Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-29

the 22I Emperor William opened the
session in person.
| ADvIcKs from Samoa say that Mataafa's
followers attacked q stronghold held by
| the adherents of Tamasese at Nata,
| November 6, and succeeded in capturing
the outposts after two days. fighting.
Many of the .combatants were killed
| IT is said that peace has been restored
| in Hayti, the o-called rebels having run
out OF cash.
DETECTIVES think that General R Il.
Biggar, of Atlanta, Ga, was first muir
dered IN the hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn,
| by a negro, who then set the building on
fire. The negro has been arrested with
Biggar's money and property in his posses
sion.
IT was announced recently that a physi-
| clan from New Orleans had died of yellow
| fever in Chicago. No fears of an epidemic
were expressed.
Conductors Mutual Aid and Benefit As
| cago on the 22d
tenth census has just been issued 1t COM
pletes set Of twenty-five volumes, ag-
gregating 9,304 pages.
recently in panic caused by an alarm of
fire in the First ward school. Long Islaod
City, N. Y.
SEVERAL persons were quite seriously
hurt in a panic at the Boston store Chi
cago ON the 22d caused by a fool sales
man crying fire" on observing the COM
motion created by the arrest of pick
pocket.
PROF. 81. r. VANDERGRIFT, of Clinton,
Mo-, was killed recently in parachute
performance at Columbus. Ga. He was
up about half a mile when the balloon
collapsed. He released himself and para
chute safely, but fell in the Chattahoochie
river, where he was drowned.
A SPECIAL from Denison, Tex, says:
Officers after long chase in the Choctaw
Nation succeeded in overhauling and kill
ing a desperate supposed to be John
Barber, one of the celebrated Kep Queen
gang of outlaws. The gang had killed an
Indian and were wanted for attempted
train robbery.
IT is reported that a Chicago syndicate
is about to secure control of four st. Louis
street railway lines, whose capital stock
aggregate nearly three millions of dollars.
ARTICLES of incorporation of a new and
direct line of railroad between st. Paul,
Minn., and Kansas City, Mo-, have been
filed at the former city.
AN Anarchist circular of the style
adopted by Parsons and Spies was dis
tributed through the saloons of the West
and Northwest sections of Chicago on the
23d, asking for subscriptions to defend the
alleged dynamiters, Hronek, Cheboun
and Sevic.
EXPORTS of merchandise from the United
States during the twelve months ended
October 81, 1855, as compared with similar
exports during the corresponding period
of 1887 were for 1888 $724 6O5, ,230; 1887,
$67S, 422, $50. The values of the imports
were for 1888, $7O7, 157 1873; 1887, 1922 776 939.
OLAF SUNDE, cashier of the New York
Daily Ne,cs, is reported to have absconded.
A preliminary Investigation disclosed the
fact that Sunde absconded with at least
5000.
THE strike of switchmen at Indianapolis,
Ind, assumed serious phase on the 23d
B.siness in the railroad yards was at
complete standstill.
JAMES E. BEDELL, of New York, who
swindled his employers and their clients
out of $264,000 has been sentenced to
twenty five years. imprisonment.
THE New York Supreme Court has
handed down an important decision in
which it seems that the Bell Telephone
Company is liable for New York State
taxes. The State claimed the right to
collect tax of one-half of one per cent on
the gross earnings.
BY the burning of the Fort Wayne
(Ind.) Jenney Electric Light Company's
plant recently $3.50, 900 damage was done.
Insurance, $l5O.OO0.
OSCAR HUNT, a parachute performer,
came near being killed at Canton, o.. re-
Gently. One rope of his trapeze broke
and he whirleG around like top, being
seriously bruised when he reached ground.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November % numbered
296 as compared with 237 the previous
week and 207 the corresponding week of
last year.
The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood on
the 23d at Chicago celebrated the hanging
of Allen. Larkin and O'Brien at Man
chester, England, twenty one years ago.
ADAM BERKEs. of Sardinia, o., whow as
recently hogged by masked men, has be-
come insane.
I. V. PowDERLY was reelected general
master workman of the Knights of Labor
by a vote of ia to 80. He refused to accept
more than 5000 of his salary of S., 200.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
SECURITIES were depressed on The Lon
don Exchange during the week ended No
Vember "a Americans were demoralized.
Prices were somewhat firm at Frankfort,
but at Berlin and Paris they were unset
tied with heavy sales of RussianS with.