The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-10
miscellaneous.

! aaS returned from a western trip. reports
! that hog cholera, which has committed
such ravages, is greatly on the decrease.
With the approach os freezing weather,
the doctor believes it will almost entirely
disappear The dreaded disease of gland
| ers among horses however, the doctor re-
| ports shows little sign of abatement in
SEINE localities.
THE other evening as the turnkey and
waiter at the county Jail in Wichita en-
tered the corridor where the prisoners were
gathered outside the cells, two of the men,
George Washington and Charles Smith,
awaiting trial for burglary, grasped the
turnkey and attempted to force him into
cell. Then William Hughes, a prisoner,
seized the waiter and threw him over the
railing to the floor below. The three pris-
oners then escaped.
A GANG of lightning rod peddlers have
been working the colored population of
Atchison for month past. 1t is said not
to be an uncommon sight to see a small
house of two or three rooms supplied with
as many rods, which means a debt that
may lead to the loss of the house The
Champion thinks there ought to be price
set upon the head of every lightning rod
man caught at work, and the police ought
to be notified to run them out of town tho
minute they put in an appearance.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail.
way Company has established fourteen
reading rooms at points along its line which
runs through Kansas, Colorado AMI New
Mexico. These reading rooms are for the
benefit of the railroad employees.
OAKLEY, st. John County, has been hav-
ing big boom for the past two months;
land seekers have been pouring in, in a
constant stream; and yet it is stated that
Vacant Government land lies with in three
miles of the town.
A CALL has been issued signed BY several
hundred residents of Kansas and adjoining
States for National Convention of anti
saloon Republicans, to be held at Toledo,
Ohio, May 5, 1886. The call directs that
primaries be held in all precincts on April
81, county conventions April IS. and State |
conventions May s. for the election of
double the number of delegates entitled !
under the call of the Republican National
Convention.
PosT-oFFICE changes in Kansas during the |
"CCh CHuSu 4NONcHlOcI
Nevada, Ness County, Jeffrey Marshall, |
postmaster. Discontinued, Antioch, Usage
County; Peach Grove, Clay County; Polo,
Cowley County; Saw Mill, Pawnee County. |
IT is stated that druggist at Sedgwick |
has surrendered his permit to sell intoxi-
eating liquors, stating that he was dis
gusted with the business. He will in fu-
ture confine himself to the compromising of
prescriptions.
A TOPEKA paper speaks of the brutality
of a father to his young daughter, in which
he turned her out of doors, thinly clad and
ill., which resulted in her death, but with
commendable prudence failed to give the
brutal fathers name.
FIVE immigrant wagons, with people suf-
ficient to make respectable community,
all from Clayton. Adams County, Illinois,
halted in Lakin the other Sunday after
noon for a short rest before proceeding on
their journey to Grant County.
THE Governor will convene the Legisla-
ture in extra session Tuesday, January 10.
apportioning the State into Senatorial and
Legislature districts, and such other BUSH
ness as properly comes before it.
Iuc SuilStLldS
THE application of the Attorney General
for a temporary injunction against the
Leavenworth saloons was denied by Judge
Crozier, pending proceedings before him
for a permanent injunction.
Rush County has voted $4,000 in bonds
to the Kansas & Colorado Railroad, which
is an extension of the Salina & Mcpherson
branch of the Kansas Central, now con-
trolled by Jay Gould.
THE second span of the bridge over the
Arkansas River at Syracuse fell one day
as the workmen were putting in
the last span. Three workmen were on the
bridge, but escaped without injury.
The Wichita Scientific and Liberal Asso-
citation filed its charter recently.
THE election for bonds in aid of the Dem
yer, Memphis & Atlantic Railway, held in
Pawnee County, resulted favorably for the
road, the bonds amounting to s125, $50, be-
ing carried by 400 majority. Larned, the
county seat of Pawnee County, will be the
western terminus Of the second division OK
.he road.
WHILE a number of boys were shooting
With old revolvers, near Parsons, recently,
Timothy Phelps, a lad about thirteen years
Did, received a shot from his own revolver
n the right foot. The ball was taken out
With button hook by one of the lads.
CHRIsT's Hospital at Topeka received
many generous donations on Thanksgiving :
lay.