Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ALBERT 1APP SnOI ana killed hey
Woodruff in stanton County the other
day. The victim was broihsr-in-law to
the murderer Relatives did not think
that Woodruf's wife was properly cared
for and protested against her living with
her husband. A quarrel was picked with
him which resulted in his being shot Tie
shooting was done in the presence OF his
wife. Tapp fed. This was the first killing
in the county.
E W. WEST a travelling man for Kan
sas City cigar house. disappeared very
mysteriously at Wichita the other day
and no trace of him could be found. He
had sold his residence in Kansas City and
was removing his family to Arkansas
City. He had 5000 on his person when
he left his wife at the hotel, saying he
would be back soon. He was seen drink
ing in the afternoon and that was the last
trace of him.
JAMES PIERCE, Wichita negro, recent
" asked John Mullen, also colored, to pay
him thirty cents he owed him. Mullen
without uttering word in reply drew a
razor from his pocket and killed Pierce.
! The debt had been incurred in crap game.
THE Goodlander Mill Company, of Fort
Scott, recently commenced suit in the
circuit court at Chicago against tn Stand
ard o Company in a plea OF trespass for
! 100000. In November 1887, the Standard
Oil Company shipped tank car contain
! ing 6 900 gallons of kerosene to Fort Scott,
where it was placel upon a sidetrack be-
hind the extensive mills and elevators Of
! the Goodlander Company. Workmen in
! emptying the tank unscrewed the cap of
| the outlet pipe, which was out of order,
and when the cap was removed the Coz
gallons of oil burst out, flooding the first
story of the mill. When the stream of oil
reached the furnaces in the boiler room
it was ignited and the mill and elevators,
valued at 100000 were totally destroyed.
PAUL PERRY, a Frenchmau who had lost
both legs below thu knee in mine explo-
sion at Burlngame, and had since
been begging on the streets of Leaven-
worth, i'll company with his thirteen year
old daughter, was arrested the other day
on the girls complaint charging him with
! incest. He stoutly denied the girls
charge. but was placed under 81, O)0 bonds,
in default of which he was sent TO jail.
The girl was sent TO her brother in Kansas
City and when the case was called could
not appear and Perry went free.
THE Grant Monument Committee met
at Fort Leavenworth the other day, ex-
amined the statue of the late General
Grant and accepted it from the contract
ors, Hodge & Mccarthy. The president
was directed 10 pay the amount due the
contractors. No special day for The I'M
vailing ceremony has been set but it will
probably take place September y Com
mittees on invitation with General Nc
Cook as chairman and on railroad trans
portation with S. F. Nicely as or airman,
were appointed. The grounds about the
statue are being put in proper condition.
A CHARTER has been filed with the
Secretary of State for the Nebraska, Kan
sas & Southwestern road. The company
has capital stock of 81, 225, 000, and pro-
pose to build go miles of road in Kan as
within the next year. The headquarters
of the company are at Hutchinson.
W. H. ANDERSON, one of I he most prom
nent real estate dealers in Lyon County
and a partner in the firm of Anderson &
Butler, Americas, was recently arrested
on the charge of forgery. He is accused
of making out false abstracts and getting
loans upon them
The following delegates to the Nrtional
Editorial Association a Detroit have been
appointed by President Dunn, of the
Northwestern Kansas Editorial Associa-
ton: w. N. Caldwell, BeIoit; A. P. Rid
die, Minneapolis; A. L. Alrich, Cawker
City; S. H. Dodge, Be!oit; D. a. Valen-
tine, Clay Center; G. I. Davis, Republic
CITY.
THE troops at Fort Leavenworth pa
raded on the 17ih in honor of General W.
T. Sherman, who was on a visit to the
Fort
The charter of the South Dodge Canal
filed with the Secretary of State. Its pur-
pose is to build and maintain an irrigating
ditch between the Arkansas river and
Ford City. The river is TO be tapped on
the south side at point within one mile
of section 81, township &C. south of range
&c west in Ford County. The capital stock
is $500
PROF. Snow, of the State University, re-
Gently shipped forty-five consignments of
diseased chinch bugs to farmers in eight
different States as an experiment to de-
termine the practical utility of the dis
ease for the determination of the bugs.
Prof. Snow feels confident that this dis
ease, known as white fungus" will be
the means of Kidding the country of the
chinch bug.
The unprecedented sale of self binders
NOTlucIH hdH>dS IHlS SSdSOl
speaks volumes for the enormous crops of
small grain raised.
JOHN NJ. PRICE, of Atchison. has filed
petition in the district court of Cherokee
County asking for a receiver for the South
Side Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, a lead and zinc mining enterprises
of Gaiena. The property involved in the
suit is varously estimated at being worth
from 500. 600 10 1900 000
IT is stated that Willie Baldwin, who is
serving life term in the Kansas peniten7
tiary for the murder of his sister at Atch-
ison, is sick and likely to die.
FRED YANKE, who had charge of the
Archer electric works at Wichita, is said
to have disappeared and the company
and other creditors wish TO see him. A
young lady to whom he had been paying
marked attention caused a warrant to be
issued for him. charging that he ran away
with her gold watch.
IT is asserted that a Douglas County
man threshed go bushels of wheat from
a fivA-acre field.
In December of last year the Depart
ment of Agriculture received from the
Chief Secretary's office at Queensland, |
Australia, a communication requesting /
the department to nominate TO that Gov
eminent a suitable person TO be appointed /
az instructor in agriculture, and Secretary |
Rusk the other day appointed Prof. Ed /
ward VI. Shelton, OF Manhattan, to the /
position. Prof. Shelton has for many 1
years been professor of practical agri- /
culture in the Kansas state Agricultural /
College.
JUDGE GUTHRIE has decided that the |
young men of Topeka can not ride their |
b;crcIas acro.a +ba hridOe the city ordi- !