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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Hail Storm I'm Chicago.

CHICAGO, Oct. ia severe hail storm,
accompanied by high gale, passed over
this section of the country last evening,
the hail lasting about fifteen minutes.
The big hail stones shattered street lamps
and electric light globes, crashed through
the sky lights in the Office buildings
and broke exposed show cases. The
hot houses in the parks and those of the
many florists throughout the city were
badly damaged. The storm caused no
less than five runaways in five minutes on
one street and there were a number Of
smashups elsewhere. All the lights at the
crib were smashed except the big one, and
the waves, driven by the wind, sent thei
spray to the top of the high tower.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Wreck on the Northwestern.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2O.-The Council Bluffs
express on the Chicago & Northwestern
road last evening near Geneva was run
ming on a parallel track to that on which
long freight train was going in
an opposite direction. The fourth
or fifth car of the freight train
jumped the track. dragging other cars
with it. They smashed against the engine
of the passenger, badly injuring it. They
crashed through the train. A fruit car
and baggage car were almost demolished
before the train was brought to stand
still. Engineer SanDorn, of the passenger
train, Express Messenger Yuwell and
Phillip Reckell, OF Chicago, a passenger,
were seriously injured.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Attacked By a Hog.

WABASH, Ind, Oct. 19.-John A. Hoover,
prominent farmer, who lives three miles
east of Goshen, had terrible experience
with ferocIous boar, which may end his
life. Mr.. Hoover was engaged doing
chores about his premises to-day, when
his hat was blown into the lot where the
boar was kept. As Hoover stopped to
pick up the tile, the animal made a rush,
knocking him down and inflicting a num-
Der of terrible wounds with its tusks.
Hoover arose, but was knocked down the
second and third time by the infuriated
brute. Hoover's body was terribly lacer-
ated. His wife ran to the rescue and she
was chased by the hog, but escaped, Civ
ing her husband time to crawl away to
afetv
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Ambushed and Robbed.

wLKEsBARRE. Pa, Oct. 10 9-To-day
was pay day with the employees of James
McFadden, who is building branch rail-
road for the Lehigh Valley. He employs
about 400 laborers. This morning Alex
ander Mcclure, his paymaster, ac-
companied by a young Irishman. left
PittstoA with $50, 200 in his possession, to
go to the works to pay the men. On their
way to the works they had to pass through
a lonely strip of woods. Without any
warning both men were shot from am
bush and their horses killed Three ltal-
ians are suspected. The $4,000 is gone.
There is excitement and a posse OF 5Oo
men and boys are looking for the muir
derers.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
OVER A TRESTLE.
The Cannon Ball Train on the Baltimore =
Ohio Road Goes Over q Trestle-The En-
gineer Killed and Many Passengers In

