The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-26

s1gnment for the benefit OF his creditors al
New York on the Goth. The liabilities weIe
stated to amount to $5,OOO,0O0.
THE WEST.
A THREE-YEAR-oLD child of Charles
Jacobson, of Racine, Wis, fell into a els
the other night and was drowned.
The Democratic Convention for the
Thirteenth Congressional District of Hill
nois met at Springfield on the 18th, Hon.
William Springer was re-nominated for
Congress by reclamation.
ANTON HALEY, who acted as treasurer
of a Enthusiastically picnic in Milwaukee,
recently, disappeared with $1,000 received
at the gates.
FRED. D. CLARKE, at one time promi-
nent and respected citizen of Milwaukee,
dissipated his fortune. fell to the lowest
point in the social scale, and died the
other day in police station.
THE stockholders of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton Road placed H j. Jewett
at the head of the Board of Directors. The
annual report shows an excess of earnings
over the expenses and fixed charges of
1910, 200.
ton met at Cincinnati on the 18th.
THOMAS WALLING, who went to Califor-
MIA from Muncie, Ind, during the gold
fever of 1S49, leaving a wife and three
children, recently returned from the Far
West to his wife, children and grand-chil.
dren. Mrs. Walling, who supposed him
dead, had in the meantime married twice,
both husbands dying.
THE first new. wheat of the season arrived
at st. Louis on the 10th from New Madrid,
Mo-, and was sold by auction at one dollar
per bushel.
TIE liquor dealers of Ohio will be COM
PEELED to pay the June collection tax, I'M
der the working of the Scott law.
WILLIAM h. WOODWARD, of Carbonate,
H., has been restored to practice as all
attorney before the Pension Bureau at
Washington.
RECENTLY D. w. Staples, of Dallas, w.
w. Hartsell and a man named Hicks
started from Palo, Pinto County, Tex, for
Washington Territory on horseback. When
about a week out while near the northern
boundary of the Pan Handle Road, the
party were surprised by seven hostile In
dams, and fusilade followed, the whites
seeking shelter in the timber. Hicks fell
dead st the fire of the first volley. Staples
heroically continued firing for an hour
with mortal wound in his abdomen, but
he finally expired. Five Indians were
killed and the other two were so badly
wounded that they fed, leaving Hartsell
sole survivor.
px1rN Cd NJ
cisco announce the arrival of the schooner
Ounalaska with Lieutenant George NJ.
Stoney at Ounalaska. Stoney was sent
forth by the Government to explore the
great unknown river, discovered by him
last year.
CINCINNATI was threatened with strike
by six thousand shoemakers, fifteen hundred
stovemakers and five thousand cigar.
makers.
JAMES CLIFFORD, who lay in Jail at New
Lexington, o., on charge of participating
in the lynching of Richard Hickey, was re-
leased by party of friends, who managed
to drug the turnkey.
THE miners of La Sale, Ill, to the num-
Der of one thousand, have concluded to
work for the coming season for ninety
cents per ton, five cents per ton less than
last season.
A GREAT strike of saw-mill hands was
commenced recently at Oscoda, Mich.
Several hundred men were out, demand
ing less hours and more wages. 1t was
thought possible that strikes would follow
st many other mills.
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, recently
said he had. decided to make war on the
gamblers and drive them out of the city
and that there would be n
more temporizing with the evil.
In one night the police raided seven houses
in which Mike Mcdonald, the leading
gambler of the city, had an interest, and
captured about three hundred inmates.
WooD BENSON, a veteran actor engaged
with the McVicker's Company, died at
Minneapolis the other morning. The night
before he appeared in his role at the thea
ter with the tremors of death already on
him. He was seventy years of age.
The directors of the Rock Island Road
report for the year ending with March |
gross earnings of S15, SS5, 5I4 and a net in |
come of S5,2S7,512. The capital stock is |
81, $50, 500. and the bonded debt ST., 800, 600
Miss LIZZIE SPENCER, of Faribault, |
Mimi, lost her reason the other day by |
excessive application at school, and wan
dered about the suburbs all night until |
found by searching party.
MRS. WARREN, of Denver, has donated |
100000 to Denver University for the es-
adjustment of d department of divinity to
be known as the cliff School of Divinity
,n condition that others endow professor
ship.
: GENERAL SHERMAN intimates tina. he
nay be compelled to remove from. ST.
Louis, where he has again been pestered by
water inspectors. They reported him for
lsing lawn hose, and he showed that the
water came from his cistern.
DURING violent thunder storm at Shell
yville, H., recently, Elisha futile and
beck flanders sought shelter with their
mule team unoer a shed, and while there
be mules were struck by Ii lightning, killing I
9th Instantly. The men were stunned /