The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-16

Ilon OF MS enectS developed papers snow
| ing his name to be Fred Schneider, mem
Der of the Gruetti Verein Society, of St
Louis, and certificate of death benefit of
/ 1890 in the same organization. His re-
mains were buried and the st. Louis So
ciety notified.
A RECENT washout on the Northern Pa
cifc, near Fon du Lac, Wis, caused a wreck
and the loss of three lives.
d. II. BURNS, of San Francisco, was
lately arrested, charged with embezzling
| State funds.
at Higginsport, o., Robert Shaw shot Ken
dali Overturt through the heart. The muir,
derer was arrested.
The Fourth Annual Convention of the
Federation of Organized Trade and Labor
| Unions of the United States and Canada
assembled in Chicago recently. Resolu-
lutions denouncing Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, of
the New York Tribune, as an enemy OF
honest labor, were adopted.
THE Forty-ifth Annual Convention of
the'Grand Masonic Lodge of Illinois met in
Chicago not long ago. About 600 lodges
were represented. The work was princi-
pally routine.
AFTER careful examination the report
has been denied. The corn did begin to
sprout again, but it did not do much dam
age.
THE twelfth Cincinnati Industrial Expo
sition closed recently with deficit of from
5000 to $4,000. Last year there was de-
felt of 5000, which wiped out the surplus
of the year before, leaving nothing to fall
back on this year. A number Of wealthy
citizens have indicated that if the de-
felt this year is not greater than now ap-
pears they will make it good, in order that
there may be no call on the guarantors.
The May festival deficit of $1,000 was pro-
vided for in that way. The expenses of
the exposition just closed will amount to
about SIS ,000.'
TEN men, employed in the construction
of the new water tunnel for the village OF
Hy6e Park, south of Chicago, were drowned
in plain view of the village not long ago.
Thirteen men were employed upon the
work of sinking tunnel and conducting
new crib at point one mile from the lake
shore. They lived in a cabin built on the
crib platform. A heavy storm came upon
them suddenly and swept their cabin into
the waves. A life-saving crew at once
started in search, and arrived in time to
see four of the men fall exhausted into the
raging waters. By hard work, however,
three of the men were saved.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, one of the most
prominent farmers of Harrison Township,
Ind, was seriously if not fatally shot by
his son-in-law, Joseph Barnett, few morn
ings past. Johnson attempted to give
Barnett some advice, but Barnett took it
as an insult and grabbed his shotgun,
threatening to shoot his father-in-law.
Johnson turned to run and Barnett shot
him in the back. 1t is not thought that
johnson can recover.
THE Indiana Supreme Court decided not
long ago that it has no power to respite or
grant pardon to conYicted criminals. The
law comforting that power on any other
person than the Governor is unconstitu-
tional.
The Citizens Association of Chicago
lately conferred a prize of $500 for the best
practical essay on the main drainage, sew
erage and water supply system of Chicago
and vicinity. The essays areto be handed
in before the 1st of April.
The liquor law is causing much litiga-
ton at Dubuque, Ia. An injunction was
filed against twenty-one saloon keepers
not long ago, by the attorney for the Citi-
zens' League.
A GIANT-PowDER explosion at Idaho
Springs not long ago killed two men. The
men were warming the sticks of powder
over fire, when one man carelessly al
lowed his stick to ignite.
A COMPANY has been organized in Chi
cago with capital of $500, 600, to insure
purchasers and mortgages of real estate
against loss by defects in title.
The Grand Jury at Chicago lately in
dicted ! att W. Pinkerton for an attempt
to compound felony. Charles H. Leland,
whose father does business in Wall street,
New York, was arrested for stealing rings
in Chicago, and Pinkerton offered to settle
the matter for $4S5.30.
SMALLPOX has broken out at Brookings,
D. T., and is spreading rapidly. 1t is
thought it was introduced into the place
by immigrants.
THE Illinois Central Road lately ordered
the survey of a line from Yazoo City to
Memphis. to tap the territory tributary to
the Mississippi & Tennessee Road, which
recently passed into the hands of rival
company.
A HORRIBLE crime was recently brought
to light at Troy, Ind, by the finding of the
headless body of a woman in cistern ON
the farm of Peter Becker. The body was
nude and the head was found one hundred
yards distant. 1t was afterwards found to
be the body of Mrs. Henderson, and in
vestigation proved that she was murdered
by her husband and sons. One of the sons
and the husband were soon mobbed near
Troy.