Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-06-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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| WHILE being lowered into a we'll at Ross
Tille he other day Grant Mccoy was over
| come ey foul air when ten feet below the
surface and fell from the bucket to the
bottom distance of fifty-hve feet and was
killed instantly.
The Methodists have in Kansas 6l,9JS
members and 10 1872 probatiorers. They
| nave 6O4 churches valued at s., ,6s6 4io, and
| $50 parsonages valued at S822.635, besides
| % Sunday schools with S.929 officers and
| :eachers and 65,Ot6 scholars. The total
amount paid out for pastors, presiding
| elders and bishops the past year Was S3Jd,-
ga.
| JIMMIE STEVENS, the seven-year-old son
II Ira Stevens, living north of Scott City,
was bitten by ratt.esn AXE recently while
| reaching into hole for rabbit. He died
about eight hours after being bitten.
TEE explosion of keg OF powder in Meal
| pines rock quarry, two miles west OF Wyan-
| 3otte, the other morning. seriously injured
three laborers who were working there.
Their names We're We'll, Schmidt and
Moore.
ETHEL ELLIS, the fve-year-old daugh-
ter OF respectable and industrious col
bred people of North Lawrence, fell into
tub of hot water in which considerable
| lye had been p.ac I'd The other day and was
SO seriously scalded that she died soon
after.
WILLIAM a. HARDIN, soldier OF the
Mexican war and "a sol ier Of Company,
rwenty-tifth Indiana Infantry in the civil
war, aged about seventy years, was III
! stantlv killed about eight O'Clock the other
morning while walking on the Santa Fe
roll fron ha nId ar
Leavenworth. Hardin was just at the end
of the trestle work near the home when he
was struck by a passing train and thrown
headlong down the embankment.
CITY CHEMIST W. D. CHURCH, after care
fui investigation, has pronounced the water
supply of Topeka impure and unhealthy
for drinking purposes. Chemists employed
by the board of health, however, assert
positively to the contrary, and so doctors
disagree.
The population of Kansas City, Kan, in
creased 1881 the past year, the late census
showing population of 80 0f6.
The farmers of the central and western
portions OF the State have harvested their
wheat and the yield will be SIMPLY enor-
nous, unequaled in the past history of
those sections. 1t is claimed by some
( will average from thirty-ive TO forty-6ve
bushels to the acre.
AN excursion train on its return from
California and running as the second Sec
tion of No e, was wrecked at Braddock,
west Of Emporis, the other day. A broken
rail caused the wreck and four cars jumped
the rack. Several people were slightly
injured and the rolling stock was consider
ably broken up.
THE Republican State convention 10
nominate State officers meets at Topeka
July %.
THE Union Labor party of the Second
district, in a convention recently held at
O.athe, nominated Delos Walker, Of An
derson County, for Congress.
H. c. GAGER, a prominent Queensware
merchant of Wichita, was awakened the
other night by noise in the kitchen and
sprnging out of bed, revolver in hand,
rushed to the door and fired at u human
form which unfortunately proved to be
that of his wife. who hal gone into the
kitchen for drink of water. The ball
struck her on the right shoulder, causing
painful though not serious wound.
PENSION AGENT CLICK has received no
tce from the Pension Bureau of the pas
The bill appropriates SS0,OOO,0U for this
purpose, s7,OOO,OOO of which will be dis
tributed during the coming fiscal year at
the Topeka agency.
Two railroad employees at Horton, by the
name of Alfred Pete and Eugene Malone,
recently had a quarrel when Malone
struck Pete over the head with club III
tiicting fatal injuries.
TrTE 9th
ger train was wrecked sev nteen miles
west OF Atchison while mnning thirty
miles an hour. The wreck v!yas caused by
the spreading of the rails. Several per-
sons were injured, the most serious of
which WAS George KruckemeyeY, of st.
Louis, butcher by trade.
AT a convention of the Union Labor par
ty Of the First district, recently held at
AtchisOn, A. j. Graves was nominated for
Congress.
PENSIONS lately granted to kansaus:
Original invalid, John F. Modes TT, Mel
rose; Simon Y. L. Dixon, Gatesville; Thad-
deus Pixley, Ionia; Albin Bradley, Cotton
wood Falls; 1ighman Dale, Joash; Wiz
liam Julian, Emporia. Increase, Philip
Hauk, Mankato; Peter A. Pfeger, Wyan-
dotte; Charles A. Cooley, Giasco; Daniel
Tolbert, Carbondale; Henry T. Dimmitt,
Candy; Harvey p. DonDe!L Waverly:
George p. Atkinson, Concordia; Benjamin
Z. Kuder, Wilson; David I. Dunbar, Wich-
ita, Almeron W. StiIlwell, Fort Scott;
Henry Il. Cooper, Belleville; James Gan
non, National Military Home; William W.
White, Burlingame. Survivor OF 1872,
special act. Andrew Franklin, alias Mckee,
Burlington. Reissue, William a. Robinson.
ArmOurdale; Absalom Schall. Lawrence;
Preston Robinson, Almena. Original wild
ows etc. Alice NJ, widow of Thomas NJ.
Hustled. Topeka; Naomi, widow Of David
Branson. Oswego; Fannie L., widow of
Reuben Frey, Great Bend; Armina, widow
Fielding II. Pope. Shockey.
TIE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Finney County National
Bank Of Garden City to begin business with
capital stock OF 5,O00.
CHARTER was recently filed OF the
Farmers IrrigatiDg Canal Company. Cap
ital stock, 5000, the purpose being to irri-
gate farm lands in Kearney and Finney
Counties, the water to be obtained by dam.
ming the Arkansas river.
SETTLERS of Cheyenne County, suspect
ing Patrick Mclaughlin OF being impli
Gated in extensive horse thefts, recently
organized a vigilance committee, strung
him up one night, and extorted confession
which It was thought would lead to the ar.
rest of the whole gang OF thieves. Nc.
Laughliu was badly injured.
WILLIAM DUCAT was recently arrested
at Topeka, charged with forgery. having,
= Was claimed, signed the name OF W. B.
Murphy to a not, for thirty dollars, ou
which he obtained the money at loar
Office.
PLENDID rains lately