Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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the other morning by shooting himself
At one time he owned valuable property
in that city and was one of the foremost
business men, but during the past sixteen
I years he has met with many misfortunes
( and lost every thing he had For the past
| six months he had been un der the care OF
| a guardian at his residence but while the
| guardian was temporarily absent he took
! revolver from his daughters room, and,
| going to the porch, fred two bullets into
I his breast causing instant death
j. c. MILES, whose family resides in
! Leavenworth, and who had been a lawyer
| in California, real estate dealer in Leav-
| enworth, at which he failed. recently took
morphine in jail at Gainesville, Tex,
with fatal effect. He, with another man,
/ had been arrested in the Indian Territory
! for selling liquor and while being con-
veyed 10 Paris was put in prison at night
and found dead next morning. He was
about fifty years old and told his fellow
4 prisoner that he held a life policy for
/ IS, 600, and that his family would be in a
/ better condition after his death. Several
| pleading and affectionate letters were
| found from his wife, praying him to change
| his business to something legitimate and
| return home.
! THE Leavenworth Stan dard declares
| that "the fuss which is being made over
the Leavenworth census is absurd. The
last census is about as near right as the
one of a year ago. Then it was too high
and now it is too low. Leavenworth has
about p, 900 people and they are all happy,
prosperous and contented."
SWIFT & Co.'s packing house at Kansas
City, Kan, was recently partially burned,
together with a large amount of pork,
lard, oil and other material The loss was
over 500 900. L. F. Tate, master mechanic
of the esta blishment, fell from the fourth
story during the progress of the fire and
was killed. He leaves a wife and several
small children. The company had an in
surance of about SS7, ,000
A TWO STORY frame building at Sixth
| and Water streets. Kansas City, Kan, the
lower floor of which was occupied as a
feed store and the upper story as resi-
dence by Gilbert N. Randall, was de-
stroyed by fire the other night. RandalPs
eight-year-old son and four horses per-
ished in the flames. Randall and his wife
lett the evening before for the Milwaukee
encampment and left the children in
charge of a relative.
THE large furniture house of Alternately
& Doughty, of Leavenworth, recently
failed with liabilities of about $4,000.
FRED FISHER, a section hand, residing
at Gladys, Rock Island station south OF
Wichita, recently lay all night by the
track with both feet cut off. He had been
to Wichita on hand-c car and upon his re-
turn trip discovered freight train in the
rear He attempted to get his car off the
track and was struck by the freight. Next
morning Fisher was found in a pitiable
condition. The mangled stumps of his
legs were amputated and there was q
slight hope that he might recover.
AL. D. KREBS R. B. Elliott and G. W.
krebs were recently arrested near King
man on the charge of counterfeiting and
taken to Topeka for examination. A lot
of plaster paris molds and dies for coming
five and ten-dollar gold coin and different
denominations of silver money were found
Also a bottle of gold dust and pieces of
other metals. The other necessary tools
and appliances which had been used
in making spurious coins were also found.
d. B. RUSSELL, JR., a school district
treasurer of Kearney County, recently
sold schocl district bonds to the amount of
SIS, 900. since which time he and the funds
have been missing. He is believed to have
located in Canada.
FRANK MCGIFFEN, of Topeka, who mys-
teriously disappeared from Buffalo July
90. has turned up all right in Detroit.
THE State convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association will be held
in Topeka October 16. Seven hundred
delegates at least are expected to be
present
ROBERT SITTING BULL WILSON, a half
breed Indian boy. was recently commit
tod 70 no rafOrnn cnhnO1 OF Tona1-a for
breaking a lock off a street stand. He had
escaped from the institution only few
days before
The new vault of the State treasury
at Topeka is said to be the most per-
feet vault Of the kind in the world. Eight
car loads of material, including 80, 900
bolts. were used in its construction.
JAMES S. MCGEE, of Kansas, clerk in
the office of the superintendent of the free
delivery service, Post office Department at
Washington, has been appointed a post
office inspector on free delivery service.
Two boys named Carlson had a terrible
fight with a boar near Preston the other.
day while trying to pen it up. The elder
boy was knocked down by the animal and
horribly mangled in the leg and thigh by
the tushes of the boar. He was barely
rescued alive.
THE people of kingman were recently
jubilating over the completion of the
Omaha, Hutchinson & Gulf road to that
city.
J. S. LEGGITT, of Edwards County, was
recently severely injured while crossing
the Santa Fe tracks in a wagon at Larned
by being struck by train.
ABOUT six O'Clock the other evening
Deputy Sheriff Colgan went into the Jail
at Atchison to feed the prisoners, and
when be entered the cell of Frank Price
and James Caldwell, colored burglars,
Price struck him with piece of gas-pipe,
cutting four-inch cash over the left ear
and knocking him down. Caldwell, who
had a case knife sharpened keen as a
razor, cut a cash on the deputy's left arm
fourteen inches in length They then
rushed out of the cell and attempted to
fasten the door, but the deputy caught it
with his right hand and reopened it, not
however, until his thumb had been mashed
of. They then made furious attack on
him, and but for the timely arrival of as
sistance Colgan would have been killed.
The desperate darkies were secured and
the deputy's wounds, which were serious,
attended to.
IT is reported that company of outside
capitalists is forming for the purpose of
constructing a mammoth Touring mill in
Leavenworth, to have a daily capacity of
. 900 barrels The capital is to be $50, 00O
The mill is to be in operation for the 1890
crop.
MISS MAMIE BURLEw, music teacher,
twenty-seven years old, was run down by
bv an engine on the Riverview branch of
20 tba gGI - road ot Kansas CITY Kan the