Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
TEE Earl Of wincbester and many mem

bers Of the English clergy have contrib
uted to the relief of the poor in Ireland.
The last of Geronimo's band of rene
gaze Apaches have been captured in
Sonora, Mex.
TWENTY thousand Yorkshire (England)
colliers have given notice to their em-
ployers that they will go out on strike
unless they are conceded ten per cent.
advance in their wages 1t is expected
that 81, 900 other colliers will also give no.
tice to the same effect.
A CoLoRED woman was cut to pieces by
freight train near Birmingham, Ala, re-
Gently, and the trainmen shoveled the re-
mains into ditch. This SO enraged the
negro miners that the crow only escaped
lynching by uncoupling the engine and
fleeing for their lives.
JUDGE SAWYER, of the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco has issued
two writs of habeas corpus designed to
test some of the questions to beraised over
the right to land of Chinese arriving here
after the Exclusion act went into effect
One writ was for a Chinaman arriving by
the steamship Belgic who had a return
certificate and the question raised is
whether Congress can constitutionally
deprive Chinese holding custom house
certificates of the right to return.
FIFTY-FIvE lives were lost in the disaster
on the Lehigh Valley road at Mud Run,
Pa on the night of the 10th. Forty others
were seriously injured, several fatally. 1t
was thought the engineer of the colliding
train was to blame.
MOTION was made in the Supreme
Court at Buffalo, N. V, on the 18th for a
commission to take the testimony of
President Cleveland in a suit of Rev. DR..
George II. Ball against the New York
Evening Post for litel. The motion was
denied. The suit grows out of Rev. Balls
scandal charges in the last Presidential
election.
A FIRE which broke out on the steamer
Harris at Greenpoint, L. l., the other
morning spread to adjoining vessels and
to the Standard Oil shipping department,
causing a loss of S2OO, 1000. Five firemen
were severely burned.
A NoRTHBoUND passenger train on the
Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling road and
freight train collided near Massillon, o.,
on the 11th. and both engines, two passen-
ger coaches and several freight cars were
completely wrecked. A brakeman and a
passenger were fatally injured and anoth-
er man had both legs broken. Loss, $780,
600.
C. C. DEAN, private secretary of Major
John A. Adams, of Little Rock, Ark, has
gone to Canada because of defalcations for
an unknown amount. He recently failed
in an attempt to kill himself.
THE bottom of the Robert B. Carson, an
Ohio river cattle steamboat, collapsed the
other night and the vessel sank near
Ero In ha
ONE hundred persons were killed in re-
cent disorders at Port au Prince, Hayti.
A MADRID dispatch says there has been
a renewal of the conflicts between Morocco
and the United States. The latter de-
mands that the authorities at Fez be pun
ished for the arrest of the American
Consul's protege and that indemnity be
paid.
THE Vandalia freight depot at East St.
Louis, ILL.,, was burned the other night.
Loss, $50, 600.
THE President has vetoed Senate bill
granting restoration of pension to Sarah
A. Woodbridge on the grounds that the
precedent ought not to be established Of
granting a pension to a soldiers widow
after remarriage, when the second nus
band still survived.
Two men SdgSeu Une nlSnI CLERK IN cnaTS &c
of the post-office at Houston, Tex, ON the
morning of the 18th and robbed the mail
pouches, of how much was unknown.
AN oil well has been struck near Find
lay, o., which eclipses any thing in the
history of the Ohio field. 1t is estimated
to flow 1000 barrels per day.
Iowa had two bank failures on the 18th.
The Boyer Valley Bank, of Woodbine, and
the Caldwell Bank, at Logan, closed their
doors.
AT the intersection of the Walnut Hills
cable road and the Park avenue line of
horse ears, Cincinnati, recently, a collision
occurred between cable car 139 and Park
avenue car No. 10, caused h. the inability
to work the track brake on the cable car.
There were about 120 passengers on both
cars, but no one was seriously injured.
Two bogus notes, one for SIS, 900 and an
other for $4,000 issued by absconding
treasurer Bosworth, of the Stafford mills,
at Fall River, Mass, have been found,
bringing up his defalcation to $45, 200.
A REPORT of yellow fever at Green Cove
Springs, Fla, has been received at the
Marine Hospital Bureau.
THE President has vetoed the bill author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to set
tie the claim of James NJ. Wilbur for ex-
ira work in laying the tiling in the New
York post office building in 1874. The
claim amounted to about 81, 900.