Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Abbott at Garden City for an order re-
straining the treasurer of Stevens County
from selling advertised real estate OF
Grant County for taxes. The order was
granted and Judge Abbott set the case for
hearing October ,. The grounds are that
Stevens County has no right to collect the
taxes of Grant County, which was organ
lied by the Legislature in 1887 and at
tached to Stevens County for judicial pur-
poses.
JOHN SCHAFFER, president of the Jewell
County Bank, is missing, and the bank mas
been closed by the sheriff and all of his
property attached. It is charged that he
uttered large amount of forged paper.
The other day Deputy United States
Marshal Dan Wyatt arrived in Topeka hav-
ing in custody q very slick mulatto named
w. II. Wilson, whom he had arrested at
Wichita upon the charge OF using the
United States mails to defraud, also upon
the charge of forgery. Wilson claimed to
be from Crittenden County, Ark, where
he had been prosecuted by the whites.
Upon reaching Kansas he seems TO have
decided to get even by robbing his own
race. His plan was to visit colored people,
find out where their relations resided and
tress and want and ask for remittanc. to
tide over the present trouble. A number OF
unsuspicious mothers and relatives fell
into his trap and Wilson fell into the
clutches of Uncle Sam.
FRANK RICHARDS nineteen years old. and
Rosa Hauseman, sixteen years old. OF
Leavenworth, recently went to Platte City,
Mo-, under the pretext of visiting the fair,
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turned and explained matters they were
summarily bounced from the home of the
cold folks"
WILLIAM GOOD and Sarah Lideie were
recently clandestinely married at Leaven-
worth, and Good attempted to take his wife
to her fathers home to effect a reconcilia-
ton. The father, misconstruing the
motive, seized revolver, and, after chas-
ing Good two or three blocks. shot him.
The ball entered Goods shoulder, ranged
slightly downward, and passed out in
front, just below the arm-pit. The father
was locked up.
HoS. W. NJ. SHEAN, State Senat7r from
Johnson County, died at his home in Gard
ner on the ID, aged seventy years.
A. HURST, a wealthy citizen and promi-
ment stock man of Holton. was killed the
other morning by his stallion. He went to
the stable and was found by MS wife an
hour later under the horses heels, literally
stamped to death. He was about seventy
years of age.
AN unknown man committed suicide in
a hotel at st. George the other day by
shooting himself in the head.
THERE were four divorce suits fled and
three marriage licenses granted in Topeka
one day recently.
INDIANA veterans now residing in Kan
sas will hold their fifth reunion at Camp
Anderson, near Topeka, October to 6 in
elusive.
THE Iowa soldiers now residing in Kan
sas will hold reunion during the State
reunion at Topeka, October to 6 inclusive.
An Iowa headquarters will be established
and properly advertised on the grounds,
and every Iowa soldier will be expected to
register.
Hon. j. W. ORR, a prominent attorney of
Atchison, has been nominated to Congress
by the Democrats of the Fifth district.
WHILE two men were recently driving a
COW to slaughter at Emporia, she became
desperate and pitched at every one who
came near her. She tossed a colored man
over a fence and knocked an old Germpl
down and severely if not fata ly injured
him.
LEvANT is tho name Of Do st-ofIice lately
estab'is ID in Thomas County.
THE name of tla p,'b-o j - ut R,se Y ala,
Clay County, has been cha Iged to Broagn-
ton.
AN unknown laborer was kI'e the o'her
day at Wyandot,e b. tbs ctvu, III OF u
bank on which h" was working.
1T is estimated tha5 the average yield of
wheat in Kan IL WI be eighteen to
twenty bJ ;h.l, per acre. The quality is
generally sI"..
TIE other IN ,rning fire started in the old
Barnard Hotel, fra .Ie buil;iing on South
Washington avenue, at We lingtOn, and
totally de ;tr1ved it and the two brici,
bull iings Oh the north. II T.. Smith SS
Co, drIG2i>t;, ar ths Snare Uros.' Dry
20 'fs Z nni any oCcdDied tho store rooms.
The marble D.ocil on Gh. CO, Ter ui Wash
ingtOn and Harvey avenu 5 wa damaged
considerably. Tie loss wL+ abJut -, 900;
partly insured.
THE Loyal Legion, OF Kansas, have de-
cided to hold their annual meeting at
Topeka during the soldiers reunion the
first week in October.
THE Supreme Court on the 9th heard
evidence and arguments In the Scott
County mandamus brought by the Eastern
holders of certain Scott County railroad
bounds to compel the county clerk to sign
S120,000 funding bonds ordered by the
county commissioners and signed by the
chairman. The county clerk refused to
sign the bonds on the ground of fraud in
their issuance. The cast was taken under
advisement
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on the
9th: Stephen Singleton, of Mirage; David
D. Dever, of Hoisington; Henry W.
George, Of Ellsworth; James F. Hanna, of
Sterling; James R. Curge, of Seneca;
Nephi Owen, of Simpson; Ansel W. Sloat,
of Derby; Joseph Messer, of Xenia; Wes-
ley Ellsworth, of Eminence; David Hug
gins, of Abilene: Alfred Seelye, of the
National Military Home; Thomas W. c.
Stanley, of Hugoton; Joseph Eichelberger,
of Mcpherson, and Marion S. Bancroft, OF
Norton.
ARTHUR DODGE, of Reserve, eight miles
north of Hiawatha, recently beat his wife
until she was unconscious, and then fed.
The couple were married about four years
ago.
ARTHUR, the three-year-old son of A.
G. Talbot, prominent business man of
Wyandotte, recently fell down the stair
way of the family residence in that city
and received injuries that resulted in death
the following day.
The report of the Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture places Wyandotte
County at the head of the list in the yield
of corn the present season, the average
being 531I bushels to the acre.
THE mosquito crop is good.
THE convention of Democratic clubs as
sembled at Lawrence on the Sd. 7. j.
Sweeny, chairman of the executive COM