Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03


party lines, was held at Harrisburg, Pa,
on the Goth, with about 100 delegates in
/ attendance.
HE fourteenth annual convention of
the American Bankers Association adj
journed at Kansas City, No, on the 10th.
The following officers were elected:
Charles Parsons, of St Louis. president;
Morton McMichaels, of Philadelphia, first
vice-president; George F. Baker, Of New
York, treasurer. William B. Greene of
New York, was elected secretary; d.
V. Reiger. of Kansas City, was made vice
president for Missouri and ]. K Mulvane,
of Topeka, vice-president for Kansas.
SEVERAL hundred Blackfeet and Sioux
Indians recently held a grand ''ghost
feast" at Fort Abraham Lincoln, OAK,
which was given by the relatives in honor
of those who died or had been killed in
battle.
AT Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel
works at Braddock, Pa, the bottom of one
of the largest blast furnaces gave way
and tons of molten metal poured forth
injUring several persons so severely that
they are likely to die
The Canadian Minister of Customs has
ordered an inquiry into the smuggling Of
whisky into Canada, whole shiploads of
American whisky being brought into Can
ada by the ST. Lawrence route.
Two tramps recently took possession of
the town Of Holland, Iowa, intimidating
the constable and setting fire to build
ing with broken lamp. They then went
to Heinbeck, where they were overhauled
by the sheriff. In attempting to arrest
them Archie Neat was shot in the neck by
one of the tramps, receiving fatal in
juries.
DR. J. E. BLAINE, one of Englewood's
Ull.) prominent doctors, has been arrested
on the charge of performing a criminal
operation on his niece, Mrs. Jessie H Bar
ker. The woman was said to be in a crit
ical condition.
FIVE persons were lately drowned in
shallow pond at South Watuppa, Mass,
by the capsizing of a rowboat. One at
least of the party was said to have been
drunk.
A RECENT telegram from Ensenada,
Lower California, said that city was
threatened with total destruction from
brush fires. San Carlos, a ueighboring
town, was reported in flames.
A FIRE at Cresco, Iowa, recently burned
twenty-five business places. Loss, $50
600.
CONGRESSMAN W. L. SCoTT lately adj
dressed a long letter from Erie, Pa, to
Governor Fifer, bearing OH the Spring
Valley troubles, and claiming that he was
paying for mining all that he was war
ranted in a competitive market
THE Utah Commission on the 9th
passed resolutions favoring Chicago for
the Worlds Fair.
A DISPATCH from Canajoharie N. Y,
said tn at frightful collision occurred on
the 9th on the New Y ork Central rail-
road, near Palatine bridge, in which the
death list was likely to foot up twenty or
more.
The dock laborers at Rotterdam went
out on a strike recently and the cigar
makers and other occupations joined the
movement.
AT Walker Station. Ala, the other day
Deputy Sheriff King Vann was shot and
killed by a negro named John Steele,
whom he was trying to arrest The negro
was afterward captured by a mob and his
body riddled by bullets, causing instant
death.
A RECENT dispatch from London said
that the first consignment Of Chicago
cattle had arrived at Mains, and con-
tracts had been made for a portion of
30, 900 head more during October. The plan
of shipments to the interior cities in the
Continent was no longer doubtful.
THE fourth annual convention of the
Brotherhood of St Andrew began at
Cleveland, O., on the 9th, with about $50
delegates present.
NJ. MoRGANsTEIN, secretary of the Polish
Alliance and Endowment Insur-
ance organiz ation at Chicago was reported
as having absconded.
JOSEPH c. HARVEY, wealthy mill owner
of Philadelphia, has been sent to the in
sane asylum through brooding over the
burning of one of his mills in which fifteen
persons lost their lives.
Two bodies have been taken fSom the
debris at Johnstown, Pa. One was identified
as that of Mrs. Ed Swineford, of 81. Louis,
who met her death on the day express.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
week ending September % number 1872,
as compared with total of 1913 last week
and 1913 the week previous. For the COR
week of last year the figures
were 900.
THE five-story building of the Westing-
house Electric Light works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was partly burned the other night.
The origin of the fire was unknown. Loss,
$50, 900, fully covered by insurance.