The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-03


the President.
Ex-Governor LOWE, of Iowa, died at
Washington on the 22d.
4 SPECIAL stated that Jack Meyer had
rediscovered the bed of the Lost Cabin
Mine in Montana, whichis immensely rich.
It is located near the head waters of the
Big Horn River. This is a mine which
three old timers discovered in early Terri
torial times, two of whom were murdered
by the Indians and the survivor became in
sane and could never trace their trail.
A RECENT snow-slide at the Virginius
Mine, in Ouray County, Colo, struck
boarding house in which were eleven min
ers, burying the men over twenty feet. Six
were killed and the five others supposed to
be fatally injured. All had families.
In the Federal Court at Chicago, the
other day, Judge Blodgett sentenced each
of the lottery agents tried before him to
pay fine of 500 for using the mails for
lottery business.
THE negro "Big Ike" who, while attempt
ing to burglarize the Bank OF Durango,
Colo, recently, and shot Bruce Hunt, son
of Ex-Governor Hunt, died at Denver the
other night from injuries purpcsely infiict-
ed on himself in jumping headlong from
forty-three foot embanl1ment, to avoid
being captured alive. Just before dying
he made a confession duplicating four
others. All are under arrest.
ARTHUR j. JENNINGS, bookkeeper for
William P. Howard & Co., commission
merchants, of st. Louis, was arrested re-
Gently charged with embezzling 5000 from
his EMPLOYERS. He was released on bond,
and said he would explain matters satisfac-
torily.
LAST August William H. Conklin went
! to Omaha, bought several acres of ground
for a residence, and at once commenced the
erection of fine house. He was largely
engaged in the tree business in Minnesota,
and seemed to be man of means. During
the erection of his house he paid flying
visits to Omaha. Several weeks ago he
went to attend the finishing of his house
and arrange for the removal of his family.
He fell in with bad company, commenced
drinking and died before his family reached
| their new home.
| CHARLES HARVEY, of Petersburg, Ind,
who murdered Henry Culin, Jr., was taken
| from the Jail the other night and hung to a
| tree.
Ar Richmond, Ind, the other evening,
Henry w. Johnson, a prominent criminal
| lawyer, while attempting to shoot one of
the Baumer brothers, shot Policeman Wer-
tenburg in the thigh, and was himself shot
in the back of the head by an unknown
party. The shooting was the result of
law suit between the Baumer brothers and
a man named Vaughan.
THE extensive broom factory and ware
house of the Samuel Cupples Woodenware
Company of st. Louis burned the night be-
fore Christmas; loss, $4,000. The Busch
Wine Company building was also burned
loss on building, $4,000; stock, $15O,O0O
An explosion in the Busch building shat
tered the walls, and in their fall they Gov
cred John Conway and Michael Kehoe il
the debris, killing them and more or les:
injuring Con Gallagher, Patrick Powers
F. NJ. Williams, John Hartley, all member:
of the salvage corps who were spreading
tarpaulins when the wall fell.
PASSENGER train on the Louisville
New Albany & Chicago Railroad recently
went through a culvert near Salem, Ind
Three persons were killed and seven o.
eight badly injured.
| WHILE Abe Morrison was seated in hi
store at Dubuque, Iowa, the other evening
with a gallon can of alcohol beside him, it
! contents became ignited, and all at one
! Mr.. Morrison was in flames. He ran int
the street and rolled into a snow pile unit
the flames were extinguished, but not be
| fore he was badly if not fatally burned
| He afterwards returned to his store ant
with some assistance extinguished tn
flames, which had already done considera
bic damage.
THE other morning the roof of the roun
hou Sc of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, a
Bloomington, ILL.,, gave way beneath tn
t accumulated weight of wet snow and wen
3 down with crash, burying six locomotive
, in the ruins. The damage to the locomo
tives was quite serious. One man wa
quite severely injured.
ABOUT four weeks ago Carl Gull, a Gel
i man clearinghouse keeper, of Blooming
ton, H., aged sixty; his son, aged twenty
| two; daughter, aged twenty, and a boarde
named Frink, were taken sick, and i'll
few DAYS it was discovered that their di:
: ease was trichinosis. After dreadful SUI
n fering Carl Gull died about week ago; hi
: son was in precarious condition, with bu
n little prospects of recovery, and the daugi
:, ter was quite i'll. Frink, it was though
e would also die. All the result of eatin
e raw sausage.
t THE large Touring mill of George
i Thilenus, at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, burne
e recently. Loss, 100000; insurance, $5O,OO
A REsCUING party of thirty one person
= went from Ouray, Colo, to the Virginiu
n mines to take away the victims of the min
i disaster of the day before, and Will
S returning with the bodies on sleds secon
snow slide came down and the party had
t miraculous escape from being owe
e whelmed. The sleds containing four dea
e bodies, however, were carried two thousan
|, feet down the mountain side, and the
# hurled over a precipice five hundred fet
high, where they must remain until spring
/ The party finally reached Ouray, nearl
l. dead from exhaustion.
$ A LATE fire at Fargo, D. t. destroyed
number of business houses. Loss, $50, ,OOt
= insurance about half that amount.
l. ANOTHER Colorado snow slide recentl
;. occurred near Telluride carrying off foul
l. teen men, eight of whom were killed.
a A FREIGHT train on the Burlington, c
II dar Rapids & Northwestern Railroad, WI
wrecked recently at Columbus Junctio
K Iowa. Five cars were derailed and MAJ
); Fisher killed.
LAST July Gretchen Rummel, in h
d eighteenth year, daughter of barber Ii
l. ing in Munich, Bavaria, took fifteen hu
n dred marks her father had saved up al
ran away to America. She went to Clev
e land, O., where a woman friend lives, ar
3 found work as a domestic in a farmer
u family at Cnllamer. RecentlY she wrote