Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-06
Miscellaneous.

| Miscellaneous.
PATENTS recently granted Kansas in
ventors: j. c. Askren, Coronado, balance
side valve; T. w. Ayers, Stanton County,
seed planter; F. J. Case, Arlington, auto
matte water elevator; w. l. +. Harden,
Hartford, fence; J. w. Lasswell, Augusta,
washing machine; E. c. Phillips, Garden
City, cable railway; Joseph Sparrow,
Atchison, vehicle wheel scraper.
KASSEBAUM Bros, of Topeka, were re-
Gently swindled out of - 400 by an ex-
boy named Oakley Burress, near Ar
kansas City. Burress took them to a
ranch and showed them $50 head of cattle
which he represented that he owned, and
traded them for a farm and $1,000 in
money, $500 of which was paid down,
when Burress sit out" for the Indian
country. Burress did not own steer. A
reward of $500 is offered for his capture.
BURREs, the oiiy-tongued eX-cowboy
who swirdled Kassebaum Bros, Of To-
peka, out of s, 400 in a bogus cattle trans
action, also, it is stated, confdenced w.
P. Harrington, of Rossville, out of 5000 in q
similar fraudulent transaction.
THE names Of the following post-offices
in Kansas have recently been changed:
Celia, Rawlins County, to McDonald; Fris-
CO. Morton County, to Morton; Oak, Sew
ard County, to Tyrone; Olean, Graham
County, to Leland.
The Governor has issued proclamation
offering q reward of $3.50 for the arrest and
conviction of the party, or each OF the par
tbs, who, on or about the 18th day of June,
murdered John Murray, near Atchison.
Also proclamation offeringa reward of
$3.50 for the arrest and conviction of Joel
T. Harris, who is charged with the murder
Cf Benz amin Nottin CHAM, IN Rocks Coun-
ty, on the 18th day of August, 1888. Also
proclamation Offering a reward of 500
for the arrest and conviction of each of the
parties who secreted themselves in corn
field and murdered Columbus Carter in
Allen County, as he was riding along the
road, on August -.
THE other morning William Weston, a
deaf mute, was struck aud literally torn TO
pieces by a Santa Fe train near Yelling
ton. He was about twenty eight years of
age and an industrious man.
The derrick belonging to Seehner s.
Doyle, contractors for the stone work for
the new iron bridge to be built across the
Neosho river at Chetopa fell the other day,
| instantly killing William Halsey, one of
the workman, who had climbed to the top
to adjust the guy ropes.
The Ladies' Library and Educational
Association of Topeka has undertaken to
prepare concise biography of the women
of Kansas. The book will be issued some
time next year.
| KANSAS Congressmes will not return
home until final adjournment, except judge
| Peters, who will make one or two speeches
in his district about the middle OF Septem-
| Der.
THE twelve-year-old son OF w. B. Grif-
fey, a prosperous farmer living near
Granville, recently procured a piece of
rope, tied slip knot, placed it over limb
of tree in his fathers orchard, short
distance from the house, and placing his
neck in the moose jumped from the limb
and hanged himself. He was found in the
evening by his parents, who had become
alarmed at his absence and had instituted
a search. No reason was given for the act.
ONO soldiers in Kansas are requested
| by George Butler, president of the Ohio
Soldiers Association, to be present at the
State reunion to be held in Topeka October
/ to inclusive. All soldiers sent to the
front by the old Buckeye State in the dark
days of the sixties, will meet at Ohio head
quarters at ten O'Clock a. N. October 4,
where roll call by regiments will be called,
election of officers for the coming year and
other business which may be brought up
attended to, after which grand hand
shaking and camp fire jubilee will be in
| dulged in.
SNEAK thieves opened the shutters of Mr..
Hale Kiser's room at Leavenwcrth the
! other night, and taking a stick to which
was attached hook, fished out his trous-
ers and vest and secured gold watch and
chain and a pocketbook containg about s.
| in money.
WILSON wants q creamery.
BERT ALLEN, thirteen-year-old bov,
| who had been in Jail at Topeka several
months on the charge of embezzling let
ters, was recently sentenced by Judge
Foster to serve three months in Jail. He
had been in Jail three months already
lacking only ten days and was credited
with the time. Albert was bell boy in
Wichita hotel and committed the crime Of
opening merchants post-office box and
purloining his mail. The boys father died
when he was three months old, and he and
his brother, fifteen years old, have been
the sole support of his widowed mother.
IT is stated that large quantities OF Kan
sas wheat are bought by Texas millers.
THE milling firm of Bowman q Kellogg,
at AtchIson, has suspended, with Habili-
ties of about s52, 900.
SANDY BARTES. a colored man living in
the vicinity of Quindaro waterworks, Wy
andotte County, the other morning acci-
dentally shot and badly wounded another
colored man named Jasen Belts. Barten
had an old gun which had been loaded for
some time, and he went toward the river
to discharge it. He fired into the brush,
not knowing any one was Fear, and Belts
received the shot in the abdomen and face.
JOHN MCNAMARA, a painters appren-
tice seventeen years old, fell from a skid,
which was suspended from the top of
building seventy-eight feet high, at Atchi-
son recently. and was fatally injured.
The Nebraska man who lived nine days
In well has brother living ut L-comp-
ton