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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08

KAYE & Co., proprietors of tobacco
warehouse at Louisville, KY. have as
signed. Assets, SIS 900; liabilities, $4,000.
VICES & Co., cotton seed dealers of
Memphis, Tenn, have assigned. Liabili-
ties, $1,000; assets, $4,000.
THE rumors that Colonel r. NJ. Kelly, late
pension agent at Louisville, KY, was short
in his accounts proved incorrect. When the
Colonel was notified that discrepancy ex-
isted he Immediately squared his accounts,
but it was believed that he was deceived by
persons whom he had trusted.
MooNsHINERs in Elliott County, Ky., re-
Gently burned down the houses of a Mr..
Parton and his friends and also the Bap-
fist church to which he belonged. Parton
took his gun, and coming upon two of the
moonshiners, shot them both dead.
AT the Jacksonville, Tex, penitentiary
recently some convicts broke open the
gate by running a loaded car against it,
Six of them escaped. Four were recap
tured.
FERGUsON's lumber yard and manufac-
tory at Little Rock, Ark, were totally do
stroyed by fire the other day. Loss, 500
coo; insured for $4,000.
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FOUGHT TO THE DEATH.

Terrible Encounter at Short Range 10
tween Two Officers and n Brace of Mexi-
can Horse Thieves on a sunset Route
Train - The Latter Both Killed. While
the Officers Suffer Little More Than Tat
tered Clothing.
UvALDE, Tex, June SO.-The west
route reached here on time this morning,
long before day. and after short wait,
Numbered on in the darkness. The train
was fast one. The road was rough,
and the nodding passengers chung
to their seats with both hands.
Many seats were occupied by men
and women, and up toward the forward
enc of the coach sat a pair of quiet, blan-
keted figures, Mexicans. They had moth
ing to say, and beyond getting up few
times to light cigarettes, did not move.
Just before daylight the train pulled up
at the little wayside station of Cline,
twenty miles west of here. The train
stopped Just a minute, but long enough
to allow Deputy SherifiS Baylor and
Nimmo to spring aboard. As their feet
touched the top steps they threw
open the door and throwing down
a couple of revolvers on
their prey, ordered them 10
throw up their hands. There was only
single lamp swinging in the car. The
sleepy passengers heard the curt demand,
and looking forward in the dim light saw
the shrouded forms spring hastily up, the
blankets fall from their shoulders and
the ball began.
There was an inceSSant explosion that
in the cramped and confined space of the
coach sounded terrific The officers
stood with their backs to the door and
worked their revOlvers for life.
The desperadoes-on standing full
in the middle of the aisle, the
other with one hand resting carelessly
on the back of seat and swearing shrilly
i'll Spanish-were enveloped in the smoke
of their own revOlverS. Amid the rip
ping of plush and tinkIe of shivering glass
the screaming and covering men saw the
tall form in the aisle plunge backward
TO the floor dead man. The other deS-
peradO, wounded, one hand pressing his
side, the other holding his empty re-
vOIver over his head, with yell
burst by the officers through the
door and ieaped to the ground.
Day had broken. and the slowing
train came to 4 stop. One OF the officers
sprang after the fleeing, staggering figure
and called on it to halt. 1t turned and
snapped the empty weapon at its pursuer
Then it went down with a bullet III the
breast.
The officers took an inventory of them
selves. Though bleeding slightly in sew
eral places, they were unhurt, but their
clothing hung in tatters. Baylor, who
stood nearest the Mexicans, had his
clothes literally ribbCned; his hands
and the side of his neck were powder
burned. Nimmo had not suffered
so severely. The names of the Next
cans, though known to the officers, at
this hour can not be learned. They were
hOrse-ihieveS. for whom the officers had
warrants. They were believed to
be members of the band of BAN
dts who, from over the Rio
Grande, have lately been raid
inc this section, and who some days ago
murdered abanker in the heart of Uvalde.
Cline, the place at which the killing oc-
CURED, is in the heart of the infested
country. The dead MeXicanS were both
young men and well dressed.
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MYSTERIOUS.
The Disappearance and Supposed Death of
Miss Frances WhippIc of Adrian, Michi-
San-A Probable Victim of the Niagara
Whirlpool.

