The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-25
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UNITED STATES MARSHAL COUSINS, or st.
Louis, was lately notified by the authorities
at Washington to look out for the filibus-
ters, who are expected to solicit aid in or
ganizing the Mexican expedition. Young
men who were blacklisted during the
Southwest strike will be offered induce
ments to join the expedition.
IT was reported from Denver on the 10th
that a severe snow storm and blizzard pre-
vailed on the plains and mountains. -
THE village of Frimstein, in the canton
of Berne, Switzerland, was recently de-
stroyed by fire. A number of the inhabit-
ants persisted in the flames
A FIRE at Durham, n. c., in the grocery
store of R R Atwater, burned a large
part of the business portion of the town.
Loss, $500, 600; insurance. S150,0G0.
The boss murderer recently made him
self notorious at White River. on the Can
adian Pacific road. He is represented to
be handsome young fellow named Rich
ard K. O'Brien. He supplanted Charles
Williams, country store keeper, in the
affections of his wife, and when the
wronged husband detected him O'Brien
shot Williams, then murdered Mrs. Will
liams' father, mother and two children,
and finally stabbed the guilty woman her
SELF who lived only long enough to tell all
the facts. The murderer fed but was az
rested, when he cody denied the crime.
DELEGATES representing fraternal soci-
cites with a membership of $4,000 met in
Washington on the 10th, and organized
the National Congress of Fraternal Bene-
ficiary Societies
The estimates for the establishment of
the navy for the fiscal year are s10,0O0C00
less than last year, only s5,0O0,000 being
asked for the construction of vessels.
THE Adams Express Company has sent
a confidential circular to the mer
chants and bankers throughout the coun-
try giving description of the bonds and
notes stolen from their express car on fhe
st. Louis & San Francisco railroad on tho
night of October 25.
A LARGE derrick in the stone yard OF the
Randolph Bridge Company recently fell,
killing John Cowell and injuring another.
THE American schooner Flying Scud,
seized for violation of the fishery reeula-
tions, was lately released at Halifax, N.
S., on payment Of 800 under protest.
THE Veterinarian convention at Chicago
on the 18th listened to a report by a COM
mittee appointed to investigate the con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia existing in that
city, and declared by resolution that in
incubation was extremely dangerous and
Objectionable.
The American Humane Association,
composed of delegates from the various
State humane societies, met at the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati, in annual convention
on the 18th, about fifty delegates being
present
II was lately reported that scheme had
been frustrated to poison P. d. Armour
by sample package of buckwheat con-
tanning strychnine, whic was left at his
house in Chicago.
THE fourth annual banquet of the Iro-
Quois Club occurred at the Palmer House,
Chicago, on the night of the 18th. Speaker
Carlisle and Senator Beck were among the
speakers.
ONE hundred CosSacks were recently lost
while endeavoring to quen the revolt OF a
tribe in the Caucasus, which the author
tiles tried to force into military service.
Anxiety is felt in Russia lest the move
ment spread among other tribes.
THE barge Dixon, Captain Robinson, of
the propeller Justice Fields tow, foundered
off Kewanee on the morning of the 18th
| and two seamen were drowned. Another
of the Fields barges, the Emerald, also
foundered and five lives were lost.
THE Washington Medical Association re-
Gently appointed a committee to wait upon
the Secretary of the Interior to inquire
what foundation there was in the charge
that some of the doctors in the district
were derelict in their duty in the certifca-
ton of sickness for department clerks
The department officials charged that the
local physicians did not report cases of
drunkenness.
THE Legislature of Vermont passed a
bill providing that all hotels or restaur ants
using oleomargarine shall put up large
signs notifying the public of the fact
A RECENT letter from Havana stated
that party of bandits under Romero had
demanded of Senior Pedrazo $4,000 As
he refused to give them what they asked
they burned extensive cane fields, dwelling
houses and every thing of value on the
plantation.
OK the 18th many skating parties glided
over solid ice in the streams near Fargo,
Oak.
A TERRIBLE disaster happened on the
18th on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st.
Louis railroad. a huge mass of rock and
earth came tumbling down a preeipice
aud crushing passenger train. The scene
following the accident was indescribable,
many being injured, some fatally.