Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-27

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OsTRoe, on the Black sea, near Odess
has been nearly destroyed by fire.
thousand people have been made hom
3 less, and the damage is estimated at ], 900
r 900 rubles.
GREAT CONSERVATION has been create
among the farmers of Marion, Ind, by Il
! appearance Of a small green bug tn,
threatens to demolish the wheat, oats an
rye crop. The pests appear upon ever
, head by hundreds and sap the life out {
the grain.
O'DoNovAN Rosa has been arrested
New York for criminal libel in accusin
T. B. Cassidy of being British spy, etc.
CHICAGO brickmakers have inaugurate
strike for eight hours.
YOUNG CASSIDY. who fred the Catholi
Protectory at White Plains, N. Y, ha
been sentenced for ten years.
In sympathy with unfavorable report
from Havre and Hamburg coffee droppe
between forty and fifty points at New
York on the Goth. In the closing hou
there was reaction, the market CLOSING
with decline of about fifteen points OIL
sales of 10000 bags.
The seamen's strike at Liverpool hal
collapsed.
PAPERS and wreckage picked up of
Massachusetts lead to the belief that
collision has taken place between ocean
steamers. Bills of ladiug of two steamers
were found dated Fiume, October %, 1888
1t was thought that the steamer Haytien
| Republic had collided with the steamer
Vic oria Of the Anchor line.
THE semi meeting of the South
Dakota Farmers Alliance was held in
Huron on the Goth. The grangsrs declared
themselves in their platform as resolved
to have hand in the government of the
State. They also asked for the adoption
OF the Australian system of voting A
free trade resolution was voted down.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, and surrounding
region were visited by DANA ing rain
and wind storm on the Goth. The pontoon
bridge across the Missouri river was blown
to pieces and sixty boats were swept down
stream.
SECRETARY TRACY has ordered a court
OF inquiry to investigate the circumstances
connected with the grounding of the Con-
stellation. The court will meet at the
Norfolk navy yard.
FRED ROCHE, the foreman of the sewer
gang, who found DR.. Cronin's body in the
catch basin, has not been paid the reward
of =, 900 promised him by the committee
of DIR. Cronin's friends. Roche says that
the committee told him he would receive
the $1,000 but payment has not been
made
Two men were killed and three fatally
injured by an explosion of fireworks at
Heyer Bros establishment Boston, on
the 21st. The damage amounted to 500, 900.
The village of Quijotoa, ninety miles
west of Tucson, Ariz., has been destroyed
by fire.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June 90 numbered 900
with go the previous week and
!o4 the corresponding week of last year.
WILLIAM E. HOWARD, the Electric sugar
raud worker, has been sentenced at New
FORK to nine years and eight months i'm
'risonment in Sing Sing.
MUCH damage was done by a terrific |
thunderstorm which passed over Scranton, |
Pa, on the 21st Several houses were |
truck by lightning and set on fire. Henry |
'omers, aged eight years, while lying on |
couch at home was struck by lightning |
nd killed George Somers, the bows |
ather, was seriously injured.
MISS JENNIE ELMBLAD and Miss Hilda
;arlson were boating in the Desplaines
liver at Desplaines, ILL.,, the other day
Nth three friends, when the boat capsized
ear the dam and the two young ladies
ank almost instantly. The others were
escued.
BENJAMIN KLINGER and Robert Howick,
wo prominent citizens of Mercer County,
j.. were killed by lightning recently, just
S they stepped into a stable to escape a
assing shower.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic at Goshen and
ond Eddy, N. Y. Schools have been
osed.
A STRIKE or lockout seems inevitable at
le great Homestead steel plant of Carne-
e & Co. 1t is stated upon the authority
the firm that no agreement could be
cached with the workmen's conference
on the wages question, and that
ley will gut work.
The striking miners at Kladno Bohemia.
gagged in riot recently. The gend-
mes fired on the rioters and killed two
them and wounded twelve. Later the
OTIS were renewed, the mob wrecking the
sidence of the director of the m mes.
NEAR Clinton, Ark, the other night
lring fearful rainstorm a farmer
lmed Emerson lost his wife and seven
ildren. He succeeded in saving two of
s children and himself, standing in the
alter several hours before help arrived.