The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-17
THE WEST,


Ira FIzLER, aged nine years, while play
ing in a saw-mill at Markle, Ind, was
caught by a belt and so badly mangled
that he died in a short time.
| WILLIAM BRowN, the negro who muir
dered the peddler near Cahokia, pleaded
guilty at Belleville, ILL.,, and was sentenced
to hang.
THE election at st. Joseph, Mo-, on the
Sth, was favorable to the Republicans.
A HEAVY snow fell at Dayton, o., on the
Sth.
THE First National Bank of Monmouth,
H., closed its doors recently. The cause
assigned was speculation by the cashier,
B. 7. o. Hubbard, whose deficit was esti-
mated at from $45, 900 to $10O.000.
THE Missouri Republican Convention at
Sedalia on the 9th, to elect delegates to the
National Convention, was fairly harmon
ious, the Van Horn party having matters
their own way. William Warner, of Jack
son Comfy, was elected Chairman of the
| State Central Committee.
| II. c. ATKINS, Assistant General Man
ager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad, was stricken with paralysis
at La Crosse, Wis.
GOVERNOR NEWELL, of Wyoming, mas
committed the death sentence of E. r. Nino
| Gioni, who was to have been hanged at
| Vancouver on the 18th inst, to life inl-
prisonment.
AN injunction has been granted restrain
ing the Governor of Iowa from conveying
| uncertified lands of the Sioux City & st.
Paul Railroad to the General Government,
n accordance with of tho aoiS1a-
| ture at its recent session.
KANSAS CITY went Democratic on the
Sth, with an exception in the case of Audi
tor.
THE woman who registered at the Lac
lede Hotel, st. Louis, some days ago, as
Mrs. Radcliffe, of Kansas City, and then
suicided, turned out to be the sister of Mrs.
c. NJ. Howe, of Rulo, Neb.
A CONFERENCE of Peoria, Pekin, and
Terre Haute distillers was held a Peoria,
ILL.,, recently. 1t was agreed that the out
look was exceeding gloomy for the distil-
ling interest and that it will perhaps be
necessary to still further reduce the pro-
duction of spirits.
THE Santa Fe has abandoned the running
of regular emigrant trains, and hereafter
w
regular through express trains.
THE Railway Time Convention at Gin
cinnati agreed to continue in force the
present time schedule.
The Western Nail Association has agreed
to form a pool. Under this arrangement
prices will be regulated, product restricted
and other measures adopted considered ne
nessary. Stocks are reported light and
orders plenty. Card rate not changed.
henry WAMPF, the principal witness for
the State in the Koerner wife murder case,
at Indianapolis, decided by verdict of
guilt, died of pneumonia. He contracted
the disease during the seventy eight days
he lived at the Jail, while held by the pros
cution when unable to give bond for his
appearance at the trial.
CONSIDERABLE talk was created over a
special telegram from London, published
in the Chicago Tribune, in which Matthew
Arnold spoke of Chicago having no soul
above pork and timed meats, using many
other derogatory expressions, which fairly
made that city boil. 1t turns out that
Matthew Arnold said nothing of the kind.
The telegram was hoax, perpetrated by
the Chicago NelrS, as a trap to catch its
rival clipping news out of obscure New
York papers and publishing them as Lon
don specials.
The Detroit Daily Times Office was
burned out the other day.
THE Missouri Democratic State Central
Committee met at st. Louis and named
st. Louis, June "a, as the time and place
for holding the convention for the election
of delegates to the National Convention,
and jefferson City, August u, for the con.
vention to nominate State officers.
A NEW trial was refused in the case of
Andrew j. Korner, convicted of wife muir
der at Indianapolis, and the prisoner sem
fenced to be hanged June 81.
THE strike on the Toledo, Cincinnati g.
st. Louis Road ended by compromise.
1t is predicted that the coming wheat
crop of California will exceed that of 1880. |
PRosPECToRs from the Upper Yellow
stone report the discovery of a new geyser |
basin. Two geysers were in action.
GENERAL GEORGE W. DEITzLER, former
lS member Of the famous Stubs Company
during the Free State war in Kansas, was
thrown from buggy and killed at Tucson, !
A. T.
a DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the |
Panhandle at Beaver Station, near Dayton, !
o., the other night. The engineer was !
killed and two or three other persons Sc |
verely injured. The passengers were |
badly shaken up.
AN aged couple named Fleetwood were |
horribly murdered in bed at Rardin, ILL.,, !!
recently.
REUBEN ELLwOoD was renominated for |
Congress by the Republicans of the Fifth |
District of Illinois.
HUBBARD, the defaulting cashier of the !
First National Bank of Monmouth, H., dis |
appeared the other day for S1l4,300.
THE wreck on the Little Miami division
OF the Pan Handle Road near Dayton, O.,
was complete affair in its way, and tie
wonder is tnat so few were killed. 1t was I
believed that some miscreant removed a
rail with the purpose of throwing the whole
train into the river.
A COW BOY named Mitch Marcy killed
Juan B. Patron in saloon at Puetro De
Luna, n. NJ, recently. The murderer w. S
captured. Patron was Speaker of the
House in 1873. He was a wealthy and in
fluential man. No provocation.
THE SOUTH.
FRANK JAMES was arraigned at Hunts
vile, Ala, before Judge Bruce, for the