Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-02
KANSAS STATE ..nWS.

anu y. w. Gllletce, WOOoOine. ueuicdleu
or tonic beer, Moses 81. Kinber, Dodge
City; lamp shade, Louis Michael, Leaven-
worth; stove-pipe thimble and cap, Anvil
la Williams, Saratoga.
BY the burning of the shanty in which
he resided in Kansas City, Kan. the other
day St. John Wilson, a colored man nine
ty-five years old, was burned to death.
His wife, eighty years old, escaped by
crawling through small window.
PROF. GooDNow, of Manhattan, recently
presented the State Historical Society seven
boxes containing pamphlets, magazines,
newspaper files, maps. ETC., the accumula-
tions of thirty three years.
In a recent difficulty in the streets OF
Atchison between William Slater and Nate
johnson, colored, Slater was stabbed and
fatally wounded. johnson escaped.
INSTEAD of appearing in Justice Searle's
court at Topeka on the 23d TO answer to
the charge of adultery, Henry W. Moore,
the eloping st. Louis editor, forfeited his
bond of 500. Mrs. Norton also failed to
appear and her case was continued. Ii
was thought at Topeka that Moore had
sailed for Europe, while a telegram stated
that both Moore and Mrs. Norton had been
seen in Colorado.
IT is stated that one firm in Hutchinson
has sold 25,000 bushels of wheat and 20, ,0O0
of oats of the new crop.
THE corn crop in Kansas this year will
bring into the State between $4,000, 900
and $50, ,000, 900, the wheat crop about $25,
000, 900, oats about $40, 900, and the re-
mainder of Kansas products about $20,-
O0O.00 more. Mortgages will melt away
under such conditions.
THE Senate has passed the bill providing
for holding a term of the United States
district court at Salina.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has ap-
proved the selection of the following re-
serve agents for National banks in Kan
sas: For the First of Hays City, the First
of Chicago; for the Manufacturers of
City and the American of Kansas City
for the First of Leoti, the German Ameri-
can of Kansas City.
AT the Democratic Congressional con-
vention of the Fourth district, recently
held at Emporia, Hon. David Overmeyer,
of Topeka, was unanimously chosen as
candidate for Congress.
THE House has passed the bill authoriz-
ing the sale of certain lands in Southwest
ern Kansas to the Methodist College Asso-
citation, and also the bill authorizing the
certification of lands to the State of Kansas
for agricultural purposes.
THE dwelling house of William Huegle.
of Douglas County, burned the other morn
ing. Mrs. Huegle and ten children barely
escaped. Mr.. Huegle had arisen early
and after making a fire in the stove had
gone out to work. While he was absent
and before the rest of the family were up
the house caught fire from a defective fiue
and made considerable headway before
discovered. The loss was about 81 900.
PENSIONS were granted the follow Kan
sans on the 9th: Fielder P. Stetson, Con-
cordia; David A. Moore. of Marquette;
Lawson S. Hagle, of Emporia; Hugh
Hagan, of Wellmanville; John H. Camp
bell. of Ontario; D. Clinton Stubs, of
Wellington; George Peyton, Jr., of Mound
Valley; James d. Briggs, of Council
Grove; William Homan, of the National
Military Home; James F. Spencer, of
Armourdale; Landrin N. Eggers, of CO.
lusa; johnson Chalfant, of Wendell: Well
ington B. Mccarthy, of Rubens; William
E. Mason, of Valeda; Calvin Titus, of
Webb; James Brown, of Great Bend; the
minor children of Lemuel Farmer. of Gar
land, and Eliza Jane Gibson, of Highland.
SENATOR PLUMB on the oath introduced
bills to pension Nicholas Moy and Newton
j. Strake, of Kansas.
TOPEKA has recently been afflicted with
a mad dog scare.
GEORGE L. PAINTER and D. NJ. Jessup,
of Kinsley, have been held for trial for
burning barns, horses and other things.
A STRANGER, supposed by papers found
on his person to be DIR. J. G. Long, died at
Anthony recently from self-administered
dose of choral. A doctors medicine case
was found on him, also papers containing
the addresses of Mrs. E. F. Long, Farmers
burg, Pa, and n. Lightner, Ephrata, Pa.
JOHN MAHoNEY, paper carrier sixteen
years old, was recently drowned while
bathing in the Kaw river near Armour
dale.
THE other day Emil Berggrena, young
tailor, was assaulted by Mrs. j. krieg on
Main street at Newton and treated to quite
a coat of tar. The woman claimed to have
been insulted by Berggrena, and when she
met him on his way to work struck him a
number of times with broom loaded with
tar.
THE little son of John A. Brown, of How
ard, was badly burned the other evening,
q cup of blazing oil in a servants hand be-
ing accidentally thrown over him.
THE National House of Representatives
on the 18th adopted the joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary of the interior
to certify to the State of Kansas 1852 acres
of public land in the State, the remainder
due of the $4,000 acres apportioned to the
State Agricultural College for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts. The
Z ,632 acres is the amount which was with
drawn by the Kansas Pacific railroad when
it was to be built from Fort Riley up the
Republican river. The route was changed,
and the order of withdrawal was revoked
The land was restored at $3.50 an acre.
which was really only S1.25 land. Under
the bill the State will be allowed to select
that amount of land from the public do
main within the State at S1. % an acre.
CHARTERS lately filed with the Secretary
of State: The Forest City Band, of Ottawa
capital stock, $1,UO0; Welcome Gaslight
Company, of Fort Scott, term of exist
ence 200 years, capital stock, 100000; the
Ellsworth Commercial Club; Republican
Company, of Cherryvale,
capital stock, $1,000; News Publishing
Company, of st. John, capital stock, 5000;
the Larned and Great Bend Irrigating
Ditch Company, capital stock, $4,000;
Mound Ridge Butter and Cheese Company,
capital, S6, 800.
THE convention that nominated Hon. l..
U. Humphrey for Governor was called to
order on his forty-fourth birthday.
ELLSWORTH has a commercial club.
THE fourteen-year-old daughter of Cap
tain A. ]. White, a wealthy farmer living
about seven miles southwest of Topeka.
was brutally assaulted by a negro man the
other day during the absence of the fam
ilE TTnoD tho return hnrna of Mr. White