The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-04-12

CONSIDERABLE commotion and excite
ment was manifested In the coLrt room at
Nacogdoches, Tex, recently by the sudden
death Of Malinda Garrett, who was giving
testimony against her husband in a divorce
suit The superstitious thought it was q
visitation from the Almighty, owing to the
impression that her story was false. She
dropped dead instantly.
THREE children are reported to have died
at Springfield, o., from drinking water
out of well into which poisoned rats had
been thrown.
A VERY extensive fire broke out at Ames-
bury, Mass, on the night of the 5th in the
wood shop Of the Babcock Manufacturing
Company. Half the business portion of
the town was destroyed. One thousand
men were thrown out Of employment and
81, OO0, 600 worth Of damage done.
By the giving way Of a bridge, the west
bound passenger train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul railroad was preci-
pitated into the Wapsie river, near New
Hampton, Iowa, on the morning of the 5th.
The engineer and ten passengers were re-
ported killed and quite number Of other
persons injured.
THE verdict Of the coroner's jury in the
Rich Hill, Mo-, mining calamity was that
had accumulated in the mine because Of
the neglect Of Keith & Perry. the owners,
and the incompetency OF State Mine In
spector Wolfe, who had pronounced the
mine safe after he was supposed to have
made an examination.
BRITISH medical papers agree that the
disease of the Emperor Of Germany is
quiescent and that he is gaining strength.
off of
MIMI, during a recent severe wind storm.
Four boys were drowned in a creek OF
the Cedar river near st. Ansgar, Iowa, re-
Gently, owing to wagon upsetting while
crossing when the creek was much swollen.
FIRE in Baltimore, Md, the other morn
ing destroyed two coal oil storage ware
houses and several thousand barrels Of
oil. doing $4,000 damage.
THE British naval training ship Martin,
manned by boys, went ashore off Ports
mouth, Eng, recently and was much
damaged.
DISPATCHES from Burmah state that a
large fire at Mandalay has burned 500
houses to the ground and rendered many
people homeless.
PETER LEININGER. a middle-aged man
near Reading, Pa, died the other night of
hydrophobia, caused by recent dog bite.
He had suffered horribly.
IT is announced by the State Department
that the Venezuelan Government has
placed barbed wire on the free list.
THE steamer General d. II. Rucker was
burned on the Mississippi recently a few
miles above New Madrid, Mo.
FIRE in Vassar, Mich, the other morning
destroyed eight stores and several small
buildings, causing total loss of $3l, 700.
A MURDERER who had been released on
ticket-of-leave, near Temesvar, Hungary,
recently went to the house of the judge
who condemned him and killed the judges
wife with a revolver. Then he went to the
house of the notary and killed the latter's
deputy. From there he went to his own
home and split the skulls of his wife and
children, after which he fed and has not
yet been captured.
FATHER KENNEDY and sixteen farmers of
County Cork have been convicted of at
tending a National League meeting IN a
proclaimed district, and sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
THE other night Mr.. Mathison and his
sixteen-year. old son, of Oil Springs, Ont,
started to cross the river at Port Huron,
Mich, to Sarnia in row boat When
about half way across O sudden squall
drove the boat against cake of ice. the
craft capsiZed and its occupants were
drowned.
JAMES PARSE Ns' barn near Centerville,
Mich, was struck by lightning recently
and totally destroyed, Mr.. Parsons and his
little child and Mrs. Yankee being in
stantly killed at the same time.
KENNEDY PORTER, son of Ex-Governor
Porter, of Tennessee, was fatally shot at
Paris, KY, on the 9th by Will Edmunds.
The origin of the difficulty was supposed
to be the attention of young Porter to Ed
munds' sister.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended April 5, numbered for
the United States. 1919, Canada, IS; total,
227; compared with 223 the previous week
and 223 the corresponding week of last
year.
REV. Mr.. SUTHERLAND, the evangelist,
better known to the theater-going public
as "Senator Bob Hart" of the minstrel
stage which he quit to preach, was found
dead in bed in the room of a friend at Bar
ney's Hotel, in Chambers street, New
York, the other night. He had recently
gone to the bad, and Immediately proceed
ing his death had been drinking heavily.
JUDGE JACKSON, in the United States
Circuit Court, at Louisville, KY, recently
affirmed the decision of the lower court in
the West Virginia habeas corpus case
against the State of Kentucky for posses
sion Of the Hatfield prisoners. This was
the second victory for Kentucky.