The Disappearance and Supposed Death of
Miss Frances Whipplc of Adrian, Michi-
san-A Probable Victim of the Niagara
Whirlpool.
ADRIAN, Mich, June 29.-The relatives
and friends of Miss Frances Whipple, of
this city, were much disturbed by re-
cent dispatch from Buffalo. The story
was that a strange woman had hiTeG a
hack at SUSPENSION Bridge or Thursday
to be driven TO the whirlpool. She walked
down the bank to get Il better view and
failed to return. A search for her was
fruitlesS, and it was supposed that she
had either fallen or jumped into the boil
ing waters.
The WhipplcS at once reached the con-
cluSion that the unknown woman was
Miss Whipple, who had gone to Detroit
shopping on Tuesday and had not re-
turned. She had teiegraphed from De-
troit in the evening that business would
retain her for probably the rest of the
week, and that her people should not
worrj. When Saturday came, however,
and no word vas received from her, her
people became much alarmed.
Her father, Jacob Whipple, went to
)eJrolC To- Try 10 trace the missing woman,
and learned at the Wabash depot that a
lady answering her description had start
ed for the East over that line ON Tues
day evening. The father returned home,
and dispatched the sheriff TO Niagara
with pictures and an accurate description
of his daughter.
A dispatch was received from the sheriff
yesterday stating that the strange woman
drowned at Niagara was undoubtedly
Miss Whipple. The mystery of her going
to Niagara and of her death there remaiLi
TO be explained
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BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS.

Ten Poor Fellows Meet a Shocking Death
b by the Explosion of Giant Powder.
MOIRIsTOwN, n. j., July 3.-A terrible
explosion took place yesterday morning at.
7:SO at the Atlantic giant powder works,
situated between McCainsville and Brakes
vile, resulting in the loss of ten lives and
the injuring of ten or twelve others. The
explosion took place in the mixing house,
but the cause is unknown. The conclusion
was felt distinctly for twenty miles
around and glass in houses five
miles away was shattered. A double
force of men went to work at seven
o'clock in the morning, so that operations
could be suspended from Saturday until
Tuesday morning. The explosion blew the
building into spllnters and fragments of the
bodies of the wOrkmen were picked up 500
feet from the scene. Some pieces were
taken from the branches of a tree many
yards away. The largest portion of a body
yet found will not weigh fifteen pounds.
An immense excavation was made
where the building stood, and de-
vaStatiOn is apparent for 500 feet in
every direction. The following are the
names of those killed: Charles Jackson,
Joseph \. Kinner. George Zimmerman,
George Hanbill, Theodore Bryan, Charles
Milburn, George King, John Smith and two
brothers named Laubach. The amount.
of the mixture which exploded
was about $500 pounds. There is a de-
preston in the ground 60X70 feet i'm area
and six feet deep where the explosion Oe-
Cured. The largest fragment of a body re-
covered by the searchers is the lower part
of 4 mans trunk, including part of ono
thigh, but most of the fragments are less
than foot i'm size, and some not over an
inch. 4 fragment of n skull was found
with spInters Of wood three-quarterS of
mile AWAY
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RAINS IN VIRGINIA.
WashOuts and Freshets-StOppage
Trains-Heavy Rainfall.

Washouts and Freshets-StOppage of
Trains-Heavy Rainfall
RICHMOND, Va, July 3.-The heavy rain
fall in the past fOrty-eight hours has caused
q damaging rise in all the streams in this
section of the State. The James river at
this point is ten feet above high water mark,
and all the whaTves in the lower part OF the
city (ROcketts) are submerged, the water
being about seven feet deep in lower Main
street and still rising. The people living
in that vicinity are moving out and mer
chants ara removing their goods to places
OF safety. No apprehensiOns are
felt, however, of a serious freshet. At
Columbia, five miles above here, the water
is twenty-five and ODe-half feet above low
water mark and rising slowly. Several
trestles on the Richmond & Allegheny rail-
road have been washed away, causing a
temporary suspension of travel. The rise
of the waters in the North Anna river has
caused stOppage Of trains on the Rich
mOnd, Fredericksburg & Potomac railroad.
No northern trains have been re-
ceived here since last night nor have any
gone north over that road. WashOuts on
the Richmond & DanvilIe road have also
stopped traffic over titat line. The rainfall
in Richmond in the last fOrty-eight hours
was 2 IS inches
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THE BOM8-THROWER.

