The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
THE WEST.

were mostly destroyed by fire the other
morning. Loss on building, $4,000; ma
chiney, probably 100000.
SANFORD Toll recently committed sui
eide by hanging himself in his cell in Jail
at Muncie, Ind. He was under sentence
for twenty-one years for assault with in
tent to kill the Sheriff.
JOHN MCGINNIs, sixteen years old, was
engaged with several companions in play
ing practical jokes upon aagman at
Shelby Station, O., when McGinnis ran in
front of freight train and was Instantly
killed.
L.C. HOLMES was found dead in his room
in hotel, near the Union depot, in Kansas
City, the other morning. He was on his
way home to Kearney, Mo-, from Hot
Springs. Heart disease was the trouble.
In the southern part of Madison County,
No., the other day, William Boyer shot
William Berry and Bart Kelley, and was
himself shot through the heart and instant
ly killed. Kelley died the next day and
Berry was not expected to live. The
tragedy was the result of an old feud.
In digging the foundation for a new
court house at Las Vegas, n. NJ, recently,
the laborers, old miners, saw symptoms of
''pay dirt" They Immediately gave it
trial, which resulted in striking it rich.
There was great excitement in town, and
everybody was stalking out claims.
JUDGE Noisy WATER was shot and
killed from ambush, the other night, in the
Indian Territory, while going home from
Sloan Springs, it was said by Deputy
Marshal Andrews and posse, who mistook
the Judge for a noted outlaw they were
looking for.
THE wife of L. 1. johnson, of Holden,
No., while recently out driving, was thrown
out of her carriage and killed.
THE Kirkwood Hotel at Darlington, D.
T., which had been completed only one
month, burned recently. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
AN intoxicated individual in the gallery
of the Academy of Music, at Chicago, the
other night set up the cry fire." and
large audience surged toward the exit
doors. In consequence, the manager had
the exits on the main floor closed, and by
his efforts and those of people on the stage
succeeded in reassuring the audience. The
galleries were emptied without any ser Gus
mishap occurring. The man who raised
the disturbance was arrested.
MRS. JOHN MADDOX, of marshall, Mo-,
the other morning found a bottle of beer
sitting on her back porch, which she sup
posed had been sent there by one of her
neighbors. She took the bottle into the
house, drank portion herself, gave some
to two of her children, aged respectively
ten and thirteen years, and handed the
Ill 90 N yho ar1oT1Oxya6
about the house. About noon all four were
taken with violent spasms accompanied by
much vomiting. A physician was called,
proper antidotes for poison administered
and the lives of the sufferers saved. The
beer had been poisoned, but who did the
dastardly deed was mystery.
The rumor that Claus Spreckles, of San
Francisco, had cornered the entire Hawai-
ian sugar production is confirmed. The
quantity is estimated at S0,0O0,000 pounds,
sufficient to enable him to control the sugar
trade of the Pacific coast.
FOUR thieves crowded into Rock Island
train the other evening as the passengers
were getting off at the Union depot, at Kan
sas City, and attempted to rob an old gen.
tleman named Vanatta, of Newton, Iowa,
WQSH Olio Va I1O 1dSSti1S OONIl,
whereupon the others fed.
In the case of the Pueblo lands in San
Jose, Cal, in which the United States and
the city of san Jose claimed the title to two
hundred and fifty acres of land within the
CITY limits, the Commissioner of the Gener-
al Land Office recently decided in favor of
the city.
AT Havana, H., the other morning Miss
Edna Sisney, a girl of fifteen years, was
watching by her sick father, when she fell
asleep, and her clothing falling against the
stove was set on fire. She awoke in COM
plete blaze. and, rushing out of doors, was
enveloped in fame and her clothing COM
pletely burned of to her waist. She was
fatally burned.
JOHN BoNNERs, drunken brute living
in the vicinity of Rockville, Ind, recently
locked his wife out doors because she re-
fused him money. She went to the woods
with her children and while building fire
her clothing took fire and she was burned
to death.
CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN was shot and
killed the other day in San Francisco, Cal.
The tragedy was the result of seventeen
years. litigation. Mclaughlin was tie
President of the Central Gas Light Com
pany, large capitalist and land owner,
and ranked among the millionaires. He
was the promoter of the old overland mail
route, which made considerable money in
1862. He contracted to build the Western
Pacific Railroad from San Jose to Sacra-
mento for s., 400 900, and sublet the grading
and masonry work to Cox. Out of this
grew the law suits that led to the final
tragedy.
CHARLES CUMMINGS was arrested at
Denver, recently, for passing counterfeit
money. 1t is charged that few weeks
ago he flooded the town of Sedalia, Colo,
with the bogus stuff, and then, after dis
posing of a quantity in bulk to another
party, left the country. A detective had
been following him for some time.
FRANK LIDDLE was recently arrested at
Lincoln, Neb., upon the charge of rifing
registered letters while he was assistant
postmaster at Ames, Iowa.
FRANK JAMES was released on bail at
Kansas City, upon the charge of participa-
ting in the Blue Cut train robbery, but be.
fore leaving the court room was again ar
rested by an officer from Gallatin, No.,
upon warrant charging him with the
murder of Captain Sheets. He was taken
to Gallatin for trial
AT San Francisco, Cal, the other day.
Florence Vincent, Spanish Artic whaler,
shot and wounded his wife and then blew
out his own brains. Jealousy was the
cause.
THE SOUTH.
THE Coosa River furnace, at Gadsden,
Ala, was recently destroyed by fire. Four
hundred cars of coke were burned. Loss