Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Miscellaneous.

! AT Topeka the other day John Roth, a
| German, employed as bricklayer, fell
| from the top story of the State house to the
| floor of the basement, q distance of eighty
feet. He was taken to the hospital in a
| dying condition. A few weeks previous a
| colored man fell the same distance, struck
on his head and was only slightly injured.
JOHN n. REYNOLDS, the Atchison editor
now serving a term in the penitentiary.
has petitioned Judge Foster, of the United
States District Court, to transfer him to
the Atchison Jail, where he can serve the
remaining four months of his sentence near
| his six motherless children.
COLONEL JOHNSON, well known char
acter. was shot in Kansas City, Kan,
early the other evening and will probably
die from the wound. He was shooting
craps with two strangers in a yard in the
rear of residence just west of the State
line. johnson lost steadily and grew in
censed over it. The stakes were very large
and Johnson, fearing that he would lose,
grabbed the pile and started to run away,
when the strangers fired at him, one ball
striking him in the abdomen.
The board of trade of Leavenworth has
filed complaint with the Railroad Com
missioners against the Union Depot Com
pany, of Leavenworth. 1t claims that the
new union depot has been completed sew
eraI months and should have been opened
long ago, but though the railroad COM
panies have been repeatedly asked to open
the new depot, they continue to run their
trains into the old dilapidated concern on
the levee and do not give satisfactory
explanation of the matter.
Hon. j. H. BENNETT, of Holton, has given
the State Historical Society map 2x2 feet,
published by Robert j. Lawrence in 1851,
showing the Shawnee and Wyandotte
lands with plan of the city of Quindaro,
and the locations of Parkville, Wyandotte,
Kansas City, Westport, Little Santa Fe,
Shawnee Methodist Mission, Friends Mis-
sion, Lawrence, Franklin, Palmyra, Fish's
Hotel, Prairie City, place of the battle of
Black Jack, Lanes camp on the Wakarusa,
Blanton's Bridge, the old Santa Fe trail
and many other points of historical interest
The officers and members of the soldiers,
home at Leavenworth, recently sent
$1,000 to the yellow fever sufferers at
Jacksonville, Fla
A MILD winter is predicted.
The romance of the story told by the
dispatches of how ''an angry wife" at
Wichita smashed up a joint where her
husband spent his nights, is somewhat
spoiled by another report which is that the
woman who did the smashing was a wait
er girl in a restaurant whom the jointest
had slandered and who, with a number of
friends, adopted this means of Furnishing
the slanderer.
JAMES McHENRY, a colored man, went
to his home in Kansas City, Kan, the other
night intoxicated, locked the door and
commenced beating his wife with chair.
He fed after inflicting injuries that were
thought to be fatal.
TIE Senate has confirmed Charles K.
Holiday, of Topeka, as Secretary of
Legation to Venezuela.
DURING the absence of the family of G.
F. Williams, of Parsons, the other night a
lamp fell into the crib of the baby that
had been left in charge of nine-year-old
daughter. She, with wonderful presence
of mind, secured blanket from an ad-
joining room, and dragging the baby from
the burning crib smothered the fire out of
its clothes and carried it out of the house.
Then she turned her attention to the flames
in the room, and after a desperate fight
succeeded in extinguishing them. The
crib and several yards of the carpet were
DESTROYED, but the baby and heroic little
girl were not seriously burned.
J. NJ. BUTLER. formerly of Sedalia, No.,
has disappeared from Wichita, leaving his
wife and child.