Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-17

cInnati in Kentucky is 10 be named Fort
Hancock, and II be used as resting place
for soldiers retired on account of age
A CARDING machine in wooden mill at
Paducah, KY, few to pieces recently, kill
ing two men.
BIZ fail OF rock IN a mine near st. ASS
furt, Saxony, the other day, eighteen men
were killed and many injured.
W. B. STRONG has been reelected presi-
dent Of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
system.
COMMODORE KITTsoN. the noted horse
man, dropped dead while passenger on q
train near Harvard, H., recently. He was
seventy-fve years old.
ALL the weavers and spinners IL the
vicinity of Breslau. Germany. have struck
Socialism was thought to be the cause.
The National Printers Protective Fra
ternity closed its convention at Cleveland
O., on the 10Th. o. F. Kenny, Of Cleveland,
was elected president.
IL the British House of Commons re-
Gently Sir John Gorst, Under Secretary for
India, announced that the Government of
India admitted the authenticity of the
circular OF the Commander in Chief, direct
ing that regimental bazaars have a suffi-
cient number of women. The statement
created great sensation.
NATURAL gas caused the destruction of
st. Paurs Cathedral, Buffalo, Y. Y, on the
morning of the 10th. The building was an
imposing enc and was valued at $3.50, 900.
A CYCLONE struck the village of Peca-
tonica, ILL.,, on the night Of the 10th, wreck
ing several houses and inuumerable out
buildings. One woman and three children
were injured, but not fatally, by flying
timbers.
SINCE January thirty-two corporations
of Fall River, Mass, with an aggregate
capital of s1.71S.000, have made dividends
of more than $40 per cent. for the frac-
ton of the year. The dividends range
from ~ to 10 for the months already gone,
and indicate that the dividends for the year
will average II per cent.
AT the annual meeting Of the American
Bible Society in New York the receipts
were reported as S557, $40 and the disburse-
ments as $500, 453
The Turkish Cabinet has approved the
Anglo-French Suez cana! convention, aban-
doning its claim TO preside over the asso-
citation and being given the right to use the
canal.
WILLIAM HOPKINS, who stone stranger
to death at Georgia country church be-
cause he wore a billed" shirt and was to
have been hanged, has been respited by
Governor Gordon.
REV. GEORGE MCDUFFIE,a negro preacher,
was hanged recently at Atlanta, Ga, for
the murder of William Cheney, another
negro. Illicit love on the part Of McDuffie
led him to commit the crime.
A TORNADO proved destructive to build
ings, etc. In Northern Indiana on the night
of The 18th.
A. J. BRYANT, a wealthy resident of San
Francisco, who was mayor from 1915 to
1879, fell from a ferry boat recently and
was drowned. He had been in il[health
for some time, and it is supposed had an
attack of vertigo.
NEARLY two blocks of the business part
of Hot Springs, Ark, was destroyed by
fire On the night of the 18th. The fire
broke out IN the Excelsior laundry and the
damage amounted to $4,000.
THE Railway Conductors Association, in
session at Toronto, Ont, recently passed
resolution condemning the strike of the en-
gineers on the 20" system.
LUMBERMEN say there is an over supply
of logs in the Mississippi this season. There
are more logs IN the streams than the Min
neapalis mills can possibly saw, and there
are no storage booms and nc market for
the logs. A decentralization of the lumber
market IS threatened.
THE offer of $1,000 reward for the cap
ture of Tascott, the murderer of millionaire
Smell, of Chicago, has expired by hmita-
ton. Notwithstanding the dozens of ar
rests made all over the country the real
Tascott is still at large.
II is reported that at recent parade of
Russian troops cavalry Lieutenant named
Timoferef was about to fire at the Car with
a revolver when another officer seized him
by the arm and the weapon being dis
charged the bullet entered the ground
who was at once arrested, ap-
peared to be insane.
TIE body of j. H. Kel, prominent citi-
zen OF Oshkosh, Wis, was found in Cedar
river recently. He had been inspecting
bridge and it was first thought had been
drowned, but an examination revealed the
fact that he had been murdered and robbed
and his body thrown into the river.
ADvICEs from Afghanistan say that the
Heratic regiment had fight recently with
the Demshed tribe, which had petitioned
for Russian protection. Many were killed
on each side.
THE Southern Baptist convention met 10 |
annual session at Rich mond, Va, on the |
18th and was called to order by Prof Lewis |
B. Ely, of Missouri. first-vice president, |
Rev. DR.. P. H. Nell, the president, having |
died since the last convention.