Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-10

Summertown, Pa, recently by the explo-
sion ofhalf a bucket of dynamite.
A GRAVEL train on the Canada & st
Louis railroad jumped the track near Co
lon, Mich, recently, while backing up at a
speed OF forty miles an hour. Brakeman
Frank Matthews. of Middleburg, Ind, was
instantly killed and six other men serious
ly injured.
EXTREME cold prevailed in the Ekaterin-
burg district Of Southeast Russia. 1t was
estimated that 1I5 persons We're frozen to
death. Near Tiflis railroad train was
blocked by snow and fourteen passengers
froze to death.
AT Dublin on the Sd Judge Kelly in sem
fencing rioters to prison denounced the
Government for its laxity in allowing
riots at evictions.
The iron cross ties experimental with
by the Pennsylvania railroad near Jersey
City, n. j., have proved failures.
The stables of the paving and health
departments of Boston were burned on the
Sd Ten thousand bushels of grain and
seventy tons of hay were destroyed. The
buildings cost So, 1000. Two firemen were
hurt by failing timbers.
A QUANTITY of dynamite was exploded
on the tracks of the Philadelphia & Read
ing railroad at Mahanoy PLANE, Pa, the
other night and four dwellings were partly
wrecked and the town badly shaken up.
The explosive is supposed to have been
placed on the tracks by train wreckers
No one was injured
A SERIES of earthquake shocks followed
each other in Costa RIGA on the night of
December %. At Alajuela eight persons
were killed and many injured
GREAT anxiety was felt at Berlin on the
Sd regarding the health of Prince Bis
marck.
Two boys broke through the ice on
GIeason's pond, at South birmingham,
Mass, while skating the other day, as did
several others who came to their assist
ance, and three-Charles and Fred st.
Peters and Johnny Ryan-we-e drowned.
They were between ten and fourteen
years old.
IT is learned that the change made in
the sugar schedule by the Senate SUBJ
committee in charge of the Tariff bill pro-
vides that a bounty of one cent a pound be
paid upon all sugar raised in this country.
This has been, it is said, fully agreed upon.
In an alteration at Bayou Sara, La, J.
F. Irving. Jr., son of Mayor Irving, shot
and killed Thomas Howell, son of Judge
S. ]. Howell. Irving was released on bail.
By the fall of a house at Bastia, Italy,
which had been undermined by the foods,
twelve persons were killed. Much other
damage was done.
BY collision between freight trains on
a bridge near Carbon, Wyo., the other
night the bridge was set on fire and it and
a number of cars were burned. A tele-
graph operator in the caboose was fatally
injured.
BY an explosion of fire damp in a col.
liery near Oveida, Spain recently twenty
seven persons were killed and many in
jured.
WHILE the audience were leaving a
theater at Madrid on the night of the 4th
bomb exploded near by with tremendous
effect. Great excitement prevailed for a
time. No person was injured, but build
ings in the neighborhood were damaged.
The members of the colored Catholic
called at the White House on
the 4th, when L. L. Ruffin, of Boston,
made an address to the President, which
was cordially responded to.
GOVERNOR MoREHoUSE has redu ced the
sentence of Bill Ryan, con victed in 1881 for
the Blue Cut train robbery, from twenty
five years to ten years. The Communication
will release Ryan April 16 next
WILLIAM FORBES. an electric light trim
mer, of Detroit Mich, was killed by a
shock of electricity while at work on his
ladder the other day.
THE Navy Department has been informed
that yellow fever has appeared on the
United States steamer Yantic which re-
Gently went to Hayti to release the Hay
ten Republic.
THE sheriff recently raided wholesale
liquor house and the Hotel Duncan saloon
IN Dubuque, Ia, and seized large quanti-
ties of liquer.
w. B. Fay, president and general man
ager of the Denver (Col.) Gas Company,
has been arrested for manslaughter for re-
'ponsibility for the killing of four laborers
oy the caving in of the cable road.
JOHN WALTER, a submarine diver of
while at work on the bottom
If a vessel recently got tho air line en-
,angle1 about his fee5 and when finally
-escued was almost dead.
THE colored Catholic congress at Wash
ngton adjourned on the 4th to meet next
year in Richmond, Va.
A RIOT was reported recently near Seat
lie, Wash. T., between coal miners belong
ng to the Miners Union and other miners
belonging to the Knights of Labor. Sew
,ral men were reported to be killed and
wounded.