Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-31

| ing the "blocks of FIVE" letters prior to the
| late election came up in Supreme Court
chambers before Judge Patterson at New
York on the oath.
ADvIcEs from West Africa say that
eleven native policemen headed by Brit
ish officer, in a conflict with a party of
war boys at Sulyma, killed 1a Of the
enemy with Maxim gun and the rest Of
the party fed in dismay.
BERLIN students belonging to the Anti
Jewish Association had a demonstr alton
on the 22d.
TRAIN No. 3 on the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad, which left Montgomery,
Ala, for New Orleans recently, was
boarded at point between Letchatchee
and Fort Deposit by two white men, who
attempted to enter the postal car by force.
They were unsuccessful and made their
escape when the train reached Fort De-
posit.
FIRE in St Paul, Mnn., recently did
$50, 900 damage to the Berrisford Baking
G. Confectionery Company's building and
stock.
MRS. DANIEL DowNEY, of vineland, Nj,
has been fatally burned by the explosion
of a lamp, which set her house on fire.
IT is reported that Hopkins and Jenkins,
colored labor agents of lVicksburg, Miss,
have been lynched by mob in North
Louisiana.
THE rebellious Polish priest, Father
Kolasinski, has established his indepen-
dent church at Detroit, Mich, and recent
ly administered the first communion to 265
girls and boys. The ceremony took place
in chapel fixed up for the occasion in a
back room in his house. His following is
said to be 2, 600 families strong.
The British steamship Erin has been
abandoned off Cape Hatteras with shaft
broken. The crew was landed at New
port News. Va.
MRS. Lou WRIGHT. a married woman,
was whipped by Whitecaps the other
night in Monroe County, Ind.
JUDGE WILSON, of the circuit court at
Geneva, Ill, has refused to grant new
trial to Bauereisen, the alleged Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy dynamiter who was
recently found guilty and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
A SENSATION has been created through
out Holland by a pamphlet by Tindal en-
titled, ''The Netherlands in Danger" The
author condemns the country's defensive
organization on both land and sea, and
regards the $7,500,0O0 spent yearly as
wasted.
THE remains of lima di Murska, the
Gotha, Germany.
SEVEN Mormons of st. John, AriZ., have
been arrested on account of timber frauds
and three because of land frauds. The
Mormons who control the region were
greatly excited.
THE other night an explosion occurred
~, clD No Of 10
barre, Pa, where gang of engineers
were at work making surveys. P. S.
Sharsus, one of the engineers, was blown
to pieces and Chet Owens, another, was
instantly killed, and John Williams, a
third was fatally burned. Several others
were more or less seriously burned.
JUDGE BREWER, of the United States
Circuit Court has reiegated to the State
courts the suits brought by the Rock Is
land and other railroads to test the validity
of the Railroad law passed by the last
General Assembly of Iowa.
AN English missionary named Brooks
and sixteen of his followers have been
murdered near Sedaani by members of
the coast tribes and natives of Zanzibar.
The feather manufacturing firms of
New York locked out their girls, number
ing 800, on the 25th.
1T is stated that the soldiers have once
more cleared Oklahoma of boomers"
The last roundup" numbered 5000 per-
sons.
THE Canadian Government has issued
orders to all the collectors of customs to
suspend the issuing of further licenses to
fishermen under the modus vivendi.
DURING a gale through which the steam
er Amalfi, which arrived at New York re-
Gently from Hamburg passed, three per-
sons had limbs broken and other damage
was done.
Four thousand coal miners in and
about Shenandoah, Pa, have been thrown
out of work by the shutting down of col
lieries because of overstocked markets.
THE principal cashier of the National
Bank Agency at Bologna, Italy, has abb
seconded, having embeZzled $3.50, 900.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January "a numbered
342. compared with 3S7 the previous week
and 269 the corresponding week of last
year.
COUNSEL from New York and Philadel-
phia, representing unnamed parties, pre-
sented a petition to the States Attorney
General at Richmond, Va, asking for a
writ of quo warranto against the Rich
mond & West Point Terminal Company
for the purpose of forfeiting its franchises.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
BUSINESS on the London Exchange was
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