The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-10

wound in his own throat, and becoming III
conscious, was carried to the scaffold on
stretcher and supported until tho drop fel
GENERAL.
THE business failures in the United State
during 1888 numbered 9,1S9, against CT:
in 1882, an increase of 2.445. The liahilitic
for 1888 were $172, 600. 0O), against $101, 600
0OO for 1882. The failures of last year wei
greater than those of any year since 1871
when they reached to 10, AS, with Iiabilitit
S234, 100000.
a COLLISION between a freight train an
special containing laborers, near II
rOntO, Canada, recently, resulted in til
killing of twenty-seven men and injurin
OF many others, some of whom will die.
BELT, the public executioner of Austri;
was found dead in his bed recently, SUI
posed to have been the victim of reveng,
THREE of the Southern Pacific train rol
hers were recently captured in Arizona
One was a negro.
Two Russian officers were recently assa'
sinated by NihiIiSts at st. Petersburg. Th
murders created great CONSERVATION, an
it was suggested that the Imperial famil
should remove secretly to the palace a
Peterhof but General Tcherevin had under
taken to guarantee the safety of the Cats
china palace.
THE Mexican Government has declare
forfeited the concession made Genera
Grant for a submarine cable connectin
h.
America, no work having been done with
the prescribed time.
THE report has been confirmed that tn
Black Flags massacred the French prison
erS captured before Sontay. Admire
Courbet decided totake active measures fo
redress.
THE Marquis de Rays was recently trie
at Paris (France) and sentenced to fou
years imprisonment for falsely inducin
many people to subscribe for the alIeger
enterprise for the colonization of the Islam
of Port Breton, in the South Seas, and wit
the misrepresentation of the funds, an
also inducing several hundred persons t
settle upon the island, most of whom pei
iShed.
THE business failures in the United Stats
for the first two days in the new year nun
bered SO, said to be the largest numbe
ever known in a similar period,
SIXTEEN boarders and three sisters in
Convent at Montreal Cam vera recent,
poisoned by eating tainted meat. Severa
were dangerously i'll. The meat, althoug
condemned by the Inspector, had been sol
to the Convent.
THE LATEST
The other morning when an extra freigh
train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad con
sisting of eleven cars of mules, took tn,
side track at Independence, Mo-, to let tn
east-bound passenger train b., an exami
nation was made of the cars, and shove,
that between eighty and one hundred hea,
had persisted from cold and starvation
Those that were yet alive were gnawing III
sides of the car, and in some instance
were eating the flesh of their dead compan
ions. 1t was stated that the stock had beer
loaded at San Antonio, Tex, and had no
been fed or watered since leaving San An
tonic. The mules were consigned to Kan
sas City.
THE Park Theater, at Cleveland, O., sup
posed to be fire proof, was burned on tn,
night of the 9Th. 1t was valued at 800, 900
Adams Humpty Dumpty Company los
5000 or $1,000 worth of property. Tn,
Wick block in front of the theater was com
pletely Quilted, and the First PRESBYTERIAN
Church damaged to the extent of $4,000.
ALICE MAJOR and Sarah Marsden wer,
drowned while recently skating neal
Wilksbarre, Pa.
IT is stated that great petition for 4;
national constitution amendment will bt
sent out by the National W oman's Christian
Temperance Union, and presented to the
Presidential Nominating Conventions Of
the different parties. 1t will ask for pro
hibition instead of the ballot for woman, a:
has been stated.
In late shooting scrape between James
Hare and John Scanlon at Baltimore, Nd.
Hare was killed and Scanlon mortally
wounded.
THE Institute of Immaculate Conception
of the Sisters of Notre Dame, at Belleville,
Ill, was burned ON the night of the 5.h.
About sixty pupils were in the school,
ranging from ten years to full grown, ell
girls, and several teachers. The flames
spread so rapidly that no order could be
and panic seized both children
and Sisters, and there was wild confusion
in the rush to escape. The Mother Supe-
rior, four other Sisters and twenty-five
pupils were reported as having persisted,
THE large furniture establishment of
Burrel, Comstock & Co., on North Fourth
street, st. Louis, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the 5th. Loss, So, 700; in
surance 100000. The jewelry store of Mer-
rick, Welsh & Phelps, adjoining was also
burned. Loss, $4,000, and the queensware
store of Whitman, Gray & Co., containing
s75. 900 worth of goods was badly scorched
and goods damaged.
"A CONFERENCE of Colorado politicians in
Washington, the other day,c to the con-
,lusicn that ex-senator Chaffee should be
candidate for the Senate in place of Sena-
or Hill. Secretary Teller, who wants the
place, It was said would not stand in the
way of Mr.. Chaffee.