Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04

an incendiary. Loss, S1O0, 900.
THE weavers' strike at Fall River, Mass,
ended on the 9th on the old basis.
MACK FRANCIS and James Turner were
hanged at Lebanon, Tenn, on the 9th
for the murder of Lew Martin last summer.
They confessed their crime.
THE knitting mill of Thomas & Pettin-
\ gill, of Amsterdam, N. Y, has suspended
operations pending meeting of the cred
itors of the firm. Over 100 hands were
thrown out of employment
CUMMINGS & Co., leather dealers of Bos-
ton. Mass, have assigned with about $500, =
900 liabilities but ample assets They were
carrying heavy stock on a falling
market
A SERIOUS collision is reported on the
Taku & Hentsin railway in China, result
ing in many deaths.
FIRE broke out the other evening in the
Globe warehouse, Scranton, Pa, owned
by the firm of Clelland, Simpson & Tay-
lor, who carried a stock valued at 500, 000
| The loss was almost total
Two editors of the Berlin Volks Zeitung
have been fined for declining to name the
writer of an article alleged to be insulting
to the Emperor and Prince Bismarck.
CONSIDERABLE losses by prairie fires are
reported about St Cloud, Mimi. The
| flames in some places are in the woods.
| THE business portion of Ashton, ILL.,, has
been burned. Loss, $4,000
YELLOW FEVER and smallpox prevails
at Rio de Janeiro.
| INCENDIARIEs burned an entire block of
| stables at Altoona, Pa, recently. Five
| horses and nine head of cattle pershed.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
passed bill doubling the import duties
on rye and adding 5 francs per cwt to the
duty on rye meal
| AN attempt was made to wreck the
| Santa Fe train near Chillicothe, ILL.,, the
| other night unknown miscreants placing
| ties ON the track.
THEODORE NoA, hand on a Baltimore
| schooner. shot the cook, Loudon Johnson,
colored, recently in a quarrel over the
| finding of a cockroach in the soup. The
gun was loaded with heavy duck shot and
Johnson's injuries were considered seri-
Gus.
THE anthracite coal companies, at
meeting in New York City recently, de-
cided not to reduce Western prices for
some time.
L. S. BROWN, Government pensioner,
has been arrested at Minneapolis, Minn.,
for counterfeiting by thinly plating with
gold silver coins. He was found at work.
THE Baltic timber yard near Bucking-
ham Palace, London, was destroyed by
fire recently. Loss, 100000. Several
firemen were injured.
A SPLENDID vein of coal has been found
in Lamar County, Tex, at a depth of
twenty three feet
THE executive committee of the board
of directors of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company adjourned at New York
without coming to decision regarding
the leasing of the Wisconsin railroad.
B. NJ. HUEY, Jr., Southern express agent,
was recently attacked by two masked
robbers at Blocton, Ala. He bravely de-
Tended his trust "a package of $4,000 and
killed one of his assailants, the other TAX
ing to flight. He was wounded slightly
himself, bullet glancing off his ribs.
FOUR Americans recently killed two
Mexican policemen in Paso del Norte and
fed across the river. A Amost excited state
of feeling, in consequence, prevailed in
the vicinity.
RUSSELL WIREMAN, a United States
deputy marshal, has been killed by moon
sinners thirteen miles southwest of Hind
man, KY.
THE six story brick building at 4s to 81
NOrtn clinton SIreeC, Cnlcago, occupied Dy
several business firms, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire the other night entailing
loss of about $500, 600.
JOHN HARRIS, thirteen-year-o boy,
recently fell into a coke oven at Union
town, Pa, and was burned to death.
THE whaling schooner William Crosier,
of Provincetown, Mass, reports the wreck
of the Boston bark Albert Russell, from
New York for Australia. Only two of the
crew were saved
JED PRITCHETT, colored, was lawfully
hanged at Danville, Va, recently for rape.
A MARVELLOUS robbery occurred at the
First National Bank. Denver, Col, on the
afternoon of the 29th. An unknown man
forced the president of the bank TO sign a
check for $21, 600 and have it cashed by the
paying teller, after which he got away.
The man was armed with a revolver and a
bottle of nitro-glycerine, with which he
threatened to blow up the bank building.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, declares the
story of an error in the Lower California
boundary line a canard unworthy of at
tention.
THE total production of distilled spirits
in the United States from July l, 1888, to
January 81, 1889, was 42, 739, 1856 taxable
gallons, being the largest production for
similar period in any year since 1888