Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

house as disinfectant when her three
| year-old SON by some means obtained pos
session of the bottle and drank a quantity
of the liquid. Medical aid proved un-
availing and the child died 1t was
feared the mother would lose her reason.
FoURTH-CLAsS postmasters recently ap-
| pointed in Kansas: J. B. Welpton at
Alnena, Morton County; j. T. Morrison,
Cedarville. Smith County; NJ. E Hutchin-
son, Dorrance, Russell County; A E
| Strauss, Fowler, Meade County; j. /.
Trowbridge, Hawkeye, Decatur County;
A. F. Aderhald, Mcfarland, Wabaunsee
County; G. F. Gill, Raymond, Rice Coun.
ty; Minnie L. Dustin, Summunduwot,
Wyandotte County; E. W. Mckay, Por-
tbs, Osborne County; l. K. johnson, Two
Ii, Ellsworth County; E. s. Wasson,
Huntsville. Ellis County; Royal Eastman,
Woodston, Rocks County.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: A. j. Adamson, Sabetha. rolling
harrow and cu;tivator; Quincy Baldwin,
Tonganoxie, sash balance; j. II. Cassidy,
Leavenworth, cover fastener for vessels;
g. w. Day, Lansing, fountain attachment
for wash boilers; Alma Emmons, Galena,
ore separator; Enos Landes, Reserve. cul.
tivator: W. D. Makemson Prescott, churn;
II. c. Perry, Coffeyville, ironing board;
j. d. Pritchard, Topeka, hammock suspen-
sion device; F. w. Richey, ArmourdaIe,
stop or throttle valve; R F. Robinson,
Kansas City, brick machine; s. C. Tucker,
Garnett, buckle; J. NJ Wishart Marion,
sad iron heating apparatus.
The other evening Charles Gordon, a
Leavenworth grocer twenty-four years
old, met two negro men in front of his
store and scufle ensued, when he was
stabbed to the heart and died instantly.
Parties some distance away identified the
murderers as Monroe Campbell and Rich
Lemmons. When Gordon fell they es-
capped in the direction of the river. The
murdered man bore an excellent reputa-
ton, and was never known to have a
quarrel He leaves a widowed mother and
wife and one child.
The Governor has issued his proclama-
sion designating Thursday, April IL as
Arbor Day.
A VEIN of the best kind of bituminous
coal was recently discovered in the shaft
of the New Home mine at Leavenworth.
1t is free from sulphur and other impure
ties and when tested proved to be suited
to blacksmithing and cooking purposes
L. is said to be the most valuable coal field
III 'hoC PdiS VI lA5 duu VI SIcts
Importance to the city.
THE house of J.W. Baldwin, of Quenemo,
took fire the other evening from a defective
6ue and a babe which was asleep in the
room when the fire originated was fatally
burned.
THE Governor has appointed James H.
c. Brewer. of Peabody, member of the
Board of Silk Commissioners for the term
0f
On the 29th the President nominated
George Chandler, of Independence, Kan,
to be First Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, and Jacob V. Admire to be receiver of
the new land office at Kingfsher, Ind. Ter.
KANSAS postmasters appointed on the
9th: Belpre, Edwards County, James NJ.
Norvell, vice John Kennedy. resigned;
Pomona, Franklin County, B. G. Glenn,
vice Josiah D. Flora, removed; Prescott,
Linn County, William I. Fisher, vice John
L. Brown, removed; Central City, Ander-
son County, Everett Marsh, vice John W.
Farrris, resigned; Glenloch, Anderson
County, Adam R. Foster, vice G. F. Watt,
resigned; Luden, Rawlins County, R H.
Chase, vice John 81. Constable, removed;
Muscotah, Atchson County, George Pea
body, vice Henry II. Moore, removed;
COlmd, AHucESOu SOUuIy, PTduClS M lls
win, vice William w. Sharples, resigned.
Hon. THOMAS RYAN, Congressman from
the Fourth district, has been appointed
Minister to Mexico.
OFFICIALS of the Rock Island railroad
and a corps of engineers started from To-
peka on the 28th to make the final survey
for the extension of the road through the
indian Territory. The road is built as far
south as Pond creek in the Cherokee strip,
at which point construction will begin.
F. II. ANTHONY, an ex-police officer, re-
Gently complained at police headquarters |
in Leavenworth that he had been wayIaid !
the previous night by fifteen men and |
boys, while going home from the temper
ance meetings in Stiiling's addition, and |
badly beaten with stones and cut about |
the legs. He said he had done nothing to |
excite their wrath and didn't know what |
made them do it. He had severe cut in |
the left thigh, reaching to the bone, and |
the flesh below the knee was badly lacer-
ated. He received several bruises about |
the head and chest
o. Z. SERvIsS chief of police of Kansas
City, Kan, has been appointed postmaster
of that city to succeed V. j. Lane. editor
of the Herald, whose commission had ex-
pired.
THE little daughter of Lewis Aldridge
was rode down, trampled upon and prob
ably fatally injured by the horses of sew \
eral young hoodiums who attended a
meeting in Lyon County the other day
and rode furiously along the road regard
less of the many people that were return
ing from the services.
PROMINENT Santa Fe officials recently
expressed the opinion that this will be the
most prosperous season Kansas has ex-
in years, and that both the
railroad company and the people will
make money.
THE State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners, on the application of the Union
Pacific, has ordered a rehearing in the
bilene case, which involves the right of
,ne road to require another road,
1t a common point, to accept its cars and
place them at the mills and elevators to
De loaded and transported on a competing
inc.
The census of 1885 gave Kansas a popu-
alton of /, ,26S5 5Sl This consisted of 6I9,-
100 males and 5s9, $50 females. The mar
led were 46J, sol and the single III ,569,
While there were %, 214 widows and IA 246
vidowers, the widows being in the major
ty of widowers by 1868.
AN Eastern capitalist, who has been in
-estigating Kansas salt gives as his opin-
on that Kansas is certainly destined at
N early date to become the principal CEN
er for the supply of salt in the United
states.
ED CARSON recently fatally stabbed Jim
Hayden at Lawrence. Both are negroes
md the quarrel was over a woman.
CHARLES SLIPS, only seventeen years
Id, was recently arrested at Topeka for