Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-25

was found that Robinson was a desperate
character and had first assaulted and
| robbed Emerson.
The British budget presented by Mr.
Goschen in the House of Commons on the
18th shows that the revenues were e., 465,
900 greater than the estimates and the ex.
penditures e941, 900 less, leaving a surplus
of e, S56, 000-the largest since 1873
LIEUTENANT JOHN C. WILSON, of the
Vandalia, has telegraphed to the Navy
Department from Sydney that he had
chartered the steamer Rockton for the
purpose of transporting the shipwrecked
sailors to the United States The Rockton
is due at San Francisco May 16
CHOLERA is epidemic in the Philippine
islands, and out of l, 500 cases 1000 have
proved fatal
| THE interesting matter from Paris is
Andrient's evidence about Boulanger
showing that Clemenceau offered Andrient
the Presidency to defeat Jules Ferry. Re-
publican feeling against Ferry is furious.
His election would have provoked civil
| war.
A PACKAGE containing S15 600 in gold
has disappeared from the office of the
Northern Pacific Express Company, al
| who took it.
THE river Thiess in Austria has burst its
banks. The adjacent country is flooded
and the Banat province is threatened with
| inundation.
A TORNADO passed over Hinkley, ILL.,,
on the 18th. No one was hurt, but many
buildings were unroofed.
RUMoRS were current in the shirt trade
that D. H. Downs, senior partner of the
firm of Downs & Finch, of New York,
which failed recently for $500, 600, had
gone to Canada.
FIVE persons perished in the cabin of q
river raft boat which sunk the other night
near Burlington, Iowa. A woman in the
cabin saved her life by finding a corner
not submerged where she kept her head
until the roof was broken in and she was
pulled out.
WHILE attempting to ford Ephraim
creek in the Cherokee Strip on the 18th a
boomer, his wife and four children were
swept away and drowned.
THERE was a report at Purcell, l. T., on
the 18th that United States marshals had
fired into a party of boomers attempting
to ford the Canadian river and enter Okla
homa before the legal date. Seven boom
ers were wounded, two fatally, the re-
mainder, numbering thirty, being taken
prisoners. There were reports elsewhere
of serious conflicts with cattlemen.
SYLVESTER GRUBB was hanged at Vim
cennes, Ind, on the 10Th for the murder
of his sweetheart September Is last.
In Dale County, Ala, FIVE Mormon mis-
sionaries were whipped recently by
regulators and their legs given a coating
of tar and feathers.
BY an unavoidable collision between a
passenger train, the engine of which had
broken down. and local freight train
near Glencoe, KY, the other morning, a
sleeper was wrecked and six persons were
injured.
THE Seville (Spain) cathedral is again
in tottering condition.
A DYNAMITE petard was exploded in a
church in Valencia, Spain, on the 18th. The
altar was damaged, but nobody was hurt.
IT is stated that Russia demands $4,000
roubles of France on account of the bonn
bardment of Sagalic.
SEVERAL Russian artillery officers have
been arrested for plotting against the
Car.
THE Mexican authorities of Lower Cali
fornia have issued formal warnings to
American fishermen to keep out of Mex
lean fishing grounds.
Two small boys were drowned at Rock
vile, Ind, the other evening while boat
ing
c. NJ. BARRETT & Co., dealers in rough
leather and hides, Boston, have assigned
with about $50, 900 liabilities and unknown
assets.
The 114th anniversary of the battle of
Lexington, Mass, was celebrated on the
18th in the usual style.
AT a meeting of the descendants of
revolutionary patriots of Massachusetts
in Boston recently, nineteen aged men
whose fathers fought in the revolution
were present A society was organized.
The Shah of Persia will visit the Gar
of Russia May 1927 and will then go to
Berlin to pay his respects to the Emperor
of Germany.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at New
York on the 10th, breaking out the lard
refinery of N. z. Fairbanks, destroying
the buildings of the New York Central,
two elevators and other property. Sew
eral men were injured by jumping from
windows, one fatally, and it was rumored
that others persisted. The total loss was
So, $4,000.