Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-23
THE steamships Geiser and Thingvalls,

tne 1itn- Inc UelSeI SANK almost lInIneUl-
ately after the collision. A number of the
| passengers and crew were picked up by
boats from the Thingvalla, but over one
hundred perished. The Geiser was on its
way from New York to Stettin, the Thing
valla going in the opposite direction. A
heavy fog prevailed at the time. and the
responsibility for the disaster was un-
known.
ROSENBERG and Jones, two police off,
GERS of Louisville, KY, were fatally
stabbed by drunken ruffian named Dill
ger in a house of ill-fame recently. The
rufian was beating woman, the officers
responding to the call for help, when the
deed was committed. Dilger was ar
rested.
THE Senate Committee on Military has
authorized its chairman to prepare bill
giving to the Major General of the army
all the rights, privileges and powers that
had been enjoyed by the General and
Lieutenant-General of the army when
those offices existed.
THE Supreme Court of Washington Ter
ritory has decided the law granting suf-
frage to women unconstitutional. The
grounds for the opinion were based on the
fact that the Legislature exceeded its
powers. The court took the ground that
the word ''citizen" in the organic act can
not mean any thing else than male citizen.
IT is reported that the Cheyenne Indians
are ready to sign the treaty for the open
ing of the great Sioux reservation in
Dakota.
THE worlds convention Of Y. VI. c. A
opened at Stockholm, Sweden, on the 18th.
The officers reported an astonishing growth
of the association.
GENERAL BoULANGER arrived at Able
vile on the 10th and went to the ceme-
terry for the purpose of putting a wreath
upon the tomb of Admiral Courbet. He
was accompanied by a large party, but the
police at the entrance to the cemetery
would not allow them to go in with the
General and he was compelled to enter
alone. Upon leaving the cemetery he ad-
dressed the crowd which had gathered.
A row followed and gems d'arlnes dis
persed the rioters.
RECENT stories of trouble between the
Hatfield and Mccoy gangs in Pike County,
KY, are positively denied.
REPORTS to the Ne,1 England Homestead
from 134 correspondents, covering the fruit
growing regions of New England. New
York and Michigan, show an enormous
yield of grapes in all sections, a remark
ably short crop of pears of all varieties, a
full crop of peaches in Delaware, Michigan
and other sections.
THE temperature at st. Vincent, Mimi,
on the 18th fell to 30 degrees, the first kill
ing frost of the season.
Two children of Jacob Schwane, farm
er living near Greenfield, Mich, were
burned to death recently during the alb
sence of their parents.
ALEXANDER WOOD was hanged at Black
foot, Idaho on the 18th for the murder of
his wife.
A TERRIBLE race war is reported from
Iberia Parish, La. On the 10Th the whites
mustered in force and killed thirteen ne
groes who refused to lay down their arms
Smith, was killed.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered Ad-
miral Luce, commander of the South At
lantic squadron, to proceed in the Galena
to Port-au-Prince, as the presence of an
American man-of-war is needed there.
In the cases of the naval cadets, who
were recently tried by court-martial at
Annapolis for hazing, found guilty and
sentenced to dismissal, the President has
modified and commuted the sentences to
confinement for thirty days and a depri-
walton of onehalf of the annual leave.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for the
seven days ended August 16 numbered for
the United States, 1S7; Canada, 80; total,
219; compared with 233 the previous week
and 161 the corresponding week of last year.
THE next meeting of the National Fire
mems Association will be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, September IL, next year.
THE American Bar Association, recently
in session at Saratoga, n. Y, elected David
Dudley Field, of New York, president.
Among the vice-presidents elected was
General Harrison, the Republican Pres
idential nominee.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
founding of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers was celebrated in Detroit on the
18th with 1000 members present. Chief
Arthur presided.
THE strike of the navvies of Paris has
collapsed for lack of funds.
THE wheelhouse of the powder mill at
Windsor, Province of Quebec, Can, was
blown up the other day and two men
killed.
THE petrified tusk of mastodon. meas
uring 13 feet, inches, has been found on
farm near Bismarck, Oak.