Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| DE was stealing ride when he feh under
| the wheels
| THE residence of George N. Knox in
Potwin Place, Topeka, was entered by a
colored thief the other day during the alb
sence Of the family and pillaged. The
robber had prepared to burn the house
when Mrs. Knox returned and opened the
door. She was knocked down and kicked
| by the ruftian who made good his escape
| A FARMER OF Gray County. named Nc
Cabe, was recently buried in a well. He
had dug forty feet when the sides ceved in
on him. The neighbors dug him out as
soon as possible, but life was extinct.
| HENRY MILLER, partner in the COM
mission house of the Richardson Commits
sion Company at Leavenworth, was
drowned at that city the other night while
bathing. He leaves wife and two chill
| dren.
| MRS. BAXTER. aged ffty-two years, sui
cided by hanging in her daughters barn
at Atchison the other morning. Her home
| is in Canton. H., where two other daugh-
| ters live. Cause, dependency.
SoHE weeks ago Mrs. White, living a
| few miles from Topeka, was assaulted by
negro, who pulled her from her buggy.
| and she was only saved from violence by
the approach of friends. A few weeks
later her niece was brutally assaulted by a
negro at the farm house of the victims
| father. The families believed that Ed.
Ramsey. tough negro of Topeka, COM
| mitted both offenses, and felt certain he
! was the one who assaulted Mrs. White.
Recently the Whites, father and son, met
Ramsey on the street while in Topeka,
| wien he denied his name and started TO
run. Young White ordered him to halt,
which he failed to do, when White fired on
him, the ball taking effect in the head.
The Whites were arrested, and the negro
population very much excited.
AT recent meeting of the committee of
the State League of Democratic Clubs in
Lawrence it was decided to hold the con-
vention at Lawrence September 3, 1898.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: Joint for railway rails, Isaac
G.. Albaugh and j. C. Gillespie, Challa-
combe; wash boiler, William NJ. Coventry.
Longton: trap for fish or game, George II.
kiie. Mound Valley; stomach pump, Hor
ace w. Parsons, Wamego; electrical gov
ernor. Horace W. Parsons and j. Hoduit,
Wamego: machine for laying railway
tracks, Marion Smith, Durham; tightener
for fence wires, George Tenny. Lincoln;
safety device for elevators, Fenolon Tre
bue, kinsley; boring machine, William d.
Tripp, Augusta.
THE State Board of Equalization has
completed the tabulation of the assessment
of the State by counties. The total valua
tion of the State as shown by the returns
is S333, ,2231, 1928, an increase of 81, 370,
432.S5 over last year.
s. W. MCELROY, of Decatur County, has
been nominated for Congress by the Dem
ocratc convention of the Sixth district.
TRACKLAYERs on the Salina, Lincoln &
Western railway were within seven miles
of Plainville on August 2.
DELEGATES from the various Farmers
Alliance lodges met at Lyons the other day
and organized the Farmers Alliance of
the State of Kansas. Officers elected for
the State Association were: President, l.
NJ. Morse, of White City; vice-president,
L. E. Perliker, of Ferlington; Secretary,
j. A. McLain, of Peabody; treasurer, w.
A. Buffer, of Cicero. A memorial was
signed by the officers and farmers present
asking the United States Senate to pass
the bill which has passed the House Great
ing department of agriculture. The
next annual meeting will be held at To-
peka in August, 1889.
REV. J. j. HENNEssEY, of st. Louis. has
been created Bishop of the diocese Of
Wichita.
THE Governor has issued proclamation
offering reward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the party or parties who, on
the night of July 81, 1888, murdered Mrs
Bertha Miller, of Wichita.
THE Attorney-Gen has been notified
that I. j. Goodin, who filled the office of
county treasurer of Rawlins County for
two terms, has very mysteriously disap-
peared. His accounts with the county are
said to be short some $4,000 or $4,000.
OK May l6 Elmer E. jenkins left Abilene
for Boston, Mass, on bicycle. On Au-
gust he arrived there safely, having
traversed the whole distance, 1000 miles,
on his wheel.
SENATOR VEST has reported, with amend
ments, the House bill authorizing the con-
struction of e bridge across the Missouri
river at some point near the mouth of the
Kansas river.
The thirteenth annual convention of the
grand lodge of the A. f. & A. NJ. (coiored
Masons) of the State of Kansas, will be
held in Wichita August %, % and 80.
IN his weather report for July, Prof. F.
II. Snow. of the University of Kansas,
says: ''This was one of the hottest Julys
on our record-the others having been in
1867, 1874, 1881, 1856, and 1887. The rain
fall was slightly above the average; the
cloudiness and wind velocity were very
light and the humidity was light. The
last three features combined to make the
heat unusually oppressive.
EMPORIA had quite a sensation the other
day. A man by the name of Whelan was
arrested while driving through the streets
with harness that was identified as
having been stolen. He had a woman with
him and when he was dragged off to the
baStile the woman sat in the buggy, and
when an officer prevented her from driving
off she jumped out and attacked him saw
agely with the buggy whip, which fun cost
her five dollars and costs.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued a pardon
to Pat Montgomery, who was convicted of
burglary at the November, 1885, term of
the Jackson County district court. This
was done at the recommendation of the
State Board of Pardons.
LAWRENCE dogs afford a revenue of
s., 900. Other towns might profit by the
example.
A. j. STREETER, of Illinois, the Union
Labor candidate for President, has al
ready spoken at several points in Kansas.
LEAvEHwORTH has a policeman who is
fond of using his ''gun" on the slightest
pretense. and the people cry out for his
dismissal.
TOPEKA recently had mad dog scare.
JOE WILSON and A. Armstrong engaged
in vicious fight at Wilson's house at
Armourdale the other morning, in which
the latter narrowly escaped with his life.
Armstrong boarded at Wilson's house and