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

several hundred acres of LAM stolen by
the Missouri river at Wyandotte within
the past twenty-five years The land is
valued at millions of dollars, but there is
hitch in getting Kansas City, Kan, TO
relinquish her riparian rights
The Atchison Merchants Exchange had
a meeting the other night at which a COM
mittee report was adopted recommending
that steps be taken to invite delegates
from Missouri river points to meet in that
city August II to discuss the freight dis
elimination question.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at Kan
sas City tWyandotie) about nine O'Clock
on the morning of July %. Hon. Russell
b. Armstrong. the former publisher and
editor of the Kansas City, Kan. Gazette,
attempted to board an east-bound 81"
train which had gained considerable
speed after starting from the station at
Oakland avenue. He missed his foothold
and fell with his legs on the rails. The
front wheel of the truck passed over and
crushed the left leg below the knee. His
right leg was caught between the brake
beam and the rim of the wheel and twist
ed. In this position he was dragged about
seventy-five yards and it was three
quarters of an hour before he could be
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found necessary to amputate both legs
below the knees. Mr.. Armstrong is forty
six years old and has a large family. He
has represented Wyandotte in the Legis-
| lature and been prominently identified
with the interests of the county all his
life.
The Livestock Sanitary Board has
been considering the question of quaran-
in hn Tn1i iffNFNT
and Texas in consequence of the reported
outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia and fever
among cattle in the extreme southwest
part of the State.
JAMES BoDKIN, a farm hand, work ng
for John Frame, a wealthy farmer, ten
miles west of Wichita, disappeared very
mysteriously the other night He was
sleeping alone in a housA two hundred
feet from the main residence. and in the
morning all his clothes were found in his
ROOM but he was missing. Frame owed
him for two months labor, and some days
previous offered to pay him. when Bodkin
replied that he did not want it yet He
recently told an acquaintance that he
feared he would be fol owed up and killed,
not giving reasons for such misGivlng. 1t
was believed he had been murdered.
The Lawrence canning factory employs
200 hands.
JOE WOODS and Calvin Sanders, colored,
! engaged in a quarrel at Leavenworth the
other morning over the ownership of 2
handkerchief. Both claimed the handker-
chief, which was a gaudy silk one, and
the dispute ended in a fight in which
| Woods drew knife and sta bbed Sanders
in the neck. cutting the jugular vein. from
which he almost bled 10 death at the time
and from the effects of which he would
not recover. Woods fed.
| DURING a recent storm at Olathe St.
PauPs Church (Catholic) was struck by
lightning and took fire. but the flames
were speedily extinguished.
| A. c. SELDEN chief clerk in the general
Office of the Missouri Pacific road at Wich-
tia, was recently missing from his =sk.
| He was said to be defaulter for large
! amount A warrant was issued for his
arrest charging him with forging a COM
pany draft for S. 800.
IT is officially asserted that there is not
a case of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle
! in the State.
| The Governor recently pardoned Charles
| Sweeney, of Wilson County, who was on
| 'ebruary 90 1889 convicted of embeZzle-
ment and sentenced 10 one year in the
| penitentiary on condition that he abstain
! from intoxicating drink for two years.
| Sweeney is nearly seventy years old and
| collected $50 for Kansas City firm which
he failed 10 pay over. Liquor was the
cause of his trouble.
BRUMM BROS, dry goods merchants at
Junction City, lost 5000 by a fire the
| other night
! FOUR prisoners broke Jail at Newton the
other night. All We're under sentence.
| They were Mi chell, Brown, Wilson and
| W. E. Moore. All were retaG9n except
| Moore who is under sentence to three
years in the penitentiary for horse steal
| ing. He is a desperate man and an old
offender
The police of Kansas City, Kan, raided
! three gambling houses located near the
| State line the other night and captured
three proprietors and seventy patrons.
Each proprietor put up 500 for himself
and SO for each customer, which sums
were "confiscated" by the police judge
| next day as ''fnes."
| GOVERNOR HUMPHREY he's pardoned
! Yancy Cans, who was convicted in the
| district court of johnson County, June II,
| 1885, of assault with intent to kill and sem
| fenced to five years imprisonment. Cans
was boy of eighteen whose home was in
| Topeka, but his mother being widowed he
went away to work and so got to Johnson
| County. There he had a dispute with his
employer and knocked the latter down.
| He was fined small sum, and being una
| bic to paw the constable started to take
him from Wilder to Holiday. In a lonely
place he knocked the officer senseless and
| escaped He was subsequently arrested
| pleaded guilty and was sent up for five
years. The constable he knocked down
was one of the applicants for pardon, not
believing there was any malice in the
case.
| IT is stated that English capitalists in
their search for protita bic business invest
ments in this country have found that the
coal mines at Leavenworth do a large and
paying business, and they are trying to
get control of them. Failing to secure
the mines in operation the syndicate had
real estate agents quietly buy up the coal
rights on 500 acres OF land two miles
south of the city. Every thing having
been secured necessary for the sinking OF
shaft new company was organized
under the name of the Boston Coal Com
pany with paid up capital of 500. 900.
IT is suggested that if all the railroad
companies which have ever filed articles
of incorporation in the Office of the Sec
rotary of State had carried out their
plans, the railroad mileage of Kansas to-
day would be equal to that of the entire
United States, and even now there are
several charters filed every month.
NJ E. LARKIN. a prominent Atchison
stock dealer, recently made an assign
ment Liabilities about SI9 900