Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS,

BY the explosion Of the boiler of stavC
factory at Dawson, KY, the other day
| three persons were killed and four badly
| injured.
Four more bodies were found in cellars
in Johnstown, Pa, on the 14th
FIRE in New York City recently caused
$4,000 damage to the Giles Lithographing
Company, E. P. Billiards. tool factory and
the building.
THE letter carriers of Portsmouth, "
h, have refused to resign at the demand
of Postmaster Sides.
The London coroner's jury in the case
of Alice Mackenzie. the last victim of the
Whitechapel fend, has returned a verdict
of murder by an unknown person.
By the fall of the walls of the Burton
building in Chicago. recently destroyed
by fire, one workman was killed and an
other fatally injured.
A FULL statement of the situation of the
leather firm of A. H. Batchellor & Co.,
of Boston, who failed recently, is
promised by September IA The liabilities
are about Il. 500, 600 and the assets will
probably pay 80 cents on the dollar.
THE schooner Marion Manson, from
Bath, Ne, reports at Baltimore, Md, that
during a severe gale, on August 5. two of
the crew, John Henderson and Bernard
McKnnon, were swept overheard and
drowned
WHILE on a visit the other day to the
town of Remscheide, Westphalia, the
venerable Archbishop of Cologne was in
suited and stoned by a crowd of anti
Catholics.
THE grand jury at Purvis, Miss, in
dic;ed kflrain and Sullivan. Kilrain was
arrested at Baltimore, Nd, and jailed.
BY the explosion of threshing machine
boiler near Aberdeen, OAK, recently
three men We're killed and two badly in
lured. Cause, lack of water.
The court-martial before whom Lieu
tenant-Colonel Fletcher was on trial at
Omaha, Neh, for conduct unbecoming an
officer, arrived at verdict on the I4th.
The verdict was sealed. 1t was believed
that it was favorable 10 Colonel Fletcher.
BY an explosion of boiler in Grounds
mill at Saratoga, Ark, William Lee.
James Jackson and James Crooks were
fatally, and J. W. Grady, Frank
Matthews, Sam jackson and Robert
Chamberlain seriously wounded
ACCORDING to United States Consul
Falkenbach, of Bremen, Germany, 1862
children under fourteen years of age are
employed in the factories of Saxony and
241l1 in all the large establishments of
Germany.
AT San Diego, Cal, recently Superior
Judge w. l. Pierce. of that city, was talk
ing with Ex-Governor Murray, of Utah,
when W. s Clendennin passed down the
street, stopped suddenly and drawing a
revolver shot the judge in the back. A
Judicial opinion by Pierce unfavorable to
Clendennin was understood to be cause of
the shooting.
HE property owners along the lake
front in Chicago, whose efforts have vir-
iually resulted in the closing of the expo
sltion, are now preparing 70 make it hot
Tor the Illinois Central railroad, which
runs along the lake shore. They especially
complain of the unsightly depot OF the
road.
DEPUTY WELLER, of the internal reve-
nue., was shot dead by John II. Brownell,
moonshiner, at Northwestville, near
Jacksonville, Fla, recently. Brownell
escaped.
1T Is the theory of those about the
United States marshal's Office that Mrs.
Terry when she threw herself upon her
husbands body when he was shot by
deputy Marshal Maggie, took a weapon
from him, as when the body was searched
no weapon was found Both Judge Field
and Judge Sawyer continue to be care
fulIy guarded as Mrs. Terry, it was feared.
would seek vengeance for the killing of
Judge Terry.