Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| a DISPATCH from IeTre haute, 1nu-B
states that on the night of the assault
| upon Sister Camille at Emporia John
| Murray, the man who was supposed to be
her assailant was in Terre Haute engaged
as switchman Oh the Vandalia road, and
had been for some time He was un-
able to understand why such a serious
accusation had been made.
| THE United Brethren of Lecompton are
| said TO have become involved in law
| suit concerning the property of the church
at that point. The trouble seems to arise
from the fact that there are conflicting di.
visions of the church of the United Breth-
rem in Christ one of them known as the
radicals and the other as the liberals. Le-
compton is largely inhabited by members
| of the church involved, and at the late an
nual conference of the radicals in that
| place the liberals who owned the prop
eriy. refused permission for its use for the
session, and suit is the result
| SUIT has been commenced IN the United
| States court at Topeka by District Attor-
ney Perry against John Lamb, OF Hays
| City, for communicating the water OF
creek leading from his farm to the mill
| tary reservation, by building hog pen
on the creek leading through his premises
/ to the reservation. The suit is for an in
! junction to prevent it
! JOE WILLIS. a molder employed in the
Walburn foundry at Fort Scott COM
! mitted suicide the other morning. He
horribly mutilated himself with a razor.
! gashing his limbs, body and throat, and
finally ended his attempts at self
! str uction by leaping from three-story
| building.
ROBERT STAUCER, a farmer, fell out Of
his carriage at Wichita the other evening
between two ponies. The ponies kicked,
breaking four ribs and inflicting danger
| Gus wounds on his head. Physicians said
he would not recover.
TME fu neral of the late Ex-Governor
! John A. Martin was largely attended at
Atchison on the 4th. A special train from
Topeka took the State officers and many
other prominent people In addition dis
! tinguished persons were present from all
parts of the State. In Difference to the
wishes of Mrs Martin the funeral services
were very simple, although so largely at
tended. Governor Martin leaves widow
and seven children.
Much Indignation was recently occa-
stoned at Garden City by the brutal treat
ment of an infant less than a year old by
parties in whose charge it had been left.
II Is sdlu " Dc Tue VI OCAhAO OtCPAOASf
variety actress at St Louis, who left it
with her mother, Mrs. NJ. J. Cadmus, in
the former city several weeks ago to be
cared for. The child was so shamefully
beaten and otherwise maltreated that
neighbors had the old woman arrested for
felonious assault and took the child from
| her. Later the woman's husband and sew
eral other members of the family were ar
rested.
The sixth annual reunion of the old SOL
diers of Kansas recently held at Ellsworth
was a great success in every respect. On
the Sd fully 10000 people were on the
grounds Resolutions favoring a service
pension were unanimously adopted. SEN
ators Plumb and Ingalls, and other promi-
nent persons delivered addresses and al
together the old soldiers had decidedly
enjoyable time.
FRANK VICKERs, a stock buyer, was
dangerously wounded at Wichita the other
day by the accidental discharge of a re-
volver in his own pocket. He was reach
ing into a buggy when the pistol went
off. The bullet entered his right side, and
ranging upward lodged in his neck, where
it was extracted. The wound was not
necessarily fatal.
H. p. MORGAN, a prominent stockman
and farmer living near Leon, was instant
ly killed the other night by a runaway
team. He was thrown from a wagon and
his skull was crushed and his neck broken.
He leaves a wife and four children well
| provided for.
THE following are the Kansas members
of the Inter- State Executive Committee
appointed by the Deep-water convention
recently held at Topeka: Howell Jones,
of Topeka; J. s. Emery, of Lawrence;
George W. Clements, of Wichita; j. H.
Rice, of Fort Scott, and James F. Legate.
of Leavenworth.
PROF. MEsERvE, of Massachusetts, took
charge of the Indian school at Lawrence
on October l. He is said to be thoroughly
posted in Indian education and is an en-
thusiast in industrial and manual train
ing.
A TOPEKA man, after being married one
year and three days, concluded that in
his case marriage was a glaring failure
and he asks for a divorce on account of
his wife's cruelty and before she poisons
him, as he declares she has threatened to
do. . - .'t
IT is said that coal can be taken from
the mines in Leavenworth to Kansas City
by barge for fifteen cents ton. Coal al
Leavenworth is worth $1.50 and at Kan
sas City So so.
The commissioners of nine countie:
crossed by the Chicago, Kansas & Ne
braska railway, in the southern part Of
the State, held meeting at Wichita re-
Gently to discuss some plan for protecting
their interests in the foreclosure sui
against that railway. Twenty y-nine
counties have an interest having voted
g, ,3OO, 900 bonds. The meeting was ad-
iourned to meet at Topeka October II,
when a line of action would be adopted.
MRS. POLLY BRUCE aged eighty five
years, the mother of ex-United States
Senator B. K. Bruce, died at Leavenwortt
the other night. She was a native oi
Charlotte, Va, and a slave during heI
earlier years.
A SOUTHERN KANSAS editor complains
that all the school teachers of the town
are marrying off and leaving the schools
unprovided for.
J. w. HITE. a quarter blood Cherokee
who claims to be great medicine man
and pedd,es nostrums about from house
to house, was recently arrested at Wichi'
ia on a charge of having killed the infant
child of W. F. Graves. The infant had
been i'll for few days when Hite cal ed
at the house and insisted that he could
cure it, and despite the objections of the
mother he administered some drug. In
three hours the child died
TIE Hollis slaughter house at Armour
dale was destroyed by fire the other after
noon. Loss, about $4,000.
The other morning disasterous boilel
explosion occurred at the Wichita ICE
factory, demolishing much of the plan
and badly wrecking the building. The