Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


1HE waterworks bridge across the Kaw
river at Kansas City, Kan, was washed
away by the sudden rise on the 18th. The
loss was estimated at $4,000.
THE State of Kansas through Governor
Humphrey received recently an exquisite
souvenir of the New York centennial
The gift is plate of delicate china deco.
rated with unique symbols In the center
is the monogram IN. W., radiating frou
which is a golden halo reaching to an
endless chain, the links of which enclose
the names of the States in the Union liz
1889. The souvenir is otherwise embel-
lished with appropriate inscriptions and
designs
PENSION AGENT CLICK has had placed
to his credit $3.50. 600, which, added to the
S275, 200 on hand, will be used for the pay
ment of pensions June l. The appropria-
ton is SO, 900 short of the amount needed,
so that while 81. $50, 900 will be drawn
upon. the pensioners newly added to the
list will by order of Commissioner Tanner
be compelled to wait until the July pay
ment for their money.
| OVER two hundred delegates attended
the meeting of the Kansas Travellers As
ISOLATION recently held at Hutchison.
| The officers elected were: President, j.
F. Kimball, Salina; first vice-president,
c. F. Byrens, Emporia; second vice-presi-
dent, Fred Wardenburg, Atchison; secre-
tary r j. Haus, Emporia; treasurer,
Harry Deviin, Leavenworth.
IT is the verdict of all that Kansas
never before at this season had such
splendid crop prospects. Fruit of all
kinds promise mammoth yield.
A LATE fire at Fort Scott destroyed the
furniture warehouse of the Stout Furni-
ture Company and the stock of A. w.
Benjamin. The total loss was estimated
at So. 000 and the total insurance about
$4,000
THE Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias
met at Leavenworth on the 2lst with $50
lodges represented and 600 Kni2h hts pres
emit The following officers We're elected:
Grand chancellor, Morgan Caraway, of
Great Bend; grand vice. chancellor, n. L.
Hallowell, of Kingman; grand prelate,
w. L. Walker. of Wellington; grand mas
ter of the exchequer, George Link, of
Leavenworth; grand keeper of records
and seal. G. j. Neubart, of Kansas City,
Kan; grand master at arms, F. L. Craig;
grand inner guard, Joseph Mayrath, of
Linwood.
WHILE Willie Sheehan, eighteen years
old, and his ten-year-old brother were on
the Union Pacific railroad bridge al Kan
sas City. Kan, the other afternoon, the
elder bow lost his balance. fell into the
river and was drowned.
Topeka has discovered that she has no
city ordinances forbidding opium joints,
and a number of Cinnamon are running
dens in that city. The defect is to be
cured by proper legislation.
The other day Thomas H. Fahs. brake
man on the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic
railroad, was badly smashed while max
ing a coupling at Olcate, station few
miles east of Larned. The drawheads
passed each other, catching his head and
body between the cars.
LEVI A. DoANE. an old citizen and
prominent real estate dealer Of Lawrence,
pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery in
the district court of Douglas County the
other day and was sentenced by Judge
Benson to two years in the pententiary.
He appropriated funds left him to loan
and gave his client forged paper, ex-
pecting to take it up before it became due.
DURING a recent storm three horses be-
County, were struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
THE assessors returns show that Sum-
ner County this year has il cultivation
Sc, 433 acres of wheat, 81, 1872 acres of oats,
and 1854 acres of corn. In March there
were yet in farmers hands rs 49, bushels
of wheat and $50 3S6 bushels of corn.
A JURY in the district court of Shawnee
County recently awarded $3.50 damages TO
James HalIoran, who sued F. p. Baker,
late owner of the Topeka Commonwealth,
for SO, 600 for libel. The Commonwealth
and State Journal charged that Halloran
belonged to a gang of toughs who stole
from the Santa Fee at Lawrence. Halloran
sued the State Journal last fall and was
awarded 81 damages. Baker has filed
motion for new trial.
MATILDA POWELL, a colored woman
fifty years old, dropped dead in front of
her door in Kansas City, Kan, the other
day.
The Kansas Christian Sunday School
Association closed its annual convention
at Manhattan on the Odd. Two hundred
delegates were in attendance. Over 81, 100
were raised for the State work and $17O0
toward the endowment of Garfield Uni
LEAvENwoRrH celebrated the opening of
her new coal mine the other day with
trades display that astonished the ma
tives.
SAMUEL F. Japan, who was promin ent |
in Kansas in the early days of the anti
slavery agitation, has been appointed |
United States storekeeper at Baltimore, !
Nd.
RETURNS from the eleven counties COM |
prising the Fourth Congressional district |
showed that General Harrison Kelley was |
elected to Congress by ma jority of about |
!, 900. The total opposition vote was only |
about ], 500
MILES KIRK wealthy farmer living
nine miles north of Newton. went to his
to quiet an Infatuated Jersey
COW the other night, when the animal
sprang at him, caught him on her horns,
threw him to the ground and gored him
horribly, laying bare his lungs, breaking
his arms and tearing his stomach. 1t was
feared his injuries were fatal.
1T was stated that the heavy rain of the
23d assumed the nature of a water-spout
in the vicinity of Lawrence and that much
damage was done The damage by hail
vas also reported to be considerable.
For the week ended May q the stock
Yards at Kansas City, Kan, received:
Cattle. 13, 965; hogs 49,O5s; sheep. 1867;
lCrses, $40. The shipments were 1922
cattle, 13 AS hogs, 2 81 sheep and 401
lorses.
THE storm of the 23d was particularly
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