The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-29
Miscellaneous.

A CALL mas DeCn issued dG inc suggestion
of Walter n. Allen, president of the
Mcriden Farmers Club, to the farmers and
stock growers of the Northwestern States
and Territories of the Mississippi valley to
attend a delegate convention to be held in
Topeka, Tuesday, May l. for the purpose of
forming Farmers Trust" to include
stock raises and feeders of the Northwest
ern States and Territories. The Cover
nors of each State and Territory included
in the call is requested to appoint eight
delegates to such convention.
A CONVENTION of the dairymen of the
State was recently held at Topeka and was
largely attended. Officers for the ensuing
were elected. as follows: j. G. Otis, presl-
dent; j. X. Wright, first vice president; A.
T. Morrow, second ce-president; r. L.
Stokes, secretary; Horace j. Newberry, as
sistant secretary; William Sims, treas
urer. The committee on resolutions. IN its
report, denounced the frauds perpctrated
upon Kansas by the professional creamery
sharks, declaring that plant with Il ca
pacty Of from fifty to 100 pounds of butter
per day could be built at a cost of $1,000,
and urging Congress and the State Legs
lature to pass laws protecting the legiti
mate dairy interest, and Furnishing all
fraudulent or spurious articles sold as
dairy products.
THE celebrated Hillman case that has
been dragging through the courts for the
past eight or nine years was recently
again tried in the United States Circuit
Court at Topeka, before Judge Shiras, of
Iowa, and the jury brought in verdict in
favor of the widow of Hillman against the
three defendant Insurance companies OF
S31, $50. Hillman, whose widow resides at
Lawrence, had life policies amounting TO
S25. 900, and was accidentally killed in
Southern Kansas in 1879. His body was
taken to Lawrence and identified by Mrs.
Hillman as that of her usband, but one
John II. Brown, who was with Hillman,
made statement that the body was that
of another man that Hillman had murdered
for the purpose of defrauding the insurance
companies, and then secreted himself
Brown subsequently testified that Hillman
was accidentally killed and that his pre-
vious statement was false.
THE Democratic Congressional Commit
tee of the Second district recently met and
called the Convention to nominate candi-
date for Congress to meet at Wyandotte
August 15
A COLLISION took place at three o'clock
the other morning between two freight
trains on the Missouri Pacific between
Leavenworth and Kansas City, in which
brakemon was badly injured and number
of cars destroyed.
THE new salt works at Hutchinson were
opened on the 23d and ran out 600 barrels
OF very superior quality of salt. The an
alysis showed 80 IS pure salt. The first car
was sold to the soap works at Wichita and
the rest to Kansas City dealers.
Wait committed suicide in a bedroom in
the laundry department of the Arcade
Hotel, at Newton, the other day. She was
about twenty years old and had gone there
two weeks previous from Kansas City as Il
common laundry girl. At the coroner's
examination letters, papers and pictures
were found in her trunk which showed
that the woman's proper name was Maud
Saylor and that she was the wife of Charles
Saylor, prominent farmer of Harvey
County, to whom she was married about
year ago, but separated soon after.
POLITICAL slsirmish lines are forming.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas: E5-
tablIshed, Baden, Douglass County; Gull
ford, Wilson County; Hatton, Hamilton
County; Pierce Junction, Brown County;
Ruweda, Greenwood County; York, Saline
County. Names changed, Mount pleasant
Atchison County, to Potter; Sappaton,
Rawlins County, 10 Chardon.
THE county clerks of the State held their |
annual meeting at Topeka on the 21st. |
Among other important matters discussed !
was the present Outrageous system of
describing bounds of real estate as often |
found In deeds presented for record" Elk |
amples were given calculated to puzzle i !
Philadelphia lawyer.
IT has been proved that excellent coke |
can he made of Leavenworth coal. Sue |
cessful tests have lately been made.
WILLIAM BLALoCK has made a full con.
fession of the murder of Constable Gordon 1
at Columbus. He accused his brother John /
of firing the pistol shot. The Blalocks be-
longed to gang that extended their rob-
berries throu9 hout the Southwest. A num-
Der Of parties have been arrested.
j. W. kIRwIN. Wichita Metropolitan |
policeman, accidentally shot and killed
himself the other morning. He was in a
secondhand store examining a revolver |
when it was discharged, and the bullet en-
tered Kirwin's breast, passing into the
base OF the heart He exclaimed ''Oh, my
GodT' snd dropped dead. The officer leaves
a wife and eight children
ALEXANDER JACOBS, aged thirty-six, dieG
recently at Wyandotte from an overdose OF
laudanum.