Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04
GOVERNOR NICHOLS. of Louisiana, is.

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FLOODS in Northern New York have
washed out the railroads and caused tbs
wrecking of nine cars at Redwood. y. Y
6. PIMPLE, a farmer OF Manitoba, has
sued the Canadian Government for = co,
damages for seizing two threshing ma.
chimes made by Minnesota convicts.
The weavers at the Narragansett mills
Fall River. Mass, struck the other day
because OF the discharge of a sub-over-
seer.
BEN MARKS and Eddie Horton. boys
were recently drawn into the shute of an
elevator at Lima, O., and smothered tc
death.
GREAT damage was done to winter
| wheat rye and corn in Winona County,
Mimi, recently by hal and rain.
APPLICATION has been made at New
York for an order directing the executors
of the will of Louis c. Hammersly to pay
to the Duchess of Marlborough $1,000
from the accumulate el income of her late
husbands estate, she being in need of the
cash
GEORGE and Fred Saniskey, brothers.
were drowned recently in the river at
| Des Moines, Iowa.
! THERE was a sensational finish to the
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London, Conn, on the 9th. On getting
out of their boat, six of the Columbia crew
fell in a dead faint from exhaustion.
Three were in a serious condition, physi-
clans being hastily summoned.
TIE United States steamer Adams, now
at Honolulu. has been ordered to Samoa
to replace the Alert and Nipsic, now en-
route to the United States.
COMSIENCFMEOT at he T.ak ka
University at Lake Forest Ill, was a
regular jubilee, because of the fact that
100000 had been added to the endowment
and more was promised. There were FOUR
teen graduates.
The committee at Johnstown has issued
an appeal 10 persons holding relief funds
for the forwarding of the money. Dona-
tions have been held back for various
reasons and the work at Johnstown has
been seriously hampsred thereby.
AT ths Paris (Ky.) races r W. Brass
field, the well known turfman, was ex-
PEELED by an unanimous vote of the Judge,
THE inspection of the pictures of II.
Speitan, which are to be offered for sale at
Paris, began on the 9th. The parlors
were crowded with arstocrats. Among
those present was the Due d'Aumale. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Vanderbilt has Of
fered Sl6G0, 900 for the collection. One of
the Rothschilds is prepared to give a high
figure for the Angeles.
A COMBINATION OF the knit goods men
in the territory west of the Alleghanies
and noIth of Memphis has been practically
effected by a meeting of a number of
manufacturers at Chicago.
AN extensive prairie fire recently
ravaged Cascade County, Mont. No lives
were reported lost.
PART of the Burton block, Clinton and
Van Buren, streets, Chicago, was burned
the other day. Loss, $500, 900.
A STORM swept over Southwestern Ohio
on the afternoon of the 2Sth. The south
bound train on the Ohio & Northwestern
run into washed-out bridge just south
west of Batavia, fatally and seriously in
jucing several persons.
ACCORDING to the figures of the just
completed directories the population of
the twin cities (St Paul and Minneapolis)
is now close to half million.
THE as 'assination of DR.. Cronin was de-
nounced in mass meeting held at Chica-
go on the night of the 2Sth.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June 81 numbered 215,
compared with 220 the previous week and
POI the corresponding week of last year.
Two attendants in the State Insane
Asylum at Rochester, Mimi, have Leen
sent to the penitentiary for killing a
patient
GERMANY has bought a majority of the
shares of the Swiss Western railway, and
has replaced the French by German di-
rectors.
YALE won the fourteenth annual eight
cared race at New London, Conn, defeat
ing Harvard. The course was four miles;
time for Yale 21:30; for Harvard, 21:55
The record now stands: Yale, Svictories,
defeats; Harvard, victories, 8 defeats
THE people of Albuquerque, N NJ, have
raised So 600, to be given as bonus to
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad if it will
build thirty-fiv miles of track this year
toward the San PeIro mining camp.
A PASSENGER train struck a COW twenty
miles below Cairo, Ill, the other day and
was ditched. Sixpassengers were slightly
hurt and an old negress fatally crushed.
BoTE houses of the Michigan Legislature
have agreed 10 the Damon bill fixing the
liquor license at $500.
FOUR men aud two women were recently
found dead in a disreputable resort at
Paterson. n. j., all having been asphyxi-
ated by the fumes from a gas stove.