The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-03
THE WEST.

A STEUBENvILLE, O., special says por-
ton of Gould's tunnel, on the Panhandle
Railroad, west of Pittsburgh, Pa, which
was nearly completed, caved in burying
eight men and one boy. Four of the party
were thought to be fatally injured. They
were mostly Italians.
AT the Republican convention of the
Eleventh District, held at Kol1omo, Ind,
George A. Steel was renominated for Con-
gress on the forty-eighth ballot.
AT the Episcopal conference of Nebraska,
held at Omaha, Rev. DIR. Potter, of Geneva,
N. Y, was elected Bishop of that diocese,
vice Bishop Clarkson, deceased.
SEVERAL persons were killed by boiler
explosion at Warsaw, Wis, recently.
JAMES E. STEWART, the well known song
writer, died in the workhouse at Cincin-
natl He had been committed a few days
before for selling bogus tickets to public
entertainment.
WHILE Arthur Robinson, was NOW
ing grass recently near GAINESVILLE, O.,
his horses ran away, throwing him in front
of the moving machine. He was not ex-
pected to recover.
INFORMATION received direct from the
City of Mexico gives the news that the
American railroads in Mexico are to be
handicapped by a law that all rail.
roads in that country will be required
to fence the entire length of their lines with
fences on both sides.
THE C. /. st. L. & c. bridge over White
River, just north of indianapolis, gave way
the other afternoon under the heavy weight
of freight train. Loss, $1,000.
THE planning mill at Tecumseh, Mich,
owned by the Toledo Lumber Company,
was burned recently. The loss was $40, 900;
insured for S., 900.
THE soldiers of the Sixteenth Illinois
Congressional District have called a mass
convention to nominate soldier for Con-
gress.
THE Railroad Commissioners of Iowa
have given notice to all railroad COM
panies Of that State that in accordance
with the statute the Commissioners must
be promptly advised upon the occurrence
of any accident on any railroad resulting
in personal injury or loss of life, that the
same may be investigated, if so deemed
necessary.
A BOY named Louis Host, of Lima, o. +,
was driving team to quarry for stone re-
Gently. A sudden pitch Of the wagon threw
him under the wheels, two Of which passed
over him. He lived but a few moments
afterward.
ERNEST GUEBER, son of Rev. John Cue
Der, pastor of the German Lutheran Church
of Sandusky, o., was run over by a Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad train the other day,
and had both legs cut off.
ANDREW PLUMMER, an aged farmer, who
resides nine miles northwest of Elwood,
Ind, fell off the fence recently, killing
himself instantly. He was under the in
fluence of whisky at the time.
MICHAEL TAYLOR, a sixteen-year-old son
of Mr.. NJ. Taylor, prominent farmer liv-
ing near Vincennes, Ind, was drowned
while swimming in the Wabash recently.
A CHICAGO special from Cedar Rapids,
Ia, says: Two convicts, Freeman and
Farmer, escaped from the Animosa peni-
tertiary and were Surrounded in the
woods near there, and a fight ensued, in
which Freeman was MORALLY wounded
and Farmer dangerously so.
THE Wabash Railroad hereafter will be
disconnected with the Missouri Pacific
system. The Wabash will be run with
smaller force of officials and on economic
principles. Arrangements were recently
made to dispense with some of the branch
lines of the Wabash.
GUsTAvE JOSEPH LowENGART, for many
years a resident of New York City, and q
nephew of Samuel Seller, of the firm of
Althschul, Seller & Co., crockery mer-
chants, shot himself dead at San Francisco
the other morning, He had lost considera-
BILE croney by gambling.