Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-17

tion was destroyed and eight or ten of the
workmen were killed and many more seri.
ously injured. At Reading the railroad
paint shops were wrecked and took fire
four men being burned to death, perhap:
more. The destruction of the silk mill fol.
lowed, where a fearful loss of life took
place. At least eighty of the girls en-
ployed were believed to be dead in the
ruins. AT Sunbury the nail mill was de.
stroyed and two men Nere killed, two
missing and about twenty wounded. The
damage to property was incalculable.
WILLIAM B. WHARTON, until recently
the Wes tern agent, at Chicago, of the In
ternational Marine Insurance Company,
Of Liverpool, England, has disappeared.
1t is alleged that he is about 5000 short
| in his accounts.
By the explosion of tank of gas at the
Citizens Gas Company's works, Smith
and Fifth streets, Brooklyn, n. Y, re-
Gently, the Navy Yard barracks were par
TALLY shattered, and the ruins caught fire
and were destroyed.
MATTHEW FEENEY, an Irish boy who
came to this country a short time ago,
pleaded guilty at Chicago recently to g
charge of burglary.
THE suit of A. Howard Hinkle, the Gin
cinnati music dealer, against Mrs. Jean
nette NJ. Thurber of American opera fame,
for So, 900 loaned the American Opera
| Company in 1856 has been dismissed in
| New York.
The Illinois Federation of Labor has ap-
pointed a committee of three to call on
Governor Fifer and ask him to pardon the
imprisoned Anarchists.
THE British steamer Macedonia, Balti-
more for Hull, after sinking the Boston
schooner Lavina Campbell, the other
night. near Bodkin Point, in the Ches-
apeake, went ashore.
MRS. LOUISE HANCOCK. aged eighty
years. was fatally burned at Paris, Tex,
the other day, the result of the explosion
of some cartridges she was removing from
the mantelpiece.
TWELVE convicts in farm 5sng near
Covington, Ga, overpowered their guard
recently and escaped.
IT is reported at Needles, Cal, that out
of party of seven prospectors who left
that place recently in a small boat for new
gold fields, four were drowned by the cap
sizing of the boat while going through the
rapids of the river below.
THE United States steamer Yantic, from
Port au Prince. Hayti, January 1, has ar
rived at quarantine at New York. jan
uary Z Corporal Rowe died of yellow
fever.
J. j. WEST. proprietor, and j. n Dunlop,
city editor of the Chicago Times, and Jens
Christianson, editor o. the Chicago Ar
better Zeitung, waived examination on the
charge of criminally libelling police Off
cials Bonfield and Schaak. and were bound
over TO the criminal court.
THE suspension bridge destroyed by the
disastrous storm of the 9th was the car
riage bridge between Niagara Falls village
and the Clifton House. 1t was built in
1870. It's original cost was 100000 and
fully half as much more has been ex-
pended since in improvement. 1t was
considered one of the strongest structures
of its kind in the world.
WILLIAM R FOSTER. the father of the
William r. Foster, Jr., who recently
robbed the New York Produce Exchange
gratuity fund of $19S0OO and then de-
camped, has sent n check for $4,000 for
the benefit of the gratuity fund.
THE next convention OF the American
Newspaper Publishers Association has
been set for New York, February Is.
FIFTEEN business houses in Leland,
Miss, were destroyed by fire recently.
BY the explosion of boiler in a mill at
Pelleton, Wis, the other day three men
were killed.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January 10, numbered
3S1, compared with 3S7 the previous week
and 219 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE ''plan" agreed upon by Western
magnates at New York on the
10th, it was thought, would prevent rate
cutting. Railroad men, in interviews,
expressed favorable opinion of it.
CORRECTED lists showed eighteen lives
were lost the destruction of the silk
mill in the recent storm at Reading, Pa,
and about ninety injured, some fatally.
At the paint shop five lives were lost.
About twenty deaths were the result OF
the storm at Pittsburgh, with about as
many injured. 1t will be seen that the IA
talities were far less at r aading and con-
greater at Pittsburgh than ac-
cording to first reports.
Mrs. OLIVE FREUND has brought suit az
Ann Arbor, Mich, for $40, 019 damage |
against President Cotterill and Nelson |
the officer who attached her |
property at Milan, on account of the al |
legged electric sugar frauds.