Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-24

Creek shoals above Charleston, ". Va tn.
other evening, killing the fireman and in
juring four other men.
WILLIAM GEORGE was executed at the
penitentiary annex at Columbus, o., on the
18th, in the presence of a limited number
OF spectators. Georges crime was the
murder of James Scott in Muskinguu
County, on the night Of July is. 1857.
TATE's defalcations as Treasurer Of Ken.
lucky have swelled to s24s, GOO.
The House Committee on Agriculture al
special meeting referred TO a sub-com
mittee the Butterworth Lardine bill and its
various substitutes looking to the taxing
all adulterated food products. The sub
committee will have authority to report z
new bill
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at the
powder house at the Prattsville brown
stone quarry near Stockton, n. J., the
other morning. One man was killed and G
number Of houses were wrecked and con
siderable property was destroyed. The re-
port was heard twenty miles away. Three
hundred kegs of powder exploded. The
explosion was caused by workmen dropping
a keg of powder.
THE centenn al meeting of the Presbyte-
rian General Assembly, the supreme &C.
! Church in the United States. began in Phil
adelphia on the 18th. There were over SOC
delegates in attendance.
A BREAK occurred in the Sny levee, two
miles below the Hannibal (Mo.) bridge on
| the nth. The territory covered by the
| floods was forty-ive miles long and six
miles wide. The damage was immense and
could not be computed.
ADvICEs from the island Of Tahiti saws
that party of natives surprised French
patrol and killed an officer of marines and
two sal ors.
THE Dublin ExcheQuer Court has dis
missed the appeal of Father McFadden, OF
Gweedore, against the doubling CT his sen
tence on appeal The court held that g
county court has the power to increase G
sentence.
Two-THIRDs Of the young TOBACCO plants
in Western North Carolina have been killed
by recent frosts. The weather was very
cold.
l.. RICHARDSON'S interior decoration
works, Cleveland, O., were destroyed by
fire the other morning. Loss, 100000.
THE rates between Chicago and Louis.
vile for the round trip have been cut Io
eleven dollars.
THE court house of Sydney, the county
seat of Fremont County, Iowa was burned tc
the ground the other night, and the records.
except the treasurer's, were destroyed. Al
attempt was made few years ago to blow
up this building and destroy the records tc
cover up a shortage of the officials, but
fai Ell. The fire was incenIiary.
THE German Government is trying to in
fiuence the leading banking houses against
a Russian loan. 1t is expected that a loar
of 10000, 900 roubles will be emitted in the
autumn by French syndicate.
FOUR horse thieves were hanged recently
by vigilantes on tine western border Of the
Cherokee Strip. Two of them were noto-
rious criminals, the other two being IN
known.
The E. E. Baker Post, G. A. R., Philadel.
phia, has got into hot water with the order
for admitting the Confederate General,
Joseph E. Johnston, to membership.
FRED KING and William Kinney, aged
were killed by train while crossing a
Pro, idence & Boston railway bridge near
Providence, r. l., recently.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of New York, after
brief hearing On the writ Of habeas corpus
in the case of Mrs. Scofeld Charged with
being concerned in the death of Broker
Hatch), granted her discharge. Delaney
Nicoll contended that the committal of
Mrs. Scofield was a most unheard of pro-
ceeding.
HEAVY rains at Fayetteville, Ark, have
caused an overflow of the White river. At
Alma, Ark, the rivers were overlooking
and it was feared several lives had been
lost.
The conviction of McQuade, the New
York city Doodle alderman, has been con-
firmed by the Supreme Court.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended hay II numbered for the
United States, 1853; Canada, %: total, 1S9,
compared with 209 the previous week and
$50 the corresponding period of last year.
TIE cruiser Baltimore, now building at
Cramps yard, will probably be launched
on July 4, and the Secretary of the Navy
has been advised accordingly.
THE village of Zarnikou. Pomerania, has
been destroyed by fire. There was no loss
of life.
JACOB VANDERBILT, at New York re-
Gently, in giving his side of the story of his
relations with his wife, who is suing him
for limited divorce and alimony, said that
he met her in house of ill-fame, and as he
was young and inexperienced he became
her dupc and consented to a secret mar
rage. He sad the girls name was Mary
Smith, but she called herself Viola Ward.
Her family lives at Cazenovia, y. Y.