Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


| Frances NJ. Goldsmith asked to be di-
vorced from her husband, c. z. Gold
smith. She sues by her next friend
Emma Joseph, and alleges in her petition
that in August, 1884. at the age of eleven
years and nine months she was married
| to the defendant, he also being minor.
| She further alleges that she married
| young Goldsmith, who is her aunt's STEP
| son, in order that she might escape the
| custody of her father, who was an i'm
prcvident man. A condition of the mar
| riage was that she was not to live with
her husband, but that she was to be sent
to school, and when she would arrive at
the age of eighteen she was to be divorced
without question. In accordance with
this agreement she was sent to school
She says that she has never lived with
her husband; that she has no knowledge
of his whereabouts, and he has never
claimed marriage rights. She therefore
asks that the marriage be set aside.
| FRANK ROBERTS, a notorious criminal in
the custody of an officer, while being taken
to the penitentiary, jumped from the win
dow of a train near Topeka the other
night, which was moviag at the rate of
thirty miles an hour. He was handcuffed
| but succeeded in making his escape.
Roy WATSON, of Cottonwood Falls, son
Of A. B. Watson was recently instantly
| killed by the accidental discharge of an
! ''unloaded" revolver with which he was
playing.
EIGHTEEN persons pleaded guilty to vio-
lating the Prohibitory law in Kansas City
(Kan.) one day recently and were given
sentences that aggregated 5000 in fines
and eight N W iai
BY the provisions of law passed by the
late Legislature regulating the business of
abstracting. all abstractors are required to
give bond Of S., 900 upon which they are
liable for any damage that may result
from the mutilation or destruction of any
record to which they may have access. or
for any incomplete or imperfect abstract
furnished. The penalty for a failure to
file the proper bond is 500 for each offense.
The other evening Gustav Werner, a
tailor, was shot dead and Joseph j.
Spendlove, a pawnbroker, mortally
wounded in business room jointly occu-
pied by both at Topeka. No one was
present at the time, but the shots soon
attracted crowd, when Werner was
found dead and Spendlove with ghastly
wound i'll the neck, and only able to say,
"He shot me and then killed himself"
The coroner's inquest, however developed
different state of facts, which were that
Spendlove had entered the room while
under the influence of liquor, shot Werner
and that the latter in the death struggle
wrested the pistol from his assailant and
shot him. The trouble was thought to
have had its origin in dispute about the
possession of the room.
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appointed in Kansas in place of incum-
bents resigned: Astor, Greeley County.
John A. Beeler; Harris, Anderson Coun-
ty, T. j. Caldwell; Merriam, johnson
County, William A. Tweed; Neutral,
Cherokee County, John A. Baxter; Nor
wood, Franklin County, Adam Hoisburg;
Perth, Sumner County, Henry H. Jacobs;
Sawyer, Pratt County, w. c. Douglas
THE Executive Council recently elected
Ex-Governor George T.. Anthony to the
vacant Railroad Commissionership. There
were twenty-five candidates for the posi-
ton. He succeeds Hon. Almerin Gillett
1T is stated that the English salt trust is
"gobbling" all the salt works in the State
Propositions have been made to the oper-
ators at Hutchinson for a six months op-
ton.
IL 10 lndt UeOTSo CHdnul0T,
of Independence, has been selected for
First Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
Judge Chandler's name was presented to
the President by the entire Kansas dele
cation.
WASHINGTON dispatches state that the
Secretary of the Interior has decided not
to revoke ex-Secretary Villas order con-
solidating t he four land districts of inde-
,ah, 4
The districts at Independence Concordia
and Wichita have, therefore, been discon-
tinued and the books, papers and business
of those offices transferred to Topeka.
On The Goth the law went into effect
which provides a fine of $10) and impris-
onment for 100 days for any person who
manufactures or offers for sale any adult
Grated drug or article of food.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER BOOTH has an
nounced in an official order that he has
located the permanent headquarters of the
department of Kansas G. A R. at Topeka.
Heretofore the headquarters have been
temporarily located in the city in which
the Commander resided.
THE Governor has pardoned James c.
Pusey, formerly chief clerk at the peni-
tentiary, who was convicted September
%. 1885. of embezzling the funds of the
penitentiary and sentenced to eight years.
imprisonment Pardons were also granted
the same day to d. A. Warwick, of Sedg-
wick County, sentenced for embezzlement;
Henry Williams, sentenced from Miami
County for forgery; 2. E. Hart. of Hodge,
man County, school boy. sentenced to the
county Jail for cutting his school teacher
and Charles Knox, of Mitchell County,
sentenced for the killing of a man who re-
jumped his fathers claim.
ALFONSO ELLIS, forty-one years old, of
Patton & Ellis, builders and contractors,
was killed the other evening by a train on
the IL" road at Kansas City, Kan. He
to cross the street to butcher
shop and passing one train stepped in
front of another going in the opposite di-
rection which he did not see He left
wife and four children.
THE Kansas Home and the Topeka In
surance Companies have begun manjamus
in the district court of Shaw
nee County to compel the State Superin-
tendent of Insurance to issue certificates
to about one hundred and fifty local |
agents to do business for these companies |
in the State.
BOYD ASHER, aged thirteen years, and |
his sister Bertha. aged fifteen, were |
drowned in the Verdigris river at Inde- |
pendence the other day. They had gone /
TO the river after a barrel of water, drove |
down a steep bank and found when it was |
too late that the river was high. The |
team was carried down stream and both |
young people and the mules We're drowned. |
CHARLES G. MINNICK, died at Lincoln |
aged ninety-one years. He was
born and raised in Baltimore and was in |
the volunteer service of the United States |