The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
THE WEST.


true bill against Orrin A. Carpenter,
charging him with the murder of Fora
Burns. He was committed without bail.
ANDREW MANGs, four years old, while
playing with fire at Cleveland, O., recently,
was burned to death. He was the last of
five children, the four others having died
recently of diphtheria. The mother be-
came insane upon the death of her last
child.
WHILE coasting at Bloomington, ILL.,, the
other night, sled containing party of
ten boys and girls going ataspeed of about
forty miles an hour ran into farmers
team that was going up the street and all
the young people were more or less hurt.
William Loomis, aged eighteen, was killed.
JOHN O'BRIEN, an agent of the Fair
banks Scales Company, while under the
influence of liquor, attempted to board an
east-bound train at Kansas City, the other
night, when he fell under the wheels and
was killed. He was supposed to be from
Cincinnati.
A EEw weeks ago a man named John
Schramm left his wife and two children at
his home in Fort Wayne, Ind, and started
West in search of employment. He could
leave them but little to subsist on. For sew
eral days they had nothing to eat but raw
corn meal. Even this became exhausted,
and the other day Mrs. Schramm started
out to beg. When she returned to her
cherries home she found her three-months'
babe frozen to death.
A YOUNG man named Carver employed
in the post-office at Detroit, Mich, was
recently arrested charged with stealing
letters. Upon being confronted with
proofs of his crime, he confessed to having
rified three thousand letters within the past
six months, having carried on his depreda-
lions systematically. The object, he
said, was to accumulate sufficient money
to marry girl with whom he had fallen in
love.
ANSoN LINSMEIER wal recently arrested
at st. Louis and taken back to Germany,
where he, as postmaster, had forged many
post-office orders and fled to this country.
THE Legislature of Iowa in Joint Con-
vention on the 30th formally proclaimed
the election of Senator Allison as United
States Senator.
SEVERAL Leadville (Celo.) banks have
collapsed lately, the last being the Mer-
chants and Mechanics. Only one bank is
left in the city.
THE Interstate Industrial Exposition of
Chicago, having settled its difficulty con-
corning the rental fee with the city, recent
", announced that its twelfth consecutive
annual exposition will open September 3,
and close October IS, of the present year.
A. W. Sheldon, Associate Justice of
Arizona, died suddenly at San Francisco
the other day.
HARRY LEE, the Cincinnati forger, was
recently arrested in Canada.
1t is reported that the law governing nom
citizens and intruders in the Indian Terri
tory is being vigorously enforced. Thirty
eight persons in the Greek Nation have
been declared non.citizens and notified to
leave. Seventeen houses in Muskogee and
vicinity, the residences of parties who
could not prove up their citizenship, have
been seized by the National Inspector and
sold as public property of the Nation.
By the recent breaking up of the ice at
st. Louis number of boats were injured.
The steamer Salvo No. 2 was wrecked and
sunk. The steamer Minneapolis had
barges were badly damaged.
MUCH excitement prevailed at Dubuque,
Iowa, over the sudden disappearance of
Laura Rowland, highly accomplished
and educated girl of fifteen.
THE safe in the post-office at Blue Island,
a suburb of Chicago, was blown open the
other night and stamps, money and other
valuables to the amount of $4,000 stolen.
THE business portion Of Belmont, Wis,
burned recently.
The south-bound accommodation train
on the Indianapolis 6 Chicago Railroad
while crossing a truss bridge at Broad
Ripple, seven miles from Indianapolis,
Ind, the other night, broke through and
the wreck Immediately took fire. John
Brewer, engineer; ]. E. Ricketts,, baggage
George Lowry, brakeman; Thomas
Parr, bridge foreman; Abel 7. Smith,
American Express messenger, and a pas
senger named John Bray, were killed, and
about fifteen injured, several fatally.
The other afternoon a terrible gasoline
took place in the business center
Of Alliance, O., originating in the store of
F. II. Orr. Three brick blocks were