Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-08
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
SECRETARY MoHLER, of the State Board
of Agriculture, has made the following
appointments of delegates and alternates
to represent the board at the coming meet
ing of the Consolidated Cattle Growers
Association in Chicago: j. F. True, OF
Jefferson County, delegate; Joshua
Wheeler, of Atchison County, alternate;
o. E. Morse, of Linn County, delegate; S.
j. Carter, of Coffey County, alternate.
IN reply to letter of inquiry, Secretary
| Adams, of the State Historical Society,
writes letter stating that the population
of Kansas in 1894, as estimated by Secre-
tary Sims, of the State Board of Agricult-
ure was l, ,130, 900, that of 1888, as reported
by Mr.. Mohler, the present secretary, is
| 1,51S,552, giving an increase in the four
| 1884 was 244, ,53S.
TOPEKA registered s, ,0S9 voters and Leav-
enworth's registration was 1883.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
December 26, 81 and 90, the annual meet
ing of the State Teachers's Association
will be held in Topeka.
PENSIONS recently granted to Kansans: t:
Joseph P. Parish, of Cimarron: Albert S.
Edwards, of Delphos; Samuel P. Hutch
inson, of Loco; Evan Thornburgh, of Great
Bend; William NJ. Goodner, of Larned; /;
Harvey W. Stubblefeld, of Winfield;
Chloe II. Jones, of lola; Zacariah Mum
don, of Fort Scott; Corydon j. Farwell, of
Norway; Dawson P. Smith, of Larned;
Simeon Summers, of Liberty; Frank Kitz-
miller, of Highland; William Ogle, of
Mcpherson; Aaron H. Fuller, of Latham;
Charles j. Anderson, of Topeka; Levi
Kunkel, of Highland Station; Zacariah j.
Tate, of Belleville; Samuel Dell, of Bar
ton; Walter Reynolds, of Emporia; Fran
els Nj. Kinds, of Atchison, and Jonathan
Crouch, of Ashland.
MICHAEL LEARY, one of the participants
in the memorable strike ON the Gould
Southwestern system, and who laid with
Hamilton, Lloyd, Fossen, Geers and New
port in the Wyandotte Jail for period of
eighteen months, charged with the crime
of wrecking a Missouri Pacific train and
killing Carlisle and Horton, has filed suit
in the Wyandotte district court against
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company for
$50, COO damages.
ABOUT five O'Clock the other evening Sol
Brubaker, aged twenty-three years, resid-
ing near Washington, killed his mother,
aged about fifty-five years. by cutting her
throat with a razor, and then cut his
own throat, but in such a bungling manner
that he only succeeded in severing the
windpipe without cutting the juglar vein.
He had been i'll with typhoid fever and
was just able to be up and around. The
murderer acknowledged the killing and
said that he had done it because his mother
would not go for a doctor. The young
fellow is about half simple and the family
had had constant trouble with him.
The eighth semi-annual meeting Of the
Social Science Club of Kansas and West
ern Missouri was held at Atchison Novem-
ber l and 2.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: Barber's dressing case Charles
Brown, Emporia; thill coupling, Drake &
Wait, Salina; device for cutting corn,
Solomon c. Cross, Sedgwick; arch bridge,
Jesse B. Ellis, Great Bend; vehicle brake.
Charles Fuller, Ludell; nut lock, Howard
Gamble, Lansing; water wheel, Seldom B.
Laird, Waterville; fire escape, Louis P.
Shanty. Clements: double acting force
pump. Winfield S. Shahan, Russell; keeper
for the loose ends of straps, Henry Sher-
man, Luctor; operating mechanism for
station indicators, William T. Snedden,
Wyandotte.
THE Santa Fe has cut down wages ten
per cent
In the United States court at Leaven-
worth the other day. Judge Brewer handed
down a decision adverse to the settlers on
the disputed Government land grants to
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad in
Allen County. The title to thousands of
~ ic ahx-c faI
in favor of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
and the settlers who have improved it and
lived upon it for years will be the suf-
ferers.
THE following Kansas post-o offices have
recently been discontinued: Banks, Os-
borne County; Calhoun, Cheyenne Coun-
ty; Crystal Plains, Smith County; Nau-
VOC, Comanche County; Oklahoma, King
man County; Orwell, Hodgeman County;
Plum Grove, Butler County: Sheridan,
Sheridan County; Sigel, Douglas County.
THANKSGIVING November 90.
JOHN STREIBEL- a farmer living six
miles southwest of Wichita, was burning
brush in a field near his house the other
day and was Unexpectedly called to an
other field when his five-year-old deugh-
ter, Laura, strayed into a bed of hot Goals.
she ran to the child, who was burned to
crisp before she reached her. In getting
the corpse out the mothers clothes caught
fire and she was fatally burned.
ED DUDLEY, a young man just entering
upon manhood, while suffering from fit
of dependency, took fifteen grains of
morphine at Wamego the other morning,
from the effects of which he died.
THE warehouse of Rice and Moorehouse,
dealers in wall paper at Hutchinson, was
recently damaged by fire.
CONDUCTOR ALEXANDER, in charge Of
passenger train on the Kansas City & Pa
cific railroad, was recently killed while
switching his train at Coffeyville.
CONCERNING a report that there would
be general strike on the Union Pacific,
officials of that road recently said there
was no truth in it; that no men have been
discharged recently except from regular
causes; that the force has been increased
rather than decreased, and that there has
been no reduction in wages whatever. The
men have made no complaints-on the
contrary have expressed themselves as
being well contented.
WICHITA is making great preparations
for meeting to be held in that city on
November 20 in the interest of Oklahoma