The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-04-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

CAPTAIN GEoRGE n. FAULKNER, proodoiy
the oldest man in Atchison County, VINO
lived with his SON near the Leavenworth
County line died recently. aged ninety
two. He was born In Culpeper county
Va, March IL, 1875, moved with ms parents
to Kentucky in 1909, where ne married IN
1924 In 1s51 he moved TO Missouri and IN
1865 to Kansas His wife died in 1865. He
had ten children, four only surviving him.
AN official dispatch from the General
Land-office at Washington was received
by Receiver Bickel at Larned the other
day, ordering the removal OF Register
Browniee and the closing OF the United
States Land office until the confirmation OF
the newly-sppointed register. 1t was stated
that Brownlee refused to surrender the Of
fee keys to Mr.. Bickel and seemed deter
mined to play the part Of register, the
Presidents executive order summary de-
posing him to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Patents issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended March %: Animal releas-
ing device, Bake Borton, of Clyde; auto
matte oiler, Alanson B. Griswold and j.
NJ. Bradbury, of Bunker Hill; listing
plow or cultivator, Joseph s. Crum, OF
Stockdale; thill coupling, Thomas Il.
box and end gate, Howard Gamble, Of Lam
sing; flexible pipe coupling, Patten NJ
Askren, of CircIeville; automatic regulat-
ing device for wind mills, Charles F.
Batham, of New Chillicothe; nut-lock,
John B. Crossley, of Clay Center;
pillow, John Macarthur, of Wallace.
A RECENT wreck on the Missouri Pacific
at Leavenworth caused considerable dam
90 o,,I afrri,t l.,,t ir1ifn ~
persons. A freight was backing down
through the Union depot to gain Roadway
for the grade when a switch engine came
up on the main track from the south and
before the engineer had chance to OBJ
serve the caboose they crashed into each
other at the bridge over Three Mile creek.
All hands jumped to save themselves, the
engineer and fireman into the water twelve
feet below.
THE Kansas Commandery of the Loyal
Legion is reported to be in a prosperous
condition. 1t has a total membership of
l5G. General c. W. Blair is commander
and Lieutenant Colonel ]. P. Martin, United
States army, is recorder.
Hon. JAMES HUMPHREY. whose commls-
sion recently expired, has been reappointed
Railroad Commissioner.
SENATOR PLUMB's bill extending the
boundaries of the State of Kansas so as to
include No-Man's Land, has passed the
Senate. A bill had already passed the
Senate attaching No-Man's-Land 10 Kansas
for judicial and land-office purposes, and
the present bill seeks to complete the WORK
of the former by making the territory in
question portion of the State of Kansas.
Should the bill become a law it will re-
quire the consent of the Kansas Legisla-
ture TO complete the annexation.
THE Methodist College building at Win.
field was formally dedicated on the 18th.
The following delegates represented
Kansas in the late Women's International
Congress at Washington: Mrs. Anna C.
Wait, of Lincoln; Mrs. Nellie T. Butter
field, OF Florence; Mrs. DIR. Mamie Ste
phens, of Wichita; Mrs. DR.. j. E. Spauid-
ing. of Larned, and Mrs. Dr. S. E. Hall, of
Fort Scott.
A CANVASS was made of delegates to the
Republican Clubs convention, recently held
at Topeka, for Presidential preferences with
this result: James G. Blaine, 1855: John
j. Ingalls,, A.; John Sherman, %; w. Q
Gresham, 16; Robert Lincoln, u; Benja-
min H. HARRISON, 5; Chauncey NJ. Depew,
3; P. B. Plumb, 2; Joseph r. Hawley, 2;
j. b. Foraker, 2; w. NJ. Evarts, l. Total,
30l.
Mrs. BURNER. who was convicted at To
peka of procuring young girls for immoral
purposes, was sentenced to two years IN
the penitentiary.
THE State Dental Association will hold
its seventeenth annual convention at To-
peka, commencing April "a, and continuing
four days.
The other morning John Macky, a pris-
oner confined in the city Jail AT Leaven-
worth, serving out fifty days sentence
for vagrancy, attempted suicide by buttng
his brains out against the iron door of his
cell.
THE seven-year-old daughter Of Charles
Irwin, of Manhattan, was recently kicked
on the head by a horse that was being led
through the street, and received fatal in
juries.
THE chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee has modified the Call
for the State convention by striking out
that part which requires delegates to be
elected not later than May g. and leaving
the election Of delegaie s to county conven-
lions to the discretion of county committees
under such rules and regulations Us may be
by them prescribed.
A DETECTIVE recently arrested John
Curry at Wichita, charged with being con-
nected with the incendiary work going on
in Coffey County for some time. Curry
admitted that he was guilty and gave the
name of an accomplish.
THE regular stone-cutters on the State
House contract at Topeka, mum bering near
ly seventy men, struck the other day be-
cause the contractors, George II. Evans &
Co., posted the rules adopted at Kansas
City by the Contractors Association of the
Missouri Valley. The State House job is
the only one upon which Union men are
employed.
TIE pork packing house of Joseph Acker-
man q Co. at Wichita caught fire the other
evening about eight o'clock and was totally
destroyed. The loss was placed at $50 900,
with 81, 900 insurance. There had been no
fire in the plant for two months, and how
it caught was mystery.
THE Kansas Bankers Association held
their annual meeting at Topeka on the 9th.
Interesting papers were read and COM
nlittee appointed to confer with the Kan
sas City clearing house upon the proprety
of charging a reasonable sum for collecting
all checks RENTED in payment of CONNER
cal obligations. The bankers were BAN
quoted at the close of the meeting.
THE Keystone Security Company, Of
Larned, capital stock 100000, recently
flied articles of incorporation with the Sec
rotary Of State.
The State Bankers Association, recently
in session at Topeka, elected the following
officers: President, John R. Mulvane, of
topeka; secretary, L. l.. Turner. of Tope-
ka; treasurer, d. A. MoultoD, OF Topeka
Is "lemon rye" intoxicatiuga
B. F. SCoTT has brought suit against the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad in
the district court at Topeka, for damages