Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The other afternoon a farmer by the
name OF Brown, living near Wichita, dis
covered Eddie Howe. the ten-year-
old son Of a neighbor in his watermelon
patch, and without giving the lad any
warning sent a charge of buckshot into
his body. Then he notified the victims
father and left the vicinity. There were
! slight hopes of the little fellows recovery.
A pursuing party was organized with the
avowed purpose of lynching Brown.
FRED KoEBLER, q Wichita mechanic,
recently fell desperately in love with Mrs
| Clark, a widow of that city, and pro-
posed marriage to her only to be rejected
This so enraged him that he threatened to
kill her, and she secreted herself from him
for several days. Recently. however,
he met her on the street in front of the
! post-oftice as she was riding in buggy
and before she could evade him sprang
upon her and fastened his hand upon her
throat saying that he would kill her at
once Before help could reach her she had
become insensible. Koebler was jailed.
A SERIOUS shooting affray occurred at
| Edwardsvills the other morning between
Bill Butler and Charlie Brown, both col
ored, and third colored man whose name
|
| quarrel over a woman. The unknown
man endeavored to shoot Butler. but the
latter was too quick and the stranger was
shot through the neck. The ball passed
out near the juguIar vein and hit Charlie
Brown behind the right ear and lodged in
his skull. 1t was thought both would die.
Butler fed.
L. l. CLAwsoN, real estate man, was
in Aa ;nbt q ho
other night with four bullet holes in his
body. 1t was claimed by his fri ends that
he could not have committed suicide be-
cause two bullet holes were through his
brain and two in his stomach, either of
which would have proved fatal, besides
| the range of the balls would not indicate
that he had taken his own life. Clawson
had always been known as a man of reg
ular habits. He ate his dinner as usual
that day and appeared to be in good
spirits
LEAvENwoRTH reports almost parallel
of the Wichita Brown mystery, so far as
sudden disappearance and continued
and inexplicable absence are concerned
On Sunday, August %, Mr.. E. o. Webster,
who resided in a suburban addition to the
city, left his home to go to the Baptist
town. Since that time nothing has been
seen or heard of the missing man. The
m ost careful search utterly failed to lead
to the slightest clew to his whereabouts.
or explanation of his continued absence.
No possible reason suggested itself as to
why the missing man should leave home.
THE total receipts of the penitentiary
for the month of August were 6653 50, of
,,,I, g.
50, 57391 from convict labor. The total
expenses were ST, ,339 SO. of which Sc. 44T 81
was paid for salaries and $3,620.47 for
boarding
JUDGE GREGORY, of the Garden City
Sentinel, who was convicted of perjury in
the district court of Finney County some
weeks since, has been granted new trial
His friends are confident of his acquittal
when the case is again tried.
A CoUNTEREITER named Jones was re-
Gently arrested at Withita for passing
bogus $50 gold pieces. Other arrests are
expected.
THE enrolment at the State Normal
School at Emporia is 100 larger than at
the opening last year.
IN his August report Prof Snow, of the
State University, says: "a very cool
month, being the only August in our
twenty-five years. record in which the
mercury failed to reach 80 degrees. The
rainfall was excessive falling but slightly
below the usual precipitation of August
1888"
LATE post. Office changes in Kansas:
Established, Clarkson. Riley County,
Neils Christensen postmaster; Glendale,
Bourbon County, Robsrt A. Williams post
master; Grace, Sherman County, Joel
Turner postmaster. Discontinued, Hos
ford, Montgomery County; Fora, Linn
County.
JOHN L. WALLER, of Topeka, has been
elected by the State Board of Charities
stewart of the Osawatomie insane asylum.
Last year he was chosen one. of the
Presidential Electors at-large by the Re-
publican State convention and was the
only colored elector in the electoral college.
DAVID LEMON, a negro, was recently
found guilty of murder in the first degree
in the United States Court at Wichita. He
was a soldier in the regular army and
eighteen months ago shot and killed
comrade.
A BARN belonging to Elijah Rayl near
Hutchinson was burned recently with
twelve horses. Three men sleeping in the
building narrowly escaped and Miss Josie
Rayl was severely burned on the face and
neck in an endeavor to rescue the animals.
PEACHES weighing three-fourths Of
pound and measuring twelve inches in
circumference are reported as some of the
productions of Southern Kansas.
KANSAS has one school house for every
1s5 of her population, while Massachusetts,
has only one school house for every 800 of
its population.
THE other day Harvey Decastro, aged
ten years. left his home at Wichita, and
failing to return at night search was in
stituted for him. Next day the dead body
was found in the Arkansas river. 1t had
large fishing line around the neck with
one end fastened to a root on the bottom
of the river. He had gone in to swim AMI
got entangled in the line.
The other morning a colored woman by
the name of Twiggs was found dead at her
house in North Lawrence. The deceased
was about eighty years old. Under her
pillow was found $40, which had doubt
less been laid there to pay funeral ex-
penses.
ALLEN MANvEL, the newly elected pres |
ident of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe |
road, entered upon the discharge of his |
duties on the oh. 1t is stated that there |
will be a general cutting down Of the exc
penses of the road.
REPUBLICANS of the various States Of the |
Union propose to present Kansas with a
set Of banners in recognition OF the fact |
that at the last Presidential election Kan
sas gave the largest Republican majority
and ia the Ranna- Stata