Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-30

Virginia Beach, in Princess Anne County
| Va. was burned the other night and he
his two daughters next to the oldest Sol
and a niece visiting him were consumed
by the flames. His wife, Miss Ella Bid
good, the goyerness, and two young chill
| dren escaped.
The centennial celebration of the estab
lishment of the Catholic Church of the
United States was begun on the 23d in the
| Carroll memorial church at Hyattsville
Prince Georges County. Nd, by a memo
rial mass in honor of Arch bishop Carroll,
| the first Roman Catholic prelate of the
American hierarchy.
DICK HAYES, charged with the murder
of his wife and child at Birmingham, Ala,
has been sentenced to be hanged July y
CLIFFORD & SERMONS shoe factory and
| Mowers & Co.'s wholesale creamery sup
plies factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were
| destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
sec, 900.
FIFTY-NISE miners at Merthyr-Tydvi
Wales, were entombed by the caving in
of the roof of the coIliery recently, but
only one was killed.
A PAN-SERvIAN plot has been discov-
cred in Bosnia, and numerous Russian in
triguers have been arrested.
The women employed in the rice fields
at Medina, Italy, struck recently. They
pillaged number of baker shops. Troops
were ordered to the scene.
THE Navy Department has completed
and soon will issue advertisements calling
for proposals for the construction of the
new cruisers slightly larger than the
Yorktown, and of .. 000 tons burden. The
limit of cost fixed in the appropriation
act is $4,000 for each vessel.
The Aged Workmen's Insurance bill
has passed the third reading in the Ger
man Reichstag.
The granite works at South Riegate,
VT, have gone into a receivers hands.
The liabilities are $56, 900 and the assets
SO. 600
The special meeting of the Transmits
souri, Association, which had been in ses-
sion in Chicago for two days, resulted in
a disagreement as to what the relative
rates on bullion should be from Colorado
and Wyoming. The matter was referred
to arbitration.
A MAN and boy were instantly killed
at Dundee, ILL.,, recently by the collapse of
a barn which they were moving.
THE Spanish steamer Emeliano, loaded
the other day with her cargo on fire. The
flames were extinguished only after a
hard fight.
FRANK L. and Howard G. Loomis, and
Edwin S. Jewell, officers of the Century
Book and Paper Company, of Chicago,
have been indicted by the grand jury for
conspiracy to defraud.
The celebrated Twiggs swords which
have been in the custody of the Govern
ment since 1862 have been delivered by
Secretary Window to A. c. MYer, executor
of the Twiggs estate. This is in accord
ance with the provisions of an act passed
by the last Congress and the decision of
the Court of Claims establishing the
ownership of the swords.
ONE of the Milwaukee Cinnamon ac-
cused of outraging little girls and whose
arrest led to rioting has been found guilty
and will be sent to the penitentiary for
thirty five years.
GEORGE CUTLER and his team of horses
were killed by lightning near Murdoch,
ILL.,, the other day.
The work of evicting tenants was con-
tinued on the Olpihert estate, Ireland, on
the oath. The evictors met with desper-
ate resistance, and during the struggle
Inspector Duff was badly wounded.
A SON and daughter of John Boiler, of
Fort Atkinson, Wis, were drowned re-
Gently while returning from a fishing ex-
cursion.
GREAT damage has been done the corn
and potato crops in the vicinity of Wabash,
Ind, by freezing weather.
THE Tanglade stage was robbed of the
United States mails near Shawang, Wis,
'ecently.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended May 90 numbered 229,
with 252 the previous week and
.25 the corresponding week of last year.
A MOB threatened a serious riot at
Guthrie, L T., recently because of the
eviction of a squatter in accordance with a
decision of the board of arbitration. The
presence of the military alone saved the
,ity hall from attack.
THE west bound train on the st. Louis & |
San Francisco railroad, which left st. |
louis on the night of the 23d, was wrecked |
hree miles west of Sullivan, No, sixty |
light miles west of St Louis. Not pas
enger escaped unhurt and forty five were |
seriously injured, though no deaths were |
exported. Investigation showed that the |
rain had been maliciously wrecked, spikes |
md fsh-plates being removed from a rail |