The Cannon Ball Train on the Baltimore .
Ohio Road Goes Over q Trestie-The En-
gineer Killed and Many Passengers In
jured.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 19.-The cannon
ball express on the Baltimore & Ohio,
which left Cincinnati last night. ran into
an open switch near the Washington. Pa,
depot about $50 o'clock this morning and
was precipitated over a trestle distance
of ten feet. 1t was running at a high rate
of speed and was almost completely
wrecked. The engineer, James Noonan.
was instantly killed and about twenty in
jured, number seriously.
A corrected list of the killed and injured
is as follows: James Noonan, engineer,
Pittsburgh, killed. The injured were:
William McAuliff, fireman, Glenwood, Pa,
probably fatally; C. G. Culin, of New
York; A H. Clark, Rochester, n. Y;
Jacob Sigel, Allegheny; Joseph Mayes,
COLUMBUS, O.; Stephen Collins, Pitts
burgh, Pa; Mrs. W. J. McConkey, Mercer,
Pa; A. Ford, ChillIcothe, o.; G. W. Math-
ews, Baltimore; 4. L. Brown, Chicago; A.
Z. Mosler. Chicago; Michael Stanton,
Portsmouth. o.: A. Kaufman, New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Greer, Dodge City,
York; Henry Murray, Burgettstown, Pa;
James W. Batcheler, Pittsburgh; William
Fifer, Allegheny City; Mrs. Hannah Nc
Kinney, New Concord, o.: Baggage Mas
ter Henry, of Pittsburgh; Hays, colored,
of Columbus. o.
Superintendent Collins of the Pittsburgh
post-office, who was in the wreck, stated
that three of the njured-Fireman Brown,
Baggage Master Henry and a colored man
named Hayes, of Columbus, o., would
probably die. Three more were quite Sc
riously injured, while the others sustained
slight bruises and cuts. THE train" said
he, twas about an hour and half late.
We reached Washington about eight
O'Clock. l was asleep in an upper berth.
The first thing / knew the Gar turned over
and / was thrown across the aisle, re-
ceiving an ugly cut on the head and
some severe body bruises. As soon as
could do so made my way out of the car.
1t was the worst looking wreck l ever saw.
The engine was demolished and the cars a
mass of broken timbers. The engine,
tender, baggage car and sleeper had gone
over the trestle and the day coach was
hanging partly over. The people of the
town broke the windows and extricated
the passengers speedily as possible. Inside
the cars a scene of the widest confusion
prevailed. The injured were conveyed to
the Audit House, where every thing was
done to alleviate their sufferings. Those
who were able to do so came on to Pitts
burgh on the special. The train was filed
to its utmost capacity and it is miracle
that more were not killed"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Drowned In a Tub.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 19.-About noon
yesterday little Leonard Thomas, baby
one year old, was drowned in a tub of wa
ter in the yard of his parents residence,
3O2S East Twenty-frst street. Mrs.
Thomas, the mother, was employed about
the house and the baby walked out on the
rear porch and fell into small but deep
tub, where he was found dead by his six
year-old sister. The child had struggled
in the tub and his face and head were
badly bruised. Efforts were made to re-
suscitate the child, but without avail. Mr..
C. G. Thomas, the father, and his family
moved here recently from Shelbina, Mo-,
where the child will be taken for burial.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Dashed Out His Brains.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 1s.-William
Sherrard, an engineer in the employ OF
Louis Malloy, a contractor on the Govern
ment work in enlarging the canal, was
killed yesterday in a singular manner.
The Pennsylvania Company's bridge
across the Ohio was undergoing repairs,
and old ties as they were replaced were
pushed of the bridge and fell to the rocks,
forty feet below. Malloy thought some Of
these might be useful to him, and sent
Sherrard over to inspect them. While
Sherrard was busy looking them over the
vorkmen on the bridge showed another tic
overheard, and it fell upon Sherrsrd's
head, dashing his brains oek
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

ADDIIIONAL DlSfAICdESs
THE first session of the Fiftieth Congress
ended at one p. m. on the Doth.
The Sioux chiefs rejected the offer made
by the President for their lands and Of
fered counter proposition to accept $1.25
an acre, the money to be paid at once.
The RandAvery printing house, of Bos-
ton, has assigned. Liabilities, $4,000;
assets ample.
THE statue of General Grant, presented
by the Grant Monument Association, was
unvailed at st. Louis on the Goth. Gen
eral Noble was the orator, and the cere-
monies were attended by Grand Army
posts and many thousands of spectators.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
October 90 showed an average decrease of
2.S compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the decrease
was 10.1.
AMERICAN railroad securities were weak
and fluctuating on the London Exchange
during the week ended October 90. Dis
count was easy. The European bourses
reported financial matters quiet. The ne
gotiations for the conversion of the Hun
garian loans were reported concluded
with the Rothschilds.
A NUMBER of republican rioters mobbed
Senior Canoves del CASTILLO at Sapagoss,
Spain, the other night and stoned his
house. The rioting continued for hours.
The gendarmes were powerless to quell
the disturbance.
BY a collision between steamships in
Christiana bay. Norway, the other day,
eighteen persons were drowned.
RIGHT Rev. E. r. wELLEs, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee, died the
other night at Waterloo, N. Y, while Wis
iting his brother.
THE case of the Chinese taken from CAL
ifornia to Alaska and returned to Tacoma,
Wash. T.. where they were refused land
ing, has been taken before the courts. 1t
is claimed that they were never really out
of American jurisdiction.
DR.. MYER and Baumann have arrived
at Zanzibar safely from Pangani, where
they were chained, stripped and fogged
and made to work as slaves till British In
dians ransomed them
COLONEL r. N. PULsIFER, for many
years one of the proprietors of the Boston
Herald, died at his country home recently.
He was found dead alone in bed. There
were rumors that he had committed sui
eide.
The Graydon Dynamite Protective Com
pany, of Washington, operating the in
ventions of Lieutenant J. W. Graydon, re-
lating to firing dynamite shells from pow
der guns, has sold the right to use the in
ventions to the French Government for
S5OO, 900.
A DISPATCH from New York of the 21st
stated that Robert G. Ingersoll and Roger
A. Pryor were about to begin suit on be-
naif OF Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., against
james q. Blaine, ST., and Mrs. Blaine for
aiienating the affections Of her husband.
damages were to be laid at 5000
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

