The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-01
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
WILLIAM MOODY was arrested at Deca-
tur, ILL.,, On the charge of fraudulently
casting ballot the 18th of April. 1t was
| claimed that he voted in the neighboring
Township of WarTensburg three weeks
previously.
AN attempt at jail breaking at Milwaukee
was frustrated by the jailer thrusting in a
bolt after he had been nearly blinded by
the prisoners throwing ashes in his eyes.
A SMELLING committee, appointed to in
quire into charges of bribery against a
member of the st. Louis Council, discov-
cred a perfect nest of corruption.
A JAPANESE was hung in the bell tower
Of the fire department of Ogden, o. T.. the
other day. He had shot and killed his
landlady, Mrs. Gudgell, which caused a
mob to invade the Jail to which he had
been taken. After show of resistance
from the officers, the prisoner was taken to
the bell tower and hung.
WHITE BEAR, Two Kettles, Little No
Heart, and several other chiefs of the
Cheyenne Indians, recently visited Pierre,
Dakota, and were anxious to have a meet
ing at that place, about June 1, with the
Commissioners, to sign the treaty opening
the Sioux reservation.
THE Assessor and Collector of Salt Lake
County, Utah, was a defaulter to the
amount of $4,000.
IT was reported that 81. L. Taylor & Co.,
Of Cleveland, while prospecting for oil in
Washington County, Tenn, recently, struck
thousand barrel gusher. The well was
go fox- 10
for further development of the new field.
THOMAS a. WILLIAMS, of Washington,
Ind, was arrested at Decatur, ILL.,, the
other night, and Sheriff Ward, of Davis
County, Ind, took him East. Williams was
wanted at Washington for the embezzle-
ment of large sum of money from differ
ent firms by whom he was employed. Off
GERS have been searching for him for sew
eral months. He was placed in irons.
AGGREGATE receipts at the auction sale
of seats for the May musical festival at
Cincinnati amour ed to $11, 900.
THE prospect for a plentiful supply of
logs and timber this season at Dubuque,
Iowa, was excellent. The cut of logs in
the pineries along the streams emptying
into the Upper Mississippi was very large.
FRANK and Charles Jones, father and
son, were instantly killed at the bottom of
a coal mine shaft al Danville, H., recently,
several tons OF coal falling upon them.
MAYS & CLARK, wholesale hardware
dealers, of st. Paul, Mimi, have sus-
pended payment. Liabilities, $1S5, 900;
assets, $155,000.
THE thirty days weighing, at Indian
T.. e&l>o
closed recently. Thirty-three extra R. NJ.
s. clerks have been employed there and on
Indianapolis lines during the weighing.
The mails weighed much more than they
did four years ago.
A COLLISION occurred between two pas
senger trains on the Cincinnati, Washing
ton & Baltimore Railroad near Athens, o.
Conduc, or John Dillon was fatally, and
several passengers slightly inju. ed.
ISAACN. ARNALD, well known barrister
of Chicago, died on the oath.
j. c. BURROWS, of Michigan, recently
nominated and confirmed as Solicitor of
the Treasury, has written to the President
formally declining the office.
THE American Oak leather tannery
burned recently at Cincinnati. Loss about
$2O0,UO0, nearly covered by insurance.
TWELVE business houses were burned at
Wooster, o., recently. Supposed incen-
4ia,y.
THE wholesale drug store of Rumble,
Cutter & Co., of Cincinnati was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 18th. Loss
very heavy.
THERE was a report that the whole of
tie whites on Mitchelrs place on the Lower
San Juan River, in Southern Colorado, had
been massacred by the Utes. The whites
numbered fifteen persons. Troops were
hurrying from st. Louis, Mo-, and Fort
Wingate, N. NJ, to the scene of the trouble.
THE lo'hing establishment of ]. Knox s.
Co., at Akron, o., burned the other morn
ing. Loss $4,000; insurance, 900.
RUDGER CLAwsoN, son of Bishop Claw
son, paraded as a typical family, was in
dicted at Salt Lake for polygamy, in hav
ing married two wives since the passage
of Edmunds bill.