The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-13
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
AT Arnoldsville, Buchanan County, Mo-,
Bee Henderson and man named johnson
had difficulty. Henderson said, as John
son was going away: "See me shoot that
fellow off his mule" Johnson was only
shot in the thumb, when he returned and
shot Henderson through the body and beat
him on the head so that he was not expected
to live.
THE fifteenth annual commencement of
the Kansas City Medical College was held
recently. There were seventeen in tho
graduating class.
TnLER, who stole So 900 from the Paci-
fic Express Company, at st. Louis, has not
yet been caught.
The Coronor's inquest developed nothing
new regarding the Wilson murders at Win
netka, near Chicago. The police claim to
have conclusive proof against McKeague.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY GOODWIN, of Omaha,
has been so badly maltreated by unknown
parties that his life is despaired of.
A REPORT submitted to the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce by Superintendent
Newell shows that the whole number of
hogs packed there the past year was &c.,
451, a decrease IS, 1919 compared with the
previous year.
TILLER, the Pacific Express office robber
at st. Louis, figures as the defendants par
amour in divorce suit. His whereabouts
is unknown.
FATHER O'BoYLAN, of Corning O., denies
that he instigated the maltreatment of Nc
Dewitt. The latter has returned and had
many of his assailants arrested.
CONSIDERABLE feeling is manifested in
Missouri over recent decision of Commits
sioner Phillips destroying the binding force
of mortgages when money is loaned by
parties living outside the State. Several
large Eastern corporations have withdrawn
their agencies, giving monopoly to home
brokers, who consequently charge higher
rates of interest.
WILLIAM MCMILLAN, of Huron, o., swore
he would kill the first man that came to
help his wife, whom he was abusing. A
youth named Thompson, unaware of any
trouble, happened to call at the house, when
Mcmillan killed him. He then tried to shoot
himself, but failed. He was jailed, but the
morning after was found dead, having
taken some rat poison which he had secreted
about his person.
PETROLEUM has been found at Vinton,
Iowa, causing great excitement.
THE Executive Committee of the Western
Export Association, controlling all distill-
ers in the West, was held at Chicago recent
ly, at which decision was reached to re-
duce the production OF whisky ten per cent.
below present basis after May 1.
W. H. OYLER, agent at Kansas City of
the Continental Fast Freight Line, com
mitted suicide recently by shooting Linn,
self through the head. Dependency and
drink was the cause.
PETITIONS are being circulated for an ex-
ira session of the Missouri Legislature to
consider the repeal of the old statute which
led to Commissioner Phillips recent deciS-
ion. Governor Crittendon, however, says
he does not think the occasion warrants On
extra session, and that there is unneces-
sary alarm.
THE northern and southern divisions of
the Mexican Central Railway are within
eight miles of junction.
Dr.. S. w. KIRK, of Atlanta, ILL.,, is in
critical condition, from the prick of needle
which had been used in a post-mortem ex-
animation.
A NEGRO has been arrested for the muir
der of the peddler, whose headless body
YVES found near Cahokia, ILL.,, recently. The
missing skull was found in the Negroes
house and also an axe stained with blood.
FRANK RANDE, the notorious desperado,
who recently nearly killed Warden Nc
Donald at the Joliet, H., penitentiary,
committed suicide while in solitary con-
finement.
THE examination of Jud Crouch and Dan
Holcomb for the murder of the Crouch
family has begun at Jackson, Mich.
IT has leaked out that robbery of S27,-
600 took place few days ago in the Office
of the Paymaster of the Chicago, Burling-
lington & Quincy Railroad at Chicago. No
arrests have yet been made. The Paymas-
ter was discharged for negligence.