A DECISION has been rendered by
Judge Sawyer in the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco upon
two test cases under the recent Chinese
Exclusion act. The court affirms the
constitutionality of the act and holds
that all Chinese now in the harbor as
well as those on the way here from
China must be sent back.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
MISCELLANEOUS,

By the explosion of the boiler of a trac-
ton engine on farm north of Highland.
Ill, the engineer was killed and four 9TH
ers terribly injured.
Two cases of yellow fever developed in
Gainesville, Fla, on the 18th, and the dis
ease was declared epidemic.
JEHUDA KALLEN, 9 Chicago butcher, has
sued Marks Nathan, a prominent Jew, for
issuing a circular boycotting him because
Of quarrel with the SON Of Nathan's
synegogss rabbi
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

INDIANS in the United States last
year cultivated 227,265 acres of land
and raised 724,95S bushels of wheat,
934, ,972 bushels of corn, 512, 1877 bushels
of oats and barley, 524.010 bushels of
vegetables and 1923 tons of hay.
They also owned 35S,334 horses and
mules, Ill, ,407 head of cattle, 40,471
swine and 4,117, ,273 sheep.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

RECENTLY a paddle-wheel steamer
was changed into the twin-screw type,
the result being to increase the carry
ing power of the vessel by 100 tons,
large additional cattle-carrying space
being gained, while the net register is
decreased 247 tons. The speed has
been increased considerably and the
fuel consumption reduced 60 per cent
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

SECRETARY FAsIG, of the Cleveland
co. driving park, with Pennsylva-
mia horseman as partner, proposes
taking shipload of American trotters
TO Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic,
and after three or four days trotting
meeting in the great South American
town to sell the horses at public auc-
tion. The trip will be enormously ex-
pensive, but it is expected that the
profits will be similarly great.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

NINE. LIMA DI MURsKA, the once
famous soprano, is now living in a
single room in Washington square,
New York, in comparative poverty.
She became one of the leadiRg so
pranos of Europe in 1865. and IN 1873
she starred in tour around the world,
her circuit including Australia and
this country, where she arrived in
1874. She appeared here again in
1879. Her eccentricities have had
much to do with her property.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

A TRAGIC death occurred at the San
Geronimo mine at Sonora, Mex, a
short time ago. The superintendent,
II. B. Nellie, was in his Office prepar-
ing to pay off the men when the build
ing suddenly sunk into the earth and
disappeared. The Office stood on
ground just above an old tunnel. The
body of Mr.. Melic was recovered after
several hours of hard work.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

THE question as to whether or not
excitement shortens life is being agi-
tated, and it is held that any thing
which quickens the action of the heart,
any kind of excitement, taxes and re.
duces the storage of life. Almost
every ore knew this long ago, and it
is only recently that the matter has
been considered in the light of per-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

A RECENT number of the Historian of
Oregon says: BLACK BOBBY birds by
the thousand are reported covering
the mouth of the river, and vessels
passing through kill them by the
hundred. They have been gorging on
fish and can not fly. They extend all
the way out, and off North Beach can
be seen for a mile. The visitation is
an unusual one."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

w. F. FRITZ, treasurer of the Her.
mantown school district near Duluth,
Mimi, was waylaid the other night by
four men who pulled hira from his
buggy and robbed him of money belt
containing over 1900 of school funds.
The previous treasurer was robbed in
the same manner six years ago near
the same spot.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

