The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-20
THE WEST.

claiming that amount on account or sale OF
bonds.
THREE colored women attacked a negro
in Cairo, ILL.,, recently. He defended him
self with a hatchet, inficting frightful
wounds.
THE Chicago liquor dealers have resolved
to contest the high license law of Illinois.
AT Coshocton, O., Helen King Spangler,
wife of Hon. E. T. Spangler, and author of
''The Physicians Wife," and other well
known novels, was found dead in her bath
room from apoplexy.
ABRAHAM BREATH died in Alton, ILL.,, re-
Gently. He was one of the two or three
men who rallied to the support of Elijah 2.
Lovejoy, editor of the Alton Observer, who
was killed November Z, 1887, in pro-sla-
very riot.
THE convicts at Anamosa Prison, Iowa,
made an effort to escape, which failed.
RED sticks, the Greek call for war, have
been found in the yards of many Spieeche
full bloods, although things are quiet at
present in the Indian Nation.
The Advance Elevator, in East st. Louis,
burned with 250,O00 busdels of grain, about
one hundred freight cars and adozen frame
buildings.
THE aggregate yield of lard during the
past season at Cincinnati was 12,414,OOO
pounds, showing a decrease Of 3,296,0OO
pounds from the preceding year.
A FIRE started in the west side business
quarter of the village of Allegan, twenty
five miles northwest OF Kalamazoo, Mich,
hirrH mil nd
through the entire district to the river,
taking every brick store building in the
place except the Chaffee hotel and Peck's
bank building. The fire had run its course
in two hours. The aggregate loss is placed
by Allegan business men at from $4oO,OOO
to $500, 600, probably high estimate. The
insurance is believed to amouiSt to $15O,0O0.
THE Chicago fast mail service will be ex-
tended to milwaukee and st. Paul.
AsPECIAL from Harrisburg, Ill, town
lying one hundred and twenty miles south
of st. Louis, says thatpersons coming in
from the south and southeast of
that town tell of a terrific cyclone that
swept across Saline County, recently,
doing considerable damage.
A WEYAUwEGA, Wis, special says:
Frederick Vierks, a German aged eighty
five years, was found dead near his barn
in the town of Lind, with his skull crushed
in. A mallet lay beside him but thereis no
other trace of the murderer. Vierks had
considerable money about him before the
murder. 1t is now missing.
THE Utah Legislature passed another
multiplying act, which was promptly vetoed
hy Governor Murray.
HAILsToNEs an inch in diameter fell re-
Gently at Nokomis, Ill.
G. EGGENBERGER, a merchant and saloon
keeper, of Odell, Ill, was murdered and
his body placed on the track recently,
supposed by tramps, who also robbed him.
A FIRE in Grand Rapids, Mich, destroyed
about 100000 worth of property recently.
THE mother of Moll Halbrook, the famous
shop-lifter, was found dead in small
house which she had made her home in the
southern part of Chicago. The mother
was herself noted thief.
THE Merchants Association of Mlwau-
kee passed a resolution calling for the sus-
pension of silver dollars.
A wATERsPoUT broke on the farm of S.
NJ. Elwood, near Nashville, ILL.,, flooding
everything, but causing no other dam
age.
THE wheat crop in the vicinity Of Effing'
ham, ILL.,, is reported seriously injured by
recent alternations of freezing and thawing
weather.
| PRENTIss TILLER, the Pacific Express
robber at st. Louis, was arrested recently
at Milwaukee and $4,000 of the money re-
covered. The arrest was due to his own
folIy in leaving his valise with the money
at trunk store to be repacked. His ac-
compIice, a man named McFadden, has
also been arrested, at Sherman, Texas.
| A SHOCKING case of cruelty has come to
| light in Norwalk, o. Maggie Montgomery,
aged eight years, was taken from charita'
BILE institution by Mrs. Blinzly, who beat
her and starved her, fractured her skull
and burned her with hot poker. There
were but slight chances of the child's re-
covery. So incensed were the people that
they threatened to lynch the whole Blinzly
family.
THE Governor of Kansas has called an
extra session of the Legislature to convene
at Topeka on Tuesday, March 18th, to take
action in regard to the cattle plague that
now prevails in the State.
A FIRE at Kansas City the other morning
DESTROYED Woodward, Faxon & Co.'s place,
1905 to 1908 Union avenue. The loss on
drugs, buildings and other property
amounted to nearly 500, 900. A young man
named Alternately was killed by leaping
from fourth story window to escape
being burned.
Hon. JOHN TAFFE died at North Platte,
Neb., recently. He was a prominent citi
zen, having represented Nebraska in Con
gress for three terms, from 1866 to 1872. Al
the time of his death he was Receiver of the
United States Land Office at North Platte,
which position he had held for several
years. He was born in indianapolis in 1921
AUDITOR WALKER, of Missouri, has re-
ceived a letter from T. c. Campbell, q
Kirksville, informing him that the mouth
and foot disease had broken out among the
cattle in Northern Missouri.
The Aspen stage, which arrived at Lead
Vile the other night, brought news of q
fatal snow-slide which occurred at Aspen
mountains. Three employees of the Vallejo
mine, George Marshall, William OBrien
and John McGunnity, were killed. Mike
Higgins, another, miner is missing.
MATT LEWIS, colored, was hanged in St
Louis for the murderof his wife in October
1876. Lewis quarreled with her, and cut
her throat in a fit of jealousy. He escaped
but was arrested. ne arly a year afterwards
He had been in Jail seven years, during
which time he had four trials.
THE SOUTH.
CHAs. LIPPINcorT, who married q col
ored girl in Louisiana about a year ago
was arrested in Denison, Tex, with his
| v,ifa on a charge of misceenatiou.