The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-06
THE WEST.

TAX "ESTs
NEAR Sun Prairie, Wis, Lena Spaight,
aged fifteen, was outraged by two young
men, brothers, named Peckham. She suf-
fered terrible injuries.
THE st. Louis elevator men have held
meeting and decided to post grain the mo-
ment it is discovered to be damaged.
MEASLES have decimated the Zuni In
dams of New Mexico.
THE detectives now claim to have
evidence which will surely convict the
murderer of Fora Burns.
FACTS have developed showing that the
body found behind some lumber at Elev-
enth and Central streets, Kansas City, was
that of an infant thrown there alive at
night into an obscure corner to perish from
cold.
WILLIAM ADAMS and Jack King, who
were engaged in stage robbery at AL
bion, 1. T., about eighteen months ago, and
who afterward took part in the Central
Pacific train robbery, have been sentenced
to life imprisonment.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Kansas
City, Des Moines g. Northern Railroad
Company have be en- filed in Des Moines,
the two cities named. The incorporators
are chiefly residents of Missouri and Iowa.
THE contractor for building the Souris
& Rocky Mountain Railway states that
work will be rapidly pushed as soon as
spring opens. The road will run from
Winnipeg northwesterly through Butte
ford to point beyond Edmonton, in all
about $50 miles. The company has been
organized, and a land grant of $40 acres
per mile has been obtained from the Gov
eminent. The bonds of the company
amounting to $S,0O0,000 have been placed.
WILSON, who killed Policeman Billiard,
at Detroit, has been sentenced TO life i'm
prisonment.
THE body of an old negro was found in
his cabin lying in the fireplace, recently,
at Cairo, Ill. There is suspicion now that
he was murdered by another negro for
$1,000, which it was supposed the old man
possessed.
AT Ozark, Mo-, William Magill was sen
fenced to fifty years Imprisonment for the
murder of Milum Dunlap.
NEAR Fulton, Mo-, Robert Craigheads,
well-to-do farmer, was called out one
night recently ostensibly for the purpose
of assisting a stranger out of a mud hole
with heavy loaded wagon. the stranger
struck him on the head with a club, killing
him and then fed.
THE thermometer again went to thirty
degrees below zero during the recent biz
card in Montana and Dakota.
ROBERT BAILEY, colored, has been SEN
fenced at Toledo, o., to three months i'm
prisonment and fine of SOD for marrying
a white woman.
A FIRE at Lincoln, Neb., burned up the
st. Charles Hotel and other buildings.
Loss, $50, 006; partially insured.
TWO women horsewhipped D. L. Regens-
berger, a lawyer, in San Francisco, the
other day.
Two or three families in Minneapolis
have been affected with trichine by eat
ing pork, and some of the victims will die.
LIEUTENENr G. B. HARDER, who has
just returned from Siberia after search
for Chipp and party, of the Jeanette crew,
has been rendered a reception by tho cit
liens of Youngstown, o.
The church trial of Rev. II. Spur lock,
charged with falsehood, immortality and
undue intimacy with Mrs. George, until
recently a teacher in the Methodist Sunday
School, at Geneseo H., has been brought to
a close. After being out fifteen minutes
the committee returned a verdict of
guilty. This suspends Spurlock from the
ministry.
THE hard glove fight at Pittsburgh, Pa,
between John Smith, of Colorado, and Viii |
liam Mcdonald, of Liverpool, England, for
a purse of 500, resulted in the defeat of
Smith in the fourth round. The mill lasted |
fourteen minutes. Both men were badly |
punished.
A STEAM pipe burst at ST. Patrick's |
Church, St. Louis, the other evening. Fully |
one thousand persons were assembled. A |
panic ensued, and a wild rush was made |
for the doors. Only one person was seri- |
cusly injured, lady who had tainted being |
badly trampled on.
PASSENGERS from Northern Mexico con- |
firm the existence of the so-called yellow |
fever at Mazatlan and Manzanilio, and say |
it is worse than last fall. I