The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-10
THE WEST.

demenCed mother.
THE WEST.
The proprietor of the Sheppard skating
rink at Dubuque, Ia, was assaulted the
other night by a party seeking admission
without paying. Thereupon Mr.. Sheppard
fired pistol at the assaliant, the ball
missing him and passing through the lobe
of the ear of a boy, Dick Heller's son,
standing in the crowd. Sheppard was
arrested and lodged in JAN.
CARRIE SWAIN, the actress, was granted
a divorce at st. Louis. Her husband failed
to appear and the divorce was granted by
default.
THOMAS MCGRATH, second steward ofthe
steam barge C. H. Starke, was washed
overheard on the trip across Lake Michi-
gan, the other night. He was twenty years
of age and lived at Cleveland. The cap
tain reports a very rough passage. He
lost his deck load in snow-squall.
JU, the Apache chief, it is said, is still
alive, and with about twenty bucks is not
over one hundred miles north of Chihuahua.
PARTICULARS of the terrible tornado of
the 1st show widespread destruction.
Oakville, Ind, was complete destroyed,
five or six persons killed and twenty in
jured. After the tornado the houseless
people were subjected to binding snow
storm. The storm was also very destruc-
tive to life and property in Alabama and
Tennessee. Ohio and Pennsylvania suf-
fere d from the same storm on the morning
following.
The worst of the food was reported over
at Bismarck, D. T.
Snow was six feet deep at Long Pine,
Western Nebraska, on the 1st.
GOVERNOR HAMILTON has offered a re-
ward of 5000 for the arrest of Davissey
Wells for the murder of v. NJ. Coats at
Glasgow, Scott County, Ill, March %.
THE other evening at Sensmeir's saloon,
on Water street, Evansville, Ind, Joe
Reeder, raftsman from the mouth of
Green River, fatally stabbed Mike Nor
ton, a steamboat deckhand, of that city.
1t is supposed to be the result of an old
feud. Both were drinking.
1t was stated that the Canadian Pacific
had definitely determined to build the So
called Credit Valley extension to Detroit,
in order to give it a through line West.
twenty-five, living three and a half miles
northwest of Darlington, Ind, was killed
at the Petro sawmill and tile-factory re-
Gently. A log fell across his breast, kill
ing him instantly.
THE Michigan saw works at East Sagi-
nav were totally destroyed by fire re-
Gently.
A MEETING of barbed wire manufac-
turers, held in Chicago on the Sd, advanced
the price of wire ten per cent. This is the
second advance within sixty days. An
advance of half cent pound was made
at st. Louis recently.
The result of the late three days riot at
Cincinnati was fifty-one killed and one
hundred and ninety-ive wounded, mag
nificent court house in ruins, nearly all the
public records and a magnificent library
wiped out of existence and some destruc-
ton of private property. The city has
quieted down and troops gone home. A
bill passed the State Senate providing for
the maintenance of the aged mother of Cap.
tain Desmond, who was killed at the head
of his company; also granting one hundred
and twenty days pay at two dollars per
or otherwise during the riot.
AT Evansville, ILL.,, the other day, Henry
Henderson (colored) was found guilty on
the charge of having stolen twenty-three
chickens from a resident of the city. His
punishment was fixed at one year in the
Chester penitentiary.
WILLIAM BARNETT, while riding to his
work at Youngstown, o., sought shelter
from severe thunderstorm in barn, and
both horse and rider were instantly killed
by lightning. Barnett was fifty years old,
and leaves a wife and eight children.
A RUNoR to the effect that Commissioner
Fink had ordered an advance in all rates
on east bound freight to basis of twenty
cents per one hundred pounds from Chicago
was emphatically denied in New York by
the Commissioner, who says he has no in
tention at present of making any change
whatever.
PRoF. CYRUS NoRTHRUP, Of Yale, has &C
cepted the Presidency of the Minnesota
State University at Minneapolis.
JOHN NARY was shot in the abdomen by
Lloyd Porter, at st. Paul, Mimi, the other
night. The affair occurred in the saloon Of
Patrick Nary, from which Porter had been
elected, for becoming drunk and noisy,
while drinking with friend from Mime
apolis.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were injured in a
railroad accident on the Louisville 6 Nash
Vile Railroad at Belleville, H., recently,
caused by the train backing into an open
switch.