Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18
RECENT REFLECTIONS.
Elmer Allison was found insane
and will be taken to Topeka.

Elmer Allison was found insane
and will be taken to Topeka.
Marriage license: Frank Kinder
dick and Ida Asling. Woodbine.
Mrs. Clara Colby, Of Washing
ton, D. c., will speak in Abilene Oct.
20.
.-Lewelling carried this county IN
1892. He won't come anywhere near
it in 1894.
1t is reported that Senator John
Martin has Cancelled all his campaign
dates on account Of the death Of his
son.
/. "A Populist remarked today that
his party was working" Ward Ruse'
and then he laughed What did he
meanp
One Dickinson county druggist
is using 2-cent playing card revenue
stamps for postage stamps. They 60
all right, too.
Rev. J. A. Bright was defeated
for reelection as grand secretary Of
the |. 0. 0. T. G. W. Main, OF
Mankato succeeds him.
M. l.. Morrison, Of Hope, was in
town today, through no fault Of his
though. Coming up from Kansas
City he slept peacefully through Hope
and woke up only when the train
neared Abilene.
There is evidently a revival Of
business and building. The Dillon
Republican says that the stucco and
cement mills Of south Dickinson that
have been lying'idlc are now running
night and day.
Henry Miller, formerly Of juno
ton City, now tralningJ. W. Creech's
horses at Herington, was thrown by
bis horse stumbling while exercising
this morning and had an ankle dis
located and received other injuries.
"A Solomon man wants the dogs
Of his town taxed. He writes the
county officers that nelghbor on the
right Of him keeps five and one on
the left keeps three. Kansas would
be rich II 1t would kill of its worth
less dogs.
A letter from Charles Kubach
who with his Fence Machine Co,
agents Is at Seneca says that Wcdnes-
day night The livery stable where
their teams were place burned, des-
troying one Of the teams, harness and
two dozen machines.
Solomon Sentinel Harris n
Rogers have sold their fine trotting
stallion "Ready" to Benjamin Dunlop
Of Canada, for $1,000. Ready is
descendant of Solomon's old standby,
Prairie Star, who is celebrated for
having so many Of his progeny in the
2:30 class Ready Is 4 years old, has
a yearling record Of 2;l4, two year
old one of 2;SSl and three year old
one Of 2;20l. We are sorry to see
such remarkable. pure-gaited, level
headed stock-gerter leave this neigh
borhood.
An Emporia dispatch gives the
following report of prohibitions
workings there: "The case Of the
State vs.. Ben Wheldon, charged with
violating the Murray law, was tried
before the district court today and re-
suited in a verdict for acquittal, the
jury being out but fifteen minutes.
Wheldon is one of the leading drug
gists Of the city. He has no permit
to sell liquor as required by law.
The evidence OF five witnesses was
pointblank that he had sold them in
toxicating liquors. He testified in
his behalf, contradicting three Of the
witnesses. The testimony of the
other two went uncontradicted. The
Judge and prosecuting attorney are
both radical temperance men and
stated that II a conviction could not
be had on the evidence in this ease
there was no further use Of trying to
make a case in Lyon county.
Tell tho Truth.