Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-01
miscellaneous.

by severing its head from the body with q
butcher knife. When her husband went
to her room the wife said a chicken had
bothered her during the night and she had
cut its head off. Upon turning down the
covers he was Mortified to discover the
headless corpse of his child. The woman
still held the knife in her hand, which was
taken from her after a struggle. She was
insane.
REV. PARDEE BUTLER, historical char
acter in Kansas, died at Pennington,
Atchison County, on the Goth, from the
effect of injuries received by being thrown
from his horse about month previous.
He located in Kansas in 1855 and was a
prominent figure in the early troubles, be-
ing an uncompromising Free State man and
active participant in the events of the
stirring times incident to the pioneer days
of the Territory. He was seventy-two
years of age.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued procla-
nation Offering a reward of $500 for the ar
rest and conviction of Thomas }. Gooden,
late treasurer of Rawlins County, who is
fugitive from justice, charged with en-
bezzement of the public funds to the
amount of $4,000.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Charles Brown, Emporia, bar
hers dressing case; George P. Crehore,
Kansas City, cable railway carrying
pulley; Solomon c. Cross, Sedgewick, de-
vice for cutting corn; Enoch F. Drake and
A. C. Wait. Salina, thill coupling; Jesse
B. Ellis, Great Bend, arch bridge; Charles
Fuller. Ludell, vehicle brake; Howard
Gamble, Lansing, nut lock; Warren D.
r1s
Selden B. Lard, Waterville, water wheel;
Louis P. Sanity, Clements, fire escape;
Winfield S. Shanan, assignor to himself
and f. III. Madisca. Russell, double acting
force pump; Henry Sherman, assignor of
one-haif to J. Poppen and A. Vandrist,
Luctor, keeper for the loose ends of straps;
William T. Snedden, Wyandotte, operat-
ing mechanism for station indicators.
A BIG and systematic steal was discov-
cred the ether day in the dry goods store
of G. ". Newman & Co., of Emporia,
which had been going on for some time.
The thief was George B. Counsel. a colored
man, who had been in the employ of the
firm for over seven years, and until lately
had been implicitly trusted. He was ar
rested and his house searched, when about
$500 worth of goods of all kinds were found
stored away in all sorts of places. 1t was
thought his stealings would run up into the
thousands.
THE Governor has offered reward of
$500 for the arrest and conviction of the
party guilty of the Coffeyville dynamite
outrage, and further reward of $500 for
the arrest and conviction of each and every
party accessory to the crime.
THE Governor has appointed the follow
ing delegates to the Farmers Congress
that meets at Topeka November IA: At
large, A. w. Smith, of Mcpherson; Matt
Edmonds, of McLouth. First Congress
sional district, B. F. Wallace; Second, L.
w. Breyfogle; Third, A. p. Sanders;
Fourth, Thomas NJ. Potter; Fifth, A. p.
Collins; Sixth, A. P. Balch, Seventh, r.
E. Lawrence. The National Grange will
meet on the same day, the Grange in Rep
resentative Hall and the Congress in the
Senate Chamber.
WHEN the Rock Island train from the
East reached Topeka the other day, it hs1 1
on board Robert Traver and his sister
aged forty-eight and forty respectively,
who were insane. The brother had left
Canada with his sister, who was in i'll
health, to visit relatives in Kansas, hop
ing that she might recover. On the way
her disease developed into insanity, and
the brother also became insane. The man
imagined he was under arrest for some
crime. They were taken in charge by the
THERE were recently several attempts
to wreck Topeka's rapid transit trains.
A MAN by the name of McVicker, forty
years old, recently eloped with a sixteen
year-old girl at Hutchinson. McVicker
was a stranger, and bat little was known
of him. but it has since been stated that he
is a married man and has a family of
grown children, one of whom, daughter,
is older than the one he took with him.
His wife lives in Jeffersonville, Ind.
RALPH Gross was recently arrested at
Topeka upon a telegram from Minneapolis,
Mimi, charging him with embezzlement.
He was regarded as honest and competent
by his employer at Topeka. The amount
of the alleged embezZlement is small, and
he claimed that the arrest was piece of
and he voluntarily returned
with the officer, declaring that he would
make it warm for his accuser.
THE registration of Kansas City (Kan.)
was :, 400 voters, and now the city claims
a population of fully $4,000, and also
ella ms to be the largest city in the State.
Let other cities report.
TOPEKA claims $4,000 people.
RECENT post-office changes in Kansas:
Dresden, Decatur County;
High Bridge, Atchison County; Nell,
Wallace County; Oakland, Shawnee
County; Thurford, Thomas County.
Names changed, Penfeld, Usage County,
to Olivet. Discontinued, Brookdale, Rush |
County: Morrison, Ford County.
THE Chicago, Nebraska & Kansas rail- |
road, owned by the Burlington line and ]
operated from Odell, Neb., to Concordia, |
Kan, recently fled it's annual report. |
The company makes very unfayorable |
showing for the last year. The total earn
ngs for the year were So, 435.15, and the |
total expenses SlS2, 30. 70.
THE twenty-first annual convention of /
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Kan
,as began at Lawrence on the the 23d.
w. RICHBURG dropped dead at his board
ng house in Argentine the other evening |
from heart disease. He had eaten hearty |
supper and was sitting on a sofa in the
Darlor with the rest of the boarders when
hey noticed that he seemed to be leaning
forward in a rather peculiar position. One
,f the men touched him and he fell over
IN the floor dead.
AT a Catholic fair in Hiawatha the
,ther night, John Kerregan, young man,
n a fit of passion, kicked and beat Will
lam Joslin, a small boy, in a most brutal
manner, breaking one Of his legs and in
letting other serious injuries
THERE were in the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth on October 8. sI2 pris-
lners.