Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

in atte7 dance.
! TIE University Of Michigan, of which
he Is a graduate, has conferred the degree
of IL D. upon Chief Justice a. h. Hor-
ton. of the State Supreme Court.
| COLONEL BUCKNER. of Baldwin City, re-
Gently appointed superintendent of the
blind asylum at Kansas City, Kan, TOOK
charge of the institution July I.
The grandest G. a. r camp fire ever
enjoyed in Kansas was held the other
evening in the Chautauqua assembly tab
ernacle at Topeka. The exercises opened
by the patriotic selection of Memories of
the War" General Campbell presented
the sash worn by DR.. Wyman all during
the war TO Lincoln post No. 1. Corporal
Tanner was among the speakers.
A JURY in the district court at Topeka
the other day awarded 81 100 damages to
| w. D. Boutwell, against exMavor Metz
ger, ex-Policeman Carter and Policeman
Pat Wilson. Boutwell, was arrested a year
ago for failing to divulge the names OF
| parties living in his house to the poll tax
collector. When taken to the city prison
he received cruel treatment at the hand Of
/ the officers. He refused to work on the
rock pile and was fed on bread and water
for three days. Boutwell, was one of the
| pioneers OF Kansas,
The Missouri Pacific has fallen in line
on the Wichita rate question. If the OBJ
| ject Of the commissioners in making the
ruling was TO make a general reduction of
rates, they were certainly successful. The
Missouri Pacific has notified agents that
the rates will be applied to Hutchinson al
so. Hutchinson was the first city to de-
| mand that the commissioners extend the
same privileges to it, and the Missouri Pa
cific has done what they asked for without
waiting for the decision of the commits
siOnerS
| TIE t%enty-sixth annual catalogue of
the State Agricu tural College shows to-
| tai enrolment of AS students, of whom
! POI are gentlemen and III ladies. These
| students represent f1fty-fve counties in
| Kansas and twelve other States. The
| graduating class numbered twenty-five
students One term each is required Of
all young men in industrial duty, work
| ing one hour each day on the farm, the
| orchards and g1rdens, and the wood and
iron shops; and the same time is required
| Of all young women in sewing, cooking g
| and the dairy. There is no charge for
! tuition at the college. Students are ad
mitted direct from the district schools of
| three studies and one industrial art.
jim LEE, Chinaman who runs lsun-
dry at Topeka, was arrested some weeks
ago OH the charge of keeping an opium
| Joint but was released for want of evil
dence after being locked up two days.
He has since commenced suit aga inst the
police officers and police commissioners
for $40 900 damages for false imprison-
ment.
4 CASE of remarkable longevity was re-
Gently brought to light in ST. Johns Hos
pital in Leavenworth. About SIX years
ago the sisters discovered an old, decrepit
woman wandering about Fort Leaven-
worth. The old lady was in destitute cir
Gums tances. but she was ia ken in and has
been an inmate of the institution ever
since. The woman is now one hundred
and thirteen years old, and though feeble,
is in wonderful ealth and spirits for one
so old
AT Wichita on the Fourth Robert Car
michael. a messenger boy, had a giant
frecracker in his pocket when some un-
known practical joker put match to it
In an instant young Carmichael's neither
garments Were in flames and then fol-
lowed the explosion. The boy was horribly
his recovery.
THE eighteen -months-o old child of Har-
rison Irwin, colore1, wasrecently drowned d
in a swill tub at Wichita.
THOMAS ALsTON, a colored man of To-
peka, went to Kansas City to celebrate
the Fourth, got into fight with colored
tough in a saloon and was cut to pieces.
AT the close of a picnic in Connor's
no
James Fagan was stabbed 10 death by
Fred Ketchum. The row was over a mar
red woman whose husband had deserted
her.
THE State Historical Society has been
presented with copy of the Freeman's
Champion of August 81 1857, a paper
printed at Prairie City, Douglas County,
that year by the late S. S. Prouty.
A. J. RIEBER was recently arrested at
Lawrence charged with assault with in
tent to kill c. H. Branscomb. The two be-
came involved IN a quarrel and Rieber
struck Branscomb on the head with po-
tato fork, knocking him down. Brans-
comb was quite seriously injured.
Hon. JACOB SToTLER, treasurer of the
State Board Of Char ties, recently drew
from the State treasury warrants to pay
off the claims Gg inst the charitable in
stituiious for June. These claims were
for salaries ahd wages, and care and
maintenance as follows: Insane asylum,
Topeka, Sd. 1876 81; insane asylum, OSawa-
tonne, SIS 40l. 10; blind institute, Kansas
City, i, ,262 90, deaf and dumb institute,
Olathe, sc. .042 %; reform school, Topeka,
$, Sol So; soldiers orphans home, Atch.
ison, 50 905. 92i imbecile schoo', Winfield,
81. 1865: gjrl=' industrial school, Beloit,
S26o.13 total, 50 25j.19.
WHILE a show was in progress at Fort
Scott on the night of the Fourth sky
rocket penetrated the tent and pierced the
skull of Mrs. John 4. Nelson, killing her
instantly.
THE other evening Ora Remley. the
nine-year- nephew of j. K. Clerihan.
living FIVE miles north Of Cherokee, was
run over by a loaded wagon and instantly
killed. The little fellow was motherless
and had been making his home with his
uncle for some time.
Ross VENToS had his right hand torn
off by an explosion while celebrating the
Fourth at Oswego.
DR. D. S. GRAY, a prominent physician
of Sedan, committed suicide the other
night by taking morphine. Shortly after
taking the drug he informed his wife and
sister of the act and physicians were i'm
mediately summoned, but their efforts
were futile. Family trouble, it was sup
posed, prompted him
JOIN JONES was recently fined 800 and
sent to jail for thirty days at Rossville for
violating the Prohibitory law.
DR. NJ. V. COFFIN mas been officially rec
commended for the position of superin-
tendent of Haskell Institute at Lawrence.
MALoSEY. the Wichita rufian who re-
rentIv assembled an eleven n-vear-old girl