Rfeinhold Kruger. the Man Whom On
Ger Madden Fought to the Death in Chi
cago, Now Shown to Have Been the Hay
market BOmb-Thrower--' he Secret oil
the Hidden Bombs.
CHICAGO, June 29.-"The man who
threw the bomb is dead!"
| This startling remark was made to a
reporter by Oscar Neebe, one of The eight
men now arraigned in Judge Gary's
court for completely in the Haymarket
! riots.
at is no WONDER" he continued, "that
the police have not found him. / did
not know at the time who threw the
| terrible missile, but have
taken every means TO find
out, and my opportunities are superior to
those OF the police. The man who threw
the bomb was Bheinhold Kruger, who
| tried to Kill officer Michael Madden the
day after the Haymarket riot, and who
was fatally shot by Madden. Kruger
was driven to desperation by the deed
that he had done on the night of May 4.
All that night he and a companion
spent in the saloons in
Milwaukee avenue drinking hard.
They were armed, and on Wednesday
Kruger was heard TO say in one of these
places that he was determined to kill the
first policeman he met and die with him.
He feared capture and hanging, and made
up his mind to die with his boots on"
This remarkable story led TO an inves-
tigation of krue.er's record. William
Seliger, the indicted man, who will give
States evidence, says that Kruger was
one OF the conspirators present at the Sc
cret meeting held on West Lake street
on the night of May 3. Lingg. Engel,
Fischer, Hirschebcrger and APPEL were
there. 1t was ut this meeting
that the plot was laid. The in
vestigatlon made by States Attorney
Grinnell and Captain Setback revealed
the fact that Kruger was one of the most
radical of the Anarchists, and constant
inciter to offensive action. His name
was found among the list in the Arbeiter
Zeitung office. He was q single man,
born in Germany, twenty-five years old,
five feet nine inches in height and
light complexion. He did not look
like laboring man. This
description agrees in every way with the
description which JnO. Bernet gives of
the man who threw the bomb. Neither
Fischer nor Schnaubelt answers that de-
scripliOn. Kruger was a tanner. He
was known to be engaged with Louis,
Lingg and two other men in the manu-
tacture of dynamite and bombs. He at
tended the Haymarkct meeting with Boeg.
After the terrible affair there, all the
four cOnSpiratOrs Secreted themselves,
and left their homes or hiding places only
when dragged forth by the police. Borg
went on L debauch as described.
A few days after Kruger was shot,
some friends removed two trunks from
his room to q house near RObey street
and Bloomington road. Two weeks
later thirty loaded dynamite
bombs were found under
sidewalk at that point. The police said
that they had evidence toSconvince them
that the bombs had been carried in one of
Krue@er's trunks from Kruegcr's room,
hut they Gcc:ined to make this evidence
public.
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SEVERE HAIL-STORM.
Scores of Dakota Farmers Left Destitute
as the Effect OF Furious Hail-Storm.

Scores of Dakota Farmers Left Destitute
as the Effect or Furious Hail-Storm.
GRAFTON, Oak, June 29.-One of the
most destructive hail-storms that ever
occurred in the Northwest has Just been
reported from Walsh and Grand Forks
counties, in Dakota. Lack of telegraphic
facilities has delayed reliable news of the
disaster. The track of the storm covered
n width of two miles, and extended for
more than twenty miles. AT lnkster, in
Grand Forks County, it extended over
width of more than four miles. The
destruction is great, crops in the storm
devastated district being almost entirely
wiped out. This is in the heart of the
finest belt in Dakota. A Norwegian
church four miles from Grafton in Walsh
County, was blown 10 pieces and con-
verted into kindling wood, and hailstones
the size of nuts could be gathered up
with a shovel thirty hours after the
storm. Scores of farmers are left desti-
tute. The damage in the district so far
us reported is thought to be not less than
$500, 600. Later intelligence will proba-
bly, show the disaster to be greater than
is now estimated.
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The President Can Not Be There.

