Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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insured. Several dwellings owned by
| Mrs. Hickey were also burned. Loss,
| 5000; no insurance.
! ANDY MCGARY, forty years old, recent
" hanged himself at Fall Leaf, small
station on the Union Pacific, east of Law
renee. He left wife and five children.
Sickness and dependency the cause.
| THE Anthony running team which won
the great championship race in the Kan
sas City firemen's tournament was received
home with high honors. A surprise BAN
quet was rendered them and an elegant
medal was presented to W. 81. Jennings,
the team foreman.
A DoNIPHAN COUNTY man estimates his
| grape crop this year at 100000 pounds.
a BILL in equity was filed in the United
States Circuit Court at Topeka the other
| day by the Union Trust Company. of New
York. against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad Company, the Missouri
| Pacific Railroad Company and the Mer-
camille Trust Company, asking foreclosure
of the consolidated mortgage issued by
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas to the trust
| company, dated February l, 1873, Novem-
ber l, 1872, and June 1, 1873, given to
secure bonds issued by the railroad COM
panies, aggregating about S1,COO.O0O, and
first liens upon all the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway, aggregating something
over 500 miles. Default is alleged in nom
payment of interest due August l, 1883, and
in the payment of money to the sinking
fund.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: William A. Caldwell, of Wichita,
swing; Henry w. Conkling, of Burlington,
device for watering livestock; William
Dixon, of Clay Center, lifting jack; Ed
ward Early, of Scandia, machine for
spooling wire; Daniel NJ. Eddy, of Sedan,
bridge; s. w. and jeremiah Mills, of Clay
Center, attachment for plows; Oscar E.
Rose, of Topeka, car mover: Elver ID.
Shaw and J. d. Wixom, of Clay Center,
door check; Albert Johns, of Clay Center,
door check; Edward c. Ward, of Parsons,
end gate; Thomas G. Williams, of Beloit,
corn cutter.
JOHN MURPHY was recently arrested in
Meade County on the charge of robbing
the United States Express Company of a
package containing $4,000, while driving
a wagon for the company at Greenville,
O., several years ago. When arrested he
Immediately confessed his guilt and re-
stored $1,000 of the money.
In the United States Senate on the Goth
Senator Jones, from the committee on In
dian Affairs, favorably reported a bill
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior
to revoke and cancel patents to certain
lands in johnson County, Kan, known as
the Absentee Shawnee Indian lands, the
patents having been enormously issued to
George Sillambus and Lewis Hayes, of the
Shawnee tribe. He is also authorized to
issue patents for the lands to the settlers
located thereon.
REV. PARDEE BUTLER, of Pennington,
Atchison County, fell from hay wagon
the other day and fractured leg. He is
about seventy -four years old and his
toric character as a pioneer of Kansas. He
was an uncompromising supporter of John
Brown, and during the early border
troubles he was seized by pro-slavery men,
tied to a saw-log and sent adrift down the
Missouri river. He was rescued the next
day in greatly enfeebled condition.
IT is estimated that $4,000 people at
tended the State fair at Topeka on the
Goth (.Topeka Day'). The gate receipts
were over $4,000.
THE Kansas box and basket factory
in Kansas City, Kan. CWyandotte), was
completely destroyed by fire at five O'Clock
the other morning, involving loss of
from $50, 900 to $4,000. The building was
160 by 60 feet in size and three stories high,
all frame excepting the engine room. In
the upper story there were $1,000 worth of
egg cases and $4,000 market and grape
baskets, which had been stored away,
while there was a large quantity of mate
rial and unfinished goods on the first and
second floors. G. w. E. Griffith, of Law
renee, is the principal owner. Sixty hands
were thrown out of employment.
W. A. WHEELAND, of the firm of Wheel
and & Callahan, Leavenworth, was re-
Gently detected in raising money az the
banks upon forged Endorsements, the
amount of fraudulent paper being $1,000.
The money thus obtained was used in the
business, and Mr.. Callahan made an as
signment to the bank to secure it. Wheel
and was permitted his freedom on the
promise that he would raise the amount of
money to make all such claims good.
WHILE Mrs. Hoyt, wife of real estate
dealer of Wyandotte, was taking a nap
the other afternoon, she was awakened by
some one in her room. The intruder was a
negro man who was committing a robbery.
Springing up, the lady ordered the negro
away, when he seized and attempted to
force her to the bed, failing in which he
brutally beat her over the head with pis-
tol and escaped from the house.
PENSIONS gracted to Kansans on the
Goth: John w. Smith, of Harveyville;
William ]. Burton, of Fredonia; John D.
Collins, of Wellington; L. French Will
liams, of Mound City; Norman H. Rey-
mold, of Topeka; John B. Ira, of Lyons;
Benjamin H. Peck, of Minneapolis; Ma
thias Valemer, of Myers Valley; Nathan
G.. Slower, of Oberlin; Fredrick Carpenter,
of Stockton; Timothy Armstrong, of Glib
son; Thomas Craig, of Stockton; Thomas
E. Sewell, of Abilene; John A. Watkins,
of Warnerton; Robert c. Ives, of Stock
ton; Levi Pritchard, of Millbrook; James
Manning, of the National Military Home;
George Robson, of Emporia; Vernon III.
Babbitt of Coronado; William Pettifer, of
Atwood; George w. Woodruff. of Lanners-
burg; Anderson ". Scott. of Darlington;
Sarah Hultz, of Usage City; Mary Sutton,
of Greeley, and Katie Costello, of Fort
Riley.
WHILE Mrs. Matt Ryan, of fLeavenworth,
was returning with two lady friends from
the Priests of Pallas ball at Kansas City
on the night of the 21st, she was assaulted
by a negro man who seized her and de-
manded her diamonds, accompanying his
demand with threats of death if the ladies
did not keep quiet. They yelled Justify.
however, and the thief fled.
POLITICS begin to swarm up"
o. W. BUCHANAN, solicitor and adjuster
for the W. B. Grimes Dry Goods Company,
of Kansas City, was leisurely walking up
and down the depot at Hutchinson the
other morning, seemingly enjoying good
health, when he was suddenly stricken
with apoplexy. He was taken to hotel