Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


A MORTGAGE for S15l 900, 0Oo was recent
IL fled in the recorders Office of Wyan
dotte County. It was executed Nav l by
the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road TO the United States Trust Company
OF New York. The entire Chicago, Nil
waukee & st. Paul system is place under
mortgage for $50, 100000 for a period o.
100 years. The mortgage bonds will be Of
the denomination of $1,000 and there vii
be 1900 of them.
1HE other day 15j men were discharged
from the Santa Fs shops at Topeka. The
reduction was utterly unexpected, and
was made on the strength of telegram
from President William B, Strong. The
cut was divided between all the depart
ments. and is supposed to be in the inter
est of economy. Single men only were
discharged.
! WILLIAM PARISH, young man twenty
i've years old the other night visited the
residence of George B. Callahan. who had
but recently been married, and while si;'
ting Oh the porch suddenly drew pistol
and shot MIS-. Callahan dead. He then
left and when officers went to arrest him
! he completed the tragedy by shooting
himself Parish was rejected by Mrs.
Callahan, for whose hInd ne aspired
! when she was Miss Eva Curry, anil about
two months ago he attempted TO commit
suicide by taking laudanum, but was
saved by the timely arrival of physicians.
At the tine of the killing he appeared to
be on the most friendly terms with the
| young married couple.
| The other night John Chambers and
John Chessner, two Kansas City crooks,
I attempted to burglarize the house of Ell
/ Hyatt, a farmer living ten miles northeast
| of o nthe. Chambers, who was the first
/ 10 enter the house met with warm re-
ception in the kitchen from Mr.. Hyatt,
who fired three shots, two taking effect,
one in the left ann and the other in the
| stomach. Though wounded, he fought
desperately, when Mrs. Hyatt went 10 ths
assistance of her husband and with a
heavy club struck the thief senseless.
Physicians pronounced his wounds fatal
The other crook made good hi, escape.
THE house OF William r. Se.lars, near
Medicine Lodge, was recently struck by
lightning and Mrs. D. R. Bailey, who had
her baby in her lap was killed. The child
was uninjured.
THREE or four negro hovs, ranging in
age from fifteen to sixteen years, recently
went into the river swimming at Kansas
City, KAN, when one of them, Frank Low,
was drowned. Il was thought 10 be an
accident, but day or two later one Of
the survivors told the story that Bud Pat
terson. a boy fifteen years cid. had held
the boy Low under the water and drowned
him out OF revenge for LOWS connecting
Patterson with a stealing transaction.
Patterson was held for trial
IT is stated that confidence men are
swindling old soldiers in Kansas by in
ducing them to sign notes under the i'm
preston that they are placing their sig
natures TO pension claim papers.
IRRIGATION has been a complete failure
this year in Kansas. The bitches have all
been washed ont by the rains.
Ex-Governor CLICK advocates. as a
means OF overcoming the exactons OF the
binding Irvine trust, law providing for
the manufacture of Irvine in the State
penitentiary.
JUST before noon the other day the
house of H. H. Olney. a Clay Center den.
fist, caught fire from a gasoline stove
His young wife took their two small chill.
dren to place of safety and then re-
turned to try and save some of tie val
but the third time she did not return
When assistance arrived the house was
too far gone to risk an entrance and Mrs.
Olney persisted.
The trial of Dr. Stewart. at Clay Center,
for the killing of J. b. Wellington, the
drummer who persisted in paying atten-
ton to his married daughter, resulted in
an acquittal by the jury.
4 T.
sonville, H., the other day with bullet
in his head and would probably die. From
letters found on his person it appeared
that he was a well-to-do farmer in Kansas
named George E. Trainer. He had writ
ten to a brother in Minneapolis saying
that he was insane and preferred to kill
himself rather than be s4nt to a hospital.
JAMES Cowgirl, son of Postmaster Cow
gill, of Baldwin City, has been declared
insane. He received a sunstroke some
years ago and "a intervals since then has
been considered of unsound mind. He
will be sent to the asy ium at Osawatomie.
JOHN EBEN, a bus driver and night mail
carrier at Lawrence, has been arrested fol-
robbng the mail of packages of merchan.
disc which had been traced to him.
THE other day Thomas Martin aud C.
NJ. Middleton, Pratt County farmers,
quarreled over the ownership of some
grape vines that had been planted jointly.
Martin emptied three barrels of a re-
vover into Middleton. Death was almost
immediate. Martin gave himself up and
claimed self-defense.
DURING n late storm at kinsley Mrs
Matthias Sehon and her daughter were
rendered unconscious by a lightning
stroke.
LOUIS ToURNIER an old Frenchman,
who resided as n hermit on the island
south of Arkansas City, was recently
found dead in his corn crib with three
bullet holes in his body. He was eighty
two years old and somewhat eccentric.
1t is alleged that he lived on the proceeds
of moonshine whisky which he was max
ing himself.
THE Secretary of the Interior has &C.
cepted the resignation of o E. Leonard,
superintendent of the Haskell Institute at
Lawrence, and has given the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs authority to Ges-
ignate DR.. William V. Coffin, of Law
renee, superintendent in his place.
THE son of Ell Neidlinger was recently
drowned near Fort Leavenworth, and a
few days later the body was found float
ing in the river near Pomeroy.
THE glucose works in operation at
Leavenworth co SINE daily 1000 bushels
of corn, ninety tons of coal and employ
$50 men, paying them S3,50) per week in
wages; $50 barrels of syrup are turned out
every day, which are shipped to all parts
of the country.
The other evening the seven-year-old
and only son of ex-Adjutant-G General |
Campbell as killed by car on the Eiec- |
trio road al Topeka. He attempted TO |