Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-24

The Atlas line steamship Athos, which
has reached New York after a terrible
voyage, reports that Hippolyte, of Hayti,
was busy preparing for his election.
The people of Indianapolis are refusing
to pay for rides on the street cars which
have dropped the conductors and put back
the old box system.
THE North Alabama Lumber Company
at Bridgeport, Ala, has made an assign
ment. Liabilities, $4,000; assets
scheduled, $4,000.
News has reached Constantinople that
Turkish soldiers have mutinied at Canea,
badly beating many of their officers, who
endeavored to discipline them.
SOCIALISTS decorated the graves of the
Anarchists in Waldheim cemetery, Chi
cago, on the 18th.
Two ladies of Frankfort, Ind, were
struck by a train at crossing the other
day and fatally injured
The five Apache Indians who were tried
and convicted at Florence, Ariz., for muir
der have been sentenced to be hanged.
Three were charged with the murder Of
Diebl two years ago and two with the
murder of Jones
ONE man was killed and three fatally
injured by the fall of a scaffolding at the
new water works at Bethlehem, Pa, re-
Gently.
Ex-MAYoR LEWIS, of New Haven,
Conn.,, proposes as a Worlds Fair feature
to recognize the 400th anniversary of the
discovery of America by lighting great
bonfires simultaneously on the hilltops all
over the country.
HENRY WIGFALL. barber of Atlanta,
Ga, swallowed a fish bone recently and
died soon after in great agony from
strangulation.
THE factory and stock of the Pine Door
& Lumber Company of Grants Pass, Ore ,
was destroyed by fire the other night.
The loss was $4,000.
THE marine conference at Washington
is devoted to the discussion of technical
matters.
WASHINGTON is beginning to boom its
Worlds Fair project
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions in session in New
York elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent r. s. Storrs. D. D.; vice. president,
E. W. Latchford; recording secretary,
Henry A. Stimson; assistant recording
secretary, E. n. Packard; treasurer,
Langdon S Ward.
AT the meeting of the railway brake
men in Minneapolis Hon. l. S. Coffin, of
Iowa, advised them to urge Congress to
take action in the matter of safety appli-
ances.
JOSEPH PAUL, a Chicago boy, met an
awful death recently. He was caught
between an immense Rywheel and the
betting.
IT is estimated that 10000, 900 persons
when it closes.
JOHN LEWIS, Jerome Race and Thomas
Cooney, three youths of eighteen, were
instantly killed on the Hudson River
track near Hudson, n. Y, recently. They
stepped from one track to another to avoid
a train when a locomotive struck them.
THE Emperor of China has authorized
the building of railroad between Pekin
and Hankow.
The cotton oil trust has filed application
to increase its capital stock to $50 900. 900
and form corporation, thus avoiding the
legal penalties to which it was liable in
New York.
CHILL mas abolished many import duties
on tools and material used in agriculture
and the building of railroads, etc.
ONE of the scrub women at the Ham
burg Germany geological gardens was
killed recently by a jaguar which man
aged to seize her through the bars of his
cage.
SECRETARY WINDOW has announced that
he will retain the old rules governing the
importation of Mexican lead ores.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October II numbered
223, compared with 224 the corresponding
week of last year. The figures include
Canada,
MUCH restitution is reported among the
foreign laborers at Lynch's canning
works, Kent County, Md. The manager
had departed leaving the men with checks
which the stores refused to honor.
AN immense prairie fire was reported
raging a FEW miles from Bismarck, n. D.,
on the 18th. The village of Monokin was
entirely swept away.
THE inquiry at the Jefferson barracks,
St Louis, has ended. The dispositions
make 500 pages.
AT Millsport, Lamar County, Ala, a
few days ago, William Abercrombie,
white, of Birmingham, Ala, held up the
express agent and secured $4,000, received
by him that night.
THE Western whisky trust is said to be
scheming to break up the outside distil
leries. Half a million dollars will be
spent if necessary.