Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| the other morning by Willie Rhodes
| They were friends and the killing &C.
Cured while both were intoxicated.
[ Heron was running q restaurant and
! whisky joint. Rhodes is highly connect
/ ed and had a bright future until strong
! drink got the better OF him. Rhodes
waived preliminary examination and was
: held for trial.
! WHEN William Stanley, a North Topeka
! groceryman, went to his store the other
/ morning he found but little left except the
: bnilding and empty shelves. When he
went away from his store the evening
( previous he left it well filed with a COM
plete stock of groceries, but during the
/ night burglars had visited it and nothing
was left but empty shelves, barrels and
, bins. Flour, meat, tobacco. cigars, sugar,
coffee, potatoes-every thing worth hav-
| ing-had been carted away.
| On September 16 Thomas A. Giblin, ex-
| aminer and general agent of Lockwood
! Mortgage Company of Wellington, left
his home in Pratt on a trip in the interest
| of his company. since which time nothing
: has been heard from him, either by his
/ family or company. Facts have since
| come to light showing him to be de-
/ faulter to the company to the amount or
about s., 900.
/ The other day Mr. and Mrs Martin
Ridenour, of Fort Scott celebrated their
/ golden wedding. They have forty living
/ children.
! HE jewelry store of c. l. Viets, at Au-
( gusta, was completely cleaned out 10y
burglars the other night
! AT an early hour the other morning the
! damaged to the extent of "a 900 by fire.
/ The fire was caused by spontaneous COM
J bustion in the coal bin.
/ ANNIE GRIMES the daughter of promi-
nant Douglas County farmer, recently
/ eloped with James Wilson, the hired man
! of her father.
| The first convention of the Young Mems
| Christian Association of Kans as was held
| in Topeka in 1882 with only tn irty-seven
delegates present. On the 18th of the
! present month the annual convention of
the Y. NJ C. a. was again held at To-
| peka with over eight hundred delegates
! present. The conven ton was a very in
| teresting one and the following officers
were elected: President Manford Schoon-
over Garnet; first vice president, W. H.
Howell Baker University; second vice.
president, B. Hobbs. Kansas City, Kan {;
secretary, W. W. Bowman, Concordia;
assistant secretary, S. w. Naylor, Wash
! burn College; assistant press secretary,
A. L. Ackley, State University.
! MAY, the fifteen year old daughter of
/ Sheriff Thomas B. Bowling, of Wyandotte
! County, recently eloped with Ollie G.
Cannon, a street car conductor, aged
| twenty one years. kilograms were sent
J in oil ha
clippers, hut they had got the start and
were married at Carthage, IL
! A. H BENEDICT an old gentleman of
eighty-fve wears, residing five miles
northeast of Lawrence. was thrown from
his wagon the other evening and injured
| so seriously that he died the following
! day.
| The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners recently made an inspection of the
Southern Kansas division of the Santa Fe
road from Holiday to Winfield and noti-
fed the officers of the company that the
track from Holiday to Ottawa was in
very unsatisfactory condition, and at
/ other points the rails were badly worn.
! AT the recent biennial session of the
| Grand Legion Select Knights A. o. U.
! w., held at Emporia, the following officers
were chosen: Grand commander, I. A.
| Alden, of Atchison; grand vice-com-
mander, j. A Rsgnell, Mcpherson; grand
! lieutenant commander, S. D. Hallowell,
| Wichita; grand 7, corder, E. NJ. Ford, En-
! poria; grand treasurer, A. j. Huntoon,
/ Topeka; grand standard bearer, r. P.
/ Ray, Topeka; grand senior workman, c.
! w. Green, Topeka; grand junior work.
! man, Ed. Russell, Lawrence; grand
! guard, J. P. Duncan, lola; grand medical
! examiner, j. B, Hibben, Topeka.
A RECENT letter received at Topeka
/ from Washington stated that General A.
! B. Campbell, of Topeka, has been assured
! of an appointment as Consul at Melbourne,
! Australia.
! INFORMATION recently received at To-
! peka from the Paris Exposition was to
! the effect that the State of Kansas had
| been awarded gold medal for the best
| agricultural report exhibited.
ROBERT HENDERSON, the colored boy
who shot and killed his step-father at
Leavenworth last spring while the latter
was abusing his wife (young Henderson's
mother) was recently tried and acquitted.
THE Parkinson Sugar Company. of Fort
Sect, has just closed a most successful
season in spits f the delays incident to
! the wet weather in the spring. The prod
uct of marketable sugar will be about
| 500. 600 pounds. The run on the 18th was
| 13. 900 pounds from cane that was planted
July 13
| SIX THOUSAND Southern sheep were
lately driven into Russell County.
! IT is stated that the most successful
sugar making this year with the highest
| grade of molasses has been that of the
/ Wichita Sugar Company, at Conway
| Springs. In addition 10 fifty barrels of
sugar per day. a car load OF strip per day
| was turned off, every drop of which for
! the entire season has been contracted at
more than twenty cents per gallon.
! The will of the late Bishop Vail con-
! tanned the following requests: College Of
the Sisters of Bethany 81 600 to be invested
! by the trustees and held as a scholarship
| to aid the education and support of
clergyman's daughter, to be named by the
Bishop of the diocese and to be known as
Bishop Vail scholarship in aid of poor
| cIergyman's daughters" Christ's Hospital
| s.. 600; College of the Sisters of Bethany
| s.. 900, to be known as the Montgomery Il.
! Clarkson scholarship in aid of a poor
clergyman's daughter. Bishop Wallis ex-
tensive library is given to the chapter OF
! Grace Cathedral, excepting nifty volumes
| to Rev. John BLACKWELL. The library Is to
be placed in a suitable room or rooms and
held for the future benefit Of the diocese
| of Kansas or any future diocese which
shall include the city of Topeka There
are ten minor baQuests to members OF the
family of $500 to s.. 900 each.
FoRT ScorT is exceedingly happy over
the prospect of becoming the center of the
Gould roads in Southern Kansas
S.urrT GTrpTx a resident of Lincoln