Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-13

Co.'S lumber yards In Cleveland, u, re-
Gently and i've acres of sawed timber were
destroyed. causing loss of Sc, ZOO
THE joint session of the National and
Southern Forestry congresses began at
Atlanta, Ga, ON the 9Th, when Governor
Gordon delivered the address of welcome.
r R HOUSE has been arrested for the
murder of his fourteen-year-old daughter,
whose body was found in the lake at
Eastlake, Ala, recently. 1t was thought
he had also murdered the girls mother.
as she was missing, and ne had married
another woman the day he was arrested.
Four Chinese highbinders are dead as
the result of their recent fractional fight at
Portland, Ore. Another was also reported
dying.
robbed of 81, 900 by an ex-clerk whom he
had trusted
The stage from Mendocino to Ingrams,
Cal, was robbed recently, supposed for a
large amount.
A REPORT was current on the 9Th that
Jay Gould bad obtained a controlling in
terest in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
The report was discredited at Boston, but
considerable speculation prevailed about
it in New York and Chicago.
thorities Of Mexico, brings serious charges
against the American postal authorities,
accusing them of negligence and careless
ness and sending mails on long routes.
MICHAEL DIVERS house, about three
miles from Blythe, Ont. was burned the
other morning and Mrs. Dwyer, her
daughter and three grandchildren were
burned to death.
THE Board of Trade of Great Falls,
Mont, has taken the first step toward a
statehood movement in Montana.
E. GRUMBACH, a fur dealer of Duluth,
Mimi, has disappeared leaving debts
running well up into the thousands.
THE front of Henry Diehl's seven-story
malt house, corner of Niagara and Mary
land streets, Buffalo, N. Y, fell out re-
Gently, burying Anthony Anse and Fred
Meyer. Anse was rescued a few minutes
after the disaster unframed. Meyer was
killed.
THE strike of the Montana Union road
has been settled. Master Mechanic Ross,
whose discharge the engineers demanded.
was laid of and the engineers returned
to work.
DON DOMINGO OLIVIA, criminal judge for
the district of La Cathedral, Havana,
Cuba, recently received an internal ma
chine in the shape of a writing desk. In
trying to open it his wife was seriously
wounded by the explosion which followed.
FOUR men and one woman committed
suicide in New York City on the 9Th. Three
of the victims were German and one man
and the woman were French.
BY the wrecking of the British steamer
Hartlepool at Egersund, Norway, recently
seventeen of her crew were lost.
Riots have occurred at Rennes, France,
among the workmen. Troops were sent to
quell the distur Dances.
THE drought still continues in Victoria,
Australia, but fine rains have fallen in
Queensland.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended December 6 numbered
3Oj, compared with 232 the previous week
and 254 the corresponding week last year.
HERMAN, one of the men charged with
attempted robbery and murder of Phil
Daily, the sporting man, in a New York
fiat, when attempting the badger game"
of blackmail, has confessed. He lays the
chief blame on his confederate Meredith.
A REWARD of $4,000 has been offered
by the Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining
Company for the arrest of the man who
set fire to the Calumet shaft Thanksgiving
day. The fire was reported growing
worse.
THE Miners Progressive Union COM
pleted its organization at Columbus, O.,
on the 7th by the adoption of constitu-
ton and election of officers.
OWING to dispute at recent meeting
of the Paris Municipal Council, two of the
members-M. Memorial, Boulangist, and
NJ. Chautemps, an Observation-Disclosures a
duel. The weapons used were swords and
NJ. Chautemps received a wound in the
arm.
BY collision in the suburbs of Chicago
the other morning, between a long Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago freight
train, drawn by three engines, and a
switch engine, all four engines were ruined
and several box cars demolished Loss
$50, OO1. sss
AFTER four days of intense suffering
without food or drink and dashed to the
afterhouse, four survivors of the crew of
the schooner Ethel NJ. Davis were rescued
Thanksgiving day and brought to New
York. Three were drowned in the hurri-
cane of November 25.
IT is reported that in various districts of
Ireland, in Limerick especially, the dis.
tress among the agricultural laborers is
enormous. Many are asking to be assisted
to emigrate to Buenos Ayres.
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