The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-09
Miscellaneous.


in the State, and show that nearly nine
tenths of the counties have voted bonds
during the year, and some of them have
bonded themselves to the amount of $780,
0O0 According to the replies received
from about seventy-five counties. the total
amount of county bonds voted to railroads
during the year is s., 253, 900; township
bonds, $3,353'6O0, and city bonds, s6l6,5OO;
the total amount issued and delivered dur
ing the year in the same counties was:
County bonds, S2S2, 900; township bonds,
1907, ,6O6; city bonds, 1921 900.
WILLIAM HOLMES one of the leading la
Dor agitators of Chicago, was recently in
Topeka in the interest of the condemned
Anarchists.
AT the late State election the following
graduates of the Normal School were
elected to the Office of county superinten-
dent: F. Robertson, class of '15, Kingman
County; Miss A. E. Dixon, class OF 'ols
Lyon County; Eli Payne, class of 'S2. Reno
County; Miss Ella Celly, class of 'S5, Cow
ley County; A. II. Bushy, class of 'o6,
Morris County; Miss Sue d. Hogln, class
of 'S6, Jackson County, and Mrs. Ella
Brown, one of the original eighteen.
received notice of an invoice of church
goods shipped to him from Hamburg, Ger
many. They were in the custom house i'll
New York and will be admitted free of
| duty.
THERE were two additional attempts at
suicide in Leavenworth the other day. Mrs.
William Black took poison, but the timely
arrival of a physician saved her. The
other case was that of Miss Brown, de-
scribed as ''a'rosy checked lady of eighteen,
the daughter Of a widow" who took
poison. Her life was saved, although her
| condition was critical.
! THE other day two toughs went into a
| Topeka restaurant to get dinner. An inof-
fensive-looking farmer was also eating
| dinne. When the tOughs finished their
meal they refused to pay for it, and were
arguing the point with the proprietor
when the farmer started to go out and one
OF the toughs struck at him. This aroused
him and he literally mopped the floor with
the youngsters. When he let 90 of them
they made for the door and ran down the
street covered with blood and dust.
THE twenty ty-seventh annual convention
ofthe diocese OF Kansas episcopal church,
t
Vail presided, and Rev. Berry was made
secretary. Bishop Vail stated that the
work of the bishop had grown so rapidly
that he would not be able to give the work
that attention it deserved and said it
would be necessary to have an assistant.
He said that be was willing that the salary
now received by him should be divided
with an assistant. All the delegates were
of the opinion that an assistant bishop
should be elected and unanimously voted
to pay the assistant not less than S3OOO
year. After thorough discussion OF the
ques tion the convention went into an elec
ton and chose Rev. Alexander Mackay
Smith, of New York, assistant bishop.
THE residence of W. A. Yount, in Shaw
nee County, was burned the other morn
ing. But little furniture was saved.
Neighbors volunteered to haul the lumber
for a new house, which will be put up i'm
mediately.
An old resident of Leavenworth, An
tome Haas, dropped dead at his residence
in that city the other evening. He had re
turned from his place of business in appa
rently good health. He sat down to the
sumner table and while drinking a cup o
coffee strangled and, getting up, soon fel
dead. He was seventy-six years of age,
native of Germany, and had been resi-
dent of Leavenworth about thirty years.
AT late meeting of the Live Stock San
itary Commission at Topeka, it was de
cided to release all southern cattle nov
held in quarantine, providing the owner
paid the quarantine fees. The rules ISSUED
October I3 were also amended so as to reaC
that all cattle coming to Kansas from tina
portion of New York lying south of tn
north line of the State of Connecticut, al
of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
MARYLAND, District of Columbia, Virginia
West Virginia, Illinois and the Dominion
= of Canada, will be required to enter tn
State at Kansas City, where they VIII b
held in quarantine, at the risk and expens
of the owner for period of ninety days
; and until they shall receive bill of healt
signed by the State Veterinarian of Kan
: sas. Cattle from other districts may ente
the State provided the shipper Statistic
the State inspector at Kansas City tha
> tbey-are healthy and have not been ex
posed to any contagious or infectious dis
. ease.
!. GIVE the stock warm sheds.
TAYLOR CALDWELL, living about min
/. miles northwest of Topeka, met with
# serious accident the other day. He wa
hauling a load of household goods, an
g encountering a steep hill in the road tn
load fell off, he falling under it. His spin
was injured and he received an ugly gas
/ in his scalp.
i A TELEGRAM was recently received g
V Emporia from Congressman W. K Cox,
e Raleigh, N c., inquiring about arb'
C rouph. the assassin of l.. ID. Collier. Th
: message stated that Marlborough was
IS Young man of high social standing In IL
community where he was raised.
y Hox. FRANK BACON has been appointe
d Receiver of the land-office at Oberlin.
:. JoHS MAIIoY, section foreman OF th
is Missouri Pacific railroad, was killed &
Kickapoo the other night by falling from
te train. He had been to Kansas City an
j. was returning home, and when within
K short distance of Kickapoo, his home, IL
,e train stopped on trestle and he, thinkin
it was the depot platform, stepped of an
a fell through the trestle, striking his hea
u against a large timber, crushing MS skull
YOUNG man bv the name Of BLACK ws
st seriously wounded near Tecumseh I'll
y other day by the accidental discharge (
his gun.
l. FOUR leaders of the Salvation Arm
Al were recently arrested at Topeka for di
~ tur5ing the peace.