Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-14
THF sbipwriqbts of Hamburg to the

mentS concerning the management oI
the Women's Christian Temperance
Hospital on Cottage Grove avenue,
| Chicago.
JAMES JACKSON, aged eighteen,
while cunning at Jamaica Plains, Il. l.,
was killed by the accidental discharge
of his gun. Harry Weeks, while gun
ming at Rockwell Center, L. l., was ia
tally wounded.
THE sentence of Simon Walker, or
Chesterfield County, Va, the negro boy
who committed a criminal assault upon
Mary Ann Quinn, aged eleven years,
and who was twice sentenced TO De
hanged and respited, has been COM
muted by the Governor to twenty
years imprisonment.
Four hundred thousand people
visited the Paris Exposition on the 9th.
A DECISION of the Michigan Supreme
Court declares null and void an act en-
downing foster children with rights
passed by the Legislature in 1861 on the
ground that the act did not set forth
| its purpose in the title as commanded
by the State Constitution.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided the Legislative act unconstltu-
tional which prohibited the piping OF
natural gas outside of the State line,
the same interfering with Federal law
regulating inter-cOmmerce.
CHARLESTON, S. c., had great
earthquake revival. The whole town
was in gala attire by day and by night.
THE Flatheads are willing to leave
their reservation in Bitter Root Val
ley, Montana.
THE disastrous snow storm of New
Mexico extended into Texas. Several
herders perished with their stock.
BUSINESS failures (Dun'S report} for
the seven days ended November z, in
Guiding Canada, numbered 267. The
corresponding week last year the num-
Der was 229.
TIE mother and seven children of a
family named Parker were drowned re-
Gently near Yaquina, Ore, while
crossing in small boat from Newport
to South Beach. The father only eS-
capped.
THE schooner Southwest and nine
men have been lost in Lake Erie.
THERE was a terrible fight between
citizens at BrOwnsburg, Rockbridge
County, Va, on the Sth. Three per-
sons were killed or fatally injured and
many others were seriously wounded.
A physician named Walker had threat
ened the life of Henry Miller for in
sulting Mrs. Walker and the tragedy
occurred in the court room. Mrs.
Walker and Miller were killed and
Walker was fatally hurt.
DIFFERENCES as to rent have again
arisen between the Sultan of Zanzibar
and the German East African Com
pany.
THE Admiralty Court at Halifax,
n. S., has ordered the sale of the seized
American schooner, David j. Adams,
unless the owners act soon.
THE Legislature of the State Of
Nuevo Leon, Mex, has seconded the
initiative in relation to unlimited Pres
idential terms.
AN English syndicate is reported to
be negotiating for the great mailing
plant of George II. Bullen u Co., OF
Chicago-the largest in the West.
THE wool growers of Western Texas
have decided to send representative
to Washington to look after their in
lereSt before Congress.
THE poSt-oflice and several business
houses at Buena Vista, Col, were re-
Gently destroyed by fire. All the mail
was lost.
IT was reported in the City of Mexico
that the Government of Guatemala has
prohibited the sending of news abroad.
STEPHEN o. BRIDGES, young mar
ried man, was fatally shot at Balti-
more, Nd, the other night by Miss An
ME Konig, whom he had ruined and
deserted.
IT was rumored in the City of Mexi-
co on the 10th that United States Min
lister Ryan would not return to the
Mexican capital.
The Germans of Lamu do not be-
lieve the reports that DR.. Peters ex-
peditiOn has been masSacred.
Two boilers exploded in A. Rardee
& Co.'S mine near Hazleton, Pa, the
other morning. John Burke, Frank
Munich and Joseph Rano were killed.
Cold water run into hot boiler was
the cause.
DAVE WAMBoLD, one of the best
known negro minstrelS in the country,
died at New York on the 10th.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November showed an average
of 24.9 compared with the correspond
ing week of last year. In New York
the increase was 800.
TIE Svet, of st. Petersburg, says
that China is arming her troops on the
Russian frontier with repeating rifles
and that the soldiers are being drilled
by German officers.
COLONEL GOODLOE, who was shot in
the recent terrible affray at Lexington,
KY, succumbed TO his injuries two days
later.
FREDERICK OTIs, of the Yale di-
vinity school, died at the New Haven
hospital of typhoid fever. His relatives
reside at Olivette, Mich.
The first sod Of the Nicaragua canal
was formally turned on the 22d of Oc-
tober amid the booming of cannon and
cheers of thousands of spectators and
in the presence of Governor Ireno Del
Godillo and staff, representing Nicara-
qua, the chief engineer and staff of the
Nicaragua Canal Company and the
foreign COnSuls in this city. Work was
really begun June 8, but owing to some
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