Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-13
BRAKEMAN CUMxrxGs accidentally ran

against Brakeman Christie on a freight
train while it was passing over Pomquel
| bridge, near Halifax, \. S., the other day
+ and both fell off and were killed.
| SEVERAL vessels were sunk, two sail
ors drowned and much damage done n
Havana recently by cyclone.
FIRE in Baker City, Ore, has destroyed
an entire business block, causing $500, 900
loss.
THE striking coal miners about Canton,
o., have returned to work at the owners
terms after four months night.
j. P. BENNETT, a leading coffee and tea
dealer of New York City, has assigned
with over $500 liabilities.
THE Colorado Railway Association is
discussing the prospect of low rates from
New York to Colorado to meet the compe-
tition of the Ocean and Denver and Fort
Worth lines.
THE telegraph operators of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Com
pany have been ordered to leave the order
of railway telegraphers or their positions.
EIGHT men were terribly injured, some
fatally, by the explosion of the boiler of a
threshing machine at Glendale, OAK, re-
Gently.
A RAILROAD wreck near Dijon, France,
killed and thirteen seriously injured.
THE spinners in the Narragansett mills,
Fall River, Mass, have struck because
compelled to work overtime to make up for
time lost.
JUDGE NEY, of Waterloo, under the Iowa
Prohibitory law, decides that a man can
not lawfully manufacture cider for use il
his own family, and instructs the grand
G,,A %ho+ -,
has been done.
BY the explosion of q steam thresher near
Seymour, Ind, the other day, one man was
killed and three fatally injured.
ALMosTthe entire business portion of the
village of Jennings, La, has been de-
stroyed by fire. causing $4,000 loss.
FROST, which did much damage to crops,
was reported in New England on the 9TH.
THE spiuners in the cotton mills at Boil
ton, England have struck against new
system of weighing cotton.
MAYOR HEWITT, of New York City, has
issued an appeal for aid for the yellow
fever sufferers at Jacksonville, Fla.
AT Milbrook, Ark, election day, it is
claimed, the negroes attempted to steal
the ballot box, and finding the whites on
guard gave them volley and fed. The
out effect. The wounded men were John
McMaith, shot in temple; J. B. Kinton,
James Jones, Robert Ragsdale, J. NJ. Mas
sey, George Williams and B. +. Hood.
THE forthcoming report of the Post
master-General will show that the number
of Presidential post offices July l, 1885,, was
2,j02-an increase during the year of 1G6: to-
tai amount of salaries paid to Presidential
n
the act of March 3, 1888, of $685., 800, or s
per cent; total gross receipts from Presi-
Dental post offices for the year, S3S, 49S-
9SS, an increase of 50, go S26, or 8 per cent.
AN attempt to rob the grave of murderer
Maxwell at st. Louis was recently frus-
trated by a private watchman.
LONGSHOREMEN on strike at Fernandina,
Fla, became riotous recently and fifty of
them were arrested.
INTELLIGENCE has been received that
the Hatfields, of Logan County, who were
charged with the murder of old man Nc
Coy and his family near Pikeville, KY,
have had their trial at Jackson and been
acquitted.
Nh. r. DAWSON, Commissioner of Edu-
cation, in his annual report, says that
more than twelve millions of children at
UcIuCo tHO puOliC sCuOOlS oO1AS VI CliC
last fiscal year, and of these nearly 6,000,-
900 were in average daily attendance. In
both respects the Southern States, once so
backward, have made greater progress
than other parts of the country.
THREE persons were killed at Matanzas,
Cuba, by the recent cyclone.
BUSINESS failures (Dun'S repoTt) num-
bered 254 for the seven days ended Sep
tenber 6.
THE French Government has ordered an
investigation of the report that dhows
carrying the French flag are engaged in
the slave trade in Madagascar.
The National Marine Underwriters As
sociatfon has decided not to refuse to in
sure cotton when we'll covered, even if
jute baggiug be not used.
JOHN c. GRAVES, eX-county treasurer Of
Corydon, Ind, has been found to be $14 ,GU
short in his accounts.
THE new iron railway bridge at Grand
View, w. Va, has been carried away by
a flood, causing $50000 loss.
CHARLES VoGT & Co., importers of china
and fancy articles, New York City. have
failed, with 100000 liabilities and $1,000
nominal assets.
BY collision between an engine and
freight train near Louisville, KY. the
other day several cars were wrecked and
an unknown tramp was killed.