Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-02
A puReLAR entered the suburban. resi-.

tdry OF the lnCertOr, at MOUNT ernOn, W., Lne
| other night. The noise aroused the house
hold and the venerable Secretary, now in
| his eightieth year, arose, procured q re-
| volver, confronted the intruder and drove
him from the premises.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared the first dividend of 80 per cent in
favor of the creditors of the Commercial
National Bank, of Dubuque, Iowa, or
claims proved amounting to 1888, ,091. This
bank failed March 20. 1888.
SIX tramps were found smothered tc
death in box car of grain on the Omahs
& Republican Valley road, forty miles from
| Omaha, Neb., on the Goth. The car ha6
been derailed and overturned in an acci.
dent.
INDIANA White Caps, after whipping two
women in Crawford County were fired or
and put to fight by citizens in ambush
Three of the White Caps were seriously
wounded.
A GERMAN crank named Clotten has
been arrested for threatening Mr.. Glad
stone. He had sent manuscript for Mrs
Gladstone to read and because it was mis-.
laid or thrown away he wanted some
blood.
NEAR Bentonia, Miss, recently the
daughter of Dolph Miles, colored, poisoned
her father and three brothers. Two of the
brothers were dead. Family trouble was
the cause.
Two of the three Cinnamon who were
detained at Plattsburg, n. Y, on the
ground that their entry papers were ir-
regular or forged, were taken back to Mont
real in charge of United States Marshal.
Having entered Canada in bond, they
were liable to a duty of $50 head. The
money was paid and the two celestials wert
set at liberty.
MAJOR Downs, of New York, who began
the crusade against the bob-tail car by re-
fusing to put his fare in the box, was fined
81. The case was appealed.
A TRAIN on the Alabama Great Southern
railway was ditched near Titusville re-
Gently by the breaking of the driving
wheel Of the engine. Two men, fireman
and brakeman, were caught under car
load of steel rails and killed.
JUDGE BREWER has granted temporary
injunction against the Iowa Railroad Com
missioners. He laid down the law that
unlimited power did not exist in the Legis-
lature or in the Board to fix rates.
THE President has approved the Post
office Appropriation bill; the act for a
bridge across the Mississippi river at Wa
basha, Minn.; the act to construct a road
to the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge,
La; the joint resolution electing managers
of the National Home for Disabled Vol
unteer Soldiers; the act for bridge across
the Arkansas near Cummings Landing,
Ark.
A SPECIAL from Brighton, ninety-six
miles east of Buffalo. Y. Y, says a serious
break has occurred in the three-mile level
of the Erie canal. Several boats were
broken in two and all of the east boats
delayed.
FROM evidence in possession of the
Treasury Department it is said that about
$50, 100000 worth of Confederate property
is in possession of parties in England,
and S6,000,00 worth in the possession OF
parties in the United States.
THE United States steamer Juniata,
which went ashore near Cough Island
while on her way to Chemulpo, Corea, to
protect American Consuls from Corean
mobs, got safely off the mud bank with
the tide on the night of July %, and pro-
ceeded again to Seoul.
A VOLCANIC eruption at Bandalsan, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, has destroyed
several villages and killed 1000 persons,
including 100 visitors at the Thermal
springs.
NINETEEN emigration agents were ar
rested at Cracow, Austrian Galicia, re-
Gently, for melting natives of the district
to emigrate to America to avoid military
service. Similar arrests were made at
Brady and Czernomitz.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July 26 numbered for
the United States, 1893; Canada, 22.
THE Texas traffic lines representatives,
who were in New York endea voring to eff
feet an organization as public carriers, are
reported to have agreed.
H. U. MCELRoY, chief clerk of the freight
department of the Mexican Central rail-
way, has been arrested at Vera Cruz
charged with defalcation.
G.. L. PRUDEN. assistant secretary to the
President, has received intelligence that
his son, aged sixteen, was killed in an ac-
cident on a farm in Virginia, where he was
spending a short vacation.
THERE was a report in Los Angeles, Cal,
on the 9th that Henry W. Moore and
Mrs. Norton, the runaway couple, were in
that city.
THE services of volunteers to assist in
putting down the Indian troubles in the
Northwest Territory have been declined
by the Canadian authorities as not needed.