The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
THE WEST.

The Union Pacific road, having suffered
a defeat in its attempt to reduce wages was
credited with an intention to discharge
forty per cent. Of its employees ..and en-
deavor to re-engage them at lower wages,
A BOAT containing five young ladies and
gentlemen capsized in the Calumet River,
at One Hundred and Sixth street, Chicago,
the other day, and two of the party were
drowned. They were Bell and Annie Dod-
hunter, aged sixteen and thirteen respect
lively.
THE Baptist Missionary Union, at its
session in Detroit, voted to commence
Christianizing work on the Congo River
with the expenditure of $4,000 per annum.
HORACE B. ENos, a wealthy farmer near
Buffalo Hart, H., killed one of his en-
ployes, named Moses Hartsock, with a
pocket-knife, because he stopped a corn
planter to talk.
JOSEPH MCDoLE, prominent carpenter
of Princeton, Ind, was fatally injured by
falling timbers while engaged in erecting
a barn at Owensville. He was frightfully
crushed, and suffered the greatest agony
until his death.
A PASSENGER train on the Wabash Road
jumped the track near Grand Chain, ILL.,,
recently. Engineer Fisher was seriously
scalded and several passengers were hurt.
TLLER, the st. Louis express robber,
pleaded guilty on the 9th, and was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
A SPECIAL from Northern Pacific juno
tion Mimi, says: At Ferguson, the hotel,
two fur stores and one residence burned.
Loss, 10000; insurance, $4,000.
NEIL MCKEAGUE, charged with murder
of the aged Wilson couple at Winnetka two
months ago, was acquitted at Chicago on
the indictment charging him with the MUIR
der Of the husband. The indictment charg-
ing him with the murder of the wife was
still pending, but the evidence was the
same in both cases. The trial occupied
three weeks.
The cold weather initiated greatly
against the success of the opening night OF
the May festival in Chicago, and many
seats were vacant. The feature of the
evening was the solo singing of Christine
Nilsson.
SMALL-PoX was prevailing in the town ot
Centralia, H., and in the country south Of
Vandalia. There were some eight or ter
cases within the city limits. The disease
was being handled very successfully, there
| having been but one or two deaths.
THE wooden mills at Alma, Mich, burned
the other night.
A HEAVY frost was general throughout
the Northwest on the night of the 2Sth
Crops were reported to have suffered Sc
verely.
A SUIT to enjoin Knights of Honor from
removing headquarters from Louisville t.
st. Louis was filed in Louisville by G. w
McReady.
DR.. GEORGE E. PUGH, a magistrate al
Elgin, Col, was attacked at Findlay, o.
by desperate named Franks, whose ar
rest he had caused for some offense AND
who had threatened his life in revenge
Franks drew a knife, and Pugh fired foul
shots, killing his man. Pugh was arrested
but Immediately released on bail.
WILLIAM Brown, who murdered the ped
dler La Vigne last February, at Cahokia
ILL.,, was hanged at Belleville on the 30;h.
KATE COTTON, colored girl of Cairo
ILL.,, was convicted of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to imprisonment fol
life. She poisoned a whole family las
September, and one person died from tn,
affects.