Miss CARRIE MILLER, of Lexington,
S. c., died recently after a year OF in
tense suffering caused by drinking a
glass of condensed lye by mistake for
wine. For four months she was un-
able to swallow.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

GERMAN newspapers speak distrust-
fully of the situation in France. The
North German Gazette, quoting the
Temps ironical comments on Premier
Floquet's Division bill, indorse the
prediction of the Temps that an En-
pire is at hand. The TdgbIatt thinks
that something unexpected will hap
pen in France, and that the doom of
the Moderate Republican party is
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

A COURIER has arrived in Brussels
from the Congo Free State. He brings
details of the death of Major Bartel-
lot, who was shot and killed with a
revolver by a porter in the Stanley
relief expedition in revenge for the ill
treatment he was subjected to by Major
Bartellot. The murderer was placed
under arrest and delivered to the Off
cials at Stanley Falls, where he was
hanged.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

NEGOTIATIONS have been completed
by which an Eastern syndicate will, on
the 1st of December, assume control
of the Milwaukee (Wis.) City Rail-
way Company, of which Peter Nc
Goech is the principal stockholder.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
The Dispatcher Responsible.

FREEPoRT, ILL.,, Oct. 21.-The wreck on
the Chicago, Kansas City & st. Paul rail-
road has been Investigated by coroner's
jury which holds the train dispatcher at
Dubuque responsible for the accident.
Railway officials blame the conductor Of
the second section of the train.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

THIS is to be a fine season for game
in Georgia Rice birds, crabs and
shrimps are the chief items of diet,
and later will come venison, quail and
duck of all varieties.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

THE proposal of the County Demo
cracy of New York for union upon
local Assembly and Congressional
Democratic nominations has been re-
iected by Tammany.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

TAMSIANY HALL replies to the County
Democracy's appeal for union on local
and Congressional candidates, refusing
such union and denouncing Mayor
Hewitt and the County people gener-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

THE Republicans of San Francisco
have nominated Charles r. Story, a
prominent insurance man, for mayor.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE st. Paul ice carnival has been
set for the week of January % next.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The State Finances,

In his biennial report, just issued. State
Treasurer Hamilton gives the following
exhibit of the State finances from July 1,
1886 to June 80, 1888:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

Direct taxes. q, ,ss4 %
Penitentiary earnings 2Z6.S5l.03
Insane asylums s. 4,650.79
Deaf and Dumb institution 1,OO.6O
Idiotic and Imbecile asylum. ..-...... $3.50
Reform School $500
State Librarian. rian...-..-......--- S449U
Superintendent of Insurance. 1OO,2iI.55
Sale of school lands-princpal .. LOC9 05.35
Sale Of school lands-interest...... 5T.496.S
Sale of University lands-principal-. 1905 40
Sale OF University lands-interest.. 6,50.5S
Sale OF Normal School lands-princi-
pal ......--.---.--.. -..------.-- zo,oo5.U
Sale OF Normal School lands-inter-
a4,5sa5s
principal. ......................... 49olO1s
Sale OF Agricultural College lands
interest. ....... 1O,5S1.16
Payment OF county. township, school
district and United States bonds 552, 1893
Payment of interest on county. town.
ship. school district and United
States bonds. ds... 53O.54393
Payment of principal on State bonds 15,5OOO
From General Government to reirn-
burse the State te................ es7Oi
From estate of deceased persons. 1,5S944
Miscellaneous us.. 2549
Total So 497, ,917.77
DISBURSEMENTS.
On warrants drawn by State Audi
tor. ................ se,6s1, ,s6s6O
On warrants drawn by Schoo, Fund
Commissioners. 1,61S7ss.4o
On warrants drawn by State Super
intendent. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1,O74, ,962 46
On warrants drawn by Board of Re-
gents of Normal school. 80, 10000
On warrants drawn by Agricultural
College Loan Commissioners. 136, ,11200
On warrants drawn by Board OF Re-
gents Of Agricultural college,. 64,02033
On payment of State bonos 1880 90
On payment of coupons .... lis, ,7SOOO
On payment of accrued interest,". 14?.0S
IOJal. -, I5i 3JS.6I
A consolidated statement in tabular
form shows that the balance in the treas
ury July 1, 1887, credited to all funds, was
S431 ,3TT.90; the total receipts from all
sources for the fiscal year was So, 04S, ,009.7S,
and the total disbursements were 1885,,
1857; amount transferred, S170,55T05,
leaving balance in the treasury June 80,
1888, of $324. .SS2. .O6.
The total amount of outstanding State
bonds is $Sl5,000 OF this amount $4,000
will fall due July l, 1889, and the Treas
urer recommends small levy by the Leg
islature to pay them, or else that the bonds
be refunded at three per cent, which re-
funding bonds, to run twenty years, he is
confident can be negotiated at par. The
various school funds have reached such
proportions (nearly $6,000,O00) that he
suggests the creation of the Office of Loan
Commissioner, who shall have charge of
investing school funds.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
HORSEsfAy HURT.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22.-In race at the
Exposition park yesterday afternoon a
collision took place between MuGgins,
driven by John I. Shaw and blind horse,
William Newman, driven by Thomas New
man in which Shaw was so badly injured
that he is still unconscious. His recovery
ia doubtful
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

