The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-04

urer: Dennis O'Brien, Attorney General,
and Elnathan Sweet, Engineer and Sur
veyor.
THE Catholic Benevolent Union of the
United States, recently in session at Provi-
dence, R. l., reelected A. M. Kelley, ex-
Mayor of Richmond, Va, President. The
Executive Committee includes j. j. Gill;
gan, of Grafton, West Virginia; Maurice
Cole, Jeffersonville, Indiana; Darius
Dwyer, of Dayton, o. Wheeling was
chosen as the place of the next Convention.
THE WEST.
Two miners, Patrick Sullivan and John
Mcneil, were killed the other morning by a
cave-in on the Iron Hill Consolidated
mines, at Leadville, Colo.
Rev. j. BoYNTE, prominent Methodist
minister, was recently found on the side
walk in front of his house, at Stanton,
Mich, in a dying condition. His trouble
was heart disease.
The Jail at the little town of Ashville,
Ohio was burned recently, and prisoner
burned to death. He was said to be from
the Dayton Soldiers Home. He had con-
siderable money, and it was thought he
was murdered and the building burned to
conceal the crime.
LYMAN BLAIR, of the long-established
and heavy grain commission firm of Blair
& Blair, Chicago, was recently found lying
in his room on an upper floor of his resi-
dence, dying from gun-shot wound. He
had been accidently shot while preparing
to go cunning, and only lived few min
utes after being found.
DIR. A. B. MCKUME, q prominent ply
sician and druggist, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was recently shot and instantly
killed by DIR. E. D. Cross. He was on his
way home to supper when he met Cross,
with whom he had for some time been on
unfriendly terms. A few angry words
passed which resulted in the shooting.
THE jewelry store of F. Ralshover, of
Detroit, Mich, was recently robbed of
$15,0 900 by burglars.
SEVERAL heavy failures in New York
recently created financial furry in Wall
Street
SLoUGH's carriage shop, Hendricks tene-
ment house and Weaver & Nance's livery
stable, at Brazil, Ind, burned recently.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE ceremony of receiving Sitting Bull,
the Indian chief, into the Catholic Church
was indefinitely postponed, because he
would not give up one of his wives.
AT Lincoln, Mo, Thomas R. Brassfield
was sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary for seduction.
TIE Nebraska Republican State Conven-
ton, nominated NJ. B. Reese for Judge of
the Supreme Court.
THE War in rates on railroads leading
out of Chicago eliminated the other day in
tickets being sold from Chicago to Indian
apolis for five cents, and Cincinnati for $500.
Tickets to Louisville sold as low as eighty
five cents.
The National Woolgrowers' Association
met at Chicago on the 10Th. Vermont, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Wis
consin, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas,
Colorado and West Virginia were, repre-
sented. Hon. Columbus Delano, of Ohio,
was elected President. Resolutions passed
as the sense of the Association were that
the tariff rates on imported wool should,
at the earliest opportunity, be restored to
what they were before the late reduction;
that State, District and County Associa-
tions, and woolgrowers in all States, should
use every endeavor to secure the efforts of
their Representatives and Senators to that
end, and that Congress be called on to
make restoration.
NEARLY four hundred veterans attended
the recent reunion of Crocker's brigade, at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Postmaster General
Gresham, General Streight, of Washing
ton, General Macarthur and others made
short speeches. Governor Sherman,
member of the brigade, made the address
of the evening. A dramatic scene was the
presentation of the battle flag of the Elev-
enth Iowa to its old commander, General
Saunders, by ex-Confederate General
Govan, whose command captured the flag
before Atlanta, July %, 1868. Govan then
assured the audience should war again
occur the ex-Confederates would be found
fighting with the ex- Union soldiers under
the old flag.
A FIRE the other evening in the tin shopof
Fairbanks Canning Company, at the stock
yards, in Chicago, did considerable damage
to line of valuable machinery on the floors
above the tin shop, which were used as the
mandatory of butterine. Two hundred
barrels of oil were consumed, the liquid
running down. the narrow cutters in streams
of fire. Loss to stock and machinery, $25,-
900.
OWEN UTTERBECK, prominent farmer,
&C Pike County, Mo-, was shot and killed
o. his farm the other day. Footprints in
the cornfeld near by were tracked to the
house of Wesley Collins, between whom
and Utterback there was bitter feeling.
Collins was arrested.
PATRICK MCCAMBRIDGE, a coal miner,
was shot and killed at Edwardsville, Ill,
recently, during a row at the Wabash
House, from which he was trying to extri-
cate two of his sons.
COLONEL GEORGE KNAPP, senior proprie-
tor of the st. Louis (Mo.) Republican, died
on the 18th, on board the steamer Pentland,
en- route from Europe to New York.
COLONEL FRANK DAVIDSON, late of the
firm of Marmaduke, Brown s. Co., of st.
Louis, suicided recently at Van Buren,
Ark, where he had been editing paper.
THE other morning, near Boonville, Mo-,
one section of train containing a circus
jumped the track and three cars were over
turned. A couple of valuable band wagons
were used up, and two brothers named
Thomas, who were sleeping in the wagon,
were badly hurt. Twelve horses were
killed and other stock injured. The es-