Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS,

THE Grand Lodge of Etks met in annual
session in New York on the 9Th.
The Snowdon mountain, the Hottest
mountain in Wales, has been sold for
6. $40 Informs piece of freehold estate.
MARTIN BURKE, alias Frank Williams,
connected with the Cronin murder, was
ordered for extradition at Winnipeg on
the 10th. He had fifteen days in which to
appeal.
To avoid arrest the pugilist Sullivan
crossed into Texas. Kilrain. who was re-
ported seriously sick, went North.
GOVERNOR Lowry, of Mississippi, SAYS
that those who are sneering at his attempt
to stop the prize fight will learn that he
was in earnest before he gets through
with them He intends to prosecute every
one connected with the affair, especially
General Superintendent Carroll, of the
Queen & Crescent route.
a SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
at Charleston, S. c., on the 18th.
SEPTEMBER l the Washburn- Martin
Company, owners and operators of the
big -four mills of Minneapolis, Mimi, will
60 out of existence and will be succeeded
by the Washburn- Crosby Company, just
| organized. The principal change is the
Senator ". D. Washburu.
A PASSENGER and guard were killed
on the Mexican Central by the train run
ming into a washout near Chihuahua re-
Gently. Nineteen of the injured were
taken to hospital. where two died later.
By collision at the depot at Oakdale,
Tenn. the other day, two engines and a
postal car were wrecked, but no damage
was done.
ROBERT REDBERRY, aged eighteen, and
| Willie Wise aged seventeen, were
drowned near Alton, Ill, the other night
while swimming in the river.
The ship builders of the Clyde, Scot
land, have given notice of a lockout to
force the striking riveters 10 return.
W. <. GoRDoN's GUY trotted an exhibit
ton mile at Cleveland. O., recently in
2:l1<, heating his record quarter of a
! second.
| SECRETARY RUsK has protested against
the raising of the State quarantine against
pleuro-pneumonia in New Jersey.
The railroads have refused to concede a
rate of one cent a mile to the Grand Army
/ Encampment at Milwaukee, Wis, ard the
meeting has been ordered of.
Four big brewing firms of Brooklyn.
/ y. Y, have been consolidated into a stock
company. They are the Ochs, the Freze,
the Wetz x Zerwich and the Schlitz. The
company represents capital of 81. 200, 900.
Ihe brewerles do not pass into the hands
OF English capitalists, hut in other re-
spects the scheme resembles those of
foreign syndicates-
HE meeting for the purpose of forming
a salt trust, international in scope" did
not take place at New York as proposed,
on the llth, owing to the non-arrival of
representatives of the Kansas and Lou
isiana salt interests,
IN consequence of the action of the Chi
cago q Alton IN Withdrawing from the
Interstate Railway Association, the
presidents OF the other Kansas City lines
were constituted committee by the asso-
cation st Chicago on the 18th. with the
power to take such Joint action as they
might agree upon at any time in protecting
their interests against the competition of
the Alton.
SEVERAL French newspapers announce
that the Chamber of Deputies viii not
vote credit for the purchase o: THE
Angelus" and that the picture will go to
Americans who are ready to paw sic 600,
the amount for which the picture was sold
at auction.
LATER investigation showed only five
persons drowned by the giving way of the
bridge at Johnstown, y. Y.
THE lasters in the shoe factories OF
"oilooro. y. h, have struck against q
recent adjustment of wages.