Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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; original apportionment for such dele gate
through an oversight
JUDGE BREWER of the United Statei
Circuit Court. filed his order in the clerk
office at Topeka the other day extending
} the jurisdiction of h c. Cross aud Georgl
A. Eddy, receivers Of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway, to and over all tn
railways and property of the system il
the State of Texas The receivers are nov
vested with all powers and authority il
respect to tn Texas line with which they
are vested in respect 10 the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas
The parents of William Ray, a Win.
chester boy, recently went to a neighbor.
ing village to church and left their house
in charge of the boy. During the night G
party Of boys undertook to brighten him
by visiting the house and playing some Of
their mischevious pranks, when young
Ray fired into the crowd with a shot gun
fatally wounding Tom Graham, aged
eighteen, and Daniel Lowe, aged fifteen,
and slightly wounding Ed Lucas. Lowe
died next day.
DR. c. NJ. KMBALL, a Coolidge physi-
clan, aged thirty years, recently took a
large dose of morphine by mistake and
died the next day, after three ply sicians
had worked twenty hours in the vain at
tempt TO save his life. He was not feeling
well and thought he would take dose OF
quinine and bromidia, but by mistake took
morphine and bromidia and on an empty
stomach. He saw his fatal mistake in
| about ten minutes and told his friends who
| Immediately commenced working on him.
AT Cedarvale, the other night about
eleven O'Clock, George Schatz shot and
killed Marion Ross, a hardware merchant
of that place. Schatz had just returned
unexpectedly from his ranch in the Indian
| Territory and discovered Ross with Mrs
! SchatZ in her bed room. Ross was a mar
ried man and leaves a large family, who
are highly respected. There were threats
of lynching.
h. T. WOLFE, young grocery dealer of
Atchison, was arrested the other morning
charged with arson. His store was set on
fire the night before, about midnight, and
the stock destroyed. The stock was in
sured for 5000, and the arrest was made
upon complaint of the local agent of the
company carrying the risk.
The wife of Leavenworth hack driver
caused stir the other evening by horse
whipping her husband in the streets.
IT is reported from Topeka that Super
vising Architect Ropes says that the State
House, which has been regarded as a
model of architectural strength, is inse-
cure, owing to the defects in the plans of
the former architect Kenneth Mcdonald,
and that the dome. which is rapidly APP
preaching completion, is liable to collapse
at any moment The north wall, at the
main entrance, is cracking in several
places and the arch is considered highly
dangerous. 1t is also stated that large
portion of the work done during the pres
ent year will be torn down.
The Agricultural College at Manhattan
opened on the 18th with more new students
than ever before.
ABOUT three O'Clock the other morning
A. B. Van Voorhis, a guest, while demented
dashed into the Office of the New Bruns-
wick Hotel at Hutchinson, with revolver
in his hand and stark naked, and ordered
the night clerk to open the door and let
him out When the clerk attempted to
demonstrate with him Van Voorhis leveled
his revolver on him and repeated his de-
mand. The clerk obeyed with alacrity
and the crazy man dashed out into the
darkness. He was captured the following
night few miles east of town and lodged
in Jail He was from Hillsborough, III.
THE State University opened at Law
renee on the 18th with an attendance of
4O7 students, 100 of whom are new pupils
This is the largest number of new students
ever present on an opening day. Forty
of them are from other colleges in the
State.
The other day Rev. William Smothers, !
pastor OF the colored Baptist Church at
AtchisOn, was arrested upon a warrant
charging him with obtaining over 50. 900 |
under false pretenses from the church 'di- |
rectOrs. He gave bond for his appear |
ance for trial October 1.
ABOUT noon the other day William Gra- |
ham and Barney Webster, colored porters |
of the Huntington House. at Fort Scott, |
got into quarrel, when Webster stabbed |
Graham, death resulting in about two
hours Webster fed.
BERT TRACY, a colored boy seventeen
years old, died at Lawrence the other day
from an overdose of watermelon. Tracy
was a bootback, we'll known on the streets
and great lover of the melon. He made
a wager with a citizen that he could eat as
many watermelons as the citizen could
produce. The melons were promptly
forthcoming and Tracy slowed them away
one by one until nine had disappeared,
hen he weakened and the next day he
lied.
THE United States Senate special COM
nittee on irrigation held a session at
Garden City on the 18th and took the
testimony of number of witnesses as to
he necessity of irrigation in Southwest
Kansas and the best methods of accom-
Dlishing the desired ends. Much interest
vas shown in the project and the commit
zee was convinced that the Southwest
wanted irrigation by the quickest possible
means and wanted it more than any thing
Use. There was a large attendance of in
crested listeners.
THE secretary of the Deep Water con-
7ention has issued circular stating that
he call for representation in the October
in Topeka has been extended
10 that the mayor of every city west of
he Mississippi river is designated as a
lelee ate, and empowered to appoint an
additional delegat ate for every 10000 of pop
Ilation or fraction the reof in his city.
j. SANDERS and William Butler became
in a quarrel at Topeka the other
light which resulted in a cutting ARRAY
n which Butler was severely injured and
girl more or less cut. Sanders is an ex-
onvict and had threatened the life of
Butler. The latter's injuries were thought
o be fatal.
IN the district court at Manhattan the
Their day W. P. Higginbotham. the ex-
anker was found guilty of grand larceny
y the jury. The trial was the outgrowth
Z the faiIura of HiO1in hot homJs hank / {