BALTIMORE, Nd, June ga commit
tee headed by the Rev. DR.. John J. Foley
went to Washington yesterday and waited
upon President Cleveland, their object
being to obtain from him positive an
swer as to whether or not he would at
tend the Cardinalate ceremonies ON June
80. The President expressed great re-
gret that he was constrained to give
Il negative reply, and said that while
il would have afforded him much pleas
ure to be present, the amount of Official
business that had accumulated upon mis-
bands, and the approaching adjournment
of Congress, rendered mis- leaving Wash
inston on that day impossible.
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THOSE VETOED BILLS.
Action of the House Committee on Invaiio
Pensions I'm Regard to the Matter.

Action of the House Committee on Inysiio
Pensions I'm Regard to- the Matter.
WASHINGTON, July S.-The House Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions has refused to
attempt to pass over the Presidents veto
ths bill granting pension to Andrew j.
Wilson. OF New York, and Mr.. Sawyer to-
day TEL at, Il thu me sure back to the House,
giving noic.. that il would be called up.
Wilson WAS GFafted into the army not
withstanding his allegation that he
was suffering from deafness and eye
complaint In the service he con-
tracted rheumatism and kidney dis
ease on which he based his application for a.
pension. His application was rejected by
the Pension Bureau on the ground that he
was disabled before he enlisted, which was
also the reason for the veto.
The bill granting pension to c. NJ. Tiller-
was also reported back, with the recon-
mendation that it be passed over the Presi-
dents veto. This is the case of the Louis
vile policeman whose application for pen
sion as dependent parent was denied by
the Pension Bureau on the ground that his
dependency was not established.
Senator Miller yesterday presented a
petition from the Danial T. Schenck post
G. A. X of Fulton, y. y, asking that the
bill to pension the widow of Captain Dan
iel L. Sehenck might become a law. not
withstanding the veto of the President.
The petition was largely signed, and set
forth that the petitioners were aware that
the death of the husband of the claimant
was the result of his service in the army;
that the widow did not apply for the PEN
sion while in good financial circumstances,
and that when reduced in fortune she filed
her application, but being unable to comply
with certain technicalitieS of the law, her
claim was rejected and she appealed to-
Congress to grant her what she was justly
entitled IN
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PROHIBITION went into effect at Atlanta,
Ga, on the 1st.
FATHER A. r. CURTIS. of Baltimore. has
been chosen by the Pope to succeed Bishop
Becker, of the Diocese of Wilmington. Del.
The tobacco sales at Danville, Va, during
the past year amounted to s41,OOO,OOO.
ADAM and Alphonse Rede, two brothers.
fought duel near OpelousEs, La, recently
with shotguns, and Adam was fatally
wounded.
ED WILLIAMS, a negro. was lynched at
Gainesville, Tex, recently for attempted
outrage.
The revenue cutter Forward has n,
turned to Mobile after a vain search for the
fIbustering vessel alleged to have fitted
out at New Orleans for Cuba.
THE Little Rock & Hot Springs Railway
Company has been Incorporated under the
laws of Arkansas. The directors and stock
holders are leading men of Little Rock and
Hot Springs.
archbishop GIBBONS, of Baltimore, Nd
was invested with the scarlet beretta of .
Cardinal on the 30th. The ceremony was
very imposing.
A DEFALCATIoN Of S6I5, $50 has been dis
covered in the accounts of Treasurer VII
son, of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Conpa2y. Wilson left note osfessiro
che fraud and absconded. The defaIcation
dates back to 1865, when an oFerissue of
bonds took place. The bonds have now
matured, hence the discovery of the crime.
REcEST storms have caused great dis
tress in Rapids, Grant and Catahoula mar.
isheS, La. Crops are destroyed, stock
drowned, etc.
EPHRAIN WARD, working in NJ G. No
ble's place at Waco. Tex, got drawn into
a threshing machine recently and was cut
to pieces.
kHoDA PEAKE, a kentucky moonshiner
living near Grahamlown, recently sur
rendered his still to the, Government, the
first case of the kind on record
THE boiler of r. T. Adams saw mill .t
Russellville, Ark, exploded recently, kill
ing the proprietor and two other men and
fatally iniuring two more.
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APrrforI.ance Not Advertised.

