Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-16

9Th, in the block between Sixth anC
Seventh streets on the east side Tht
damage was put at 81 100000.
FIVE women were drowned of New
Garlic, Del, recently by the capsizing o.
sloop. They were in the cabin wher
the accident happened.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
United States Express has acquired an ex.
elusive express contract for a long term oi
years with tho Chattanooga. Rome & Co.
lumbus railroad. The acquisition opens
to the company an extremely valuable
territory from Chattanooga to Tallahassee
Fla.
A FIENDISH crime was committed recent
| ly by train wreckers three miles from
Waco, Tex, on the Texas Central railroad
Pieces of timber were fastened to the track
and the night express was derailed, the
locomotive demolished and several cars
badly damaged. Engineer j. B. Moses was
killed outright, his fireman badly scalded
and half dozen passengers injured.
The two iron mills of Graft, Bennett &
| Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa, have been sold al
auction at 500, ,000t satisfy two mortgages
one for $685., 900, held by the New Yorb
| Life Insurance Company, and the other
for 100000, held by local parties. The
property was bought in by a syndicate oil
creditors.
BY treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar
| Italy has acquired a vast tract of land on
| the east coast of Africa.
The Locomotive Brotherhood met at st.
Louis on the 9Th to consider the Burlington
strike.
BY a collision between two trains al
| Darling, o., on the 9th. one engine and
several cars were ruined, but no one was
| hurt.
The President on the 9th vetoed five
more private pension bills.
The cattle south of Decatur. ILL.,, have
been quarantined because of an outbreak
of Texas fever.
THE Anchor line steamer Alexandria
which sailed recently for Mediterranean
points, had hardly left her dock in Brook
lyn when an alteration took place between
two Italian passengers and one of her
crew, during which the seaman was
stabbed in the breast and died in less than
two minutes.
JEALOUSY caused Shelby F. Parke, a
wealthy citizen of Perryville, Ind, to shoot
and kill DR.. H. H. Peyton recently.
THE Michigan Assembly of the Knights
of Labor have declared strongly for Henry
Georges land tax theory.
THOMAS HAINEs, defaulting cashier of
the Atlantic &, North Carolina railway, has
been arrested in Chicago. The amount of
his theft is not known.
THE Volunteer won the race at the annu-
al regatta of the New York Yacht Club on
the 10th.
AT least fourteen lives have been lost as
a result of the floods in Germany.
THE strike of the navvies in Paris has
ended, the men accepting the terms offered
by their employers.
YELLOW fever has caused stampede
of the citizens of jacksonville and other
cities in Florida.
THREE dead bodies were taken out of
the ruins of the recent fire at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
MAXWELL, alias Brooks, was executed
at st. Louis on the 10th for the murder of
C. A. Preller at the Southern Hotel, April
6, 1885. On the same seaffold with Max
well Henry Landgraf perished for the
murder of his sweetheart, Annie Fisch,
March 5, 1885.
The Tennessee brewery at Memphis was
reported on fire on the 10th. Loss, S125, =
900.
A BRAKEMAN named Jones was seriously
maltreated by a number of Italians who
insisted on riding in the ladies' coach re-
Gently on the Duluth, South Shore u At
lantic railroad near Marquette, Mich.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 9 numbered for
the United States. 205; Canada, 2S; total,
233; compared with PIG the previous week
and $50 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE steamer Northern Belle, from Oden.
Mich, reports that a small sail boat, three
coats, hats and photographers outfit were
found on the shore at Burt Lake.
CHARLES HENRY RIEDEL was hanged at
New Castle, Del, recently, for the murder
of his wife and child on the night of Sep
tember 16, 1887.
THE roads interested in Iowa traffic
have agreed to adopt new distance tariff
for that State. The rates are considerably
reduced by the new schedule, the object
of the reduction being to harmonic rates
within the State with those on Inter State
traffic. Ia
JAMES I.SSTADE, wealthy merchant
and manager of the Tiffany Glass Com
pany, was found dead in his apartments
at the Florence flats, in Eighteenth street,
New York, the other morning. His throat
was cut. Various rumors were ahoat, an
attempt being made to hush the matter up.