The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-15

Fred w ettenlng, hve miles south or Elgln,
ILL.,, burned recently, together with thirty
/ five cows and four horses.
THE large new barn of Andrew Hardway,
a farmer living near Martinsville, ILL.,, was
burned to the ground the other night, while
the family were at church. Ten horses, a
full set of farming implements of all kinds,
thirty tons of hay, large quantity of
grain, wagons and other implements were
destroyed making total loss of nearly
$4,000, with no insurance. Thought to be
| incendiary.
MRS. JONATHAN LAUDIG, of Wells Coun-
ty, Ind, suicided recently by hanging. She
was supposed to have lost her mind, owing
to the late death of her husband and son.
KELLOGG, SAWYER & Co., lumber manu-
facturers of Kalamazoo, Mich, made an
assignment recently. Liabilities, $275, 600;
assets, $40 900, besides individual property
of So, 900 to $4,000. The failure is directly
caused by Endorsements for Frank CHECKER
ing, of Grand Rapids, to the extent of
$40, 900.
SEVERAL cases of the contagious disease
known as swell-head have developed among
the cattle at the stock yards in Chicago.
The first scientific examination of this dis
ease in this country was made recently,
under the direction of the United States
Treasury Cattle Commission. 1t was de-
cided that the disease is result of the
lodgnent of microscopic plants in the
teeth. When the disease extends to the
jaws it nearly always proves fatal. 1t can
be communicated to man.
JOSEPH BURsINGER, brewer, of Water
town, Wis, failed for 900, with only
So, 900 assets.
GENERAL GRANT has addressed a letter
to General Fitz John Porter, in which he
says: GAS long as l have voice it shall
be raised in your support without any
reference to the effect upon me or others.
Your restoration to the army simply, l
would regard as a very inadequate and un-
vindication, not only by Congress, but in
the minds of your countrymen."
THE Traffic Managers of the various rail-
roads in Kansas and the Kansas Railroad
Commissioners had joint meeting at To-
peka on the 9th to agree upon schedule of
rates, but the meeting resulted in no agree
ment, and the Commissioners ordered the
enforcement of the Beloit decision. Subse-
quently the railroad managers requested
the committee to meet them again on the
10Th, in order to agree upon uniform rates,
which the Board finally agreed to, until
which time the Beloit decision was held in
allegiance.
THE other night the mail between Malta
Bend and Mount Leonard, in Saline Coun-
ty, Mo-, was robbed about one mile from
the latter place. The mail carrier was at
tackled by three men, two of whom covered
him with revolvers, while the third made
away with the mail pouch. The two men
who had guarded him ordered him to pro-
ceed on his route, and threatened him with
death if he gave the alarm, but he gave the
alarm as soon as possible, and officers
started in pursuit. The mail pouch was
found cut open a short distance from the
scene of the robbery, and all the letters
were lying in the pouch, not one having
been opened, except a registered letter
$40, which was gone.
ABOUT four hundred miners, who have
been on a strike at La Sale, ILL.,, since the
of July, went to work the other
morning and the shafts are all now in full
operation. The leaders of the strike have
been black-listed, and several were making
to seek work elsewhere.
GEORGE WEST recently shot and killed
Williams, editor of the AdUOcdte, at Lo- |
Ind.
HENRY c. MCGEE, a well-to-do farmer,
residing near Independence, Mo-, recently
killed his wife and daughter and then him |
self. He shot his victims with q double |
barreled shotgun and completed the affair |
by swallowing poison. The tragedy was |
not discovered until his four other children |
returned from school and found their |
mother dead-dressed as if about to go out |
MCGEE was from Kentucky and |
had been quite wealthy, but had met with |
some reverses within the past few years. |
He was reported to be a stern, exacting /
husband and father.
THE entire roof, inside wall, iron and |
stone columns of the new south wing of |
the Capitol at Madison, Wis, fell the other
afternoon, burying abont twenty-five work
men in the ruins. Bernard Higgins, Will
liam Edgar, Michael Sewank and William
8. Jones were killed, and about twenty in
jured, some fatally.
CHAs. E. DIX, Cashier of the Savings
Bank at Council Bluffs, Iowa, shot himself |
through the head the other day and died in
Stantly. He was twenty-nine years old.
No cause for the act could be assigned, as
1is accounts were reported straight.
JUDGE HOFFMAN, of the United States
District Court, at San Francisco, recently
decided thatthe Chinese who went to China
prior to the passage of the Restriction act
ire entitled to land.
THE Executive Committee of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Method.
st Episcopal Church, at its late annual ses-
ion at Des Moines, Iowa, voted to raise
25,0O0 for the establishment of the first
voman's periodical in India.
HENRY MCGEE, Sheriff, made an at
empt to arrest a drunken man named
'arker, at Mohimingo, 1. T., recently, when
Parker drew a revolver and killed him at
he first fire. Kneeling beside the dead
nan, he blew his own brains out.
A RECENT fire at Troy, O., destroyed n
'ortion OF Beedle & Kelly's foundry and
factory. Loss, $4,000; in
urance, S16,500. l
A SPECIAL says that Mrs. Susannah Nei.
on started from Anderson, Ind, to Ne
apI ba. |