Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19

been burned by regulators at Post Oak
Jasper County, Miss. Further whipping
are also reported. Persons from Jasper
County say these reports are exag.
gerated.
I. T. GILwICKs, grand keeper of records
and seals Of the grand lodge of Knights
of Pythias of Missouri, and Paul Pittman,
deputy circuit clerk of Mason County,
Ill. were drowned at the Copperas creek
lock east of Canton on the Illinois river
the other night They were members of a
fishing party.
THE Phoenix Wooden Mills Company OF
East Greenwich. R L, have offered to
compromise with their creditors at % cents
on the dollar.
ATTORNEY MILLER finds 40
cause for action against Ex-Governor
Crawford for receiving moneys from the
Creeks for acting as their attorney in re-
cent financial transactions with the Gov
eminent
! A FIRE broke out IN the cotton stored in
the hold of the steamship Britannia on
her last trip to Queenstown. After con-
siderable trouble the fire was extin-
guished.
The old wooden war ship Iroquois. which
was recently extensively repaired at the
ship yards at Mare Island, Cal, could not
develop more than eight knots an hour on
trial trip.
SEARLE, the champion sculler, has
challenged Guadaur TO row at London for
=, 500 side.
The report of a fatal mine disaster at
Jellico, Tenn, was false.
A wHIRLwISD at Lulu Island, B. c., the
other day desolated the whole country
through which it passed, uprooting gil
gantic trees and leaving the thickly
wooded surface bare.
The colored Baptist convention at In
dianapolis, Ind, was much stirred up by
the indignities to which five of the minis
tiers were subjected near Boxler, Ga,
where a number of white men roughly
elected them from the railway car.
By a collision at Miller City, O., the
other day, two freight locomotives and
fifteen fruit cars were wrecked and both
engineers injured.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, DR.. Bartlett finished
his effort to beat DR.. Carver's record of
reaking 60 600 glass by rife shots in six
days. He broke 60, OH in all.
The big chemical works at Wandsworth,
England, were destroyed by fire the other
day and one fireman lost his life. The
works were valued at S10G. 900.
THE municipal authorities of Liverpool.
England, warned by Antwerp's expe-
rience, have voted $50 900 for the con-
struction of petroleum storage depots at
isolated points.
THE first snow of the season fell at Hope,
OAK, on the 18th.
A CATTLE disease, either Texas fever or
black tongue, is reported ravaging the
herds near Scottdale, Pa.
F. W. GESswEIN, the millionaire i'm
porter and manufacturer of jewelers.
supplies and tools, was shot dead at New
York recently by Christian Dehle, an old
German, who said he committed the crime
because Gesswein had robbed him of his
patent and left him penniless.
Two hundred and ffty-six nominally
Boulangist candidates were nominated for
election to the French Chamber of Depu-
ties.
SUIT for S17,000 indemnity money has |
been begun in San Francisco against Dong
Using, the Chinese Consul.
CAPTAIN WIssMAN'S police have de- |
stroyed the town of Koudutchi, between |
Bagamoyo and Dar-es- Salaam. Captain |
Wissman wished to punish the inhabit- |
ants Of the place for having supplied the |
Insurgents with arms.
A SERIOUS collision occurred on the Bal
,imore & Potomac railroad the other night |
1t Washington between a freight and q
train resulting in the killing of
he engineer of the passenger train and
BADLY injuring the fireman and one brake
nan of the freight train.
FIVE hundred miners at Clarion and
Clear Run, Pa, have struck for an ad-
yance. The strike was in cooperation
With the striking miners of Adrian and
Fatson.
THE steamer Rothesay recently sank
he tug MORA near Brockville, Ont, and
wo lives were lost
THE business part of Dandy, n. Y,
,urned the other day. Cause, no fire ap-
,aratus. Loss, $40, 900.
THE verdict of the court-martial CASH
ering Colonel Fletcher, of Fort Omaha.
las been set aside on the grounds of per.
ecution and conspiracy. This leaves the
Prosecuting officers in bad fix.
a. H. WATsoN's plumbing shop in Chi
ago was wrecked, one employee fatally
INJURED and several persons more or less
urt by flying missiles the other day by
as explosion.
THE troubles of Erie and Garfield miners,
ear Denver, COL, have resulted in blood
he'd, one man being shot dead and another
atally beaten.