The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

agent of the General Land-office, has been
dismissed
Ar Bismarck Grove there will be great
Sunday School celebration in July. The
managers of the assembly have telegram
from General John A. Logan promising to
be present as one of the speakers. The I'm
ion Pacific railroad will sell tickets from
all points at half rates. The assembly
opens June 30 and closes July 9.
The Prohibition State Convention will be
held in Emporia July Is and Il. coInmeac-
Ing at three O'Clock p. m. of the 18th, to
nominate a full ticket and a member OF
! Congress for the Fourth Congressional
ID strict. Zach county will be entitled to at
least one delegate. whether organized or
unorganized. On the basis of population
each county shall be allowed one delegate
Tor every 5000 inhabitants and additional
fraction thereof. All organized prohibition
clubs shall be entitled to one delegate. W.
{. I. .. or other organizations, whether
secular, political or religious, whose mem
bers are in sympathy with the Prohibition
party in Kansas, and who endorse the plat
form of the National and State Prohibition
conventions, are invited to send one dele
gate each
IT is expected that fully 5000 teachers
will attend the National Teachers Associa-
ton that meets in Topeka July Is.
The State Historical Society has been
presented with a specimen of rich iron ore
from Greeley County. Coal has also been
found in Greeley County at depth of 11C
feet.
The Superintendent of Insurance recent
~ admitted to do business in Kansas the
Anglo-Nevada Assurance Company of San
Francisco, Cal, of which the bonanza kings
Mackey and Flood are president and vice.
president respectively.
THE Ingalls, town company, with head
! quarters at Dodge City and Larned, has
| filed articles of Incorporation.
ABOUT six o'clock the other evening
| August Schnaibel committed suicide at To-
| peka by shooting himself through the head.
! He locked himself in an clubhouse and COM
mitted the deed. The deceased was a man
| sixty-three years of age, and leaves fam
| lily consisting of wife and six children, the
Youngest a boy of thirteen years. He was a
| German by birth, but had lived in the Uni
| ted States good many years. He had lived
| in Topeka seven years, the greater part of
the time having worked in the Santa Fe
shops He bad also lived quite a number
| of years in Leavenworth. where he owned
considerable property. He was burned out
several times, and also reduced in fortune
by having to pay large amount of money
! for having gone on friends bond. He
had had other financial troubles, which it is
thought brought on dependency and led
to final Self-deStruction.
LATE reports from all parts of the State
gave a very satisfactory account of the
growing crops. In Northern Kansas the
corn and wheat are abundant and in splen-
did condition. The late rains in Southern
and Southwestern Kansas were veritable
boons to that region, which had begun to
feel touch of drouth.
JOHN MONROE was recently fatally in
jured near Pratt Center. He was blowing,
and the horses became frightened and ran
away with the pillow, the latter hitting Mr..
Monroe on the head, inficting fatal in
juries.
HENRY WAMPLER, who lived some twelve
miles northeast of Dighton, Lane County,
was fatally injured the other day in a very
singular manner. He was on the roof OF
his old sod house making some repairs,
when a little whirlwind, such as is COM
mon, came along and took off the roof of
the house. throwing Mr.. Wampler a dis
lance of 100 feet or more On examination
it was found Mr.. Wampler had leg broken
and had also received a severe conclusion
of the brain, from the effects of which he
died about twenty-four hours after the &C
cident.
F. N. BURLIsON. the Santa Fe brakeman
who shot James Foley for attempting to
rob passenger at Topeka some time since,
is himself in the tolls. He has been ar
rested upon the charge of fraudulently OBJ
tanning passengers tickets for the purpose
of checking their baggage and then selling
the tickets. Foley, the pickpocket that he
shot. is now in the penitentiary.
UNDER the late readjustment of salaries
made by the PoSt-office Department the fol-
lowing changes were made in Kansas: An
thony, raised from $500 to $1,000: Belle
Vile. $1,000 to s. 200; Cawker City, 81 800 to
81, 400; Chanute, reduced from 1880 to
$1,000; Cherryvale, raised from $1,000 to
S1,700: Clay Center, $500 to $4,000; Dodge
City, 81, 200 to $1,000; Eldorado, Sl,700 tc
$500; Ellsworth, 81, 400 to $780, Eureka,
81, 800 to 81, 100; Great Bend, $500 to ST.
GOO; Hays City, 81, 100 to $1,000; IDdepend
ence, reduced from $500 to S1,SC0; King
man, raised from $3.50 to 81, 700; Kirwin,
81, 100 to $1,000; La Cygne, duced from
$1,000 TO 81, 100; Larned, raised from 81, zoe
to s., 500; Marysville, 81, 4O0t to 81, 800; Medi-
cine Lodge, $1,000 to $500; Minneapolis,
81, 500 to 81 SEQ; Newton, 81. 100 to 1890;
Oberlin, $1,000 to 81 400; Osborne, s1,1OO to
81, 300; Ottawa, $4,000 to $1,000; Oswego,
81 600 to SLIGO; Parsons, reduced from 81
200 to 50 100; Peabody, raised from 81, 400 to
s1,50O; Russell, $1,000 to $1,000; Sabetha,
$1,000 to LOO; Salina, $1,000 to So leo; To-
peka, So 100 to 81, 200; WaKeeny, $1,000 to
$1,000; Wamego, 81, 100 to s., 200; Wichita,
$500 to S2,1OO; Yates Center, $1,000 to
s1.1O0.
Two boys while recently playing about
the court house yard at Leavenworth, dis
covered in the arch-way of the entrance to
the basement man in sitting posture,
with his head bent forward, and as they
supposed asleep. Examination showed the
man to be dead. The body proved to be-
that of Samuel Sberson, an engineer on
the Missouri Pacific, who had been running
the switch engine at night in the yards for
several months, and who bore a good repu-
tation among his fellow workmen. His
death was supposed to have been caused
by morphine, a bottle being found upon
his person, but whether the result of acct
dent or design could not be determined.
Corn is looking fine.
j. Il. RIDGE, a young man living twenty |
miles northeast of Garden CITY, accident |
ally shot himself the other evening while |
on his way home He was carrying a re
volver in his coat pocket and in attempting |