Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-14

Vi west Troy, ". L, was Struck on the
head with an axe by an assas sin the other
night and died next day. Her son William,
aged twenty-five. is under suspicion.
ThE Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago
railway is to be extended at once from
Camden to Charleston, S. c., and from
Rutherfordton to the Ohioriver-250 miles.
MISS ADA FULLER living near East st.
Louis, Ill, is reported to have elopsd with
her fathers negro farm hand
THE go ton British vessel EIdorado has
succeeded in going fifteen miles up the
Panama canal
Rev. DR. O'REILLY, treasurer of the
Irish National League, denounces as false
stories concerning schism in the league.
SUITS against the Standard Oil Com
pany, based upon charges of depredations
on certain lands in Louisiana to obtain
turpentine and which have been pending
in the Interior Department for some time,
have been settled by the company paying
St3 900 damages.
The British vessel Port Gordon was
wrecked on the coast of Washington
Territory recently and four of the crew
lost The survivors were cared for by the
Indians.
BY the ditching of a passenger train
doz N persons were slightly injured.
The trial of the famous lynchers at
Pickens, s. c., resulted in the conviction
OF Haywood, Bolton and Williams, who
were sentenced to be hanged April 5.
THIRTEEN out of thirty three members
of the New York Chamber of Commerce
voted against the admission of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland as an honorary member of
that body.
A SERIOUS quarrel, in which knives were
used, is reported to have occurred at Lyon
mountain, near Plattsburg, n. Y, between
gang of Swedish and Hungarian laborers
employed in the mines. One man was
stabbed.
A DISASTROUS wreck on the Louisville
& Nashville railway occurred on the night
of the 7th near Milldale, Ky. A number
of people were reported killed.
FOUR colored men were drowned re-
Gently by the breaking of Mike Kelly's
log boom, eighteen miles up the bayou
from Jefferson, Tex.
A STRIKE has occurred among the weav-
ers at Armentieres, in France. The strik-
ers attacked the factories and soldiers
patrolled the streets to preserve order.
IT was again asserted by a Berlin paper
on the It'll that the German corvette Olga
had sunk an American man. of-war in
Samoan waters. The American vessel
was said to have fred at the Olga, when
the latter sunk it with all on board by
exploding torpedo.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended March numbered 2S1.
compared with 232 the previous week and
253 the corresponding week of last year.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were reported in
Pennsylvania and Maryland on the even
ing of the Sih.
ANNIE ROCHE of the town of Ida, Doug
las County, Mimi, has committed suicide
by hanging. She was the sweetheart of
Lee, recently hanged at Alexandria for
murder, and since that event has been ex-
ceedingly respondent and at times par
TALLY deranged.
THE SEVENTEEN anniversary of the entry
of Count Won Moltke into the Prussian
army was celebrated on the Sth.
TIE Missouri Pacific directors at their
recent meeting in New York City declared
the regular quarterly dividend of one per
cent. payable April 10.
MARTIN ToRPH and William Garner,
leaders of a gang of twelve or more coun-
terfeiters in Conway, Perry and Saline
Counties, Ark, have been arrested and a
huge sum of bogus gold coin captured.
1T is reported that the Vanderbilts have
recently bought 1900 shares of the big
Four" railroad stock at 100, with the in
tention of ultimately securing the Ches-
apeake & Ohio railway.
A DISEASE resembling cerebro spinal
meningitis has made its appearance in
Kent County. Nd, and is creating terrible
havoc among horses and mules.
BY the fall of the roof of a cyclorama
building in Cincinnati recently two labor
ers were badly injured and a rag picker
probably fatally hurt.
OWING to slow collections the Bufford
Sons Lithegraphing Company, Boston, has
suspended for time. The assets are $780,
600 and the liabilities 100000.
THE striking employees of the Ames
shovel work, Northeastern, Mass, have
been ordered to vacate the company's
houses.
THE Inter- State Commerce Commission
has issued an important circular contain
ing the full text of that law as amended
by the past Congress and pointing out and
explaining important changes.
FIRE recently destroyed the clothing
house of Kleinhaus & Simonsin, Market
street, Louisville, KY, with adjoining
premises. The losses aggregated $40 600;
insurance about $500, 900.