Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-07
1lISCEILANEOUs,

other night and instantly killed.
THE lockout of the 2. 600 miners at Spring
| Valley, Ill, has ended in a victory for the
| companies, the men conceding the right OF
their employers 10 hire and discharge men
as they pleased.
MRS MECNE RAwsoN, the wife Of the
| millionaire banker, who in open court
shot his lawyer nearly to death was ac.
quilted on the ground of insanity at Chi
| cago on the 30th.
| Sir CHARLES TUPPER visited the Paris
Exhibition buildings recently. He ex-
| pressed regret that there were no Canadian
exhibitions
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
| in Lake View and other suburbs along the
Michigan lake shore to the northward in
the direction of Edgewater, near Chicago.
A STRONG anti-Plnkerton police bill has
been introduced in the Illinois Legisla-
ture by Representative O'Toole.
| THE great vault constructed in the north
court of the Treasury Department build
ing at Washington for the storage of
silver coin has been found to be so damp
as to rot the canvas bags in which the
silver is stored and consequently 10000
| large wooden boxes have been ordered in
which to store $50, 100000.
IT is stated in Paris that the Austrian
Crown Prince was shot by the husband of
| a lady who was staying at the Mierling
| chateau.
THE National Committee appointed to
| inquire into the late British naval man
euvers state that the ships, with a few ex-
| ceptions, are unsuitable for modern war
| fare-indeed deficient-and that the exist
| ing feet is unfit to command the seas
against an enemy.
TWENTY steamers are now detained at
Glasgow. Scotland, by the strike of the
seamen and firemen.
IT is stated that Annie Eisenhart, the
| head nurse at the hospital at Camden. N.
j., who was found terribly cut and beaten,
inflicted the injuries on herself while
temporarily insane.
THE engine house and coal breaker of
the Northland colliery, Ashland, Pa, one
of the largest in the State, were destroyed
by fire recently.
THE Agricultural Appropriation bill COM
pleted by the House Committee on Agri-
culture proposes an appropriation of ST.
636, O10 as compared with estimates Of 81,
6S6 $50 and an appropriation for the pres
ent year of 81. u.s. s26. Seeds in the future
will not be distributed to Congressman
but to State agricultural experiment
stations.
GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER, of Ala
bama, was elected president; Charles S.
Hill, of Washington, secretary, and Aaron
Vanderbilt, treasurer, of the American
Shipping and Industrial League at Wash
ington on the 31st.
THE total receipts of the Patent Office
the past year were 81, 118 SIG and the total
expenditures 1914, ,10S. There were %, ,420
original patents issued during the year.
INDIAN AGENT OWEN has issued instruc-
tions for all who have not proper permits
and for all intruders to leave the Chicka-
saw Nation within thirty days. This
order is aimed chiefly at the non citizens
who are now holding cattle in the Chicka-
saw Nation and who refuse to pay the
cattle tax of 81 per head per month.
THE warehouse of the Graniteville Is.
c. Manufacturing Company, containing
2,436 bales of cotton was destroyed by
fire recently. Loss 100000, insurance
$99. 900.
DIR. CHARLES P. BURNS, of Baxter, Ark,
well known in the southern part of the
State, was shot and killed the other night
by Deputy Sheriff Childers, who had gone
to the Doctors house to arrest him on a
warrant Inc QOcuor ndO resisted arrest
and drew pistol on the officer.
JOHN E. SULLIVAN, county clerk of In
dianapolis. Ind, who failed for SIS coo re-
Gently is missing, and is supposed to be in
Canada. His flight was occasioned by the
discovery that he had issued fraudulent
warehouse receipts for large consign-
ments of poultry, produce, etc.
BUSINESS failures Oun's report) for the
seven days ended January 81 numbered
332, compared with 342 the previous week
and 279 the corresponding week of last
year.
FIRE the other morning in the four-story
building at 305 East Third street, New
York, occupied by building contractors,
Graham & Sons. resulted in estimated
losses of S75, 600. The fire also extended
to the private dwellings opposite.
AN heroic bronze statue of General
Stonewall Jackson, to cost $50, 900, has
been ordered for Lexington, Va
DURING riots at Tipperary, Ireland, on
the 1st, nine civilians and thirteen police
men were injured.
The high school building in Johnstown,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire the other
night causing SIG. 500 loss. Next day the
east wall of the building fell, killing one
fireman and badly injuring another.