Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-03

where q bill was introduced IN the AS
sembly making it q misdemeanor to raise
any foreign flag upon any building owned
by the State or by any city or village
| therein. The bill created a heated discus
sion and was voted down-104 to 40
| The Atlantic engine works at East Bos.
! ton were burned recently. Loss heavy.
A DISPATCH from Nancy says riot broke
out there on the Goth, mob Of Boulan ger
lists attacking the students clubs with
stones and other missiles. A number of
| policemen were injured before quiet was
restored.
TIE Bank Of Amigo {Wis.) was robbed
Of sc, coo the other day by some unknown
person, who went into the back door while
the cashier was at dinner.
DR.. MCMAsTER, a veterinary surgeon,
was fined in Washington recently for
docking" two horses tails belonging to
attaches Of the British Legation.
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Milwaukee on the
9th, decided the suit Of the heirs of the
late S. s. Merrill, general manager Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
against c. II. Price, for an accounting in
connection with Colorado land tran sactions
in Minnesota and Dakota, involv ing profits
supposed to be IN the neighborhood of 81
100000. The decision was in favor of the
defendant.
AN explosion that pitched seventy people
into the air, throwing one man fifty feet,
wrecked seventeen large plate glass win
dows, ruined S35, 900 worth OF clothing, DAM
aged building $4,000 and caused stam-
pede of hundreds Of people from the upper
stories of tall buildings, occurred in a base
ment on State and jackson streets, Chi
ho G
caused by two workmen, who had broken
gas main without knowing it. No one
was killed.
CENTRAL CITY, OAK. has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, s25O,0OO.
THE chemical paint factory Of Henry
Woods, Son & Co., at Lake Crossing, near
Natick, Mass, was destroyed by fire the
other morning. The loss was over $50, 900;
insured.
WALTER and Jane Messick, living near
Paris, Ark, were poisoned recently by
eating wild onions. The girl died.
AN immense forest fire was reported
raging at Big Nose along the line of the
New York Central railroad, licking up trees
and shrubbery. Farmers were fighting
for their homes with doubtful success. The
fire was started by sparks from passing
locomotive.
THE cannon ball train on the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad was wrecked
near Alma, Neo., on the 9th. Two pas
sengers were killed and quite number in
jured. The mail and express cars with
their contents were consumed.
THE sawmills of the Fl. Madison Qowa)
Lumber Company were destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss, $4,000.
A1nt rylo III &.;l
has been settled in conference at New
York.
TWENTY survivors of the great Sultana
explosion of April &c, 1865 in which LOO
Union soldiers lost their lives, held re-
union at Hillsdale, Mich, on the Both.
THE Pope has issued a decree condemn
ing the plan Of campaign and boycotting in
Ireland. The Nationalists declared they
would treat it with contempt.
THERE was an unusually large attend
ance at the Presidents reception on the
9th. Included in the throng were dele
gates to religious convention, the Boston
baseball team, many Of the ballet of a
theatrical troupe and most of the chorus of
an opera company. A religious crank who
informed the ushers that he was "owned
by God and the Bible" was denied admit
lance.
SIX murderers were executed on the
9th, all for separate crImes-three at Fort
Smith, Ark, one at Anderson, S. c., one at
Orangeburg, S. c., and one at Leonard
town, Md. Five Of the culprits were ne
groes.
ANARCHIST PARSONS old paper, the
Alarm, of Chicago, has suspended publica-
ton.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended April &c mum bered for
the United States, 1893; Canada, 80; total,
223; compared with 195 the previous week
and 191 the corresponding week of last
year.
NEAR Richmond, KY, the other day
Arch Stolta, farmer. committed suicide
by taking Rough on Rats" His brother
William, seeing the corpse, took the re-
mainder of the poison, leaving note say
ing he wished both to be buried in the
same coffin.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at JEFF
fersonviile, Ind, were terribly burned by
molten iron recently while attending to u
cupOla.
WHITLEY, a notorious desperate and
train robber, has been captured near
Libertyville, Tex, by officers after brief
fight.
Two cistern cleaners of st. Louis were
found dead in a cistern recently, having
been suffocated by choke damp.