CINCINNATI, Oct. 22.-Captain George
Mccoy, proprietor of the Fifth street ferry,
was drowned yesterday while attempting
to save a steer that had fallen from his
boat into the water. The captain was an
expert swimmer and has saved many per-
sons from drowning.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
LAMP EXPLOSION.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 22.-The explosion of
a lamp in the office of the junction House
at Kearney about three O'Clock yesterday
morning set it on fire, and it was burned
to the ground. The body of an old man
boarding there named Thomas Kane was
found in the ruins.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-28
a king WHO Hesitated.

The king who hesitates is very often
lost, just as much as though he were an
ordinary mortal. A very interesting dis
covery of recent date shows that if Louis
XVI had only been a little less dilatory he
might have prevented the taking Of the
Bastle, and possibly changed the course
of history. 1t is now clearly proved that
early in 1888 he had given his conditional
approval to Il plan for demolishing the
Bastile and for laying out the site as q
garden; and plan was actually prepared
showing how the proposed change could
be effected, but the king, unfortunately
for himself, did not at once approve this
plan when it was placed before him. He
said he would think about it, and while
he was thinking other and more stirring
events followed, till presently, on July IA,
1889, the Parisians, tired of waiting for
the kings consent, pulled down the Bastile
on their own account. The original plan
for laying out the site as public garden
is still in existence, and may be seen by
the curious among the historical treasures
at the National library at Paris.-London
Figaro.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-28
Loss of Speed In Planets.

Is the motion Of planetry bodies per-
petual? At first, everything seems to
show that it is. The earth, which, with
its mass of 5000 trillion tons, turns with
a speed which enables a student to go
bare headed d good many miles without
catching cold in the act of saluting q
professor, for long time defied all at
tempts to detect in it loss of speed; but
with the friction of the tides continually
at work such loss must take place, and
now it is pretty certain from the calcu-
lations of Adams, the astronomer, that
the earth loses about an hour in 10000
years, and is coming to rest, though, it
must be admitted, rather leisurely. So,
Also the hurrying up, of the comets as
they go round the sun is possibly ac-
counted for by retarding action in space
which makes it necessary for them to try
and make up, as it were, for lost time;
and in fact the general arguments in the
present day are in favor of what Sir Isaac
Newton beIieved-that.the motions of all
bodies in space are suffering retardation,
and that their velocity is becoming less
and will ultimately cease.-Nature.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-28
A Railroad velocinede.

A railroad velocipede is at present ex-
perimented upon by the military autboriF
ties of France. 1t is a wagon OF very
light build and little weight, and has four
wheels of thirty inches diameter, with rims
constructed for running on rails One
man can move it at a speed of forty to
fifty miles an hour. By means of a brake
it can be stopped in a distance of five
yards-that is, almost instantaneously. It
can be easily lifted off the rails by one
man to get out of theway Of a locomotive,
for instance, and as easily replaced after
the train has passed. By fixing gutta
percha rings around the wheels the veloc-
ipede can be prepared to run on country
roads. The durability of these machines,
as constructed by the French, is said to
be marvellous. Such an engine, if practi-
cable, might solve the problem of private
conyeyances running on railroads as on
highways. paris Letter.