Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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the other evening missed his footing and
| fell a distance of ten feet into q vat of
boiling grease. Before any assistance
reach d him his flesh from his waist down
was almost thoroughly cooked. He could
/ not recover.
| CONSIDERABLE fax has been grown in
Douglas County this year.
/ THE fourth annual State Assembly,
| Knights OF Labor, commenced in Leaven-
worth on the 5ih. Mayor Hacker deliv-
cred an address of welcome, which was
responded to by the master workman Of
! the State
! PosTNAsTERs recently appointed in
Kansas: Squire Lane. Burlington. vice
E N. Lockwood, removed; William E
| Hogueland, Yates Center, vice E. V. War
ton, removed; John S. Eastwood, Eureka,
vice W. W. McGrew, removed; Frank W.
! Allen, Oswego, vice John NJ. Lands. re-
| moved; Russell T. Stokes, Garnett. vice
]. S. Mccartney, resigned; W. c. Whit
ney, Cawker City, vice ]. W. Hughes, re-
moved.
j. W. BEACH was recently sentenced al
! Topeka to one year in the penitentiary for
the killing of A. Stewart The two men
| were prominent farmers in the north part
of Shawnee County, and became engaged
in a quarrel regarding their children.
! Beach is eighty years of age and in very
| feeble health, because of which the judge
| gave him light sentence.
The Topeka sugar works, located four
miles west of that city, we're almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire the other morn
| ing. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $40 900.
The entire plant. year ago. cost STA. 0O0
! Hundreds of acres of sorghum cane in the
vicinity had been planted for this seasons
supply and is almost ready for the mill.
! The fire is supposed TO have been incen-
diary.
THE total taxable value of property in
Kansas as shown by the compilations of
the State Board of Equalization, is as
| follows: Total value of taxable land,
! $1TS, 01,010; total value of taxable town
lots, SIC, ,510671; total value of taxable
| personal property, S53 1S7, 81; total value
of taxable railroad property, S57, 494, 749;
grand total $3.50, S13, 901. Shawnee County
| leads with a total valuation of SIG, ,405, =
| 500 %. Sedgwick County is second, with
total of SIG 100, 942 06.
ROBERT BUCKLEY. eighteen years old,
was recently terribly torn by a vicious
| dog at Leavenworth, the brute tearing a
large piece of flesh from the boys leg and
eating it
W. A. CHURCH, a stranger, was killed
| by the west bound Santa Fe passenger
| train in the Atchson yards the other
night. He was walking on the track, and
| in trying to get out of the way Of
the train stumbled and before he
| could get up was crushed by the wheels.
He only lived long enough to tell his
name and that he had wife and family.
Papers on his person indicated that he
was man of some prominence of Ozark,
| Mo.
COMMANDER BOOTH, of the department
| of Kansas, G. A. R., has issued a circular
| advising members of the State to attend
| the Milwaukee reunion.
ONE day recently the smelter company
at Argentine shipped bullion amounting
| to S73 73S
/ A LATE Topeka special stated that an
organized effort is being made to reduce
the colored population of Kansas by COL
onizing negroes in Oklahoma. Within
the past few months many thousands
have been induced to locate there. An
| agent in Topeka has located over 900
| colored men on Government land in the
Territory, each taking $50 acres, making
AS, 900 acres through a single agency.
The three-year- old child of Joseph Hill
ton was recently horribly mangled by a
street car at Wichita There was a sus-
picion that fourteen-y year-old boy, who
had been in the habit of abusing the child,
had thrown it under the car, and the mat
ter was being investigated.
LEWIS c. MCMILLAN died at his hotel in
! Topeka the other day from an overdose of
morphine. He had been suffering from
an abscess of the liver and took the drug
to alleviate his pain, but got an overdose.
IT was recently reported that Charles
Francis Meserve, of Spring field, Mass,
had been appointed superintendent of
| Haskell Institute (the Indian school) at
| Lawrence.
The Eighth street school house at Tope-
ka was struck by lightning during late
storm and damaged to the extent of $500.
AT the recent meeting of the State as
sembly Of the Knights of Labor, held at
Leavenworth, the following officers were
elected: State master workman. r. j. St
Clair, of Atchison; worthy foreman, T.
A. Grange, of Topeka; recording secre-
tary, w. S. Anderson, of Atchson; treas
urer W. E. Henderson, of Topeka; sta
tistician, A. j. Callahan, of junction City ;
auditor, Charles Meeker, of Atchison; ex-
ecutive board. W. H Shouse. of Leaven-
worth, w. E. Henderson, of Topeka, p o.
Farrell, of Junction City, and W. A. Snow,
Kinsley.
! The body of John A. Iden, a wealthy
| Missouri farmer, was recently found in
Sugar Lake, near Atchison. As he had
quite a sum of money with him when he
left home the supposition was that he had
been murdered and robbed and the body
thrown III the lake.
The report of the Ad djutant- General of
the Kansas department of the Grand
Army of the Republic for the second
! quarter of 1889 shows a net increase of
667 members during the quarter. The re-
| port gives the following figures: In good
standing last quarter. 423 posts, 1850
members; mustered in during second
| quarter, II posts. 773 members; gained by
transfers, I4S; gained by reinstatement,
| 243; reinstatement of delinquents, II
posts. 399 members; total department eu-
rollment 454 posts, Is 6lS members.
The committee appointed by the Grant
! Monument Association of Leavenworth TO
make the necessary arrangements for the
unwilling of the statue September IA is
making elaborate preparations for the oc-
casion. Senator ingalls,, Major William
Warner, George r. Peck and General c
W. Blair have agreed to be present and
speak upon the life of the great soldier.
Efforts are to be made to secure special
rates on all roads and large attendance
> expected.
A CATTLE train was wrecked near
Merriam, on the Kansas City, Fort Scott
& Memphis railroad, the other day by a
steer jumping through a window in the
rear OF a car, about the middle of the
/ trair, Tho s+oorlS head off and