The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

FOTHERINGHAM. the Adams Express mes
senger on the Frisco road, who was re-
Gently robbed OF nearly 100000, has been
indicted by the st. Louis grand jury. A
sensational feature of the case is the pub
LEGATION in the Globe Democrat of a long let
ter from the actual robber describing the
robbery and enclosing wrappings of money
packages stolen.
SAM PURPLE, a farmer living IN the
southeast corner of Hodgeman County,
Kan, enraged at his wife the other morn
ing murdered her and two of his children.
He also shot his sister-in-law, imposed
fatally, and seriously wounded two more
children. He then started out to murder
two other persons, but meeting with oppo-
sition surrendered himself at JetmOre. He
was soon after given over to a mob who
hanged him up.
Two HUNDRED farmers recently tried to
prevent the Galway Qreland) Blazers
hunt. With police assistance the hunters
were enabled to start, but they soon met
with more formidable opposition and were
compelled to withdraw their hounds.
A CATHOLIC curate named Szitar has
murdered DR.. Kereggario, at Jaisz Kara
jenoe, Austria. The doctor had asked the
Bishop of the diocese to dismiss the curate
on account of his irregular life. The
curate has been arrested.
THE fire in the Standard coal mines at
Mt. Pleasant, Pa, is still burning. Acres
of coal are on fire and the fl lanes are
making their way toward abandoned cells
in which the coal has been exhausted.
ZAMBEsI advices say that the Austrian
explorer Hinklemann was captured and
murdered by native chief. Hinklemann's
companion, a young Englishman, con-
trived to escape.
EIGHT hundred coal miners at the Erie,
Marshall, Fox and Louisville Mines Colo
RADIO, have quit work on account of a re-
duction in their wages of 1212 cents per
ton.
THE bodies of seven persons burned to
death were taken out of barn at Fuss
dorf, Noravia, the other day. Sixtee
other persons were missing and were sup
posed to be dead.
THE Alabama National Bank of Birnsing-
ham, Ala, has been authorized to begin
business with capital of S5OO,OOO
EX-PoSTMAsTER NEAZY, of Baltimore,
Nd, is reported to have fled to avoid dis
barment for professional misconduct in
miSapprOpriating trust funds.
THE Farmers Loan andsTrust Company
of New York, having secured a Judgment
for foreclosure of the $780, 900 mortgage
upon the property of the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph Company, it has APP
piled TO Judge Van Brunt for the appoint
ment of a receiver.
Jim CUNM INGs," who committed the ex
press robbery, is carrying on a rather vol
umious correspondence for one in his posi-
ton. First he wrote to Frank James, the
ex-outlaw, then to the editor of a news
paper, now to Fotheringham's mother, en-
closing in the letter $50, which he suggests
may be of use in clearing her son of the
suspicion now resting upon him. All of
these letters are in the hands of the detec-
tives.
THE coroner's jury, which has been in
vestigating the recent railroad disaster at
Rio, Wis, has returned verdict holding
c. II. Wells, the brakeman, responsible for
the loss of life.
AT meeting of the Connellsville (Pa.)
coke syndicate on the 10th. the advisable
ity of advancing the price of furnace coke
twenty-five cents per ton was discussed,
but no decided action was taken.
IN a fight between fence cutters and
State rangers at a point ten miles from
Brownswood, Tex, two fence cutters
named Lowell and Roberts were killed.
a STRIKE is threatened among the
printers employed by TeaoariRe's NelcS, the
Sas,ddy Telegraph and Peck's sam, of Mil
waukee, Wis, that promises to extend to
publishers using plate matter all over the
country.
THE Chicago packers, on the 10th, re-
scinded their former resolution not to en-
ploy union men. The strike continued
with undated vigor.
a YOUNG American woman, who refused
to divulge hername, recently entered upon
a thirty days fast in Paris, under Toe sur
vigilance Of committee.