Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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noon by tearing a hole through sixteen
inch stone wall.
SECRETARY MoHLER, of the State Board
of Agriculture, has made arrangements
for the use of the agricultural exhibits at
the late State fair to be shown at the State
house while the National Grange and the
Farmers Congress are in session. The
displays OF Bourbon, Allen. Shawnee,
Douglas and Brown Counties have been
secured and will remain in Agricultural
hall until removed to the State house.
The two meetings open on November IA:
one will be held i'll Representative Hall
and the other in the Senate Chamber.
WILLIAM WOOD, a Topeka colored man,
recently lost three children by diphtheria.
THE State fair, recently held at Topeka,
was great success. 1t was believed the
receipts were ample to pay all demands
and leave surplus.
A CHICAGO drummer lately travelling
through the State is authority for the
statement that an eagle recently carried
off and killed two-months-old babe in
Seward County, and that the father sue
ceeded in capturing the rapacious bird and
will sell it to a dime museum.
FRANK STALMERs recently purchased
and drank glass of ''ginger ale" at a
Topeka stand and soon after was attacked
with dizzinsss, ,spasms and black vomit, and
subsequently died in great agony.
ABOUT sixty delegates met in the Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran Church, o. A.
c., at Leavenworth the other day for the
purpose of making Kansas separate dis
trict, and branch of the synod comprising
Ohio, Missouri and other States. The
church has grown very strong in Kansas
and in every State where the number of
churches and membership permits a sepa-
rate district is formed which gives adhe-
sion to the synod comprising the States
mentioned.
PATENTS were granted on the 18th to
Charles w. Boetiner, of Little River, for a
floor clamp, and Martha Stevenson, Of
Ochiltree, for sham pillow.
| MRS. A. A. TOWNSEND died at Wamego
the other day from an overdose of Nor
phine.
| The Shawnee County court house build
ing, at Topeka, has been declared unsafe
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Colo
RADIO, Caldwell & Arkansas Railway Com
pauy we're recently filed in the office of the
| Secretary of State. The route to be ira
versed by the proposed road begins at a
point at or near the town of Bucklin, III
Ford County, running thence in south
/ easterly direction through the counties of
| Ford, Kiowa, Comanche, Barber and Har-
per, to point near the city of Anthony,
| and thence through the counties of Har-
per and Sumner to point near the city of
Caldwell; thence through the counties of
Sumner and Cowley to point near Arkan-
sas City. The estimated length of the line
is 200 miles; the capital stock, S2,0OO,OOO.
| AT a meeting of the board of directors of
the National Soldiers Home recently held
in New York. Major I. j. Anderson, of
Topeka, was unanimously chosen Commits
sary of Subsistence of the Western branch,
located at Leavenworth.
THE State Treasurer has prepared the
| following statement of the bonded indebt-
edness of Kansas for the forthcoming an
nual report: The permanent school fund
has invested in State, county, municipal
| and school bonds the sum of "a, $50, $500;
the State Agricultural College has $475,
| 223.06 invested in bonds of the same kind;
the sinking fund So 600; State University
fund S11S,4 ,415.6S; State Normal Schoo fund
$97, ,304. The State Agricultural College
also holds as assets $23, 1850 in notes and
accounts The total State debt is $S15, 900
and of this amount all but $256,000, or
$3.50, 900 is held as an investment by these
various funds, the permanent school fund
holding the greater part of it.
THE Kansas City, Wyandotte & North
western has made rate of one cent a
mile from all stations on its line on Friday
of each week to persons wishing to visit
the Kansas City Exposition.
MANY G. A. Il. posts declined to visit the
ro,n;o,, of Tonato in hodu hacouSa the
railroads refused to give a rate of one
cent per mile.
THE annual meeting of the Friends in
Kansas will be held in Lawrence begin
ming October u.
MICHAEL BRAssEL, brother of James
Brassel, farmer living about eight miles
south of Eudora, was recently kicked by
hourse and died next day in great agony.
WITHIN the next month Hutchinson ex-
poets to have twelve salt blocks in oDera-
ton, with an output of 1000 barrels daily.
The market for Hutchinson salt has devel
oped faster than was hoped by the most
sanguine, and the quality of the salt has
stood the strongest test that could be
given it.
JOHN n. REYNOLDS, the Atchison editor
now serving term in the State peniten-
tiary at Leavenworth for improper use of
the mails, has issued an address from the
prison announcing himself a candidate for
the State Senate from Atchison County
His term expires next February. The
President recently refused to pardon him.
WILL WILLIAMS, colored. nineteen years
of age, was beheaded at ArmOur's packing,
house Kansas City, Kan, at seven o'clock
the other night. Williams was engaged in
oiling the shaftings in the fertiliZing de-
partment when his clothes caught in the
betting and he was carried around the
shafting. His head struck beam and
was completely severed from the body,
while the latter was horribly bruised and
mangled.
A RATE conference between the millers
of Topeka and the Santa Fe and Union
Pacific railroads was held in that city re-
Gently, the object being to agree upon a
mutually satisfactory freight tariff on
wheat and flour in carload lots both East
and West, but especially upon -four ship
ments to the seaboard and Eastern mar
kets. All of the millers were represented.
ABOUT six O'Clock the other evening the
amphitheater of the State fair grounds at
Topeka took fire and were totally de-
stroyed. The building was an immense
structure, with a seating capacity of 1000.
1t cost $1,000, and was insured for - 900.
ALLAN WHITEACRE, assistant bookkeep-
er in the Hutchinson National Bank, has
been held for trial on the charge of embez-
zling 5000.
KANSAS bonds are quoted at S1.35.
WHILE recently lighting gasoline stove
the clothes of Mrs. Mary Stanford, of
Wichita, took fire, and she was fatally
burned.
JOHN SHAVER, aged ten, was shot under
ba loff nd hIxy 70 oil xr-0r1ndad