Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-09

THREE thousand railroad coal miners Of
Western Pennsylvania are on strike
against a reduction of wages.
THE steamship Viendam which arrived
at New York on the ID from Rotterdam
reports that on April % she passed a raf
made of planks and spars nailed together
There was no one on the raft and no cleW
to its identity could be ascertained.
THREE thousand miners of Brazil, Ind.
have struck because Of a reduction II
wages.
The dispatches sent out from Texas
purporting to give details of the riotinG
at Silao and Guanajuato in Mexico were
stated to be gross exaggerations. The
prefect at Silao was assassinated and ms
was the only life lost in the entire AFFAIR
The authorities have restored order.
THE court at Tipperary, Ireland, ha'
affirmed the sentences of John O'Connor
Thomas Condor, Charles Tanner and Mr.
Manning, Irish members of Parliament
for violations of the Crimes act
The storage building of the Roman
Catholic College in Germantown, Pa, was
destroyed by fire recently and Ignatiu'
Hemmerle, aged eighty-five, lost his life
The damage amounted to $50, O0O
THE North Chicago Rolling Mills Com
pany has increased its capital stock from
Sc, 600, 900 to $25, 600, 900, and has absorbed
the Union Steel Company of Chicago ant
the Joliet Steel Company of Joliet
REPORTS come from many points tina
the recent heavy frost has done grea'
damage to fruit in Illinois. Vegetable:
are badly injured, while much of thu
young corn was bitten off level with thu
ground.
SINCE the opening of Manitoba more
than 40.000,000 acres of land have beer
granted to the Canadian Pacific q Mani
toba railway.
THE President granted a respite until
May II in the case of Nelson Colbert wht
was to have been hanged in Washington
May for the murder of Richard Wentzell
in October last.
THE quarrymen in the Joliet (Ill.) Stone
Company's quarry are out on strike ask
ing for 81 Is instead of S1.50 per day.
MICHAEL HILLIAR jumped from burn
ing building in New York recently anC
was fatally injured. His brother, Igna
thus, was burned to death.
THE Beef Inspection bill was defeated
in the Missouri Senate.
HAwES, the engineer charged at Bir
mingham Ala, of the murder of his wifi
and child, has been found guilty and thu
penalty fixed at death,
THE free pass question came up befor'
the Interstate Commerce Commission a
Washington on the Sd. Twenty-sever
roads were cited to appear.
THE st. Louis brewers have so combined
that the trust is practical fact Th'
three firms outside the trust have agreed
to maintain the trust rates for the mex
two years.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania
has signed the death W warrant for Michae
Rizzalio. one of the murderers of Mcclure
near Wilkesbarre. He will be hanged
June %.
THE strike of the street car employees o.
St Paul. Mimi, has resulted in the defea
of the men, who have returned to work a.
the reduced wages.
A TORNADO struck Warsaw, n, c., OF
the I'd, demolishing many dwellings, alsC
the Presbyterian church.
THE passengers of the German steam
ship Lain celebrated the centennial o.
Washing toms Inauguration in mid -ocean
The vessel was gaily decorated.
THE Board of Trade of Little Rock, Ark.
has sent petition to President Harrison
for the appointment of merchant living
west of the Mississippi river as member
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
The Supreme Court of Florida in test
case has decided that the Legislature has
the right to reduce railroad rates to G
point too low to permit the earning o.
operating expenses.
The sugar crop of Cuba is reported very
short with the prospect for any improve
ment next year bad owing to the grea
drought
The sentence on Major Lydecker, cour
martialed for the Washington aqueduc
frauds was, to forfeit 500 of his pay fol
nine months and to be reprimanded il
orders. The President approved the find
ings.
The Sharon -Althea Hill case was before
the Supreme Court of California on the 8,
on appeal of Frederick Sharon, the deaC
Senator's son, for n new trial 1t wa:
developed during the day that the famous
contract of marriage had been destroyed
by fire August IL last
HENRY R SMITH, the paymaster of the
United States corvette Essex, who disap'
peared with $1,2)0 of the Government
money, has been found at the home of hi:
mother, crazed by liquor and the money
gone.