The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-31

was suffocated by gas in tho Exposition
Hotel, Chicago, recently.
A BUNDLE OF skyrockets exploded in the
arms of man attending a Democratic
ratification meeting at Robinson, ILL.,, the
other evening. A lad named Crow
was instantly killed and a little girl
fatally injured. The man in whose arms
the accident happened was severely
| burned.
Two houses Of i'll fame, at Sabina, O.,
kept by David West and Daisy Williams
respectively, were blown up by citizens
the other morning by the use of giant
powder. The inmates were allowed to de-
part and no one was hurt.
THE Democrats of the Sixth District of
Indiana, nominated Mr.. n. n. G. Smith for
Congress.
WIMBUsH, POWELL & Co.'s printing Of
flee at Kansas City, fell the other evening,
A girl named Lola Close was seriously in
jured. The damage amounted to about
$4,000, including loss of about 81, 800 to
the Lire Stock Indicator. The cause of the
accident was due to the excavation for a
new building.
The Republicans of the Third Congress
oAOAoA %loI11CO VI OulO1 Ia.
Merri.
THE extensive dry goods house of w ear,
Boogher & Co., of st. Louis, assigned re-
Gently to Nathan Cole. The assets of the
firm were given at about $500, 900, embrac-
ing goods and merchandise, $40, 600: open
accounts and bills receivable, S115, 900;
other matters, 5000. Liabilities were not
definitely known, but aggregated about
$3.50, 900.
CHARLES SHARPE fell down stairs at
his boarding house, at EIkhart, Ind, the
other day, crushing his skull. He died
within an hour after. He was about forty
years old, and had wife and two children
in Germany, whom he intended sending
for soon.
A DISPATCH from Cincinnati, dated the
oath, says: A very severe drouth is now
affecting nearly the whole of Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky. In many places there has
been no rain at all since June u. Unless
rain comes within a week most serious
losses will occur.
RED JACKET and forty other Indians,
heavily armed, arrived in Durango the other
day. The City Marshal attempted to ar
rest one of them for carrying firearms,
when running fight took place between
the band and citizens. Twenty shots were
fired, but no one was reported hurt.
NEAR Rushville, Ind, a steam thrasher
exploded on the farm of Joseph Hall.
Three men were killed and five or six per-
sons injured seriously.
A TIDAL wave was felt on the oath in the
Menominee and Milwaukee Rivers, Wis.
1t was most noticeable at straight CUT"
as the entrance to the rivers is called where
the waters receded three feet, returning in
about five minutes.
DURING a severe thunder storm recently
near Litchfield, ILL.,, barn belonging to
farmer named John Kelley, was struck by
lightning, and with a team of horses and
another of mules, some farm implements
and grain, was consumed.
FRANK DEwALT, the defaulting Lead
vile banker, was recently sentenced to ten
years in prison.
DR.. O'DoNNELL, President of the San
Francisco AntiCoolie League, was in Salt
Lake recently, exhibiting his two hundred
and forty nine photographs of victims of
Asiatic leprosy.
Ex-Governor ST. JOHN has announced
his acceptance of the Prohibition Presiden-
tial nomination in brief letter.
HENRY A. ELKINS, the well known land
scape painter, who opened a studio re
Gently in Kansas City, died at George
town, Col, of mountain fever on the 18th,
Mr.. Elkins was about thirty-eight years
of age.
AT Tacoma, W. T., fire the other morn
ing destroyed two blocks, comprising
twenty-five business buildings. The loss |
was $4,000. Cause unknown.
THE National Encampment at Mime |
apolis elected Kountz, of Ohio, Commander |
for the ensuing year.