Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-10

The business portion OF keithsburg, IL.
was destroyed by fire recently. Loss
| heavy.
OVER ten million feet Of lumber was de
! stroyed in the yard Of the Chippewa Lum
Der Company at Big Rapids, Mich, By fra
on the 81. Loss <l2J.00o.
BURGLARS entered Mark Twain's" house
at Hartford. Conn, the other night and
stole his shoes, two overcoats, some nap
kins rings and other small articles.
THE reported robbery of the mails near
Baltimore is denied by the postal authori
ties.
WHITE CARS gave W. II. Toney terrible
beating at English, Crawford County, Ind.
| recently. HIS recovery was doubtful. He
was prominent and wealthy citizen. but
was accused of abusing his family
EDITOR O'BRIEN was again convicted
under the Crimes act at Loughrea, Ireland.
on the Sd end sentenced to three months
Imprisonment.
A CONCERTED attempt was made TO wreck
'-Q'' train at Chicago on the night of the
Sd. A switch was thrown and fifteen cars
deraiied and set on fire. The conductor was
found shortly afterwards bruised and in
sensible by the side Of the track, and lie
reported that three men had beaten him
and wrecked the train.
LATER advices concerning the attack by
natives on the expedition of the German
explorers kund and Tappenbeck, IN the in
terror OF the Cameroous country, show that
seven members of the expedition were
killed and thirty wounded. The explorers
lost all their journals and collections.
GENERAL MARTIN BEEN shot himself dead
at Stanton, Neb., recently. His married
70
the cause Of the suicide. BEEN was q
tinguished himself in the late war by strik-
ing acts Of gallantry.
THE Argentine Minister at Vienna de-
clares that the reports of failures il Buenos
Ayres are greatly exaggerated; that they
and the provinces.
Two men, while jumping from an east
bound train at Bencia, Cal, the other
night, fell overheard from the pier in the
darkness ana were drowned. The body Of
one recovered proved to be that of Fred
Shaw. of Eureka Springs, Ark.
A REPORT is current in Vienna that the
Austrian Government Is about to ask the
delegations to grant an extra credit of Sl6,-
OOl,0OO.
the National League have declared their
confidence in Mr.. Parnell, and say they
will disregard the Papal rescript.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
confirmed the sequence of Mrs. Robinson,
the wholesale poisoner
CHEF JUSTICE GAIT, at Toronto. Ont,
recently, in granting the application for a
writ OF habeSs corpus in the case of Morse,
wanted IN Rochester y. Y, for attempted
murder, expressed the opinion that tele-
gram from an American officer was not
sufficient authority upon which to arrest
criminal under the Extradition act.
MAJOR PoPoFF, vino was convicted of
embezzling funds belonging to the Bull
garian War Office, has been sentenced to
four years penal servitude. VI. Boneff and
the other prisoners implicated in the defal-
cation were each sentenced to terms of
Imprisonment varying from five to twelve
months.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended May numbered for the
United States, 209; Canada, %; total. 234;
compared with 223 the previous week and
lS2 the corresponding week of last year.
A HORRIBLE and mysterious affair was
reported from Arlington, Neb., ON the 4th.
A barn on the Freese farm was destroyed
by fire, and in the ruins were found the
bodies of seven persons. The hired man
was missing and a suspicion existed that
he had committed terrible crime.
A CROWD of eXcitei Southerners burned
Senator ingalls, in etfigy at Lebanon, Tenn,
recently.
AN explosion Of gas occurred recently in
a tunnel in curse Of construction near
Messina, Sicily. Six workmen were killed
and many more fatally injured, several of
whom were rescued in dying condition.
At the time of the accident 80 workmen
were IN the tunnel.
A STORM blew down several houses in the
new town of Berring, Iowa, on the Santa
Fe railroad. James Myers, of Memphis,
No, was killed in falling building.
A BAD condition Of affairs exists in
Lowndes County, Ala, growing out of the
recent lynching of negro murderer by
white mob The negroes had been threat
ening vengeance and on the 4th the sheriff
arrested fifteen of them. On the way back
to Havnevile, the county seat. a conflict
ensued and two white men were wounded
and several negroes killed. Further trou Ole
was feared.
THE cracker factory at Los Angeles. Cal,
and Il. Webber's residence were destroyed
by fire the other night. One man persisted.
Loss, Sc, COO; insurance small.
By collision near Sorrento, Ill. recently
between passenger and freight train.
two men were killed and several badly in
inred