The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

IHE taborerS employed on the Eoc1
Island bridge at Topeka recently stru cl
for an advance of fifteen cents day.
THE Democrats of the First Congressional
district met at Leavenworth and nomi
mated Colonel Everhard Bierer, of Browr
County. for Congress.
BIZ runaway near Larned recently two
estimable young ladies were seriously in.
jured. Miss Clara Sunderland, daughter
of Colonel II. s. Sunderland, and Lille,
granddaughter, were out riding. While
driving down the hill on the west side Of
town the buggy ran on the horse, frighten
ing him so that he became unmanageable,
ran away and threw them out with such
force upon the ground that the first named
lady was terribly mangled about the face
and it was supposed received internal i'll
juries, and the other young lady was badly
hurt. Both ladies were conveyed home ia
an unconscious condition.
THE Grand Opera House at Topekais be.
ing refitted at an expense of over $780,
new boxes and new furnishings throughout
being provided.
THE Republican Congressional committee
Seventh District met recently and arranged
their campaign programme, setting the
first grand rally at Hutchinson on Septem-
Der "a
PENSIONS were allowed on the 9th to
David Timenous, of Mound Valley; Archer
HamOn, of Sedan, and Fall Prince, of
Wyandotte.
PROF. WILEY, chemist OF the Agricul-
tural Department at Washington, has gone
to Ottawa to superintend experiments in
the manufacture of sugar from sorghum.
WARDEN SMITH, of the pententiary, has
made his report for August, from which it
appears that during the month two con-
victs died, IS were discharged, one
was transferred to the insane asylum and
IS were admitted. Total number in con-
fnement at end of month SIC. The total
earnings of the prison during August
amounted to s120Sl.0S, and the total ex.
penditures were 9,S02.95.
The report of the Secretary of the State
| Board of Agriculture for August showed
no material change in the area of crops
from that shown by the July report. Dry
| and hot weather has been the rule i'll the
eastern half of the State, resulting in short
crops. West more rain has fallen during
the month and crops promise fair yield.
The wheat crop (winter and spring. is esti-
mated at II, 600 bushels.
A CHARTER was recently filed for The To-
peka, Council Grove q Southwestern rail
road. The object of the company is to
build and operate q road from Topeka
through the counties of Shawnee, Wa
baunsee and Morris to Council Grove, and
thence southwest through the counties of
Marion, Chase, Mcpherson, Butler, Har-
vey, Sedgwick, Sumner, Reno, Kingman,
Pratt, Harper, Barber, Comanche, Clark
and Meade. Estimated length 300 miles.
Capital stock, S5,000,00O.
A BOX of antiquities from the Ameri
can Antiquity Society, Worcester, Mass,
was recently received by the Kansas
Historical Society.
KANSAS has taken out seventeen national
bank charters during the year ended June
l The total capital stock of the new banks
is 1865, coo, with circulation of S217, 900.
The case of John W. Weaver against the
st. Louis & San Francisco railroad was up
in the Supreme Court the other day.
Weaver claims that on May 10, 1888 while
in the employ of the above-named rail.
road, in the discharge of his duties as a 10
connective engineer running a freight train
near Fayetteville, Ark, without fault or
negligence on his part, the locomotive was
thrown from the track down an embank-
ment into stream, whereby his arm was
broken and torn, and he claimed damages
in the sum of s25, 600. At the trial of the
case in Harvey County the plaintiff got
verdict for $4,000. The Judgment of the
lowe. court was confirmed and the COM
pany appealed to the United States Su-
preme Court.
FRANK X. BYRON, who is charged with
having embezzled funds of the firm of Taft
& Curdy, of Topeka, by whom he was
employed as cashier, and who it is also
said has more than one wife, arrived in
that city the other evening from Boston
in the company of his brOther-in law. |
Richard Wilson, who brought Byron on a |
requisition issued by the Governor. He !
was committed to jail. His wife came |
from Boston on the same train, but trav- |
eled in another car and had not seen him |
for nearly week. For nearly two months |
the parents had not heard from her, and |
they became much alarmed. 1t is charged |
that while in Boston he destroyed the let |
tiers which the young wife had written to |
her parents and given to him to be mailed;
tits also charged that he stole his wife's |
wedding clothes and pawned them.
COLONEL S. n. WOoD has commenced suit |
in tue district court of the Seventeenth
judicial district against twenty-six men,
whom, he alleges, kidnapped him. He asks
$50, 900 damages.
The grading of the Rock Island Railroad
is completed to within twelve miles of To-
peka.
THE Board of Regents of the State Normal
School report the sale of all thu salt spring
lands, consisting of twelve sections, except
200 acres, for the sum of SIS, So, or an av-
erage of $1,000 per acre. The appraised
value of the lands sold was S15,520 the sale
being an increase of SO, 1862 over these fig
ures. Six hundred and forty acres were
appraised at 80 cents per acre, being almost
wholly worthless, which fact makes the
average good figure. The 200 acres which
remain unsold are in Saline and Republic
Counties, and will have to be reappraised
under the law. This Is said to be the best
sale of public lands ever made in the State.
CHARLES NELSON, a ten-y ear-old lad. was
killed the other day near Fredonia, Wilson
County. He was riding on a wagon and,
falling off, the wheels passed over him and
crushed him to death.
The second annual encampment of the
Kansas National Guards will be held on
the Fort Riley military reservation, COM
mencing Monday, September 20. and con-
tinue until September p.
PoLITICs begin to warm up.
ATLeavenworth the other evening Teresa
Maher, a young lady about eighteen
years of age was badly burned while at
tempting to start a fire with coal oil. She
poured the oil in the stove and touched a
match to it. when the flame was communi-