The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
THE WEST.

! OtOuS III " OH luc I'LL Wy Iu0 usual Iud-
iorities.
OWNERS of land on the shore of Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, suffer consider
ably from cobble stone marauders. The
stones are worth something in Chicago
for paving purposes, but as they protect
the land from erosion their hypothecation
by INSCRIPTIONS parties produces much
| damage.
IN view of the prevalence of yellow
fever in some parts of Northern Mexico,
the acting Secretary of the Treasury has
authorized the Collector of Customs at Ell
Paso, Tex, to inspect the travel from
Mexico.
HUTCHINs, the San Francisco woman
stranger, has been sentenced to hang on
September II.
A CHEROKEE Indian, named Parch Meal
was arrested recently in the Territory for
the murder of man named Henry Ferght,
twelve years ago. The motive was rob-
berry, and Parch Meal obtained twenty-five
cents from the corpse.
SEVERAL hundred representatives of the
colored militia of the respective States,
gathered at Kansas City to go into
camp under General Hiram Berry, of st.
Louis.
EMMA WELSH, young lady who resided
six miles north of Mattoon, ILL.,, jumped
from the bridge and was drowned recently.
A love affair is said to have been the in
centive for the victims rash act.
AT Lincoln, ILL.,, recently, Willie Thomp.
son, aged eleven years, was playing on top
of bin full of shelled corn, in the Logan
mill, when he was drawn to the bottom and
covered with corn. He was taken out
dead.
A FIRE the other day in Schmidt's label
and lithographing house, in San Francisco,
destroyed property walked at $50, 900.
AN Akron, o., special says: An incen-
diary fire in the business part of the town
destroyed seven frame buildings, occupied
as stores. Loss $1,000; insurance $1,000.
THE Governor of Montana has issued a
proclamation quarantining Texas cattle
from northern ranges.
SAMUEL B. RAYMOND, Chairman, and
William K. Sullivan, Secretary of the
Local Committee of Arrangements for the
Republican National Convention at Chi
cago, report that the total amount collected
for the purpose was $25, 764, of which $751;
221 was expended, leaving dividend of
AZ per cent. to subscribers.
ABOUT forty Cree Indians were recently
turned out of their homes in the Judith
country. They were placed in these homes
by General Miles at the close of the Sioux
war, but temporarily left them to go on a
hunt. On their return they found their
cabins occupied by white men, who drove
them away with rifles.
CHRISTIAN a. KRIPP, a well-known char |
acter of Galena, ILL.,, and a man of consid- !
cradle property, died in the county Jail |
from the effects of morphine given him to |
ward off delirium tremens.
RETURNS have been received from assays |
of the black sands of the Snake River, near |
Walker and McQuat's Ferry, Utah, which |
showed 1864 per ton. These sands have |
hitherto been considered worthless and |
were sluiced away to get at the gravel, |
which is comparatively worthless.
BLACKsMITHs, molders and foundrymen |
to the number of one hundred and twenty |
five, went out of the indianapolis Car |
Works the other day. They had not been |
paid in five weeks, their wages formerly |
being given them every two weeks.
THE indianapolis roads complain that the
Chicago roads are not living up to tariff
rates, and announce that they will protect
themselves pool or no pool.
LAST spring some horse thieves arrested
on Wood River were successfully defended
by two attorneys, who were given horses
as fees. 1t is now announced that the
horse thieves have raided there again and
stolen every head but ten, whose value will
not pay the bill for keeping the herd.
JAMES A. COLLINS, of Litchfield, ILL.,,
was lodged in jail, charged with forgery
and larceny. He is said to be an old and
desperate criminal.
A VIOLENT yellow fever epidemic has
broken ont in Ures and Hermosillo, Mex
leo. Yellow fever is attacking the cattle
in Sonora, a curious circumstance never
before noted.
The Republicans of the Fifth District of
Iowa nominated Milo P. Smith, of Cedar
Rapids, for Congress ON the nineteenth
ballot.
THE Oklahoma "boomers" were expelled
from Rock Falls by the military on the 9TH
and the town burned. Captain Payne and
others who had previously been expelled
from Oklahoma were imprisoned.
j. c. S. HARRISON, the defaulting banker
of indianapolis, was dangerously i'll.
E. S. MCMANUs, a leading confectioner
at st. Paul, suicided recently by taking
morphine. Business troubles.
THE Grand Trunk Railway repair shops,
beyond the southwestern Chicago limits,
burned the other night. Loss, $4,000.
LIEUTENANT j. o. MAcKEY, of the Third
Cavalry, has been convicted of beating an
D. |
will be confined to the limits of the reser-
walton at Fort Leavenworth for eight
months and forfeit four hundred dollars
of his pay.
A FIRE the other night in the warehouse
and lumber yards of the Key City Furni
lure Company, at Dubuque, Iowa, caused
= loss of 1900; insurance $4,000.
THE Chicago Live Stock Exchange is de-
.ermined to no longer permit the practice
If ''shrinksge" adopted by packers in hog
purchases. piggy" sows and "stagsn
must in future be separated and sold on
heir own merits.
ABOUT twenty young cattle of a herd of
'ne hundred and fifty, being pastured nine
niles from Denver, have died of Texas
lever in the last few days.
THE SOUTH.
RUMoRs were afoat in Louisville that
eading stockholders of the louisville &
Nashville road wonld bring suit against :
The former directors for money lost in sus-
tanning quotations in Wall street, and for
frauds perpetrated in saddling the Mobile
division upon the company. I
AN immigrant family, consisting of a
nan and wife and four children, persisted