The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-10
THE WEST.

Akron, O., owned by George W. Mcneil
and James n. Baldwin. The workmen had
| to run for their lives, the flames spread sc
| fast, and the entire structure was con
sumed. The mill was recently enlarged to
three hundred barrels daily, and rebuilt for
| the roller process. 1t was valued at $40,
600; stock on hand at $500; insured for
$4,000.
a BOY named Adams, eleven years old,
was recently accidentally killed while gun
ming in Ray County, No.
THE bursting of mill dam at Houghton,
Mich, recently, resulted in the death OF
Charles B. Raymond, teller of the First
National Bank of Houghton, his son and
servant girl and Howay Raymond, wife
and son.
THE town of Breckenridge, Mimi, was
nearly destroyed by fire the other evening,
including the county off ces and records.
THE jury in the Emma Bond case, in
which the three men, Montgomery, Gle
menti and Petus, were tried at Hillsboro,
ILL.,, for the outrageous assault on Miss
Bond at Taylorsville, in June; rendered a
verdict of acquittal.
THE steamers Colorado and City of Alton
burned at st. Louis the other day.
THE paint, carpentering and Upholsteriug
shops of the Missouri, Kansas 81 Texas
Railroad, at Sedalia, Mo-, burned the other
morning. Loss about $4,000; fully in
sured.
A PASSENGER train on the Illinois Cen
trail struck broken rail between Manson
and Barnum, Iowa, the other morning.. A
sleeper and two passenger coaches were
thrown down a fifteen-foot embankment.
Mrs. J. H. Smith, of Ohio, Barnum County,
H., was instantly killed and seven per-
sons were more or less injured.
ABNER BOND recently committed suicide
by hanging, at TaYlorville, Ill. He was
one of the most respected citizens in the
county, and considered an exceedingly sem
sible mantle very last to commit suicide
He was relative of A d. Bond, the father
of Miss Emma, the victim of the unhuman
outrage Jast June. He had worried good
deal over the affair, and the general opinion
was that the mental anxiety over the trial,
in progress at the time, had added to his
physical debilities, and had something to
do with the final tragedy.
THE terrible Crouch family murder near
jackson, Mich, some weeks since, was sup
plemented recently by the suicide Of Mrs.
Dan Holcomb, daughter of the murdered
man. She locked herself into a room after
dinner, undressed, went to bed and, it was
believed. took laudanum, as an empty hot
tie which had contained that drug was
found in her room.
JAMES WILLIAMS, alias O'Brien, con-
fined in Jail at Ottumwa, Ia, recently
escaped. after shooting dead the turnkey.
How the prisoner obtained pistol was
mystery.
JUDGE LUKE, of the Circuit Court of st.
Louis, lately decided the long-standing
case of James Andrews against the ST.
Louis Tunnel Railroad Company, Barton
Bates and Charles z. Tracy, for money
claimed by Andrews to be due him as con-
tractor for building the tunnel from the
bridge to the Union depot, ten years ago.
The Court awarded special judgment for
the plaintiff for S119,22S.
EARNEST DIX, of Bloomington, H., died
recently from tTichinosis. At party sew
eral weeks ago nine persons ate of smoked
sausage quite heartily, and were soon after
taken i'll. On examining the uncooked
meat they had eaten of, millions of the para
sites were found. Gull, the man who raised
the swine and prepared the meat, and his
wife died three weeks afterwards, and sew
eral of the sick, it was thought, would die.
A post mortum examination showed that
Dix's body was literally alive with
trichinB.
SEVERAL weeks ago the body of a lady was
u. ~ ~ 49,
Ill. Later three men were arrested at
Chicago, charged with the crime. 1t was
claimed that they belonged to an organized
gang of body-snatchers.
THE west-bound express on the Wabash
Road struck awagon containing five young
men near Napoleon, o., the other night,
killing Frank Long and William Rhores
and badly injuring George Arps. Long
left wife.
THE Thermometer ranged from thirty to
thirty-five degrees below in Minnesota and
Dakota during the late cold snap.
STANLEY GRIFFITH was recently arrested
at Salem, O., upon the confession of having
murdered his father.
The other morning the sheds in front Of
the tunnel at the Utah Central Coal Mine
at Pleasant Valley, Utah, took fire from
the stove in the weighing room, and in a
few minutes the flames had extended into
the air-shaft Of the tunnel. Only five men
were in the mine at the time, three Of
whom escaped, though they were nearly
suffocated. The other two, John MCLEAN
and his son John, persisted.
In the case of Frank James, recently adj
mitted to bail in Jackson County, No., and
arrested by the United States
Marshal for completely in a mail robbery
in Alabama, Judge Krekel, OF the United
States District Court, at Kansas City, re-
Gently decided that the prisoner could not
be taken by the United States authorities
until the greater charges against him had
been disposed of in the State courts.
THE old st. Nicholas Hotel in St. Louis
burned the other night. The fire also de-
stroyed adjoining property, the total loss
being over 100000; well insured.
THE Tabor Opera House, in Denver, Colo,
was recently damaged by fire to the extent
of $50, 900.
THIRTY-FTvE degrees below zero at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 4th.
A STOCK train of twenty cars was recent
" showed under on the Wabash Road
eleven miles from the Chicago stock yards.
Several attempts to reach the train and
save the stock failed on account Of heavy
snow drifts.
THE SOUTH.
TIE other Sunday at point fifty miles
from Fort Smith, Ark, in she Choctaw i