The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

tor. These volumes are for the years 1893,
1888. and from lS4O to 1865. The pubiica-
ton OF the Liderdtor was begun in 1881, and
continued till the close of the war of the re-
bsllion.
THg annual report of the directors of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad for
1855, just issued, gives the following infor
nation: Gross earnings of the road, 81
S03OS9: total interest, dividends and other
fixed charges, including s29O.525 for sink
ing funds, So, ,905. The surplus which
has been added to the income account it
Si04, ISL
a KANSAS man named Hollingsworth, was
robbed OF sl.400 the other day as he with
his daughter was about to board an Atch
isOn, Topeka 6; Santa Fe train at Kansas
City.
AFTER a searching examination lasting
two days, at Oswego, Jacob Mclaughlin,
proprietor Of the Grand Central Hotel at
/ Parsons, and Wash Bercaw, his night clerk,
were bound over to the district court
charged with having taken from the jail in
Oswego on August ;, 1885, one Frank
Myers. numbering him and throwing his
body into the Neosho river.
A RECENT miniature cyclone struck
Aliceville and destroyed the depot, barn
and residence and damaged a number of
other houses. 1t then left without doing
any other damage.
! THERE have been 24 quarters of Govern
ment land and IS quarters of school land,
making a total of s59,529 acres, added TO
the tax roll of Decatur County within the
last year.
THE Republican State Central Committee
met atTOpeka and decided by a vote of nine
.for Topeka to eight for Leavenworth, to
! hold the convention for the nomination of
| State officers in the hall of the House of
Representatives at Topeka on Wednesday,
July Z. The basis of representation for
! counties in said convention shall be one
delegate and one alternate for each 400
votes cast, and one delegate and one alter
nate for each fraction of 200 and over, for
the Republican candidate for Secretary of
State at the election held in November,
1884, and one delegate and one alternate
for each unOrganized county, or county or
ganized since said election of 1854. The
convention will consist of 400 delegates.
! The time and place of holding primaries
and county conventions to choose delegates
cretion of county central committees,
though it is advised that no convention be
held later than June 30.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
ors: Hugh F. Eaton, Parsons, hustle;
George o. Ross, Ottawa, car coupling.
THE story recently telegraphed from
Topeka of horrible outrage, murder, sui
eide and lynching in Seward County was
a canard manufactured for the purpose of
selling" newspaper correspondent.
DR.. KROuN, State temperance lecturer,
who was recently the subject of much talk
in connection with a hotel scandal at
Junction City, has written a letter with
drawing from the ministry and the Metho-
dist Church. In his letter of resignation to
the presiding elder of the Atchison district
DR.. krOhn says that some weeks ago he re-
quested the presiding elder of the Man.
haitian district, Kansas Conference, to
make an immediate and thorough investi- /
CATION of certain accusations rejecting up
on my moral and ministerial character. l |
waited patiently for this action on the /
part of Brother Mitchell and then appealed /;
to you to institute a similar investigation, !
and after waiting for what seemed to me /
action in the premises, and seeing no fur /
ther signs of progress in the matter, and |
being convinced that other delays are |
likely to follow, and not wishing to be .
kept in constant suspense, and thoroughly .
satisfied of the wisdom and prOpriety of .
the step am about to take, l hereby pre-
sent to you my formal withdrawal from
the ministry and membership of the II. E.
Church" After referring to rumors that
had reached him of unkindly feelings to-
ward him by members of the Conference,
Dr. Krohn adds: Il know that am inno-
cent of the calumniations brought against
me, and which am conscious l could sub
stantiate if l had free and fair opportu-
nifty to do So"
4 TERRIBLE accident occurred near New
man, a station on the Union Pacific road a
few miles east of Topeka, the other day.
\ farmer by the name of Chris Himme
sent his -year-old son Fred to the field
to cut corn stalks. The team the lad was
driving became frightened and ran away,
throwing the little follow in front of the
cutter. Before he could escape the knives
caught him and almost decapitated his
head from his body, causing instant death.
REV. w. c. HIBBARD, recently arrested at
Topeka for nameleSs crime, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to Imprisonment for
three months and fine of S1O0
THE Missouri Pacific switchmen at Leav-
enworth have been notified that they will
get the same wages paid the Chicago
Switchmen. Their former wages were -
per day for switchmen and 81. p per day
for foremen. The pay hereafter will be
SG5 per month for the working day and ex-
ira for Sunday for the day switchmen
For day foreman $40 per month and extra
for Sunday work. The night switchmen
get so per month for working days and
the night foreman so per month, and each
get extra pay for Sunday. The change
went into effect May l.
THE United States Treasury Department
since brought suit against H c
Linn, formerly Indian agent, to recover
IS, 600. alleged to be due on settlement The
case was tried the other day at Topeka and
the jury brought in a verdict in favor of
DR.. Linn without leaving their seats.
THE story that a party of strikers had
taken forcible possession of the railroad
yards at Atcnison to prevent men from re-
turning to work, is pronounced untrue.
kANAPoLIS is n new post-office
AN important organization was perfected
in junction City the other day to be known
as the Traveling-men's National Building
and Loan Association. The directors and I
of the scheme in their own ,
private capacity represent $4,000. It is !
national in its scope and chartered under
-he laws of the State. The capital stock is !.
placed at $5,OO0,0oO.
A MAD dog recently rushed into the
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