Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-27

s. w., On the 18th. The score was ALI
America, 6; Chicago, 8.
1t is reported that a combination of all
the electric light interests is being ar
ranged for with a capital of S12, 900 900,
Edison light stock has been steadily rising
on the Stock Exchange and has reached
10.
THE jury at Boston in the case of Mrs.
Preble against Bates and Valley, stock
brokers, to recover $50, 900 alleged to have
been lost in speculation by her son, have
agreed upon a verdict in favor of the
plaintiff for S34, 772.
THE London Standard thinks the recent
change in the Baltimore & Ohio manage
ment not conducive to honest manage
ment. Several American newspapers take
the same view.
THE annual catalogue of Harvard College
will show the total number of students to
be 1889 against l, $50 last year. This is a
rise of 245 against 22S last year.
THE Wiener Idgbldtt says that 1000 Aus
trian and German subjects were expelled
from Warsaw one day recently. No rea-
son was assigned.
THE two small children of Mrs. Staff,
coiored, living in Indianapolis, Ind, were
burned to death the other morning during
the absence of their mother.
SOUTH CAROLINA has finally passed bill
giving the Railroad Commission power to
fix rates of transportation for freight and
passengers, to prevent unjust discrimina-
ton, etc.
PRESIDENT THOMAS, of the suspended
California National Bank of San Fran
cisco, has issued a statement, showing as
sets of S71S,0O0. He claimed the liabilities
amounted to the same figures.
THE workmen on the Eiffel tower, which
is being constructed as one of the features
of the exhibition next year in Paris, have
gone on a strike.
"HUNGRY JoE," the noted New York
confidence man, has been sent to the Mary
land penitentiary for nine years for
swindling Baltimore man out of s., 900.
THE execution of the condemned Bald
Knob5ers, in Jail at Ozark, No., has been
postponed to February 15next Governor
Morehouse ordered the postponement at
the solicitation of Judge Hubbard, who
tried the cases.
EDWARD MEREDITH, one of the assail-
ants of gambler Daily in a New York fiat
recently, has been sentenced to eight years
and ten months in States prison, and
Herman, his confederate, to six years and
eleven months. The cases of the women
have not been heard.
DURING the revision of the excise laws of
New York State by a commission, Rev. DR..
Howard Crosby denounced the foreigners
who sought to overthrow the Sabbath.
The three-year-old bay colt Galore a
famous young English racer, has been
purchased by Americans for $1,000. Milton
Young, of Kentucky, has offered $4,000
for Ossory, brother of Ormonde.
A NEW epidemic has broken out on the
horse ranches of the Lower Yellowstone
river and is spreading with great rapidity.
1t affects the glands of the throat and jaw.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has sent out
circulars inviting proposals for the con-
struction of 4,000-ton armored coast de-
fense vessel.
BY the derailing of a trainsnear Houston,
Tex, the other day, three men were killed
and four seriously injured.
THE President has pardoned Benjamin
Hopkins, the bank defaulter of Cincinnati,
on the ground of ill-health.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended December 90, numbered
81 as against 3O3 the previous week and
290 the corresponding week of last year.
THE six-story picture frame factory of
Strobel & Co., Cincinnati, burned early on
the morning of the 22d. Several firemen
were killed or fatally wounded by falling
walls, also two bystanders. Loss heavy.
A CHEMISTS assistant named Pastre
Beaussier has been arrested charged with
poisoning sixteen persons in Havre,
France. 1t is supposed that his motive
for the crime was a desire to ruin his en-
ployer and obtain the business himself.
THOMAS HUNTER, jailer at Port Town
send, Wash. T., was overpowered, gagged
and relieved of his keys and pistols by
five prisoners the other night before he
could raise an alarm. The prisoners made
their escape, locking the jailer in cell.
IT is stated that National bank notes,
redeemed at the Treasury Department,
have again got into circulation. In some
my sterious manner they failed to reach
the macerator, where it was intended they
should be destroyed.
DIR. S. A. RICHMOND, who murdered COL
onel j. w. Strong. editor of the St Joseph
Herald, June is, 1886. has returned from
Camargo, ILL.,, to the asylum at st. Joseph,
Mo.
THE French steamship Marseilles, which
sailed from Bordeaux, November %, for
New Orleans direct with a full cargo Of
and 36S passengers, was sew
eral days overdue and fears for her safety
were entertained.