Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| EDWARDS ana MS WlIe 70 assist on the
farm, the woman to care for the children.
A man by the name of Bloomer and his
wife also assisted, the latter having 8
three-year-old child. While all the par
ties, except the Edwards woman, were in
the field this child disappeared. Excite
ment ran high and the neighbors took
possession of Edwards and his wife, wac
had told contradictory stories about the
child's disappearance. The woman in
her fright confessed that she killed it and
| her husbands statements led to the same
conclusion. Edwards and his wife were
repeatedly strung up to get the truth out
Of them but the body of the child could
not be found Several nights afterwards
the little one was found safe and we'll on
the doorsteps of a neighbor two miles
away. 1t had evidently been kidnapped,
but by whom and for what purpose is not
| known, and the matter was being further
| investigated.
! THE quiet village of Rossville recently
had a sensation. Jacob Kuykendall, a
| young man, in a fit of ms anity. shot and
| seriously wounded his wife and then bar
ricaded his doors and defed the town.
Sheriff Fuller was telephoned the situation
at Topeka and he dispatched Deputy Dis
man still defiant. The officer conferred
with physician and resolved to chloro-
| form Kuykendall, which he did by squirt
ing the drug through the keyhole until
the man was inseusible. He was then
taken to Jail at Topeka.
The charters for two new corporations
were recently filed with the Secretary of
! State, the combined capital stock of which
J II % M
| business is Kansas City, Kan, and the
object is to smelt ores by short method
process recently discovered by George II.
Chick, of California. The directors for
each company are: David J. Brewer
Thomas R. Starns and Nelson F. Acers. of
| Leavenworth; George II. Chick, of San
Francisco; John H. Krull, William H.
| Whiteside and Marvin r. King, of Kansas
City, Mo.
The Governor has app ointed the follow
ing delegates 10 the Wheat Growers con-
vention to be held at St Louis October %:
s. c. King, of Atchison; Charles Robin
son, of Lawrence: w. j. Lingenfelter, of
Wellington, and r F Burden of Bender.
W. H. RGGINBoTHAM, who was recently
convicted at Manhattan of receiving de-
posits when he knew his bank was in a
y
trial 1t is stated that all creditors of his
bank will be paid in full.
FIVE towns in Kansas have women
mayors and there are twenty-five women
serving in City Councils, three police
judges, twelve county superintendent,
several city clerks and treasurers and
about 30 on school boards.
A CALL has been issued for a convention
IF .1t,fr frao Of fha fnfn 70 he
held at Topeka October Is
THE annual convention of the Christian
Church of Kansas, recently held at To-
peka, was largely attended.
ABOUT dark the other night brutal as
sault was made upon Sister Camille of the
Convent of the Sacred Heart in the con-
vent school house at Emporia. after the
scholars and other teachers had left. She
was struck over the head a number of
times with slung shot or other weapon,
until knocked unconscious land then kicked
and stamped upon until supposed to be
dead. Her assailant was supposed to be a
young railroader from Terre Haute, Ind,
named Murray, who became infatuated
with her while she nursed him in hos
pital in Terre Haute, and which place his
prosecutions forced her to leave TO avoid
said to be the third attempt he has made
upon her life because she refused to leave
the convent and become his wife. The
fellow had not been arrested.
WILLFoRD & Co., Wichita druggists,
have been sued for $4,000 damages by
Mrs. Annie Webster, who claims that the
firm sold her husband drink of whisky.
1HE Governor has granted pardon, on
dot 81 Sfofo -
Pardons, to Julius l. Bailey, of Reno
County, who was sentenced September
II, 1883. to be hanged for the murder of
his father, Josiah p Bailey. Bailey has
been in the penitentiary since 1888, and it
is believed he is entirely innocent of the
crime.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY has appointed
the following delegates to the Farmers
Congress to be held at Montgomery, Ala,
on November 13, IA and Is: At large, a.
P. Forsythe, of Montgomery County; A.
W. Smith Mcpherson County; First
Congressional district, j. W. Schroeder, Of
Jefferson County; Second Nick Reitz. of
Johnson; Third, N. W. Taylor, of Craw-
ford; Fourth j. w. Johnson, of Green
wood; Fifth, James Smith, of Clay; Sixth,
William Simpson. of Norton; Seventh,
JOHN helley, Ct SeugWlcR
THE young man Latham who recently
mysteriously disappeared from Sedgwick
was found dead few days later in the
grass by the road. He had committed
suicide, but no cause was assigned.
WHILE parties were recently excavat-
ing for a sewer at Salina petrified bone
was discovered at a depth of twenty two
feet that appeared to be the thighbone of
a man from the hip to the knee, which if a
human bone, was that of a man who
must have weighed 800 pounds.
CHARTERS were recently filed with the
Secretary of State of the Junction City &
Fort Riley Rapid Transit Street Railway
Company, chief office at junction City. |
Capital stock $50, 900, and for the Contra |
Kansas Camp Mining Association.
The State convention of the Christian |
Church, which met recently at Topeka, |
raised by personal pledges $50, 900. COM !
plotting the endowment for the Garfield |
at Wichita of 500. 900. 1t was !
a marvellous thing to do, for that Church |
is not strong in this State. The students /
Of the University and their literary socie- /
ties pledged $4,000. The professors and |
other citizens of Wichita gave $1,000, be- /
sides donations previously raised.
The other day G. W. Gay, a carpenter,
met with a sudden death while prospect
ing for coal in an old shaft upon farm
be recently purchased near Fort Scott A
huge boulder weighing two tons fell upon
him. He leaves a wife and son, the latter
a young man.
Ex-Governor MARTIN, who has been
i'll for several weeks at his home
in Atchison, is reported to be slowly re-