The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-21

Grand Central mine, at Tombstone, A. T.
the other day. One hundred shots were
exchanged, but nobody was hurt The at
lacking party was repulsed.
THREE children, Robert Wood, Louise D
Wood and Kate Shaw, all under ten year:
of age, were recently burned to death in 6
barn on farm near South Ferry, o.
The Denver Republican and the Denver
| Tribune, the leading Republican newspa
pers of Colorado, consolidated recently
The new paper will be known as the Den
yer TTibune-Republicdn
| MAJoR-GENERAL HOFFMAN died at Rock
Island, ILL.,, recently.
BLACK DOG has been elected Chief Of the
Usage Nation, Indian Territory.
d. L. MOODY, the Evangelist, has been
engaged by the Y. NJ. G. A. of st. Louis to
preach there this fall.
EDWARD VAUPELL, the City Marshal of
Holland, Mich, was shot and seriously
wounded the other day by a negro whom
he was arresting.
THE case of Samuel Drew, ex-Prosecuting
County Attorney, who was arrested re-
Gently at Cincinnati on the charge of en-
bezzlement, was dismissed, the prosecuting
witnesses failing to appear against him.
DURING political discussion at Sadorus,
near Champaign, ILL.,, the other night a
serious row occurred in which several
farmers were sufferers, and Tobias Baker
was very dangerously stabbed by Vickers,
farmer. His jugular vein was almost
severed, and his recovery was very doubt
full.
THE other afternoon a team of horses
ran away upon the public square at Boon
vile, Ind, striking Reilly Smith, a farmer.
Three of his ribs were broken and internal
injuries sustained which would prove fatal.
The new assessment of Illinois shows a
decrease of about $40, 900, 900 less than last
year.
Two men were drowned by boat upset
ting them into the river at Bellaire, o., the
other day. Their names were Walter Tun-
ney and Patrick Dixon.
THE other day while Robert Knight and
William Smith were tamping dynamite
cartridge for blasting purposes at Granite
Falls, Mimi, it exploded prematurely,
killing the former and seriously if not
fatally injuring the latter.
A GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA freight
recently, killing him. Subsequently he
was identified as Lewis Youmans, of Oak
field, Mich. He was lying between the
rails, evidently intoxicated.
MISS GERTRUDE T. BOOMER, who had
been teacher in the village school at
Philo, ILL.,, for several years, recently COM
mitted suicide by saturating her clothing
with kerosene and setting herself on fire.
A RIOT occurred recently at Iowa City,
Iowa, over some liquor prosecutions. A
mob captured the prosecuting attorney and
tarred and feathered him and nearly killed
the prosecuting witness. The better citi-
zens rallied and organized special police
to preserve the peace.
A WRESTLING match between Delmas
and Cannon, at San Francisco the other
day, consumed three hours on the third
round, and was declared a draw by the
weary referee.
AT Wausau, Wis, a son of Rev. F. Kern,
fifteen years old, was drowned in the Wis
consin River the other day while bathing
horses.
AN outbreak of small-pox is reported to
the State Board of Health near the village
kee, Ill. the disease was brought from
Chicago.
THE Republicans of the Seventh District
of Ohio nominated Ex-Governor Foster for
Congress by reclamation. He was chair
man of the convention, and declined. They
then nominated by reclamation Daniel
Balist, of Crestline.
THIRTY saloon keepers of Minneapolis,
Mimi, were arrested recently for viOlat-
ing the Sunday law.
STRIKING stove molders in Chicago re-
Gently attempted to intimidate non-union
men at Cribben & Sections foundry. The
non-union men were armed and fired into
the crowd, killing a nan named Heck.
TkIXY HAMILTON was acquitted of the
charge of numbering Frank Skilley, at
Fargo, Dakota. Miss Hamilton then swore
out a warrant for the arrest of E. B. Sims,
who was suspected of the murder.
GOVERNOR MURRAY, of Utah, has tele-
graphed to the Indian Department that
the Indians are on the war path in Colo
RADIO and Utah, and asks that the troops be
sent to protect the whites.
AT Elkhart, Ind, recently, Mrs. F. Shat
while driving across the Lake Shore track.
The Supreme Grove Order of Druids
finished their session in st. Louis on the
18th, and adjourned to meet in Chicago
next year.
Edmund McCURTIN, brother of the pres
ent incumbent, was elected Governor of
the Choctaw Nation by over two hundred
majority.
RUSSELL s. TEvIs who, it will be recol-
lected, shot and seriously wounded Frank
J. Iglehart two years ago last winter, for
too intimate relations with his wife, shot
himself through the brain the other night
at st. Louis.
A FIRE and boiler explosion at Cincin
natl recently destroyed the saw-mill of
Henton & Cole and ten small dwelling
houses. Loss about $4,000.
IT was reported that widespread con.
spiracies in the interest of Iglesias existed
in Mexico for the murder of General Diaz
and the deposition of President Gonzales.
ANTON BoCCIoCo was sentenced to impris-
onment for life in Cincinnati for killing
Adam Dolan in October, 1882.
CYRUS SMITH, John Martin and William
Lee were arrested at Santa Fe, n. NJ,
charged with conspiring TO murder John
Dollan, wife and brother, and abduct his
two children.
THE SOUTH.
THE Wheeling, w. Va, IHtelligencer de-
MES that that city is either poor or bank
rupt, and makes long statement of her
facilities and encumbrances. The city
owes $645,000.
a VERDICT of justi6able homicide was
rendered by the jury in the case of Aaron
Coachman, who was lynched in EarIy