Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS

IHk CZar OF Russia has purchased tive
! large estates in the Crimea and will es.
tablish an imperial residence there.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at John.
| sons dynamite factory, near York, Pa,
recently. John Harlin, an employe, aged
thirty three years. was blown to pieces
| and the factory totally demolished.
THE Myers-McAuliffe prize fight, about
which much had been talked of, took place
at North Judson. Ind, on the 18th. 1t was
very tame affair and after sixty-six
rounds was declared draw.
ADvIcKs from Shanghai state that the
famine in Anhui and Kanqsu was worse.
In one province 800 families were starving
and altogether several millions were suf-
fering from famine caused by drought two
years in succession.
NEAR Galesburg, ILL.,, on the night of the
18th an express train on the Burlington
collided with a freight Express Messen-
ger Whifin, of Chicago, was instantly
killed and the conductor of the freight was
badly hurt, also brakeman. The others
escaped.
A JOINT meeting of Union and Confed-
crate veterans engaged in the battle of
Chickamauga was held recently in Wash
ington to take steps to preserve the bat
tleheld and mark the positions of the
forces An association similar to that of
Gettysburg was decided on.
The Washburn & Moen Barbed Wire
Company, which controls all the patents
in this country, claim that the Janen
patent in France does not cover the Glid-
den patent.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road directors have declared dividend of
one per cent.
The boiler makers in the employ of the
Risdon iron works at San Francisco have
struck on the ground that certain iron
plates being used in the repair of the
boilers of the steamship Australia were
made abroad. The strikers contend that
they will not work in any shop which pro-
cures any portion of the boilers in the East
or in foreign countries; that every thing
must be made on the Pacific coast.
REV. FATHER DANIEL DoUGHERTY. some
years ago Catholic priest in Kansas
City, has begun the practice of medicine
in Chicago, having renounced the priest
hood.
A LIVELY war on freight rates is brew
ing among the Atlantic steamship lines.
The White Star Company has cut rates
from Europe fifty per cent and the other
lines are ready to follow suit.
ANOTHER tragedy was enacted at Lake
Bavaria, recently when two per-
sons drowned themselves in its waters.
Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven
persons have drowned themselves in the
lake.
The official trial of the new gunboat
Yorktown was made in Delaware bay re-
Gently and was pronounced a success.
THE stock barn of d. Henry Rieman near
Emmettsburg, Nd, in which were several
horses and great quantity of
produce, was destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, $1,000; cause, incendiarism.
THREE buildings in Gluckman & Heller's
block at Chippewa Falls, Wis, were de-
stroyed by fire the other morning. The
loss on the buildings and stock was about
$40 900. Partly insured.
THE Bartholomay, Genesee, Rochester
and possibly the Miller breweries, the four
largest in Rochester, N. Y, have, il is
said, passed into the hands of the
great English syndicate said to have $125,-
900, 900 capital.
THERE is some anxiety among farmers
and miners in California on account of the
absence of rain in the valleys and snow
n the mountains.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended February IA numbered
.S9. compared with 303 The previous week
md 2I3 the corresponding week of last
year.
JOHN LEE was hanged at Alexandria,
Mimi, recently for killing his rival in a
owe affair in cold blood after a spree.
Iohn Moe, his partner in crime. was
granted a Communication at the last moment.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a loco
motive at Norristown, Pa, recently the |
ngineer and fireman were killed.
Four ladies were severely hurt In |
;hester, Pa, recently by a collision be- |
ween a railway train and a street car.
THE Opera House block in Cape Vincent,
7. Y, and the bank in which were 7SO |
'ounds of opium recently seized have been |
estroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
MONROE WILKERSoN, a colored mur-
erer condemned to be hanged at Scots
lille, KY, March % made desperate at
empt to escape the other night but was
ecaptured and chained to the Jail floor.
JOHN GRAY, a prominent citizen of Pitts
on, Pa, was found murdered on by
treet recently. Italian robbers were sus-
ected.
THE committee appointed at the recent
,eeting of the American Shipping and
Industrial League have presented to Gen.
raj Harrison the resolutions adopted by
le league.