The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-28

arrested. Kobbe was taken to New York
the same day of his arrest, and took
the detective to the upper part of New
York where they recovered from dry
4 cistern, encased in Theoretically sealed
drain pipe and wrapped in oiled silk, Gov
ernment bonds to the amount of s20,O 900.
Going thence to Brooklyn another piece of
drain yielded $4,000.
DR. GEORGE a. GREELEY Of Syracuse,
n. Y, was recently arrested at hotel IN
New York City for forging bonds and
mortgages to the amount of several thou
| sand dollars. When arrested he stated
1 that he was about TO mortgage property be-
1 longing to him and valued at $4,000 in or
der TO pay the amount of his forgeries.
l. div 1, THE WEST. i.-.s .ra
. The other evening fire broke out in the
dust room of the Etna flour mills, at
Akron, o., owned by George W. McNeill
and James N. Baldwin. The workmen had
TO run for their lives, the flames spread so
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 S75,-
/ OVJf SOOSh Adnu 1S TisOOos AASul III
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| a BOY named Adams, eleven years old,
was recently accidentally killed while gun
ming in Ray County, Mo. 'i .a''t .iai
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. a.s ..t f.- r. .aE .
The town of Breckinridge, 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.
H., for the outrageous assault on Miss
Bond at Taylorsville, in June, rendered a
verdict of acquittal. .' "",',. .>h
THE steamers Colorado and City of Alton
burned at st. Louis the other day. -.:..
THE paint, carpentering and upholstering
shops of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
| Railroad, at Sedalia, No., burned the other
morning Loss about SJ0,000; fully in
sured.
A PASSENGER train on the Illinois Cen
tral struck broken ran between Msnson
and Barnum, Iowa, the other norniag. \
sleeper and two passenger, coaches were
thrown down ffteen-foot embankment.
Mrs. J. H. Smith, of Ohio, Barnum County.
ILL.,, was instantly killed and seven per.
sons were more or less injured. ..tf.l
| ABNER BOND recently committed suiciie
by hanging, at TaYlorville, Ill. He was
one Of the most respected citizens in the
county, and considered an exceedingly SEN
sible man--the very last to commit suicide.
He was a relative of A. D. Bond, the father
of Miss Emma, the victim of the unhuma
outrage JSst June. He had worried a good
deal over the affair, Rndthe general opinion
was that. the mental anxiety over the tria:,
in progress at the time, had added to his
physical debilities, and had something t.
do with the final tragedy.
The terrible Crouch family murder nea-
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 room after
dinner, undressed, went to bed and, it was
believed, took laudanum, as an empty bot
tie which had contained that drug was
found in her room. -ii
n JAMES WILLIAMS, alias O'Brien, con-
fined in Jail at Ottumwa, Ia, recently
escaped, after shooting dead the turnkey.
How the prisoner obtained a pistol was a
mystery. f..f tf..'C.. "'. i.' H1. .tr
JUDGE LUBkE, ,'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 E. 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. .22SI. co. i4I1ri
EARNEST DIX, of Bloomington, H., died
recently from trichinosis. At party sew
eral weeks ago nine persons ate of smoked
sausage quite heartily, and were soon after
taken ill. On examining the iuncooked
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
trichina. 4. 10 g. sfE-. rFt ,. esd
SEVERAL weeks ago the body of lady was
stolen from the graveyard at Sycamore,
IN. Later three men were arrested at
Chicago,' charged with the crime. 1t was
claimed that they belonged to an organized
gang of body-snatchers. t.f-. r.t ..-r. a
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. I'D
STANLEY GRIFFITH was recently arrested
at Salem, o., upon the confession of having
murdered his father. a''" -A',.
j. 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. perished. iHitl H.it.
IN the case of Frank James; recently ad- 1
mitted to bail in jackson County, No., and
Immediately arrested by, the United States
Marshal for compifcityin a mail robbery
in Alabama, Judge Krekel, of the United
States District Court, 81 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.lBTF 4
TIE old st. Nicholas, Hotel in ST., Louis /
burned the other night. The fire also de-
stroyed adjoining property, The total loss
being over 500, 600; weH insured f.ius