The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-11

CoiSHaH was SnoC apo mortally wounded
His brother James was badly beaten with
slungshot.
JOHN B. DAWSON, the largest man in Iowa,
| died in Washington recently. His weight
had been for many years over four hun
dred pounds and at the time of his death
was four hundred and eighty. The casket
in which he was buried was seven feet six
| inches long, three feet wide, and two feet
| deep. There was no hearse in the city
large enough to receive it, and it was
taken to the cemetery in an undertaker's
wagon.
T. d. GUINEA, Superintendent of Cal
vary Cemetery at Chicago, narrowly es-
| capped assassination at the hands of dis
charged teamster named Daniel Green,
who fired three shots at him.
THE band of bandits who have been ter
rorizing Coahuila County, Mex, were at
tackled recently by rangers and two were
killed.
THE reunion of the 105th Illinois Infantry,
held recently at Naperville, with General
David Dustin in the chair, was an occasion
overhowing with merriment, although tenn
pered by sad memories.
THE Chicago banks are unable to secure
small bills from the Treasurer of the United
States, because the Chief of the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving fears that in meet
ing the demand he would prem aturely ex-
haust his appropriation.
A RECKLESS girl from Des Moines,
named Maud Adds, who has been masque-
rading in male attire in Chicago, was re-
Gently sent to the home for erring women
for six months, as her mother declined to
receive her.
WAH LEE YoN, wealthy Chinese resi-
dent of Cleveland, o., was married lately
in that city to Miss Mary Chafen, a
German-American girl. The event attract
ed considerable attention.
THE coroner's jury in the Mclaughlin
outrage case at Flag Springs, Mo-, exon
Grated the young man who was at first sus-
pected and placed under arrest.
JOE KITTDEMAN, brother of the cham
pion American sprinter, was recently
killed az Denver by being run over by
hose carriage of the local fire department.
MGR. CAPEL was recently lecturing in
Milwaukee and other cities of the North
west.
BLACKLEG killed off a number of young
cattle in the neighborhood of Sadorus, near
Tol6no, Ill, during the last few days.
r. E. PRICE, President of the Iowa Tenn
perance League to enforce the prohibitory
law, was rotten-egged at his home at Elka-
dor recently by a mob of saloon rowdies.
THE earnings of the Mexican Central
Road for August are said to have been
nearly Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. There is some gossip in Boston
over the inability of the former President,
Thomas Nickerson, to pay a personal loan
which had matured in banking house in
State street.
FRANK FRIsBEE, employed in the First
National Bank of Portland, Oregon, re-
Gently stole seven thousand dollars and
fed to New York, where he was arrested
on steamer lying at quarantine.
THE General Passenger Agents of the
various railroads centering at indianapolis
have agreed to re.establish the old passen-
ger rates until the Goth inst, when they
will meet and agree on some basis of set
tlement for the future.
On reports of the State Veterinarian, the
Governor CT Illinois has declared pleuro-
pneumonia epidemic among cattle in nine
herds, and enjoined their owners from
transporting them without certificate of
good health.
THE Minnesota Elevator Company, with
warehouses at thirty points in that State,
has made an assignment. Its liabilities
are nearly $4,000, chiefly due for bor-
rowed money.
THE receipts from saloon licenses in Chi
cago under the Harper law have already
exceeded nine hundred thousand dollars,
and it is evident that the city treasury will
have a surplus of five hundred thousand
dollars at the end of the year from this
source of revenue.
THE hosiery factory of Anshel Lehman,
in South Union street, Chicago, was closed
not long since by the Sheriff. The liabili-
ties are fifteen thousand. Knowing that
he could not escape failure, Mr.. Liebman
recently returned two invoices of yarns to
their owners in New York, unopened.
Mr.. ST. JOHN, an employe of the Gen.
eral Land Office, was lately sent to Colorado
to investigate certain complaints. In Las
Animas County he found one hundred
thousand acres of the public domain in
closed with barbed wire, bearing signs
threatening death for cutting fences or
leaving gates open.
c. A. KINCAID, representing the Gov
ernor of Kentucky, has sailed for Europe
to secure the remains of Joel T. Hart, the
American sculptor. The State of Ken
lucky will erect monument in the lat
ter's honor at Lexington.
FRANK MOORE, an Evansville detective,
who went to L7wis County, Tenn, to work
up the Mormon massacre cases, was en-
ticed into the woods by a man where an
armed mob proceeded to lynch him. He
prayed for life and was released, condi-
tionally that he left the country.
NJ. A. DooLIN, formerly a State Senator
in Nevada, said in a recent interview in
Chicago that there must be retrenchment
and consolidation of Offices in his State,
or an abandonment of State Government.
THE Northwestern Base Ball League has
sunk 900 this season. The Minneapolis
Club has dissolved, and the Milwaukee
nine will follow suit.
Mrs. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD has formally
accepted nomination for the Presidency
by the Woman's National Equal Rights
party of California, promising, if elected,
to recommend uniform system of laws in
regard to marriage and divorce.
THE Mazeppa Mill Company, of st. Paul,
was carried down by the failure of the
Elevator Company, by which
Governor Hubbard is said TO have been
financially ruined.
THE SOUTH.
THE wife of Chief Justice Harlan is very
i'll at Fort Monroe, Va.
THE cotton crop of South Carolina is in
good condition. The picking season has