Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-06-21

| 14th says the damage by the floods IN
Northern Mime sofa would am junt $500
| GO The boom at Cloquet gave way, eau y
ing the loss of several million feet of logs.
THE International Typographical Union.
lately in session at Kansas City, elected
Edwin 7. Plank. of San Francisco, presi-
dent The new constitution provides for
biennial meetings.
a DISPATCH from Brussels SAYS: "Ad-
vices from the Congo say that the Arabs,
WHO have arrived at kinsbassa, state that
Henry NJ. Stanley was wounded in fight
with the natives and that afterward one.
half OF his escort deserted Tippoo Tib
had not sent the promised convoy to
Stanley"
AN electric storm played havoc at Mil
waukee, Wis, on the 14th. The telegraph
and telephone systems were greatly dam-
aged. In Cheboygan County a farmer
named Cooper was killed by lightning.
The German steamer Pemptos, from
Singapore. with a number of pilgrims on
board, which was reported overdue at
Jeddah and which it was feared was lost,
has arrived at Alden il tow with her shaft
broken.
GOVERNOR BUCKSER, Of Kentucky, has
refused TO commute the ueaih sentence of
William Patterson. the negro murderer Of
Jennie Bowman. of Louisville.
The Supreme Lodge Knights OF Pythias,
at Cincinnati on the 14th, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Supreme chancellor. Will
liam Ward, of Newark, n. D.; supreme
vice chancellor, George D. Shaw, of Eau
Claire, Wis; supreme prelate, Charles I.
Bragg. of Bangor, Me-. supreme keeper OF
the records and seals r. NJ. c. White, of
Nashville, Tenn; supreme master of arms,
Robert Newell of Little Rork; supreme
outer guard, John W. Thompson, of Wash
ington; supreme master of the excheQuer,
Stansberry j. Wiley, of Wilmington, Del.
RECENTLY published statistics of the
Chicago Union Stock Yards Company, and
Of the Chicago Board of Trade, show that
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
is still leading all other lines i'll the number of
cars of live stock and grain bro Ight to that
market. This fact indicates the rapidly
with which the road must have recovered
from its recent labor troubles, and furnishes
additional evidence of the efficient manner
in which the management handled the re-
cent strikes of employees on its lines. Evi-
dently, from business standpoint, the
road is in able hands.
A BRONZE equestrian statue of Israel Put
the State, was unvailed at Brooklyn. Conn,
on the 1ith. Hon. Morris ". Seymour
made the speech of presentation and Gov
ernor Lounsb bury the address receiving it
on behalf of the State.
The National Christian Science Associa-
ton has elected Mrs. ". R. G. Eddy, of
Boston, president, Herbert H. Bangs, OF
Boston, secretary, and Mrs. II. A. Larmier,
of Chicago. treasurer.
THE works OF the Salem (Mass.) Lead
Company, 200xl00 feet IN size and four
stories high, tOge' her with its contents
and machinery, were burned recently.
Loss, $500, ,0G0; fully insured.
4 HEAVY thunder storm passed over AL
bany, n. Y, on the 18th. Lightning struck
English & Best's hotel. The loss reached
5000; partially insured.
TIE Wuman's Christian Temperance
Union ell led its convention at Kansas City,
No., on the 18th. Mrs. Clara Hoffman, Of
Kansas City, was elected president
LAWYER DUNN, OF New York, has been
found guilty of grand larceny in the first
degree in receiving from Teller Scott the
bonds stolen by the latter from the Man
haitian Bank. Sentence was postponed
pending argument on motion for q new
trial
SERIOUS floods are reported IN Southern
Minnesota and Dakota, consequent upon
heavy rains of the 18th and 18th. Much
damage has been done, the d0wnpour
being accompanied by heavy winds.
A COLLISION occurred on the Pennsylva-
MIA road near Fifty-second Street Ph:ladel-
phia recently, by which twenty freight
cars were wrecked. Ole car was loaded
with refined OIL which caught fire from a
hot box and the cars were almost entirely
destroyed, with the greater part of their
contents. Loss, $50, 900.
CLARA WEED, aged ei iyhteen, was struck
by lightning the other night near Aber
deem. Oak, and kilIe3.
ALL the window glass factories of the
West have shut down until September l
and possibly longer unless an agreement
as to wages is reached.
TIE French Ministry propose to intro
duce a bill to tax saccharIne as sugar and
to prohibit its ssl lie as such.
Robbers attacked train on the NJ, K.
& L. near Muscogee, l T., on the night of
the 18th, killing one man an woundIng
two others, but only getting s. in hooty.
An active pursuit OF the ruffians was i'm
mediately organized.
BUSINESS fai ures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June a. numbered for
the United States, 209; Canada, %; total,
232; compared with go the previous week
and 2l3 the corresponding week last year.