The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
THE WEST,


GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN has sent the fol-
lowing dispatch to James Law, Ithca, n.
Y: "There is not case of foot and mouth
disease in Missouri. Experts pronounce
the disease frozen feet. The disease won't
communicate"
W. H. KELLER, member of the New
Mexico Legislative Council from Las
Vegas, has disappeared and is in Kansas
City, from whence he went to Las Vegas
several years ago. He is said to have re-
ceived 500 to absent himself from the
meeting of the council so as to defeat the
bill appropriating $500, 900 for the erection
of capitol buildings.
A CHARIvARI at the house of an old Ger
man named Van Va,kenburgh, at East
Saginaw, Mich, led to Charles Cleaves be-
ing shot dead. The annoyance caused
Valkenburgh to fire a shotgun into the
crowd.
H. CUMMINGS, of Davenport, Iowa, a boy
seventeen years of age, went out in skiff
for the purpose of catching some logs. The
boat filed and sank, taking its occupant
with it.
DENNIS DowNER, the express robber,
II,
originated the scheme TO rob the express
car on the Eel River Division of the
Wabash road last September, and who
secured 5000 of the proceeds, was SEN
fenced for five years at Wabash, Ind.
Two sons of NJ. L. Thomas, living near
Lafayette, Ind, while at work in field
had their attention drawn to something
white projecting through the earth. They
removed the ground and came across a
human skeleton. The body had been there
many years, and nothing left to denote who
the person was. As an effort had been
made to inter the remains, it could not have
been a suicide.
A NUMBER of conductors on the Burling-
ton & Missouri Railroad have been dis
charged for knocking down" the COM
pany's funds. More are to follow.
a MEETING of the Northwestern Division
Superintendent of the American Express
Company has been held in Milwaukee. The
meeting was called by General Superinten-
dent Antisdel for the purpose of consider
ing future plans of work.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN has issued a par
don to Thomas Killian, who was convicted
of murder in the second degree at the
November term of 1879 of the Newton
County Circuit Court and sentenced to the
penitentiary for a term of ninety-nine
years. Killian is consumptive.
THE Iowa House passed the bill (already
passed by the Senate) known as the
"Bucket-shop" bill, to prevent gambling in
grain on margins.
THE mercantile establishment of F. E.
Warren & Co., of Cheyenne. W. T., took
fire the other day. The total loss is about
$50 200; insurance, $4,000. The Inter
Ocean Hotel narrowly escaped destruction.
THE private banking house of William
Locke, of Nobleville, Ind, failed recently.
WILLIAM LANKENow, once a merchant
in Brooklyn, who was the son of a ship
owner of Bremen, died in Chicago recently
of exposure and starvation.
A HEAVY rain at Peterboro, Ont, caused
Hamilton's Greek to overflow. The Royal
Oak Hotel, a new three story building,
owned by R. T. Rogers, collapsed and fell
into the stream. The inmates escaped a
few.minutes before the fall of the building.
THE natural heirs of Rufus S. King, of
Chicago, have filled in the Circuit Court a
bill asking that the will of deceased be set
aside because of his insanity for some
years previous to executing it. He ignored
his children, and bequeathed So, 600 to his
sister, nieces, and nephews.
EDMUND HoLLCY went to his barn, five
miles west of Decatur, ILL.,, the other even
ing to feed his stock, and took his pipe
along. While in the loft the barn caught
fire, and Holley was so badly burned that
he died, leaving a widow and seven chill
dren.
WISCONSIN winter wheat is reported
looking good.
The Poplar River Sioux have been re-
lieved. There were several deaths from
starvation, but the reports of cannibalism
are unconfirmed.
ABOUT fifty buildings were unroofed by
the storm in Denver on the 9th.
Ar meeting of the Seamen's Union held
at Cleveland, o., wages were fixed at one
dollar and half per day on sailing vessels
and one dollar and quarter on barses for
the spring, this including fitting-out, paint
ing, etc.
INDICTMENTS against Henry W. Moore,
editor, and Florence White re-
porter of the Post Dispatch, for abstracting
court records, was nolle pressed in TIE St.
Louis Criminal Court. These indictments