Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Sedgwick County, were destroyed by fire
about two O'Clock the other morning. Loss
about $4,000, with little insurance. Sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
A HORRIBLE story was recently reported
from Kingman County to the effect that
a masculine old negro woman, employed
in the family of Eugene Bartlett, wealthy
cattleman, accused Mr.. Bartlett's young
daughter Jennie of bewitching her, and
during the absence of the family tied the
young girl to beam and slowly tortured
her to death by building a fire under her
feet a member of the family returned
and found the girl bound and burning.
She lived only long enough to tell of the
cruelties inflicted upon her. The negro
woman had disappeared.
SUIT was recently commenced in the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka
against Jay Gould and Russell Sage, trus-
tees, and the Union Pacific railway, to
compel them to execute a release upon 50,
600 acres of land in Kansas, which had
been conveyed by the Kansas Pacific Rail-
way Company to Gould & Sage, to secure
an Indebtedness of $50, 100000. The pur-
chasers of these lands have made all their
payments upon the lands, but the trustees
refuse TO convey to the purchasers legal
title.
LAST May the Pratt National Bank was
robbed of 81, ,0J0 at noon while several of
the officers were at dinner, and the rob-
berry was the sensation of the day and re-
mained a mystery to all but the detectives
until the other day, when F. W. Scott,
local manager of the Kimball Lumber
Company and vice-presdent of the bank,
was arrested charged with the crime. The
complaint was sworn to by T. E. Simpson,
president of the bank, and created as great
a sensation as the robbery did when COM
mittsd. The accused had resided in the
town since its foundation and had won
the esteem and confidence of the people,
who were open in their declaration of a
belief in his innocence.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has appointed dele
gates to the centennial celebration of
the Inauguration of George Washing
ton, in the city of New York April 80,
1889, as follows: At Large, Eugene F.
Ware, Fort Scott; George r. Peck, Topeka.
First Congressional district Charles K.
Wells, Atchison. Second district, d. E.
Cornell, Kansas City, Kan. Third district,
W. B. Stone Galena. Fourth district,
Calvin Hood, Emporia. Fifth district,
Perry Hutchinson, Marysville. Sixth dis
trict, A. H. Ellis, Beloit. Seventh district,
II. w. Lewis, Wichita.
A LATE fire at Russell, supposed to be in
cendiary, destroyed property to the value
of SAC, 900, with an aggregate insurance of
S25, 900. The heaviest losers were E. W.
Shut & Co., hardware dealers, whose
stock, valued at $4,000, was totally de-
stroyed; Insurance. $4,000. The building
they occupied also burned; loss, So, 600; in
surance, $4,000.
AN important will contest was begun in
the district court at Topeka recently by
Fernando Francisco Martin, Chancellor of
the Spanish Legation at New York, who
claims one-fourth interest in the estate of
Ross Burns, late general solicitor of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway.
Burns died in Topeka in 1882. To his Sec
ond wife, Laura Burns, his daughter, Rosa
B. Burns. and his son, Melton J. Burns, he
willed all his property. The daughter,
Rosa, died in New York City, in August,
1888 Previous to her death she bequeathed
all her property, including her interest in
the estate of Ross Burns, her father, to
Fernando Francisco Martin. The title to
some of the best business property is in
volved. tits claimed by the Spanish officer
that one-fourth of the estate is worth
$4,000. Burns first wife was sister to
Victoria Woodruff.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has pardoned Thomas
c. Thurston, whp was convicted at Leav-
enworth September Is, 1880, of assault
with intent to kill d. R. Anthony, of the
Leavenworth Times, and was sentenced to
eighteen years. Imprisonment. In the fight
Thurston also wounded two other men,
was indicted on three counts, one of which
was dismissed He wss convicted ON the
other two and sentenced to nine years Oh
each. The Board of Pardons had passed
on his case and made favorable recon-
mendation.
ACCORDING to the tables of the State
Board of Railroad Commissioners there
were during the year ended June 80 last
Al persons killed and 961 injured on the
Santa Fe road; on the Missouri Pacific
system, - killed and 20 injured; on the
Union Pacific, seven killed and 246 in
jured; on the Chicago, Kansas & Nebras-
ka, three killed and 81 injured; on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, five
killed and 10 injured; on the Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern, two killed
and Is injured. In all So persons lost their
lives and ,4S4 were wounded. OF the
killed four were passengers, 90 employees
and the other 81 persons who carelessly
got in the way of trains or locomotives.
Carelessness is ascribed as the cause of
the injury of 81 passengers, 1,023 employees
and so outsiders.
AT a meeting of the trustees of the Kan
sas Department, G.. A. R., recently held in
Ellsworth it was decided to hold the an
nual State Encampment at Emporia, COM
March II and continuing three
days. 1t was also decided to build an am
phitb eater capable of seating 5000 on the
reunion grounds at Ellsworth; also two
dining halls capable of seating 500 each.
MOSES WAGGoNER, a Topeka real estate
man recently eloped with Mrs. Hines.
Both are past fifty years of age and both
left partners behind who have filed suits
for divorce.
AT a shooting match for turkeys at Wa
thena the other day Amile Wiegund, six
teen years old, was seriously and probably
fatally wounded by the premature dis
charge of gun in the hands of Frank
Groh.
F. W. SCoTT, vice president of the bank,
who was recently arrested at Pratt on the
charge of being implicated in the robbery |
Of "A. 900 from the bank last May, was COM |
pletely indicated at his preliminary ex-
animation and discharged from custody. |
His vindicaton was The occasion of wild |
scene of pleasure, and he was carried |
from the court room upon the shoulders of |
the people who overwhelmed him with |
WICHITA is troubled with burglars.
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of the State lat Osawatomie and Topeka) |
m Jupe 20 lact 10 patiepts and tho mari. /