Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04

joan PoGGY, an elephant trainer in
| Forepaugh's circus. was Kill ed at Dubois,
Pa, recently by the elephant Tip. The
beast had been teased by parcel of boys
who had fed it with apples containing
pepper and tobacco until it had become in
| furiated.
AN incendiary fire which started at
Wabasha, Mimi, on the 26th in business
block on Main street swept the street as
far as the Diamond Joe docks. The Mil
waukee railroads elevator was among the
buildings burned. The total loss was esti-
mated at S150.0OO.
ONE hundred and three cases of yellow
fever and seven deaths were reported at
| Jacksonville on the Goth. The suspicious
case at Memphis which caused so much
alarm turned out to be merely a chill
which followed a drunken spree.
In sham battle at Fort Sully, Oak, on
the 26th between companies a, B, G and
d, hot blood arose and the men got into
such close quarters that several were Sc
verely injured, three being in the hos
pital with wounds received. The officers
drew their swords and Lieutenant Aughm
received a severe wound in the arm.
FREIGHT traffic on the Illinois Central
Gently tied up, owing to strike of the
switchmen in the yards.
A BRITISH coal laden ship from New
South Wales was reported ashore off Point
Fermin, Cal.
MICHAEL DAvITT's Irish Woolen Com
pany has declared dividend of seven per
cent.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand British miners
have decided to strike October 90 unless
general advance of 10 per cent. in wages
should be made,
EIGHTY cases of dynamite exploded on a
wharf at Carthagena. Spain, recently, do
ing great damage. Nobody was killed.
ADvIcEs have been received from Samoa
that the partisans of King Malletoa have
had an engagement with the army of
King Tamasese and that the latter's forces
were totally defeated. King Tamasese's
army was under command of the German
officer Branders.
GOVERNOR JACKSON, of Maryland, has
respited Henry j. Spencer, sentenced to
be hanged at Cumberland, Nd, to Octo-
ber g.
FIRE in hotel at Cronstadt, Russia, the
other day caused the deaths of fourteen
persons.
THE Hutchinson corner on cash wheat in
Chicago was a complete surprise on the
shorts. 1t was developed on the 9th,
when settlements were made at S1.25. The
wheat pit was intensely excited, predic-
tons being made that the cereal would
reach 500 before the collapse occurred.
THERE was another cut all around in
east bound passenger rates on the 9th,
and the figures were: st. Louis to New
York via Vandalia, S14.50; Bee Line, S13;
Wabash, SO; Ohio & Mississippi, ST..
FIRE at Louisville, KY, on the 2Sth de-
stroyed the Ohio Falls oak leather factory.
Loss, $125,00O.
REPORTS from the Peace river district.
in the extreme British Northwest, state
that the Crees, Beavers and Chippewa
Indians are starving to death because of
the scarcity of small game. Cannibalism
was reported in one instance.
BEN B. GRANT, of Newark, O., yellow
fever refugee from the South, died of
black vomit at Louisville, KY, on the 2Sth
the first death from the plague reported
in that city.
THE Kansas City Baseball Club Cow
boys) has been elected permanent men,
Der of the American Association.
IT was reported at Pittsburgh that a
steel rail combination, comprising the
chief mills in all the world, had been
formed to advance prices.
THE yellow fever bulletin from Jackson
vile on the 2Sth showed marked decrease
in the number Of cases. There were eighty
five new cases and five deaths. The
weather was cold, with indications of
frost.
THE Chicago Knights of Labor Socialist
troubles have broken out again owing to
the election of George Schilling, a Socialist,
as a delegate to the coming National con-
vention of the order.
Two Austrian officers who ascended the
Mangart mountain in the Tyrol without
guides fell over a precipice during fog
and one was killed.
FIRE in Romeo, Wis, the other night de-
stroyed the sawmill and much other prop
erty owned by William Van Hosear, caus-
ing $125,000 loss.
THE race for the sculling championship
between Peter Kemp and Ranlan was
rowed on the Paramatta river at Sidney,
n. S. W., on the 2Sth and was won by
Kemp easily by ten lengths.
THE st. Louis, Arkansas 6 Texas rail-
road has been sold to Russell Sage.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended September 81 num-
bered for the United States, 1S6; Caanda,
"a; total, 900; compared with 22S the pre-
vious week and 1871 the corresponding week