The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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ARTHUR P. DAVIS, of Kansas, has been
promoted to 81 800 position at W ashing-
ton.
An unknown man hanged himself the
other night in Mike Sullivan's stable, south
Of Bennington. He was about thirty five
years old, five feet seven inches high, sandy
complexion, wore blue overalls, brown shirt
and red pillow shoes.
FRANKIE NORRIS, of Neosho County, was
arrested in Winfield recently upon the
charge of poisoning her mother last fall.
The motive was said to be to obtain SIS, 600
tnsnraaee that the old lady had on her life.
1t appears that legal proceedings were in
Jtituted some weeks since to obtain this
amount from the company, who in turn
had the daughter arrested.
THE State Board of Charities will erect
$4,000 worth of new buildings and i'm
provements during the biennial term, viz:
Topeka Insane Asylum, $50, 600; Topeka
Reform School, $4,000; Wyandotte Blind
Asylum, 5000; Olathe Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, 50 600; Osawattomie Insane Asy-
FUN, $4,000; Winfield Imbecile School. $25,-
300: Soldiers Orphans Home, to be loca-
Ged, So, 600
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wheat crop continued more and more en-
cOuraging. Especially was this true of the
Arkansas Valley. The new counties all
reported heavy yield, some as great as
thirty bushels per acre, and from that down
20 fifteen. The amount of wheat harvested
was reported largely in advance of expect
atoms. From all reports-and they were
from all parts of the State-it is shown the
! yield is fully One-half that of last year, or
twenty-four million bushels, which is one
hundred per cent. better than the June es-
innate Of the Secretary of the State Board
Of Agriculture.
ROBERT MCCURLEY, a we'll known miner,
committed suicide at Galena the other
morning. He arose as usual, and after
! bathing and dressing went to the kitchen,
placed pistol to his left breast and fired,
! the ball penetrating the heart. The deed is
assigned to dependency, caused by i'll
health and lack of employment for several
months past. He leaves a wife, but no
children.
FEUD among the colored inhabitants
of Topeka, growing out of domestic infelici
ity, resulted first in George Boland severely
beating his father-in-law. The old man
wrote to his son, Andrew Walton, who was
in New Mexico, and the latter returned to
adjust matters. When he heard how his
father and sister had been treated he con-
Guided to 20 cunning. Meeting Boland he
opened fire upon him. Both sides were re-
inforced, but no blood flowed. Later Wal
ton met his brother-in-law, BOlaEd, and
fired two shots into his body, inficting
ugly wounds. The Marshal then took
Walton in charge.
AT Lincoln Center the other morning
Lafayette Strong accidentally fell into
well thirty two feet deep, and almost in
stantly died from damps. No assistance
could be rendered him. A candle was
lowered into the well, but was extinguished
a short distance from the top. Two other
persons persisted from like cause several
miles west of Lincoln day or two previ- |
Gus.
THE proprietor of a Topeka hotel recently |
discharged his head waiter when the entire |
dining-rOom force marched to the office
and notified him thai unless he reinstated /
their chief they would go. They were /
promptly told to go, and that quickly. /
They Immediately relented and asked to be /
taken back. Except two they were for |
given, hut fined two dollars each for insub- /
ordination.
RECENT post-office changes in Kansas: |
Postmasters appointed Belmont, King
man County, William w. Elliott; Bross, !
Kingman County, Williford jenkins; Eff |
fngham, Atchison County, j. A. CahoOn;
kingman, kingman County, Ethan Watt;
Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Frank .
T. Lynch; Odessa, Jewell County, c. r.
Mallory; Peabody, Marion County, J. G.
Thompson. Name changed-Clark, Clark
County, to Ashland.
SMALL-POX has again appeared near
North Topeka, outside the city limits
THE State Normal School enrolled Cos
pupils in all of the departments for the
year closing June IL. Fifty-five counties
in Kansas and twelve States and Terri
tories were represented. The average age
of the class of 1885 was nearly twenty
years, with an average teaching expert
ence of three and one-third years.
THE other day while some boys were en-
gagged in tearing to pieces an old store
counter which had been used in a grocery
store at Leavenworth the discovery was
made that in times past mice had cut into
the till-boX and extracted greenbackS,
which they had converted into a bed. In
this lot SO, $40 and $50 bills were discOv-
cred to the amount of over $500 The gath
ering of the bills by the mice had appar-
emily been going on for many years, dur
ing which time several grocers and saloon
keepers had occupied the premises.
The Board of Reformatory Commission
ers finally decided to locate the State Re-
formatory at Hutchinson.
SECRETARY SIMS, of the State Board of
Agriculture, stated to reporter that he
could scarcely see, at the present time,
what foundation there could be for the
statement that the wheat crop would yield
"a ,00O, 900 bushels or 100000 higher than
was estimated in his last monthly report.
IN attempting to cross Labette Greek. near
Parsons, during the recent freshet, Master
Mechanic Phillips, of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, Morris Ross and Jake Jones were
drowned. At the time of the accident
Phillips was overseeing the laying of the
track washed out by the flood, and endeav
oring to get passenger train into ParsoE-.
The bodies were subsequently recovered.
ANOTHER youthful cyclone visited Stat
ford County July .. The residence and
other buildings of Nathan Bartlett were
blown over a mile and WIRE cked. Much
damage was done to crops.
YOUTHFUL thieves affict Topeka.
IT is stated that one Kansas school teach
er has been discovered who has grown rich
while teaching-not from the salary, but
by judicious investment; and Shawnee
County lady teacher is reported who got |.
married last winter and who had $1,000