Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

) wee, ex-oankers, for county 1unos held
3 by them at the time of their failure.
The barn of Henry Narrower, who lives
near Andale, fifteen miles northwest OF
: Wichita, was burned the other morning
: shortly before daylight Five thousand
! i've hundred bushels of wheat burned.
Total loss, SIS, coo. No insurance
SOME months ago an old man by the
} name of Thomas Carey, stopped at Fort
Scott and put up at boarding house.
He was about eighty years of age and
very misery in his habits, washing his
own clothes and subsisting on two meals
a day. The other day he died, when in
his room and upon his person was found
S2S, 600 in money and securities. One
citizen of the city said he knew deceased
in Washington County, Iowa, thirty
years ago, but knew little of his history
since.
AT recent meeting in Topeka of the
board of directors of the Kansas Alliance
Exchange, which is the business branch
of the Farmers Alliance, arrangements
for handling livestock were made with
the American Livestock Commission
Company, and Edwin Snyder, a member
of the board, was elected to represent
the Exchange with said livestock com.
pany at the stock yards in Kansas City,
prepared to look after consignments OF
stock from members of the Kansas ALI
ance Exchange Company.
In the district court at Scott City the
other day the criminal case of A. R.
Lasley, ex-county treasurer, who is
defaulter to the amount of $1,000, was
finally quashed on account of technical
tiles. Lasley was then held for embez-
element on complaint made before a
justice of the peace.
THE council of administra ton of the
G. A. r. recently held meeting at To-
peka and decided to hold two daylight
campires at Concordia and Wichita on
March "a and 25, at which time recep-
| tiOns will be rendered General Alger,
commander-in-chief, who will then pass
/ through the State on his way from Da-
kota to Arkansas. The date of the an
nual reunion to be held in Topeka was
fixed for October Z, g. and 10.
WILLIS MASON recently filed suit
against ]. P. Berry at Topeka for
SANDER and malicious prosecution,
claiming damages in the sum of $4,000.
Both plaintiff and defendant are colored.
The SANDER consisted in calling the
plaintiff ''a dirty, broken down soldier
deadbeat," and the malicious prosecu-
ton grew out of State case against
Mason wherein Berry was the prosecut-
ing witness.
THE Medicine Lodge Sugar Company
has sent to Germany for three tons of
beet seed.
COMMITTEES repr esen ting the State
organizations of the Farmers Alliance,
the Grange, the Farmers Mutual Bene-
fit Association and the Knights of Labor
met in Emporia recently and adopted a
platform looking to the consolidation of
the different organizations for political |
purposes.
THE State Superintendent of Insur- |
ance has received from all the fire in |
surance companies doing business in |
Kansas reports showing the business |
transacted by them in the State during |
1889. 1t shows that risks to the amount |
of So, 142, 432. 25 were written in 1889 by |
Kansas mutual companies, as compared |
with 81, 455, 52O.25 for the previous year.
The foreign companies of which there |
are seventy-eight, wrote risks to the |
amount of S134, $50, 1850 last year, the
business for the previous year being
1929, 945, O32. 90.
THE other evening while the eleven
year-old son of Mr.. w. r. Mansfield, of
Winfield, was out riding, his horses ran
away and threw the boy jus. as he was
crossing the railway track. His head
struck on the rail, producing fatal in
juries.
A STRANGER, a passenger on the south
bound Santa Fe train, stopped at the
Arlington Hotel in Wellington the other
night and registered as Morgan Avery,
giving no address. The next morning
he was found dead in bed. No cause of
death was given.
SHAWNEE COUNTY claims to have
thirty organizations of the Farmers ALI
ance with 5000 or more members
S. w. BERRY, a mail carrier between
Lawrence and Clinton recently fooled"
with pistol and lost thumb and two
fingers.
A COLONY of Illinois farmers recently
purchased 1,760 acres of land in Reno
County and will Immediately come to
Kansas to live.
THE residence of Mr.. Dunn, three
and one-half miles west of Salina, was
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
81, 500; partially insured.
AT Leavenworth the other night Pat
rick Coneth was shot by drunken SOL
1ier for refusing to enter into converse ]
ton with and knocking the soldier !
Town. He may recover. The soldier
had not been captured.
THE safe in f. Watson's store at Stat
ord was blown open by burglars the
,ther night and $3.50 secured. The
building was fred and destroyed.
THE three-story brick block at Wichita, t
,wned by c. R. Miller and A. c. Robin 1
on, was partially destroyed by fire the
,ther morning. The loss on building t
vas placed at $4,000, covered by insur- a
nee; on goods at $50, 900; only partially t
insured. F. A. Cooper, druggist, and
irincar Bros, dry goods, were the heav-
est losers. n
THE Equal Suffrage Association of a
Atchison will ask the appointment of n
hree women as census enumerators in n
hat city and an equal number in the t
ounty outside of the city. A
THE biggest sugar manufacturing u
reject ever proposed in Kansas has
riginated at Newton. The Kansas Su-
ar Company has been organized there.
t proposes to build four sugar mills in 0
harvey County, each to cost $1,000 8
THE Omaha, Superior & Southwestern Il
Hallway Company filed its charter in o.
he Office Of +ba Caorotarv Of Sta+a +bo | IL