Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-23
miscellaneous.

DlOOuy Tragedy was enacted IN Ine court
room of Justice Lewis at Kansas City,
Kan. James Smith. a notorious crook
was having a preliminary examination
upon the charge of safe blowing and
burglary, when he suddenly and stealthily
approached Detective Gilley, who had
worked up the case against him, and in an
instant drew knife across his throat
almost severing the head from the body.
Smith then made desperate effort to
escape from the room when the officer;
although mortally wounded, steadied him
self by table and fired four shots at the
desperado, three of which took effect and
he fell dead at the door. Smith also
stabbed another policeman in the thigh
in his desperation and received a shot
from that officers pistol. Smith did not
live minute after he cut Gilley's throat
and Gilley died the following Monday
morning.
LAST November Olof Hammerbeck, a
patient in the insane asylum at Topeka,
disappeared and could not be found, al
though diiigent search was made. The
other day while men were removing some
hay which had been stored in the
asylum stables since last fall they
were Mortified at finding his body
hanging from beam, where it
had been for nearly six months. The
supposition is that Hammerbeck climbed
to the top of the hay NOW and going into
the furthest and darkest corner of the
stabls deliberately hanged himself. He
was only nineteen years ole.
ABOUT midnight the other night Charles
Myers, employed at Fort Leavenworth as
n tailor, went to his home in North Leav-
enworth where he found the doors locked
against him. Being refused admittance
by his wife he burst open the door and
discovered a we'll known character, Tom
Harrington, in compromising position.
Myers opened fire with a navy revolver,
and one OF the shots struck Harrin gton in
the left thigh shattering the bone and
severing an artery. After the shooting
Myers and his wife fed, and the police
had not been able to find their where
abouts. Harrington's wound was con-
sidered fatal.
BURGLARS recently entered the dwellin G
of William Hethering ton at Atchison and
carried away property worth about $500,
including a fine gold watch, diamond ring,
shirt stud and sleeve buttons.
The insane wife of a farmer named B Bier,
residing near Bavaria, suddenly sprang
upon her husband the other day, gra ped
his long beard and beat his head with a
poker until he WIS insensible and helpless.
Although Bier knew that his wife was
mentally deranged he regarded her as en-
tirely harmless.
The free delivery postal service is to be
established at Arkansas City July 1.
j. G. SANDS. dealer in saddery and
harness, who established the first business
house in Lawrence in 1855, has made an
assignment. after Drawing al kinds of
storms for thirtyfOur years.
c. E RUTTER, clerk in the Farmers
Hotel at Ellsworth. shot himself in the
head with suicidal intent the other night.
He had chances of recovery.
GEORGE EHLER was fatally stabbed at
the Union Pacific depot at junction City
the other morning by Anton Maizer, a
German whom Ehler and his crowd were
heating. Mazer acted in self-defense.
A purse was raised and he was sent on
his way rejoicing. Ehler was tough.
The other morning Ernest Zsisenis,
timer twenty-seven years old. was found
dead in his boarding house at Topeka. He
was from Eudora. had been drinking and
a morphine bottle nearly empty was found
in his trunk. o herwise there was moth
ing to indicate suicide.
SOME graceess wag placed smallpox
signs upon the residences of many promi-
nent citizens of North Topeka the other
night, and the next mGrning the vaccine
trust advanced prices.
THE President on the 18th appointed
Richard l.. Walker, of Topeka, United
States Marshal for the district of Kansas,
vice Jones' removed.
BEFORE daylight the other morning
Fred E. Rose went to the banks of the
Solomon river at Minneapolis. placed a
revolver to his breast and fired bullet
through his heart, causing instantaneous
death. Rose was a young man about
twenty three years old, we'll respected
and until quite recently had been local
editor OF the Solomon Valley Democrat
No reason for the act was known.
SUSIE ELLIS. a young negro woman
was fatally stabbed at Leavenworth the
other night bv William McGee. noted
negro tough whose advances she rejected.
A GALVESTON (Tex.) firm recently
closed a contract for 1900 tons of Hutch
inson salt. The Galveston firm last year
used 40 Coz tons of English salt and have
decided to use Kansas salt in the future,
which is considered superior.
DURING the storm on the 18th lightning
struck the house of George Washington.
colored, of Kansas City, Kan, and set it
on fire. Washington and a two-year-old
child were ri.us.y burned.
THE Sumner County Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, of Wellington,
has been admitted by the State Commits
sioner of Insurance.
The State Bankers Association at its
recent session in Topeka reelected j. r
Mulvane president and a vice-president
from each Congressional district and from
each city of the first-class.
The livery barn and contents of George
Blurton at Frontenac, ten miles east of
Girard, was consumed by fire the other
day. Twelve horses, one COW, harnesses,
hay and buggies were destroyed. Loss,
g 500; insurance, s., 500.
The wholesale and retail dry goods
house of R. E. Taylor, at Hutchinson, re-
Gently failed
PERRIN, the man who recently dis.
charged a pistol at President Carnot in
Paris, was formerly resident of Kansas,
and for year or two was employed BY
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
at Atchison. Afterwards he was en-
ployed by the Kansas Pacific road and
finally returned to Europe.
The bodies of two fioaters were recently
found in the Kaw river at Kansas City,
Kan. One was a colored man with |
on his head indicating foul play;
the other was identified as Henry Herey,
! railroad employe.
SARAH SrUDLEY was recently killed by |
lightning near Chetopa- 4
GEORGE ROPES, of Topeka, has been ap-
pointed State -house architect