The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-08-26
Miscellaneous.

WHILE some parties were engaged in
| cleaning vault in the rear of a house on
| Shawnee street at Leavenworth the other
night, the skull of a human being was
brought to light. The police were notified
! and the skull taken to the station. where
the fact was revealed that hole had been
made in the right temple of the skull
/ which was otherwise in a fair state OF
preservation. The finding of the first was
followed later by the discovery of the
second skull, and subsequently the thigh
! bones of a large man.
! THE Board of Railroad Commissioners re-
/ Gently rendered a decision on complaints
| before them, in which they declared that a
| reasonable concession must be made III
! freight rates on wheat, and also recommend
! changes in the corn tariff. With this view
the board has prepared schedules of rates
! for wheat and corn on the Union Pacific
| Central Branch and Atchison, Topeka q
! Santa Fe railroads from Kansas City and
| Leavenworth to a large number of points
west of those designated.
! LATE post-oflices established in Kansas:
Dermot, Stevens County, Nathan p. Allen,
postmaster; Itasca, Sherman County. Gil
bert l.. Sackett, postmaster; EuStiS, Sher-
man County, John A. Werner, postmaster
Ffymell, Finney County, Robert House
weart, postmaster; Valparaiso, Stevens
County, Edward Dudley, postmaster
a CHARTER has been granted TO the Kan
sas Wholesale and Retail Cooperative
Drug Store Association of Topeka. Capt.
tai S250,0O0.
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Historical Society rooms 693 different news
papers of Kansas publication. OF this
number POS have been started during the
past fourteen months seventy-eight of
which have died, leaving 100 new papers,
all reported doing well.
THE mother of Senator Plumb died at
Emporia recently, aged seventy three
years. She was the mother of eight chill
dren, six of whom are living.
THE Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road
has recently made heavy purchases of real
estate in North Topeka. 1t is reported to
be definitely understood that tue main
yards of that line will be the west part of
North Topeka. 1t is also stated that the
company will invest at least $1,000 before
it obtains all the ground necessary to give
proper yard facilities.
THE other night about twelve O'Clock two
mon were observed to climb into a box car
of train just pulling out of Topeka for
Kansas City. Shortly after they both re-
turned and notified the police that they had
been robbed of seven dollars in money and
other valuableS. They stated that after
getting into the car they found twelve
more men who had beat their way from
Denver. The latter asked the first two for
something to eat, and on receiving re-
fusal attacked the minority party, badly
beathing them.
VoTING railroad bonds again in style.
A LEAvENwoRTH paper in discussing the
hot spell recently asserted that "the heat
was so intense that iron fences partially
melted; that water thrown upon the side
walks boiled in less than two seconds. 1t
was so hot that liars forgot to lie and per-
jurers disgraced themselves by telling the
truth" Whereupon a Topeka paper sug-
gested that the Ananias Club should immed-
lately organize a branch at Leavenworth,
where it would find fruitful field for mis-
sionary work.
KANSAS postmasters appointed on the
lttQ. O0dTicS H. DldCh- OI4Ous M
Kaffer. Kanopolis; John Sharpless, Metz.
AT Topeka on the 10th the thermometer
recorded l05 in the shade.
GEORGE. the three-year-old child of Mr.
and Mrs. George T. Gilmore, fell from the
third story of the insane asylum at Topeka
the other afternoon and sustained serious
injuries
THE twelve-year-old son of a Topeka
widow named Black, ran away from home
the other day and reached Hutchinson
where a car ran over and cut off his feet.
4 TOPEKA youth. in his anxiety to inves
tigate the interior of watermelon, re-
Gently let the knife slip and sever an ar
terry in his wrist. Prompt surgical aid pre-
vented him from bleeding to death
The LIE Roy, Topeka & Northern Railroad
Company recently fled its charter with the
Secretary OF State Capital, 5000. CO.