The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

children, his wife having died several
months since.
C. II. GROVER, of Leavenworth, has been
appointed Indian agent at the Pottawato-
mic Agency.
LEAvENwoRTH by a large majority re-
Gently voted $50, 600 additional aid to the
Leavenworth, Northern & Southern rail-
road.
The new library and ladies' hall of
! Washburn College at Topeka were dedi-
Gated recently with appropriate ceremo-
MES. The Boswell Memorial Library
building is handsome stone structure,
built after the antique English style, and
costing over $4,000. In was named in the
memory of the late Hon. Charles Boswell,
of Hartford Conn, who contributed over
half the cost of the building. Halbrook
Hall, for young ladies' is three and one
half story building, erected at cost of
over $4,000, and takes its name from Mrs.
Mary Halbrook, of Massachusetts, who gave
5000 towards its construction.
THE Santa Fe officials have formally no.
titled the Railroad Commissioners that the
passenger train will again be placed on
the Leavenworth. Topeka & Southwestern
railroad on November |.
MAJOR SINS, Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, gives the following
synopsis of the forthcoming crop report
of Kansas for 1886: Wheat-wnter and
Spring-Product, IA, SO 093 bushels, against
TO- ~, ISL last year, or a five years aver
age of POOL, 4l6 bushels. Corn-Product,
139, 500, 1872 bushels, against Ia, $50, 703 in
1885, or an average for five years of 49,
GA, 435 bushels. Oats-Probable product,
50 S92, 0S5 bushels, the largest ever grown
in the State. Last years harvest gave 3D.
SCI. 400 bushels, while the averaged annual
yield for five years has been "A, 696, 40 bush
els. Information as to other crops indi-
Gates no material change. The gem
eral condition ranges from 40 to SO, with
a slight falling off in the area of flax,
hemp and tobacco, and an increase in
other crops, broom corn showing the great
| est.
PENSIONS lately granted Kansas veter-
ans Henry R. Crawford, of Junction
City; William R. Lattimer, of WabauDsee;
George W. May, of Fawn Greek; Zacha-
riah Kramer, of Runnymede; Martin j.
Reynolds, of Girard; Thomas J. Owens, of
Blue Mound; Samuel Henry, of Whining
ton; Ben. NJ. Tabler, of Wichita; John
Frank, of Armourdale; Robert B. Kirk
patrick, of WoOdberry; Mary B. Brown,
of Longton; Hannah b. Thomson, of Ma
riOn; David A. Endslee, of Coyville; Al
bert W. Thompson, of Marion; John III.
| Gaurdon, of Delphos; Samuel Pierce, of
| Sedan; David Lake, of Clay Center; Ben.
| +. Devrick, of Larned; George P. Eddy,
of Zenith; William Gummell, of Council
| Grove; Swan Olson, of Wannersburg;
| Henry Squres of Prospect; William A.
| Duncan, of Lucerne; Daniel S. Snyder. of
| Ellsworth; Enoch G. Adams. of Leaven-
worth, and Oscar Van Valkenberg, of Re-
| public City.
PosT-oFFGCE changes in Kansas for the
week ended October 16: Established,
| Golden, Hamilton County, Jacob A. Har-
man, postmaster; Kalvestra, Hodgeman
County, Jabez Applebe, postmaster; La
| Blanches, Sherman County, Miss Lilly b.
| Clapper, postmaster Postmasters APP
| pointed, Hunneweli, Sumner County, j. l.
Brewster; Maize. Sedgwick County.
Charles Mccullough.
y MAN named Jack Adams was recently
arrested at Topeka upon suspicion of steal
'ng pair of pautaloons, and before the
charge was investigated a telegram was
| received from st. Louis charging him with
kidnapping child and requesting his ar
rest. He and woman who passed for his
/ wife were arrested and the child found in
5heir possession. They We're held to await
! he arrival of St. Louis officers. Adams at
ne time ran a bucket shop in Topeka.
I lie left his wife and ran away with the
woman who is now claiming to be his wife
about three years ago.
PERRIN McADAN, a boy aged eleven, of
Blue Stem, Russell County, while recent
bathing in pond, was bitten on the large
vein of the leg by an adder snake. He
mounted his horse and rode furiously for
NOme, but when near the house fell from
ais horse and died in a short time.
The Kansas Home Missionary Society
! filed its charter with the Secretary of State
recently. The expressed object of the or
ganization is to aid in the organization of
Congregational Churches in Kansas, and
, to cooperate with the American Home
| Missionary Society. Headquarters, To-
peEa.
1T is stated that under the new marriage
law the probate judge will hereafter re-
quire of every applicant for a marriage
certificate an affidavit that the parties to
be married are not, to each other, parent
and child, or grand parent and grand-child
of any degree, or brother and sister of
either the whole or half blood, nor uncle
and niece nor aunt and nephew, nor first
cousins.
II the United States circuit court at To-
peka suit was instituted by the Michigan
Stove Company. of Detroit Mich, ask ng
an injunction restraining the Great West
ern Stove Company, of Leavenworth, from
manufacturing what is known as the
Standard stove, claiming that the latter
company in making said stove infrnges
on the rights of the Michigan company.
AT the late meeting of the Women's
Board of Missions of the Congregational
Church at Topeka the following officers
were chosen: President, Mrs. S. G. Tun-
nell, vice-president, Mrs. o. B. Brace; sec !
rotary Mrs. F. P Hoybin; treasurer, Mrs. !
A. L. Slosson. The following delegates
were Apo uted to attend the Missouri an
nual meeting: Mrs. c. B. Brace, Mrs. Ida
b. Cole, Mrs. j. l.. Slosson, Mrs. Boylan,
Mrs. Storrs.
CY LAFERTY, a negro teamster of Leaven- /
worth, recently attempted to murder his
wife by knocking her senseless and then /
pouring coal. oil Oh her aud firing it The
brute escaped.
FINE rains the past week.
AN insane woman confined in the base /
ment of the court house at EmpOria re- |
Gently attempted 10 set fire to the building !
by raking the fire out of her stove on the /
floor and feeding it with the bed clothes. |
Smelling smoke, the janitor and others
broke into the room and by hard work /
subdGed the flames before a great amount /
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