Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-05

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THE Rosedale propeller, which left En-
gland some time ago, arrived safe = at Chi
cago recently, having made the voyage
| across the Atlantic and through the Lakes.
| She will for the future run between To-
ronto and Port Arthur.
JOHN L ROGERS, secretary OF the joint
committee on baseball rules, announces
that the CT mmittee has unanimously voted
10 take bases on balls from the error
column. The base on balls will remain as
| factor in the earned runs.
THE North German Lloyd steamer Wer-
"a, for Bremen for New York, which re-
Gently went ashore at Dungeness but was
assisted off and taken to Southampton
and placed in dry dock, after being exam
iped and found all right sailed for New
York.
AT Chicago during the convention it has
| transpired that ex-Mayor II. a. Smith, of
Philadelphia. while taking a bath, had his
room entered by a sneak thief, who stole a
diamond stud valued at 500 and gold
watch and chain valued at $500. The police
have the matter in hand.
A RAIN storm, at times approaching a
deluge, fell to the depth Of len inches and
seventy-eight hundredths in two days at
Mobile. Ala, recently.
JUSTICES FIELD and Knowlton, of the
Supreme Court, at Cambridge, Mass, have
refused to entertain a motion for new
trial in the case Of Mrs. Mary Jane Robin
son, convicted of murder in poisoning her
sisters husband in 1885, and sentenced her
to be hanged November 16.
THE total number of Presidential post-of-
fees in operation (per department report for
July l. 1851 is 9, 502; increase during the
year, 166; aggregate allowance for salaries
OF Presidential postmasters for the next
fiscal year, a, 2O2 400; increase, 1922 100;
total gross receipts of Presidential post
offices for the year ended March 81, S3S,
49S, 721; increase, s. 321, $50.
PRINCE FERDINAND has RENTED the SEN
tence OF Imprisonment imposed upon Major
Popoff, who was convic; ed of completely
in the frauds in the Bulgarian War Office.
THEODORE CASTOR, farmer, was at
tackled on his way home from Kingston,
Iowa, the other night by three brothers,
named Drost, who demanded his money.
He shot one dead, fatally wounded another
and thinks he hit the third, who escaped.
TIE London Daily Netcs says that the
French Government has purchased Max
ms new repeating gun, which fires sixty
rounds minute.
A HEAVY storm was raging at Atlantic
City, N j., on the 2Sth. The wind blew in.
land thirty 10 fortyfve miles an hour and
was gagged at sixty to seventy miles twenty
miles out at sea. 1t was regarded as the
most severe wind and rain storm in four
leen years.
A DISPATCH from Kronstadt, Transyl-
vania, says that mob comprising 1,6O0 per-
sons made an attack upon legal commits
sion which was engaged in amalgamating
small sgr cultural hold ngs in Fondvar,
twelve miles north of Kronstadt. A judge
and notary were wounded. The members
OF the commission made their escape with
difficulty. A bystander was killed.
A SHOCKING affair occurred recently near
Marty, Tenn. Wendell Whitcomb was at
his barn k ling rats with a shotgun. He
fired charge at one of the vermin, but the
missiles went wide of the mark towards
the porch of his house, where his two young
daughter were sitting. The shot struck
both, killing one instantly and fatally
woundiug the other.
TIE New York coal companies have ad:
vanced prices about tweni y-five cents a
ton on interior and Western business.
j. W. ToUsLEY, real estate dealer as
signed at Minneapolis, Mimi, recently.
His assets were about $4,000 and labili-
ties $4,000.
The brass workers strike at Cincinnati
has been declared off. The men quit work
several weeks ago for a reduction in hours,
but for want of support the strike has
come to an end.
JOCKEY WooD in his suit for libel got
one farthlng damages at London recently.
He was accused of pulling Sir George
Chetwynd's horses by the Licensed VictuaL-
ers' Gazette.
THE Duke of Marlborough married Mrs.
Hamnersley, at New York. on the Goth.
Mayor Hewitt performed the ceremony.
The large water main between George
town and Washington broke the other
morning leaving the fashionable section of
the capital without water.
THE internal revenue collections of the
past eleven months wee over $1,000 600
larger than for The same time last year.
ROBERT II. CowDREY, Union Labor can
didate for the Presidency, has issued his
letter OF acceptance.
Hoes and cattle in and about st. Tam
many, La, are dying by wholesale of a
disease resem bling tuberculosis. No rem
edy for the disease is known.
YALE defeated Harvard by twenty -four
lengths in the four mile boat at New Lon
don, Conn.,, on the 29th.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
JOHN kEAwEIss, Charles Krause and
Charles Hakelberg, of New York. were run
down by the schooner Joseph Hay while
fishing IN boat in Princess Bay near An
Mandate, n. Y, the other morning. Kea-
weiss was drowned his body being recov
cred shortly afterwards. Krauser and
Hakelberg were picked up by the schooner,
the latter being severely injared.
The failure of the manufacturers and
men TO agree on scale of prices caused
general shut down in the iron trade. Eight
firms signed the scale of the 4 malgamated
Association, the others demanding a re-
ductIon Of wages. With the eight excep-
lions all the firms banked their furnaces.
Many thousands of men were thrown cut
of work, the lockout causing other mills
to close.
TIE Gettysburg reunion-the twenty
NTH anniversary of the battle-commenced
on the 1st with very large attendance.
Two blocks at Brainerd, Mimi, were de-
stroyed by fire the other night The fire
started in the Bacon planning mi |. The loss
was $50 900, partially insured.
The Timex Cniop, OF Jacksonville, Fla,
announces two light sporadic cases of sus-
piclous fever at Plant City. which have
been isolated and precaution taxed to pre-
vent its spread.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 80 showed an average decrease
OF a. compared with the corresponding
week OF last year. In New York the de-
crease was 42.3
The Senate on the 30th resumed consider
alton of the River and Harbor hill The