Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-19

EBEKEZER STAEYARD was hanged in the
Ohio penitentiary recently for the murder
of his former sweetheart, Alice Hancox, at
Youngstown March "a, 1887.
THE Lake Shore railroad round house at
Ashtabula, O., and eight locomotives were
DESTROYED by fire the other night.
BY the fall of the gallery of the old
Quaker Church at Alexandria, Va, during
a negro entertainment the other night,
one man was fatally and six women badly
hurt.
SIXTY Canadian laborers who had been
working at Port Huron and other points in
Michigan and living in Canada have been
ordered to stay out of this country under
the Alien Labor law.
TERRIBLE storm was reported off the
New England coast on the night of the
18th. Many wrecks occurred, accompanied
with loss of life.
The crop prospects in India are said to
be improving with the cessation Of the
drought. All fear of a famine has passed
away except in Orrissa, where the drought
still prevails.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town, Africa,
of the 18th says that the Zeebers coal
mine at Kimberly had caught fire and five
hundred miners were entombed and
thought to have perished.
HENRY NJ. IVES has been indicted by the
Hamilton County (O.) grand jury. What
the offense was the court authorities re-
fused to tell.
NICHOLAS VERREs SMITH, son-in-law OF
the late Horace Greeley, was prisoner in
the Yorkville IN. W court recently,
charged by John Allen, proprietor of the
Hotel Hamilton, of defrauding him out Of
1915, the amount of his bill for board and
lodging for his wife and family.
JOHN ZACHAR, the Caledonia (Wis.) al
legged faster, after an abstention from food
for fffty-thTee days, is reported to have
again started his feed mill.
FRED REMINGTON, an artist on Hdrper's
Weekly, who had been sketching mountain
scenery, took morphine recently with sui
cidal intent, and died at Trinidad, Col.
Unrequited love was thought to have
caused the rash act.
GOVERNOR MoREHoUsE gave Maxwell,
who was to have been hanged at st. Louis
on the 18th for the murder of Preller,
respite of thirty days, but refused any
communication of sentence.
A DUEL between Minister Floquet and
General Boulanger occurred near Paris on
the 18th. The General was quite seriously
wounded in IKE neck. Floquet was only
scratched.
MCHUGH, mayor of Sligo, Ireland, and
editor of the Sligo Champion, was arrested
recently on a charge of publishing land
grabbing articleSwhich advocated intimi
dation and melted to violence. He was re-
leased on bail.
JOSEPH WELLS and his twin sister, Mrs.
Margaret Kelly, while returning to their
home in Tomlinson, near Little Rock, Ark.
in buggy, attempted to ford a stream
when they were caught in the current and
drowned. The bodies were recovered.
MRS. RAwsoN, who attempted to kill At
torney Whitney in a court room in Chi
cago some time ago, has been released on
bail.
TERRIBLE suff ering is reported in the
lowlands of West Virginia as result of
the recent floods. Over 500 persons are in
need of the necessaries of life.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July II number for
the United States, 2l6; Canada, "a; total
240; compared with pa the previous week
and 179 the corresponding week last year
THE residence of the Queen of Servia
was raided by German police at Wies-
baden on the 18th and the Crown Prince
forcibly taken from her. Much sympathy
was expressed for her on account of this
harsh proceeding.
CHIEF PIAH, the once notorious chief OF
the renegade Utes in North Park, Col, has
ended his career by suicide. The old In
dat shot himself on the old Navajo trail,
about thirty-six miles south of the agency,
about six weeks ago.
THERE were rumors at Helena, Mont, on
the 18th that an eastern bound passenger
train went through the Rosebud river
bridge, on the Northern Pacific, and that
thirty persons were drowned.
Two hundred natives and twenty five
whites were killed in the recent mine dis
aster at Kimberly, South Africa.
THE mail train east on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck and instantly killed Mrs.
James Crusan and her nine-year-
daughter Annie near Latrobe, Pa, re-
Gently.
THE window glass workers and manu-
facturers of the East have compromised on
last years scale with the understanding
that the two should work together to regu-
late prices.
DILLON, GRANT & Co., retail dry goods
merchants of Louisville, KY, have as
signed with S25, 900 liabilities.
THE Journal de st. Petersburg denies
that the Russian Government is about to
| issue another loan.