The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-23

| a FRIGHTFUL accident occurred recently
at Ladd's Mills, Arkansas. Two men
named Osborne and Lang, started to xii
fish in the creek and made fuse to set of
: the giant powder and touched it of. Tn,
result was that Lang was killed and Os
borne terribly, if not fatally injured.
SCOUTING party belonging to Ell Coy
ote's gang caught five rancheros near tn,
Palado river lately and shot one of then
to death, who was recognized as an in
former on the gang.
VERY great damage has been done Il
property in the Rio Grande valley by re
cent heavy rains.
Rev. JESSE COOK, colored, was hanged
recently in Butler, Ga, for the murder Of
his wife last April The crowd at the ex
ecution was estimated at 5000 Cook made
a full confession.
LATE dispatches to Bradstreet's tell of a
splendid business outlook.
NEWS was lately received at Washington
of brutal outrages perpetrated by the Chi
ness on Americans at Kwai-Ping, about
400 miles from Canton.
THREE officers belonging to the Spanish
army of Barcelona were recently arrested
and imprisoned for leading band of SOL
diers to join the Carlists
A RELIGIOUS crank in Chicago, named
DR.. Arthur Morton, lately proclaimed him.
self the Messiah who will establish a new
Jerusalem in Chicago and run it ON the
principles of Heaven. His following COM
prises number of refined and intelligent
ladies.
A RECENT telegram states that the c. c.
Carroll, from Kansas City to st. Louis,
struck snag and sunk few miles below
Glasgow. She will probably be total
| loss.
THE annual congress of German scientists
was opened in Berlin on the 18th. Two
| thousand seven hundred professional scien-
fists attended the opening session of the
congress.
THE American fishing schooner Pearl
Nelson, has been seized at Princeton, n. S.,
for landing men during the night.
A TELEGRAM from Laredo states that the
famous rebel chief, Ell Coyote, was killed
in an engagement with Mexican troops re-
Gently.
THERE were six deaths from cholera in
laramie on September II and sixteen new
cases. In all the other infected districts of
Italy there were thirty seven new cases
and fifteen deaths.
Mrs. ELLA OTTARD, aged eighty years,
died recently at Galena, H., while kneel-
ing in prayer at her bedside Cause, par
alysis of the brain.
SERGEANT BARNARD, the companion of
Lieutenant Greedy in the Arctic expedition,
has recently been discharged from the Sig
nal Service, his term having expired. He
have been ignored.
AN alleged mulatto, who denied that he
was colored, was lately sentenced by Vir-
ginia jury to six years in the penitentiary
for attempting to marry white girl
SEVEN baggage cars and thirty special
sleepers passed through Kansas City on the
18th bearing knights Templar from the
West to the st. Louis triennial conclave
DOUGLAS SMITH, g clerk in the Auditors
Office at the Custom House at New York,
has been accused of embezzlement. His
duty was to receive all monies from duties
on books at the poStoffice.
SAM STARR, notorious desperate of the
Indian Territory, was caught recently by
the Cherokee authorities. Large rewards
were offered for his body.
n hECI-NI OlSI JdICu NtW saws
that it has become almost certain that the
estate of the late Samuel j. Tildeu will not
be settled without an unpleasant contest
LATE advices from Honduras to New
York state that the revolutionistS there
were met by the troops and completely
routed.
j. B. GLASS; Mount Sterling, H., bank
er, recently made an assignment. The liza |
bilities are about $4,000, and the assets
100000. The losses will fall almost wholly |
upon people who deposited their savings |
with him.
ALFRED HAHN, an insurance agent max
ing so a week, was lately commanded by |
a New York court to pay s. week for the /
support of a woman who says that she is |
his wife, but whom he swears he has never
before seen.
AT Boston recently Sylvester Fletcher,
colored, picked up stone, walked to
baby carriage in which a six-months-old |
child lay sleeping and struck the child a
terrific blow on the head inflicting a fatal
wound. The only excuse he gave was that
he was starving and wanted to be arrested
so as to get something to eat.