Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


|. charge of having misappropriated $50
! of the firms money.
3 A FARMERS Alliance of Riley Count!
is receiving bids from different store
o OF the vicinity and proposes to give the
d, entire patronage of its membership t.
the store making the most favorable
s proposition.
PENSIONS lately granted to Kansas
veterans: Original invalid, Samuel FL
] McClay, National Military Home; JohI
A. Larkins, Garden City; E. Ames, st
Mary's; Thomas Hindman, Grainfield
William Grubb, Haviland; Reuben A
, Burgess, Alpha; James ChitherO, Mil
tonvale; Charles Miller, Huntsville
Levi Gray, National Military Home
Increase: Francis NJ. Cunningham, Fall
River; William NJ. Smith, Highland
Hiram Reynolds, Wilsey; Jackson Per
J rim, Wyandotte; Andrew j. PumphreJ,
: Nicola; Charles X. Ford, Arcadia; Will
lam II. Folsom, Emporia; Lewis Paris,
! junction City. Original widows, Lydia
: A, widow of C. D. Lint, Hiawatha.
THE coroner's jury at Atchison, which
investigated the cause of the death OF
Henry Schoen, who, while crazy, ran
naked into the storm the other night and
perished with cold, returned verdict
laying the blame upon the manufact-
urers of certain patent medicine who
do business in New York City. Shoen
had been troubled with a throat affec-
tion which local physicians could not
cure and he sent for a patent medicine
which he saw advertised. This he used
according to directions and he hnme-
diately began to show signs of insanity,
finally becoming a maniac.
SPURLoCK & DRAKE, hardware mer-
chants of Long Island, have been closed
up by their creditors. Their liabilities
are placed at SIS. 600.
AT late meeting of the executive
committee of the Republican State
+ league it was decided to call conven-
ton of the Republican leagues of Kan
sas, to be held at Topeka February 20, to
! tion at Nashville.
WILLIAM RANDALL, proprietor of tho
Armourdale Hotel at Fifth street and
Kansas avenue, Kansas City, Kan, was
arrested late the other night on the
charge of grand larceny. The alleged
| OffenSe was committed at Seattle,
Wash, and Randall was taken back to
that city a prisoner. 1t is alleged that
he was given S1,25O last August to pay
off gang of railroad hands under his
charge, but instead of paying the mon
skipped with the funds.
A MEETING of the State Board of Edu-
cation was held recently at the Office of
the State Superintendent in Topeka.
President Taylor, of the State Normal;
President George T. Fairchild, of the
State Agricultural College, and State
Superintendent Winans were present.
Renewals of State certificates were
granted to Miss Phoebe j. Clark, Mime
spolis; Miss Mary Bell Parker, Law
renee, and A. d. Chambers, North To-
peka. Eighty institute conductors and
about $50 instructors certificates were
granted.
WILLIAM HETHERINGTON. president of
the Exchange National Bank at Atchi-
son, died the other day lie was one of
the pioneers of Kansas.
j. NJ. FORTNER, the defaulting treas
urer of Riley County. was recently ar
rested in Texas and taking 10 the Jail at
Manhattan.
FoRTNER, the defaulting Riley County
treasurer, it is said, has determined to
kill himself, and as all other means OF
accomplishing his purpose are denied
him in Jail, he has, it is stated, deter
mined to Starve himself to death, and to
this end refuses either food or drink.
THE other morning about $50 o'clock |
Thomas Carey, Joint keeper of Kan
sas City, Kan, shot and killed John |
Kinney in the yard of the latter's lodg- |
ing house, on Wood street. The men
had been drinking all night, but just !
how the killing was brought about is |
not publicly known.
j. w. HAMILTON, State Treasurer, has |
handed his resignation to the Governor
to take effect when his successor is ap- |
pointed.
THE resignation of j. R. Clogston as
Supreme Court Commissioner has been
accepted by Governor Humphrey.
DANIEL Z. HEGBIN. of Ellenwood, has
begun suit in the United States District
Court at Topeka, against the Atchison,
AOpChd ~ DduIeL 70 hdllWdl SOul DduY
for SIS, ,45O, which he claims as royalty
on cattle chutes used by the company
on the entire system, and which he
claims is his patent.
SAMUEL d. CRAIGMIRE, an old resident,
was instantly killed by Santa Fe pas
senger train at Lawrence the other
He was standing on trestle
work watching the ice cutting and did
not hear the train. He was seventy
years of age and a carpenter by trade.
p. T. THORNTON, assistant miller at
Baden's Touring mills in Winfield, was
caught in the machinery the other day,
and before the power could be shut off
every vestige of clothing was torn from
his body, bones in both arms broken in
a number of places, the breast and sides
crushed and the body fearfully bruised
When his clothing caught he braced
himself against a boiling chest and en-
deavored to get free, but was drawn into +
the cog wheels and whirled around. This Z
was his third serious accident within
the last three months in the same mill
IT is stated that a case was tried at
kinsley the other day before Justice of
the peace in which the Murray Liquor
law was involved, in which the justice
ruled that prohibition was unconstitu-
tional and dismissed the case.
SECRETARY MOHLER, of the Agricult-
lral Department says that reports re-
,eived from all sections of the State
show that the winter wheat crop is in (
splendid condition, and that never be-
u