Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| A LARGE crowd attended the opening OF
| Chelsea Park at Kansas City, Kan, on
Sunday, the 18th, and during the exer-
cises a suspension bridge across the neck
of the lake, upon which people crowded,
suddenly collapsed, precipitating some
seventy five persons into the water. They
were quickly rescued, but three or four
narrowly escaped drowning The great
| est damage was to Sunday dresses and
Easter bonnets, in addition to the great
| fright.
THE other night desperate shooting
affair took place at Topeka in which Vice
! Simons man of ffty-fve years, proba-
bly, fatally wounded Mrs. Mary Martin,
| a widow of thirty-five. Mrs. Martin kept
| a boarding house and Simons boarded
with her. He became infatuated with the
widow and proposed marriage, which she
declined. He grew insanely Jealous, and
several times when she had callers burst
| in the door and acted like a maniac. On
the night of the shooting he dressed him.
self in two suits of clothing and going to
| her room while she was about retiring
| (and her fourteen-year- son was in
| bed) and again demanded that she marry
him. Upon her again refusing him Simons
| drew pistol, and, with an oath, fired
| The bullet entered the woman's throat
and as she fed ne fired another shot into
her body. Simons then escaped.
THE opera house at Glasco was destroyed
| by fire early the other morning together
with all the furniture and much other val
liable property left by citizens who had
| decorated the building for a school enter
tainment the previous evening. The house
cost 10000
CAPTAIN ISRAEL W. STONE of Law
renee, has been appointed to a position in
the Department of Agriculture at Wash
| ington.
TOPEKA celebrated the centennial ami
versary of the inauguration of George
Washington with grand street parade,
! speeches, music and other patriotic
demonstrations.
SUIT has been begun in the district court
at Leavenworth to secure the appointment
| of receiver for the old Missouri Valley
Life Insurance Company, and the appi-
! cation OF the funds in the hands of the
State Treasurer belonging to that COM
| pany to the payment of its debts. 1t is
| said that the funds of the company
amount to $4,000.
The ninth annual session of the Social
Science Club of Kansas and Western Mis-
| souri, was recently held at Leavenworth.
The twenty first anniversary of the
establishment of the Home of the Friend
! less Women in Leavenworth was cele-
brated recently at the home by a number
| of ladies, some of whom were instru-
mental i'll the organization of the institu-
| tion.
IRWIN TAYLOR, chief clerk in the office
Of
| Assistant Attorney General, has retired
and been succeeded by Mrs. j. NJ.
Kellogg, wife of the Attorney General,
who was admitted to the bar of the Su-
| preme Court eight years ago and is a
member of the State Bar Association. She
was her husbands former law partner a:
| Emporia and is said to be abundantly
| qualified to fill the position.
| AT the recent meeting of the Kansas
| Loyal Legion, held at Leavenworth, the
| following officers were elected DIR.
| Charles Page, U. S a., commander; ex-
| Governor Martin, senior vice. commander;
Captain j. D. Barker, junior vice-com-
mander; Colonel T. j. Weed, treasurer;
| Captain j. B Rowley, register; Colonel
r. II. Hunt, chancellor; Rev. Bernard
Kelley, chaplain; Colonel John Conover,
Colonel z. A. Smith, Captain W. NJ. For
| tesque, Colonel A j. Smith and DR.. S. F.
Neely, board of directors.
MISS LoTTIE DARLING, the young lady
who was accidentallXshoti in the breast at
Argentine the other evening by her lover,
w. E Forester, Santa Fe fireman, died
| after lingering fifty-six hours.
THE man Simons, or Bious, who re-
Gently made the murderous assault upon
Widow Martin at Topeka, because she
refused to marry him, and escaped, was
captured few days later. He gave as an
exccse for shooting the woman that he
was ''out of his head and did not really
know what he had done"
THE district court of Shawnee County
recently sustained a motion to quash the
information in the famous John Balti-
more" case, otherwise known by the title
of the State of Kansas VS.. W. T. Cava-
naugh. The matter was submitted to
Judge Guthrie on a written brief. The
Judge held that there was no offense COM
mitted under the statute in writing the
alleged Matchmaking letter to State Printer
C. c. Baker. The defendant who has
been Assistant Secretary of State and at
the time of sending the famous alleged
blackmailing letter was a clerk to an i'm
portant Legislative committee, has re-
moved with his family to Washington
Territory.
kenneth MCDONALD, of Louisville,
KY, State-house architect, has resigned
his position it being understood that
ms ajority of the board favored the appoint
ment of Kansas man.
IT is Stated that Prof. Stanley, superin-
tendent of the Lawrence city schools, re-
Gently received letter from Washington
asking if he would accept the superin-
tendency of the Indian schools at Albu-
querque, n. NJ, at a salary of 81, 500, and
also that his wife would have an oppor- =
tunity to make 5000 to 1900 per year as
teacher. Mr.. Stanley declined the offer
The four-y ear old son OF Robert Slaes-
ler, a baker, was run over by the cars at
the " ichita stock yards the other day and
had both legs an an arm cut off.
AFTER ballotng for three days the Re-
publican Congressional convention at En-
poria finally nominated Hon. Harrison
Kelley, of Coffey County, to succeed Hon.
Thomas Ryan as Congressman from the
Fourth district. Mr.. Kelley is a farmer
and has been a resident of the State since
1855 He has been a member of the State
Senate, and also of the House, and has
held several important offices under the
State Government. He is a native of
Wood County, Ohio; is ffty-thres years
of age; has been married twice, and is the
father of four children. He served through
the late war in the Fourth Kansas cavalry,
enlisting as private and being mustered
out as Captain.
ROBERT HENDERSON at Leavenworth the
other NIGHT shot and tillad his sfepfa ther
Charles Bailey, on the ground that Bal ey
hrnri ~ hor-