Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

another early the other morning. Spahg~
| Ter was at work when the bull made an
attack on him, knocking him down and
crushing him terribly. His father, hear
| ing him shouting, ran out to his assistance
and he, too, was knocked down and
trampled upon by the Infatuated beast
Abel Genet. the hired man, then attempt
ed to save the Spanglers, but he was so
injured that he could render no assistance.
Mrs. Spangler seeing the dangerous posi-
ton of her husband and son, bravely
seized a heavy club and the brute was I'm
ally driven of. Young Spagler was ter
ribly injured and could hardly recover.
The plucky woman escaped without IN
jury.
ARNOLD BUCXMAN, a Clay Center
jeweler, while attempting to solder the
nozzle on glycerine can the other after
noon was burned quite severely about the
throat and neck from the igniting of the
| gas in the can.
The story comes from Wichita that the
other evening an unknown woman, while
walking in the most arisotcratic part of
that city, was bound and gagged by two
men who drove rapidly up behind her and
carried her away in a covered carriage.
Her cries attracted the attention of two
bakers but before they could reach her
the men were out Of sight around a COR
ner The woman was about twenty-five
years of age and richly dressed. She had
arrived in the city, as an investigation
showed, a few DAYS previous and refused
| to register at the hotel at which she
| stopped, but said that she was Mrs. Rhine
| hart, of Cincinnati 1t was stated that
| Rhinehart was not the woman's name. but
that she comes of a prominent Illinois
family and that the two men had been
hired TO put her out of the way.
PHIL LACEY. aged twenty one years,
fatally shot himself in the head while
playing with a revolver at Atchison the
other day.
WHILE the people of Dacsy. a small
town south of Ellsworth, on the st. Louis
& San Francisco railroad. we're prepar-
ing to observe Decoration Day they were
startled by the announcement that Will
lam Strong had killed his wife. and then
going TO the house Of a neighbor killed
him and his wife. TAe names of the muir
dered neighbors were not learned. Strong
then fed and a strong posse was in pur-
suit but he was heavily armed and de-
fed arrest He was thought to be insane.
s NJ. ROCHELLE, late police commits
sioner at Wichita, was arrested the other
day upon the charge of obtaining money
in felonious manner. 1t is charged that
he induced Mrs. Klaus to sign a note for
500, telling her that it related to piece
of property upon which she held mort
gage After obtaining her signature he
sold the note and the first that she knew
of it was when she received notice that
payment must be made. He asserted his
innocence and gave bail to appear for
trial.
JAMES MARTIN, father of Ex-Governor
John A. Martin, died at Atchison on the
night of the 18th at the advanced age of
eighty-seven years.
The Concordia land district has been
consolidated with that of Salins, with Its
office at Salina-
CONTRACTS for new army buildings at
Fort Riley to cost $50, 900 were let recently.
LUTHER MONTGOMERY, bridge repairer
fell from the structure over the Neosho
river near Emporia the other night, and
| received injuries which resulted in death
the following day.
THE people of Lawrence give but little
credit to the report that Hillman has been
found in Arizona.
THE Board of Railroad Commissioners
have decided that the Santa Fe, Missouri
Pacific and Frisco roads should construct
connecting tracks at Arkansas City in
order that all the roads might have access
to the mills now solely reached by the
Santa Fe.
GEORGE NEwCoMB. once a prominent
pawn broker of Wichita, committed sui
eide the other afternoon in the bank build.
ing at Clearwater He had recently lost
S25 900 by unfortunate investments and
brooded heavily over his trouble, and it is
supposed that this was the reason for his
| act. He leaves a widow and two children.
He was at one time superintendent and
treasurer of the Youngstown & Paines-
Vile road in Ohio and was very wealthy,
. | but lost most of his wealth through specu.
, lations.
A TERRIBLE cyclone recently swept
through Chase County in the vicinity Of
Strong City. Many houses were blown
down and great amount of property de-
stroyed. The residence of Milton Brown
was wrecked. Mr.. Brown was killed, hi:
, wife fatally and his son, daughter and
| babe severely injured.
, IT is stated that requisition papers will
; | not be issued for the return of Hillman
, from Ariz ma until his identity has been
, established. Ii the man arrested is proven
to be Hillman by evidence sufficient tc
|
panies will paw the reward offered fol-
| him and then use the same evidence tC
, convict HiIlman of conspiracy to defraud
and of the murder of Walters. II the de-
r tectives fail to prove their case, the COM
panies will, it is believed, let the case
drop.
ISAAC PARKS, farmer and an old resi-
dent and jusics of the peace of Washing.
ton County, was killed at a side track and
cattle chute called SpeDcerville on the st.
Joseph & Grand Island railroad, the other
night
EUGENE WARE, of Fort Scott, read an
original poem on the recent occasion Of
decorating the graves of the soldiers al
Arlington Heights National cemetery,
) near Washington, d. c.
r L. WALKER. United States marshal,
has appointed Captain H. ID. Baker, OF
!. Guthrie hi, chief deputy for the Indian
Territory. Captain Baker will have gen.
eral supervision of all deputy marshals in
the Territory.
EVERY city, village and hamlet in Kan
sas honored the memory of the Nations
dead defenders on Decoration Day by
strewing flowers upon their graves. In
many places the ceremonies were Of more
than uaI interest
l. J. PERRY, a formerly of Kansas"
newspaper man, is an applicant for the ap-
pointment as one of the board 10 publish
the war records.
The ten-year-old son Of Sylvester Gif.
ford fell into the river at Atchison the
other day and was drowned.
RETURNS from the eleven counties COM
prising the Fourth Congressional district
showed that General Harrison Kelley was
elected to Congress by a majority of about