The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-24
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH.
The west-bound Texas Pacific train was
recently wrecked near Weathersford, Tex,
and over thirty passengers injured, many
quite seriously.
AT Alexandria, KY, recently, Miss
Weaver, the afiianced of Ed. Beir, went to
church with another young man. Beir be-
came so enraged that he went to the house
where Miss Weaver was stopping and de-
manded his presents. Being refused he
put pistol to her head and snapped it
twice without shooting. He was then put
out of the house, when he went to the back
door and shot himself twice, one ball pene
trating the heart.
LAURA KINNARD was found dead about
ten days ago, in her fathers house, at
Prosperity, S. c. She had apparently been
sitting in front of the fireplace and had
fallen forward on her face into the fire,
and the upper portion of her body burned
to a crisp. The father refused to permit
the Coroner to enter the house, which
aroused suspicion. Laura was Kinnard's
only child, and she was expected to soon
come in possession of large sum of money,
and foul play was suspected.
THE Democratic Legislative Caucus of
Kentucky was at a deadlock upon the
choice of United States Senator, three can
didates being in the field with Senator Will
Jams in the lead.
DR.. J. D. STOCKING, Postmaster at Law.
renee, Tex, a small station between Dallas
and Terrell, was arrested recently on the
charge of unlawfully breaking open letters,
and the detectives were after Mrs. Carr,
whose office it was to carry the mails from
the depot to the post-office, on the charge
of deserving the mails. Mrs. Carr was also
telegraph operator at Lawrence. She got
wind that the officers were after her and
skipped.
WHILE resisting arrest W. H. Alexander,
a cowboy and noted desperate, was shot
and killed on the reservation at Pena Col
orado, Tex, the other day, by a detach-
ment of soldiers under command of Lieu.
tenant Eggleston. Alexander had been
terrorizing the neighborhood and threat
ened to wipe out the military. One soldier,
named Ross, was killed and two others
slightly wounded before Alexander's Win
chester was silenced. Lieutenant Eggle-
ston was fired at by the desperate, but
jumped aside, the ball grazing his blouse.
ANDREW HERzoG, while recently falling
a large tree near Paducah, KY, started
forward to drive favorite dog from dan.
ger. Suddenly the tree came down with a
terrible crash, which struck him upon the
back, breaking it, crushing and holding
him like wise to the ground. He remained
thus suffering several hours, until discov-
cred ard released.
THE shock of an earthquake recently
stirred up the people of Wilmington, Beau
fort and other places in North Carolina.
THE Legislature of Maryland, after a
lively contest, elected Judge E. r. Wilson
United States Senator, to succeed Groome
GENERAL.
GREAT fears were entertained in Buenos
Ayres of tidal waves.
A LATE storm at Compton, Canada
wrecked sixty buildings.
IT was reported that Sheikh Senoussi
was advancing to join Ell Mahdi, the False
Prophet. If true. Egypt was thought to be
in the greatest danger,as the influence of
Senoussi extends over the whole North
African maritime provinces to Egypt.
VALUE of exports of domestic breadstuffs
for December, 1888, SO 941 $685. against
Sl7,0S1,7 100 for the same time in 1882 For
the twelve months ended December 81,
1885, S172 So, $50, against $751;, 67S S54 for the
same period 1882.
THE business failures for the week ended
January IS were 42G, against 333 the pre-
vious week.
1T was denied in Paris that the United
States will mediate between China and
Franco. !