
WAKEENEY had snow storm on the
5th.
GOVERNOR CLICK received advices the
other day from Sheriff in one of the West
ern Territories, informing his EXcellency
that the old Bender family had been dis
covered out there, and will be captured
within day or two. They were said to be
the sure enough Benders.
w. p. COLGATE, son of j. b. Colgate. the
New York banker, had his case dismissed by
the District Court of Cowley County. This
was done to comply with the decision of the
Supreme Court of Kansas, to which the
case had been appealed, to the effect that
the acquittal If Colgate by the jury on the
first trial. on .ae charge of arson of the mill
was complete bar to any further prOsecu-
ton for burning the mill or any of its cen
tents. p
THE Saline County Fair Association has
fixed upon September 23d, oath, 25th and
Goth as the dates for holding the county fair
at Salina.
lola is to have a new school house The
work of tearing down the old one will ccm-
mence soon, and a fine ten-rOom brick will
take its place. a
HERBERT ARMSTRONG has been elected
Secretary Of the Topeka Water Works
Company, vice w. B. Whitton, resigned.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has issued the ap
pOintment of Edwin S. Jewett, of Johnson
County, as Visitor. to the Naval Academy.
A RECENT dispatch from St Paul, Mimi,
says: j. w. Utterback, the artist, while
making a moonlight sketch of the falls, was
knocked into the river and drowned He
came here from Topeka. .,..,.
A LULL in State politics. .l.
MK. R. c. FOSTER, an old citizen OF
T ToavQnNunFth Cnlntv raSiHinu about ciy
miles southeast of LeavenwOrUh City, died
recently at the age of seventy-five years,
after long sickness. Mr.. Foster came to
Kansas in 1858.
LYMAN SCOTT. brother of Lueicn Scott.
President of the First National Tank, OF
LeavenwOrth, died recently. He was a
prominent business man of Leav.TwOrth.
and during the war served on General
Blunt's staff. -t~i. 'f
A DISEASE has broken out among the
cows in the south part of LeaI enwor.h
which has caused the death of six veluable
animals in the past few days.
A LUNATIc named Williams, from Mar
shall County, recently escaped from the To
peka Insane Asylum.
A HEAVY wind-Stom visited Opolis re-
Gently, small village on the Girard Branch
of the Frisco Road, and considerable dam
age was done. Many houses were blown
down, but no one was hurt. The streams
were very much swollen.
PBoHBITIoNIsTs had grand mass meet
hg at Topeka on the Sd
The death of General Langdon C. Easton
recalls considerable of the early history OF
Kansas. he having served in that district
for twenty years before it was admitted
"a IFninn and hoxrinD IOeQfpd
Of the most important posts within its Dor.
iers 49,
THE State Homeopathic Society met 81
9spesla On the 7th.