The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-15
THE WEST.

The outlook for an excellent wheat yield
in the vicinity of Wabash, Ind, is most
cheering. The plants have ''stooled out"
well, are strong and healthy, and promise
a satisfactory harvest
Two masked highwaymen stopped the
Colorado stage recently, near Ukiah, Col,
took mail and Wells-Fargo's treasure box.
The value of the contents was unknown.
DAVID JOHNSON, young colored man,
was drowned at Kansas City recently. He
had rescued boy who had fell into the
river when he sank back exhausted and
was swept away by the current.
The Northwestern Hotel at Marquette,
Mich, owned by railroad company, was
destroyed by an incendiary fire, the loss
being $24, ,0O0.
AN infant son of Frank Boss, living west
of Canton, O., fell into a tub of water,
while playing, and was drowned.
JOHN w. GALLOWAY, a young farmer
living near Saybrook, ILL.,, has been ad-
Judged insane. His insanity is said to
have resulted from love affair.
THOMAS DELBRIDGE, a wealthy farmer,
was kicked by young horse, on his farm
east of Decatur, ILL.,, recently, and nearly
killed outright. Several of his ribs were
broken. His body was badly cut, and it
was believed he had received fatal injuries.
THE train from Ell Paso, due at the City
of Mexico on the morning of the 7th, was
maliciously thrown off the track, and the
agent was reported killed. There were no
other casualties. Thieves fired on the
train, but fed without molesting the pas
sengers. The wrecking of this train gave
rise to report that the special train from
Topeka, Kas., conveying directors had
been wrecked, and that General Manager
Robinson had been assassinated.
A BROKEN rail ten miles south of Decatur,
ILL.,, on the st. Louis division of the Wa
bash road, the other day, threw a passen-
ger coach and two sleepers into the ditch,
injuring twenty people seriously and three
fatally. 1t was reported that Conductor
Vincent, of Michigan, in charge of one OF
the sleepers, was crushed and could not
live; also, that Miss Emma Walker, of Yer.
mont, would die.
A DISPATCH from Boston says: Bert
Everett, son of Z. d. Everett, of Kansas
City, and Harry Hildebrand were drowned
at Nantucket while cunning.
JOHN BRUMMKTT, French boy, while
fooling round an o. & NJ. freight train at
Vincennes, Ind, recently, in some unac-
countable manner, got under the wheels,
losing the left leg at the knee and the right
heel. He was in a very precarious condi-
ton. ~
GEORGE SANFORD, of Warren, ILL.,, was
struck by lightning the other evening and
instantly killed. He was hauling grain to
the Warren mill. His watch was thrown
fully one hundred feet away. He was
about thirty,ive years of age and left a
wife and three children.
COLONEL WARREN E. MAcKIN, of Salem,
Ill, died recently. He was Major of
Grants old regiment during the war, was
one of the inmates of Libby Prison and one
of the Union officers placed by the Confed-
crates under fire of the bombarding feet at
Charleston. sL
A LARGE meeting of the barbed wire
Gently. Itw decided, owing to the in
creased cost of raw material, to advance
the price of wire a quarter Of cent
DURING game of base ball at Chilli
cothe. O., recently, the grand stand fell, in
juring twenty persons, some seriously.
There were two hundred persons on the
stand. i' ~ i''.i e.t i.i
TRAIN robbers, forty miles below Quere-
taro, on the Mexican Central, succeeded in
dersiling q train They were shot at and
one of their number killed, when the rest
fed.
T FRED HoPT, sentenced to death at Salt
Lake City, Utah, having the right of choos-
ing between hanging and shooting, chose