Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

IATENIS recently lSSueU 10 hduSaS
inventors: Kitchen cabinet, John A.
Ball, Kansas City; dishwashing ma
chine. Robert ii. COrnett, st. John;
hame fastener, Alfred Fellows, Lansing;
buckle, Michael III. Freidline, Fredonia;
anti-induction system, John o. Stock
well, Burlington; chute for dehorning
cattle, James MOoreheuse, Clyde.
RECENTLY while James Sherman and
Charles Edwards were out hunting, in
Douglas County, the latter accidentally
shot Sherman. He received nearly a
full charge of shot in the forehead
Both eyes were badly injured, but the
doctors think that his sight will not be
impaired. His cheeks were also badly
lacerated,
THE charred. flesh and bones of the
lower part of a mans leg were taken
out of the ruins of the fertilizer at Ar
mour's packing house at Kansas City,
Kan. the other morning. The leg
was supposed to be all that was left of
Kills Murphy, colored man who had
been missing since the late fire and who
at the time was supposed TO have per-
ished in the building.
SECRETARY MOHLER, of the agricult-
aral department, has received from his
correspondents in every county in the
State a conservative estimate of the
Weld of wheat, and he finds the total
product of the State for this year to be
36,219.S51 bushels, of which So, ,030, ,04S
bushels is winter wheat and 1,1S9, SOB
bushels spring wheat. This makes the
year 1889 second only to the year 1884,
when the total product was 4S,000,O00
bushels, and it is more than double last
years yield.
A MAN giving the name of Edward
Minor, while suffering with mental
alteration the other evening, jumped
from a pier of the Kansas avenue bridge
at Kansas City, Kan. The water @as
very shallow, however, and Minors life
was saved.
CHARLES and Fanny Burnsides (col-
ored) have been held to the district court
at Topeka, on the charge of mu--
dering the father of the man and the
husband of the woman. The case against
them is strong.
Christopher SHAFER, gambler, snot
himself through the brain at Crafts
boarding house in Armourdale the
other day and died instantly. 1t
was understood that Shafer had
been losing heavily lately and
became despondent. He was about
thirty-two years old and had no family.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Sedan National Bank to
begin business. Capital stock, S5O,00G
IN the last year or two SS0O,0OO has
been expended on improvements at Fort
Riley. and before the cavalry and artil
lery school is completed $500, 900 more
will be required, when Riley will be the
most thoroughly equipped and improved
military post in the world.
THE President has granted a respite
until Wednesday, January Snext, in the
case of David Lemon, the colored soldier
convicted of murder in the Indian Ter
ritory and sentenced to be hanged at
Wichita.
THE Kansas and Missouri Telephone
Company have perfected plan by which
Sas City will be in direct communication
with each other in short time.
WICHITA has sent forty carloads of
corn to the DAKOTA sufferers.
AT Armourdale the other day Rev.
DR.. Arnold. Baptist minister, was
looking down the elevator opening in
business house when the elevator COM
ing down caught his head. His face
was torn and disfgured, both jaw bones
were fractured, several of his teeth
knocked out, his lips cut and the flesh
badly laceratcd.
THE Attorney-General mas appointed
Z. L. Coffin his assistant at Wichita to
prosecute the violatcrS of the Prohibit
tory law.
THE Social Science Club of Kansas
and Western Missouri met for its ninth
semi-annual session at Wichita on the
7th, Mrs. Noble Prentiss presiding, and
Srsr fifty delegates present. The ad-
zIess of welcome was made by Mrs. II.
G. Toler.
JAMES Bishop was lately con-
victed at Lawrence of violating
the Prohibitory law, fined 500
and sentenced to sixty days in Jail,
but he escaped from the constable
who had him in charge while he was
trying to get bail.
THE village of Silver Lake was re-
Gently considerably excited over a
brutal assault made by John Knott on
his sister, Mrs. Henry, a cripple. He
went to her residence when she was
alone and beat her severely. The
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Knott was released from the county Jail
only two weeks previous, having served
a sentence for assault. After he had
bru:ally beaten his sister he smashed
no and destroyed her household goods.
THE Governor has granted a pardon
tc Henry Chester, of Wyandotte County,
who was convicted July 12, 1887, of as
sault with intent to kill and was sem
tenceG to five years Imprisonment. Also
| to Charles Shelton, of Cowley County,
who was convicted December %, 1888,
Of assault with intent to kill and SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment.
A STATE convention of persons en-
gagged in raising and feeding livestock
has been called to meet in Topeka on
January s, to consider the present de-
pressed condition of the livestock in
dustry and to suggest means and meas
ures of relief.
THE Typographical Union of Topeka
has inaugurated movement to erect a
monument in State House Square to the
late Ex-Governor John A. Martin.
WALTER FREANoR, aged twenty-one
al I,o% t. -
the other afternoon by Charles Blume,