Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-17
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a slur on the late Mr. Manning concerning
payment to the treasury a few year.
ago has been rebuked. The Treasury
Department finds that the money hai
| been properly accounted for.
COMMANDER Goodrich, chairman of tn,
trial board, has telegraphed Secretary
Tracy that the test of the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius has been successful in a degree
not anticipated.
AMONG the passengers arriving by the
City of New York was Mrs. George
Gould, who was quite sick. She had been
delivered of a still-born child during the
voyage.
ADMIRAL JoUETT reports the cruiser
Dolphin in admirable condition, ''clean
and sweet"
The Woman's Congress adjourned al
Denver, Col, on the 10Th after the cleo
ton of Julia Ward Howe OF Rhode Island,
president
JOHN BIsENBERGER, the wife beaten has
received punishment of the lash at the
whipping post in the Baltimore city Jail.
The six white survivors of the negro
riot on the island of Navassa, in the West
Indies, arrived at Philadelphia on the
10th. They were rescued by a British
Ciu4SS4 III res pOHSO 10 dU appear II OH tue
American Consul at Kingston, Jamaica.
The heavy demand for steel rails has
caused a sharp advance in prices.
THERE has been a bulge in the Chicago
wheat pit, No. 2 red passing Sc.
EARL NORTH, a blacksmith, viciously
assaulted two men and a woman on the
West Side at Chicago the other night. He
was overpowered by a mob and was about
to be strung up when the police rescued
him.
FIVE hundred miners have struck at
Lens Arras in Belgium and are melting
others to the same course. 1t is thought
that the strike will be successful.
INTEREST is again revived in the plans
of the Bouangist element in France by the
report which is current that General Bou-
LANCER has dispatched his trusted friend
and companion in exile Count Dillon,
from the Isle of Jersey to Belgium, on
secret mission.
THE trotting match between Belle Ham
lin and Harry Wilkes at New York on the
18th was won by the former in 2:16X first
heat and 2:194 second heat.
AxrELL won a race at Terre Haute, Ind,
on the 18th, trotting mile in 2:111z.
THE Knights Templar conclave ended
at Washington on the 18th with a grand
banquet
FOUR members of the family of Patrick
Daily were killed recently by a natural
gas explosion at a village thirteen miles
from Bradford, Pa
EIGHTEEN men were hurt one fatally, in
a collision between a miners train and a
freight near Martins Ferry, O., on the
18th.
DISASTROUS floods are reported in the
of Jura, France.
JUDGE RALLEY. of Carrollton, O., was
killed recently. He fell from tree while
picking apples.
HALF a million pounds of tobacco have
been ruined about Flemlngsburg, KY, by
heavy frosts.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 10 numbered
ia, compared with 2O6 the week previous
and 227 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE twelve-year- daughter of Mr..
ydabaugh, living near Carlisle Pa, was
yored to death by an Infatuated bull.
Another child was severely injured.
THE president of the Alaska Commercial
Company says that the great increase of
Illegal sealing in Alaska has largely de-
troyed the profits of the company, and a
enewal of the lease will not probably be
sought
AN electric lineman was instantly killed
~ a shock on the corner of Center and
Chambers streets, New York City, the
'ther day. The force of the current
.aused the blood to flow from the body
in mdair.
The National conference of miners of
treat Britain have decided in favor of a
working day of eight hours with the al
ernative of strike after January L
A WELSH rector headed a party of |
,ailiffs and an auctioneer in an attempt |
o collect tithes recently, but was igno-
defeated, although he vigor-
usly used a club on his opponents.
The crop report of Ohio shows a more |
ncouraging state of affairs now that |
Wheat has been threshed.
JAMES GROSS, student, tells a strange |
tory of the murder of another student by |
'ather Peters in a convent at Marienfield, |
'ex.
THREE bodies were found at Johnstown,
"a, on the 18th by workmen while max.
ng an opening to a sewer outlet. The
York of search has been stopped although
be stream is believed to contain many
cad bodies at the bottom.