The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-06

cerned in the Mary Baldwin murder, sue
/ ceeded in establishing his innocence and
/ was discharged.
! JAMES COFFEE, of Oak Valley, shot him.
self through the heart the other night. No
cause is given for the rash act. He was
about twenty-five years old.
THE other evening middle aged man
rode into West Plains about dusk on a fine
black horse. He carried an old fashion ed
tin horn strapped on his side. He put up
ct the hotel, but no information could be
obtained as to his name or antecedents, as
he was quite reserved and silent. Early
next morning he mounted his steed and
started off in a sweeping gallop down the
southern trail, blowing his horn. Some
miles south of town is salt well which
formed where years ago creek had flowed
and which lies directly in the old trail.
The trumpeter went charging down the
trail, his horse covered with foam, and
rode straight into the hole. Both man and
horse were drowned.
PUsEY, the defaulting penitentiary book
keeper who was recently arrested at Gin
cinnati, has been taken back to Leaven-
worth for trial. 1t is stated that after rum
uing away from Leavenworth he went to
st. Louis, and from there by boat to New
Orleans, where he obtained work without
difficulty, as he had been an experienced
mechanic. In New Orleans he met several
of his old acquaintance, none of whom
recognized him except when he made him.
self known to them. From New Orleans
Pusey went to Cincinnati, where he also OBJ
tanned work. Here he was discovered by
the detectives, due, it is said, to informa-
ton given by the woman Devore, to whom
he had been writing ever since he left, and
who had been the cause of his downfall.
THE Sheriff of Finney recently went to
Topeka, taking with him three children,
ranging in age from ten to thirteen years, to
be placed in the State Reform School, but on
arrival at the Reform School the Superin-
tendent said that the institute was so
crowded that the Finney County children
could not be admitted. An effort was to
be made to place them in some Catholic
institution. The children are orphans, and
their mother was prostitute. Their faith
er was killed about five years ago in a
dispute about claim.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: j. G. Bradley, Wetmore, rolling
cultivator and pulverizer; w. T. Ferguson,
Corning, harrow and land roller; Thomas
NJ. Foote, Black Wolf, railway switch; F.
G. Fransen, Randolph, rocking chair;
John L. Hall, Colony, alarm attachment
for bailing presses; j. w. Wilson, Brook
vile, bran duster.
DETECTIVE GUMBERT, who recently
brought Pusey to Leavenworth County
and delivered him to the Sheriff, was paid
the reward of 500 offered by the Governor
for his arrest.
The Depot QuartermaSter at Fort Leav-
enworth has determined to build a new
road from the city to the fort. The Gov
eminent will macadamize the road, which
will go in southeasterly direction until
near the bridge, and thence northward
through the arsenal to the garrison. Thus
there will be a magnificent macadamized
boulevard from the Penitentiary leading
into Sheridan's drive.
Two railroad charters were filed with the
Secretary of State the other day. One was
that of the Mcpherson & Southwestern
Railroad Company, organized for the pur-
pose of constructing a broad gauge road
from Mcpherson in a generally southwest
erly direction to the west boundary of the
State. The estimated length of this road
is 200 miles, and its capital stock is $1,000
900. The other was the Independence &
Southwestern Railroad, to begin at point
near Independence, where it will form a
connection with the Southern Kansas Road
and pass in a generally southwesterly
direction through the counties of Montgom-
cry, Chatauqua, Cowley, Sumner, Harper,
Barber, Comanche, Clark, Meade and Sew
ard. This will have branch extending to
Winfield, Elgin, Howard, Wellington. An
thony and Harper.
WILLIAM SUTER, a fireman on the juno
ton City & Fort Kearney Railway, was
run over in the yards at junction City the
other night, and his left arm was cut Off
close to the shoulder. He will probably
die.
DR.. A. S. HATCH reported to be one of
the oldest and most respected and highly
esteemed citizens of Whiting, Jack
son County, recently eloped with
his hired girl, Christine Thompson.
He was a man of considerable means,
and of late years had been a loan
agent and real estate broker. He left every
thing straight, and decided all his Whiting
property to his wife, thus leaving her and
his two children above want.
NEW post-office, Vesta, Clark County.
SOME DAYS since a stranger appeared at
the residence of Mr.. Hitler, in Topeka, and
stated that he was out West for the benefit
of his health. He stopped with the family
as a sort of irregular boarder and lodged
i'll
however, he suddenly departed and the
room next morning showed that Killers
clothes were gone also, including two pair
of pants, a coat, vest, watch and so in
money. So much for taking in an ''un-
healthy stranger"
THE President has appointed George c.
Rvmbaugh postmaster at Winfield, Vice
D. A. Wellington, resigned.
THE Prohibition Publishing Company is
a new Topeka enterprise.
AN accident occurred to the engine of
about two miles south of Topeka the other
morning. The train was running very
fast, when the driving rod broke and one
piece was thrown up, striking one of the
braces which held the foot board and
knocking it loose from the boiler. The
steam escaped very rapidly from the torn
holes, and before the engineer and firemen
could get out of the way both were badly
scalded.
AT the first election in South Topeka
John Richie was chosen Mayor.
A FARMER in Leavenworth County re-
Gently threshed fifty acres of wheat and it
yielded only four bushels per acre.