PARIS, June S0.-Thirty thousand peo-
pie went to witness the performances in
the immense bull circus at Mines, in the
department of Gard. The entertainment
had been extensively advertised to be
given under electric lights. The lights
went out soon after the performances be-
gan. and, owing to the defective appar-
atus, could not be relit. The people be-
came ehraged aud began rioting. They
tore down the fittings of the circus and
made bonfire in the arena of them and
the furniture. Troops HAD TO be called
to restore order, which they only sue
ceeded IN doing after desperate conHie'
with the people.
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A Question of Title.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-The President
has transmitted to Congress report of
the Secretary of State or the case of the
American schooner "Aunanalska," which
was condemned by the government of
Salvador for having been employed in
aid of an instruction against that repub-
lie, and was subsequently presented to
the United States. The President rec
omnends that Congress pass the neces-
sary legislation TO complete the transfer
and give the Court of Claims authority
to hear and determine the question of IT,.
tie.
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CHICAGO. July 1.-The morning trains of
the Wisconsin division of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad were well filed with
people from various parts of the country,
who have come Either to participate in the
annual temperance convocation at Lake
Bluff, which opens to-day and continues
two weeks. Among the prominent speak
ers who are expected are United States
Senator A. l. CO;quitt of Georgia; Hon.
William Price, of Wisconsin; Rev. D. p.
Clifford, of Boston, and Rev. A. p. Leonard,
of Ohio The annual convention of the
WOmen's Christian Temperance Union
training school will be held concurrent with
that Of the TEMPERANCE convention proper.
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THE EAST

NEW YORK is agitating the question OF
putting telegraph wires in a concrete
asphalt underground conduit
The cotton firm of j. & A. W. BeaI, New
York, has suspended.
The Massachusetts, Legislature was pro-
rogued on the LIST.
Two more bOycotters of the New YorL,
concert hall recently pleaded guilty.
The adjourned meeting of the creditors
of the Lewiston mills was held in Boston
on the SOth. The committee appointed at
the former meeting reported the total in
debtedness to be S2,50O,oOO, with assets
amounting to Sc, 49,, $50
A SUMBER of the leading wine merchants
of New York have sent a petition to Con-
gress asking for the better enforcement of
section :, SsS of the revised statutes which
taxes imitation and spurious wines.
Two men sailed for New York from the
Clyde recently in a boat nineteen feet long.
They took provisions for two months.
FIVE persons were recently almost suoth
cred to death by fat burning at q BROOKLYN
On W bakery. They were rescued in an
insensible condition.
MITCHELL & HUSTLET's fve-storv lutte
and hemp warehouse, New York was on
fire recently one section being DESTROYED
Damage about 100000; amply insured.
Miss ALICE JORDAN has been awarded the
degree of IL B. by Yale, but no other
ladies will be permitted to enter the law
school hereafter
HoN. WILLIAM A. PORTER. of PhiIadel-
phia, judge of the State Supreme Court
dropped dead on the street near his home
recently.
RECORDER SMITH, of New York, has re.
ceived letter from Berlin eongratulating
him on the sentence he dealt cut to Most
The bay colt Troubadour defeated the
bay mare Miss Woodford in the races at
Sheepshead Bay, N. Y, on the 9th
The Boston yacht Puritan outsailed the
Priscilla and the Mayfower in the race off
the Massachusetts, coast on the 29th
PENNSYLVANIA Republicans have nomi-
mated General Beaver candidate for Gov
eTnor.
A SMALL schooner left East Boston to
view the recent yacht race. The six men
on board could not manage it and it cap
sized. -Four of the party were drowned.
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Charges Against the Management of the
Freedmen's Hospital.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-Charges have
been prepared and will be filed at the IN
terror Department against the managers
of the Freedmen's Hospital in this city.
The charges consist, it is understood,
that the hospital is generally mismanaged,
that the food furnished patients is not
such as it should be, aud that there have
been personal supplies bought ostensibly
for the use of the hospital. These charges
are based upon the statements of a num-
Der of people who have been under treat
ment at the institution. Similar charges
have frequently been made before and
have resulted in several investigations,
none of which developed facts to sustain
them.