Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Topeka upon a telegram from New York
City charging him with forgery. Later
officers arrived and he was taken back
East Schwartz was at one time man OF
some prominence in New York, and his
father substantial business man. The
younger Schwartz had married and then
commenced a systematic forgery of his
father-in-law's name, upon whose COM
plant he was pursued and arrested.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY has granted q
pardon to D. l. Crowder, who was con-
victed at the September term Of the dis
trict court of Kingman County, of at
tempting to bEibe witness and sentenced
to thirty days imprisonment in the county
Jail and to pay a fine of $50. The balance
of the Imprisonment and fine are remitted
and full pardon granted.
In case recently appealed to the SD
preme Court, where a case for damages
was given to the jury in the lower court
on Saturday and the jury brought in a
verdict for plaintiff on Sunday afternoon
and the judge received the verdict, dis
charged the jury and rendered Judgment,
the Supreme Court held it to be wel-set-
tied that the verdict of a jury may be re-
ceived on Sunday, the acceptance not be-
ing equivalent to a judgment, but the rem
dition of judgment on Sunday is Ju-
dicial act and therefore invalid. The judg-
ment was therefore reversed.
The other day six young men went W
the river at Lawrence in a steamboat
fourteen feet long. Three miles from town
the boiler exploded, demolishing the boat
and injuring Luther Doane, Carl GraibeI
and Byron Allen. Doane's jaw was
smashed and his injuries were fatal. The
boiler and engine were built by the mem
bers of the party, Allen being an engineer
and Doane a plumber.
FRANK SHAFFER, of Ottawa. ILL.,, and W.
II. Millspaugh, of Ypsilanti, Mich. who
had been travelling together selling mi
croscopes and other trinkets, recently op-
Grated for some time at Fort Scott The
other day they took stroll outside the
city and when returning Shaffer called
Millspaugh's attention TO specimen he
had found, and while he was examining it
Shaffer drew pistol and shot his COM
panion in the head After making several
attempts to again discharge the pistol he
threw it away and attacked his victim
with his fists, striking him in the face and
kicking him in the stomach. He then fed,
but was subsequently arrested. Mills
paugh wandered around until found and
cared for. His injuries were fatal.
THE Governor of Nebraska recently
made demand of Governor Humphrey
that he issue requisition papers for the
taking of John II. Langen to Nebraska on
the charge of selling mortgaged property.
The latter refused the demand, claiming
that the mortgage was Kansas mort
gage, between Kansas parties.
CHARES BROWN, an employe of the
Wells-Fargo Express Company at En-
poria, was recently bound over to court on
circumstantial evidence charged with
stealing S13) from the express office. The
money was found hid in a coal house.
The story telegraphed from Albuquerque
that man who had suicided there was
Unidentified as Edward Waterbury, a
lawyer of Emporia, who had been dis
barred for crookedness, was false re-
port. Waterbury is still a lawyer in good
standing at Emporia and denies ever hav-
ing been at Albuquerque or ever having
killed himself for crookedness he never
was engaged in.
JOHN THORNToN who was shot fourteen
times during the Quantrel raid on Law
renee in 1868, but who finally recovered
and has been a helpless cripple ever since,
died recently in that city.
FARMERS in Kansas ara resolving that
they will use no twine for binding
unless it is sold as low as it has been in
previous years. Such action on the part
of farmers, not only of Kansas but other
States, is the result of the late formation
of twine trust and the advancement of
the price of binding twine to almost double
the price at which it was sold one year
ago.
Hon. D. W. WILDER, Superintendent of
Insurance, recently asked the opinion of
Attorney-General Kellogg on the bill
pas sed by the late session of the Legisla-
ture, declaring trustsand combinations un-
lawful, and the latter submitted the fol =
lowing: sin my Judgment the act is
plain and clear, and is made to apply to
insurance companies agreeing with them
selves that the rate of insurance shall be
at a certain standard. and any insurance
companies or their officers entering into
such an agreement are liable under said
act"
ARBoR DAY was celebrated at Manhat-
tad by the closing of all business houses
and the planting of 1, 600 trees in the park
by $50 citizens.
THE Republican convention of the Fourth
district to nominate a candidate for the
place made vacant by the resignation of
Congressman Ryan has been called to
meet at Emporia May 1, at five O'Clock.
THE Goodlander & Ambrose furniture
factory at Fort Scott burned recently.
Loss, SO 900; insurance, S. 900.
In an old frame farmhouse near Bra
man Hill, in Wyandotte County, the bodies
of Mrs. Wilmatha Seidrich and Jacob
Schaler were found the other day in an
advanced stage of decomposition. The
farm was owned by the woman, who was
fifty-five years old, and Schaler had been
living with her for several years having
charge of the farm She lay partly on a
bed with two bullet holes in the body, and
Schaler lay on a lounge with bullet hole
in his neck and revolver by his side. He
was about forty-five years old and both
had evidently been dead several days.
The only theory advanced was that the
man and woman had had some disagree
ment which resulted in his killing her and
committing suicide. The woman and the
first husband, August Miller, came from
Germany twenty five years ago, and after
purchasing the farm and living on it sew
eral years, it is stated, Miller hanged him.
self. The widow afterward married Seid-
rich, who also died mysteriously. 1t is
also stated that the same house was the
scene of a similar tragedy about twenty
one years ago Il is said that a family
moved into the house when it was first
built and after living there about year
the neighbors discovered the dead bodies
of the man and his wife.
THE building committee of the Atchi-
son Union Depot Company met recently in
Topeka and let the contract for the new
union depot to James Ne shit, of Atchison,
for $50, 600. The building will be COM
menced at once.